Topic: How I quit my smartphone addiction and really started living (Read 4291 times)

i have tried to make them happen what you said but nothing changed

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It is true that knowing all the basics to survive is the necessity we need in order to really live our lives. I just hope nothing catastrophic will happen like that because it's deadly and would be hard to recover. Technology would also help in restoring the lives of the people easily just because it's already there, if you don't agree with technology/innovation, then don't use it.

I'm of the opposite mind. The more entrenched we are with modern technology (specifically the convenience that consumer electronics bring) the harder it will be to adapt to a post nuclear society. People will need to farm, hunt and build, when all they have been taught to do is point and click, with an occasional tweet. If we were closer to being able to do the things that keep us alive, rather than trading time for these things, people would be largely unaffected by major catastrophe. But we are encouraged to be reliant, it keeps us complaint.

Even if a nuclear war destroys everything, a strong dependence on technology will make it possible to restore everything in the shortest possible time.

Today, the smartphone is heavily populated in our lives. Without their help, you will not know the weather or communicate with a loved one. It is very difficult to wean.

By little steps you can leave the adiction for your cellphone or any kind of things, at first its going to be hard because the abstinence syndrome will force you to be in your comfort zone in your case the cellphone, with little tricks you can minimize the need for your cellphone and control step by step this adiction

That's one thing to do when you have something else better, it's what you prioritize is what matters, whether it be by doing something productive or just doing nothing, and that's hard. By living, definitely you are being productive, whether it's traveling, resting, and other kinds, that's how you live. And living would definitely be one of the things to prioritize on whatever you do.

Smartphones have snatched away the enjoyment of life and people are becoming totally obssesed with it and people are not even paying attention to the people around them .Sometimes i wonder that have not they become bored with smartphones using them a lot.Well i ahve become bored of using smartphones.
On the other hand after my phone was stolen ,i am using a simple phone which is only being used only for calling.

Yes, it all depends on how people use it. I can safely do jogging or walking in the open air a few ches without a smartphone and this does not cause me depression or discomfort.

It all depends on person. I have smartphone and I use it a lot in my work and everyday life. But when I'm with my family or friends I can live without it for few hours. I even leave it sometimes when I go out for a few minutes or walk my dog. You jusy have to balance your online and offline life and not give in to the extremities.

Smartphones have improved the speed of communication at any time and in any place for more productive business development and all other directions. They are also necessary for communication with relatives.

I don't know how did you say that your getting addicted into smartphone, actually it is necessity and depending in how you use it. In fact, you can use it without hating anyone, but it is your decision if you want to quit for good. but for me smartphone was very important

It's enough just to say what you wanted and stopped using the smartphone. Large corporations have already found how to entice and entice people to lose interest in more global problems. Smartphones are exactly the case when they succeeded.

well let's be real, smart phones have helped people out in a lot of ways. but as we all know technology has its negative and positive effects. it all would depend now in the person using it. for me, I tend to practice restraint of using it if its not really important or when i'm with other people.

I don't like smartphones for precisely this reason, now you are supposed to always be connected and be ready to take action at any moments notice, this is why I don’t have a smartphone and my boss hates me for it.

It is hard to quit smartphone addiction maybe it will have only advantage if you use it in a good ways .technology is rapidly evolving and getting more closer to peoples hobby .

I think you shouldn't do that, everything was made easy when the smartphone was introduced to us, but the thing is, people has started ignoring the limits of using your smartphone, and especially the social media becomes toxic, and it won't help anyone by posting or anything, just yourself.

I feel the same, mostly my smartphone is used for texting and calling my girlfriend, but after months, I am getting addicted to online games that I don't have time to contact my girlfriend. I am giving lies to her so she will not be texting or chat me online. But after she got sick I moderately used my phone because we now are just close to each other, so I barely use my phone right now but to take pictures and a music player.

I cannot understand the addiction from smartphones or computer/internet, i just dont get it at all.
Why do people get addicted from such an activities?
For me, it seems that there is nothing really interesting in smartphones, because you can just browse the internet with it, call someone or play some mobile games.

Obviously, you can talk but I doubt this is the reason.
Playing games seems more reasonable on PC, and internet is something usual, for me it is not any kind of an entertainment, unless im watching some movies or streams.

God damit.

I can't stand still for straight 5 minutes without fiddling with my cellphone. I sit in a bar have a couple of beers, i fiddle. I take a dump, i fiddle. I take a break off work in the afternoon, i fiddle. It is not worse than smoking by healthwise maybe but it is still as addictive as smoking.

Good news is, i don't play games. I either practice another foreign language or i check the news. I don't even feel like talking to people anymore.  

Only with the advent of the smartphone, I began to develop a little dependence, but then I learned to control myself.

All opponents of high technology must already accept the fact that they
will have to live in a world with high technologies. There is no way back,
except for a nuclear explosion, which will bring us back to the past,
because everything will be destroyed.

