How To Give up Phone Addiction

How to give up phone addiction?

No doubt, mobile phones are one of the best invention technology has provided to the mankind .But these days mobiles have become more disadvantageous than beneficial to human society. Indeed, mobiles’ addiction has become a very common and major addiction among today’s generation. So every youth these days is seeking for the best ways to give up cell phone addiction. Analyzing the need if the time , this time we have come up with a new article to help today’s youths to give up phone addiction. So please do not skip any sentence if you think that you have phone addiction.

What is phone addiction?

Phone addiction is referred to a condition in which one uses mobile/cell phones excessively which disrupts one’s personal or/and professional life . Phone addiction also includes the excessive involvement in mobiles games and social networking sites , in a broad sense. The usage of phones turns into addiction based on the user and not time one spends with phones. However Only using phones for long time does not always mean phone addiction.  The definition above also justifies  that you are addicted  to cell phones only when the phone starts destroying your study ,health or career. Phone addiction does not mean so when you use phones for long period but for  purpose that benefits you and causes no harm to you and your personal or professional life. This article is for those who actually have phone addictions who use excessive phones with little or no fruitful purposes.

 

Causes of Phone addiction

Before learning about the ways to give up any addiction, you must know about what  are the main reasons or causes for phone addiction. Here are some the main causes about why the present generation is having the problem of phone addiction . Also if you know about any more causes of phone addiction let us know in the comment section. Now , lets know about the major causes of phone addiction:-

1.Online entertainment (games, movies, series)

2.Relationships

3.Cybersex(porn addictions)

4.Depression , loneliness and anxiety

5. Improper habits of communication and entertainment

 

Solutions for phone addiction

 1.Turn off Notifications

The major problem youths face while giving up phone addiction is that the notifications act as the triggers to make them use phones again . So , it is better to turn off notifications of all the social networking apps and games before practicing any of the later mentioned tips . Notifications turned off help you to reduce the time you spent on mobile slowly and effectively.

 

2.Make offline life better

Instead of focusing on reducing your online activities, you can increase your offline life activities. Remember that you have life, friends , neighbors out of your online life as well. It is the most effective way to give of phone addiction whatever may be the reason or cause for it. So try to be more socialized out of mobiles as well and focus on spending time with your family and friends out of mobiles as well. You will be able to give up cell phone addictions without even knowing by this way. You can also play many interesting games to give up your craze on mobile games.

 

3.Be strict with your phone usage

It can be understood that it is not easy to give up phone addiction all at once but you can gradually decrease your time spent with mobile. It may be hard but no one is saying you to reduce your mobile hours by 5 hours . Start with half to one hour a day or a couple days and continue decreasing it every week and one day  the time will arrive when you use your phones only for 2 hours a day , which is the maximum mobile hours for any individual.

 

4.Engage with your hobbies.

If you like doing anything except using mobile phones , then these hobbies can be your tool against mobile addiction . Engage yourself with those hobbies so that you can replace your phones from your hands. Practice doing so at least for  3 weeks and you will realize that you have not only given up phone addiction but also have made good moves in your hobbies.

 

5.Change your phone

The only reason why there was no phone addiction before smartphones was that the feature phones used then did not have so many appealing features . You can also replace your smartphones with feature phones. After all, the ultimate purpose of having phones is to communicate which can be supported with simple feature phones as well. But you do not need to do so for very long . You can again use your glamorous smartphone once you realize that you are free from the addiction.

 

So that is all for this article. We hope that this article proves to be fruitful for you  . Let us know that in the comment section .Till then, stay tuned with 100 tips and tricks .Also hope you have collected a lot of information on phone addiction.Thank you!