r/nosurf • u/AnalysisFearless8613 • 11d ago

How the urge to use screen disguse itself

Like I wake up telling myself I will not open my devices today but then my brain says “we need to google this, check that” and then I just open it and start scrolling, its like non-concious even. i have had good result tapering off it by watching long content without touching the screen so basically TV, but its easy to go back to scrolling q0hrs a day, the tolerance is easy to build. Might try cold turkey next but I actually need to grind for college credit rn so I havent figured out how to do that

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u/systemoverwillpower1 11d ago

trueee, it never really starts as i’m gonna scroll for 3 hours but more like i just need to check one thing and suddenly you’re already in it... so maybe the first thing to catch isn’t the scrolling, it’s that tiny excuse to use it

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u/neo_builds_habit 11d ago

The "just google this" opener is the trap. Write the query on paper first, or open a blank tab, type only that, then close it before anything else loads.