But without gadgets, it's impossible to work right now. After all, they were primarily created for the development of the work process.

Destroy all your gadgets and start living with your life , we all are in new technology and everyone is using smartphones everyone likes internet and they can't live without checking their social media accounts. I think this could be a hard problem for those who wants to quit for real.

I'm not dependent on my smartphone I use it only for work and urgent communication with my family.

LOL that's the doenside of technology though. Had the ssme experience when i forgot my phone. I'm anxious pretty much the whole day. I'm losing sleep. Sometimes even forget to do importsnt things while spending the while day scrolling and watching. Though i've had an experience where i went to a remkte location without any cellulat signal and got one of the best sleeps of my life

This is one of the reasons a lot of families (with children of course) actually collect their kids and their friends phones when they come to the door to ensure that they aren't using their phones the entire time and people are actually interacting with each-other. It's a good alternative and could force a kid to stop though it doesn't seem very bright as kids love to do things their parents don't like in the least.

Using your phone too much is also looked down upon, at least while you're in social situations and avoid them to play on your phone. So I could fully understand the pain you'd be in regarding all of this.

I do applaud OP here for actually getting the phone out of your hands and starting to live life, may seem like something so small but it's hard me for me to put the phone down and lots of other people. It's easy to be attracted to everything the internet has to offer.

I also thought that not depend on my mobile until once forgot it at home. I passed only half a day. Had to go to the other end of the city to get it. Notebook there, watch there, calendar and reminders are there and the phone's there, too. And you remember a lot of phone numbers?

Well, smartphones are not that bad. They depend on what you use them for, pretty much like any other technology. I, myself, am not addicted to my phone (I'm addicted to my PC, though ), because I don't like Social Media Platforms such as Facebook, What's App, etc. However, I see that they could affect people's lives in a good way. It eased my father's work, for example.

Honestly, I can't imagine my life without smartphone and it's really big problem.
I spend to much time by using smartphone. Checking FB all day long, chating with friends insted of meeting them, bitcointalk also eats lot of time, and this is only few main things I mentioned.
In general, only ~10 years ago mobile phones was used only for calling and SMS and it looked as normal thing and now we can't imagine our lives without these small computers, called as smartphones.

Not really addicted to social media, I just go check FB every once in a while. There are days though when I open the article, copy the entire thing, and paste it as comment in that post. Doing the free data guys a favor, they are easy picking for propagandists.

I would admit I spend a lot of time on Youtube, watching and replying on comments.  And I do play Minecraft though I've been able  to stay away from it for a full month now. Sucks all of my free time. Another thing that I spend my time with my phone is reading ebooks, though I don't consider that waste since I tend to read mostly non-fiction.


That's not an option these days, I'm afraid.

Best way to kick the addiction - is not buy one

I was born when it is not the fact that mobile phones did not have computers. I can compare how it was then and as it is now. I don't want to go back. I like to live among the new technologies. It is very convenient.

I have a smartphone actually I have two of them but I am not obsessed by it since I am using an old mobile phones for call and text only. I am using one of my mobile phones as a router for internet WIFI so that I could do my online job using my pc and lastly the other smartphones that I have was only for games when I was very bored and during my rest time during weekends.

Dude, we have been getting by without smartphone for the greater part of human history. Hell, electricity for that matter. I'm of the opposite mind, I don't understand why the average person actually needs a cell phone. They would be better off with a dumb phone and a laptoo, or in some cases, just a landline.


My generation was the last born before smartphone were so unique, however. They don't hold an appeal/familiarity with me.

Now even funny just to look at photos of the old phone. I can't understand how you can voluntarily give up modern technology. I don't use all the features of my smartphone, but the features that I use very making it any easier.

Yes, it is very convenient and even useful within reasonable limits. I am very pleased with this progress of technology that allows you to make the world better.

A mobile phone is very convenient. I too without it has itself no idea. Who wants to transfer from the car to the horse?

Tho I usuall am usin my phone because this is my where I get my income fro sidelines, I am not that kind of person who always look at their phone even when someone is with them. It pisses me off when people are constantly usin their phone while I am with them ad I view is as  rudeness. How I wish everyone will know that it is not healthy.

I'm not talking cellphone on airplane mode but turn off you phone and if that ways not working well you can live on some place not on range your eyes.

the first : don't connect your smartphone to internet if you always chat with your friends

the second : if the first step doesn't work, then deactivate your smartphone when you don't really need it and activate it when it's emergency only

if those steps don't work, then sell your smartphone and buy nokia phone that was famous in 2002.

I've had a similar experience when I made changes considering my facebook account, not deleting it but unfriending everyone and keeping 5-6 people that I'm really close to. I decreased the usage of fb to a few seconds at all... I rarely use my smart phone for anything hat phone calls or fb now, don't use it to look at the internet or smthn like that.

The simplest way to do it is to get a flip phone.

I think this generation has become more dependent on mobile and smart devices that they tend to oversee the little things that make us truly alive. Like being able to interact with people around you, or appreciating nature and feeling thankful for another day. Technology definitely has its downside also

Great post I'm one of those mobile phone zombies getting into BTC made it worse for me and also trading has got me addicted.

don't forget to turn off your smart phones so you don't hear any tones from your phones. keep your smart phones into box and lock it for a day, and try to out of the house to do other activities.

Try do buy the new case that can really locked smart phones you cant use it for whole day i dont know what is the exact name of that device but i will let you know once i have it and if you really want too quit addicting using smart phones try to find another hobby that you can give your hourz

I use mine to check the weather and then go out riding a bike for regular exercise.
When i leave the door i disable WIFI / AND phone calls then turn on my MUSIC then i tuck it into my belt clip phone holder and when i come back home i power it off and put it away until i go out again.

I also started using "Battery Saver" mode on Android Marshmallow last month or so too..
It works great.. my Motorola phone battery is a year old *not* using battery saver mode ever once
and a full charge lasts me FOREVER !!!!
I always end up seeing people say they have to plug their phone in every night before bed.
I go weeks before thinking uhh well it's 40% i might as well..

When it comes to APP's i have checked out many but have little interest.
My phone is not quite good enough for large games like GTA and smaller games are lame.
Why play GTA with bad controls on a 4 inch screen and who wants to play Pokeman or angry birds ?
I sure as hell don't.

Most app's i have are for rooting or modding my phone etc.

I also avoid social media.. i don't want to hear about it.
If i want to see that bullshit i will load the web page on my desktop browser.

I got a Moto E 2015 just after it came out for $150 can. (paid in full)
It was a contract version phone and i signed up for a monthly cheap service contract.
Then cancelled it after a few months..
Now i seen it around town for under $80.. to buy it outright.

The Moto E 2015 is a cheap phone with no camera flash and the front camera has a BAD res.
But other than that for a $100 phone it has a shitload of awesome features.
It also is slim and compact and has slots for sim or scdard etc (got a 16gb for music / app's)
My phone is about half the width of all these "cool" people walking around with giant iPhone brick's.
Those iPhones with a case vs my phone with no case is laughable.. they literally look like bricks !

I keep it all trimmed down with nothing running so it's fast & snappy when i need it.
Right now i have a couple shortcuts for custom app's..
- Poweramp - I use this the most.
- 4G Switcher - This can toggle the Radio (phone calls) function On or Off.
- Google Keep Notes - For my grocery / todo list.
- Weather network  - So i can check for rain when i go riding my Mountain Bike.
- RootExplorer - in case i need to fiddle with things on my rooted phone.
- Swiftkey Custom Keyboard.

I put the FM radio on the other day on my home screen because of a planned power outage.
I was out of power for 8 hours and had an idea..
I took a speaker from my stereo then wired it up to my phone and ran the radio for about 6 hours.
It used less than 20% of my battery power !

It's obviously about what you use it for.
I had a Sansa Mp3 player before that i retired and now use the phone instead.
And your age to some extent.. more younger people need to text up a storm etc.
Teens are insecure and need to be surrounded by people and attention.
Being alone for an hour or two is enough for them to have a nervous breakdown.
So phones are usually tools to pet & stroke the ego of insecure kids.
Sorry but it's the truth..

So people who do not have a newer smart phone.. take my case as an example.
You can find all kinds of uses for them.. it's up to you !
You don't have to jerk off to social media bullshit.. i ignore and avoid that lame crap.

Brats these days are spoiled.
When i was a kid i had black & white TV's often to play 8bit Nintendo etc (or worse) Coleco etc
And i had a long wired cable on the giant TV remote which was premium deluxe tech back then.
A Microwave ? LOL puuuhlease i don't think so this wasn't Start Trek kids. LOL

My first PC game i played in grade 5 was a TRS-80 from Radio Shack that had the optional Tandy cassette deck that played video game tapes.. space invaders etc.

Kids.. fuck you.. you spoiled little shits LOL  

Yesterday I stepped out of my house to go play basketball, and I forgot to put my phone in my pocket. It felt so uncomfortable, and I thought that I should go back and get it. I didn't, but that uncomfortable feeling was pretty interesting. Something that was not there 15 years ago.

The world is developing and there is no turning back. Early and there was no Internet, so give up?

Busy can help you to quit the smart phone addiction. When life gets hectic, I don't have time to play with my mobile phone. Maybe you can cultivate a hobby, or a movie. Of course, the best is that you have to learn to control yourself.

Throw it out the window. After a couple of days to wean from this dependence

Every single morning, I rush into the school because of my phone addiction. What really helped me is catching myself being stuck watching YouTube videos every night. The moment that I notice I'm starting to consume a lot of time watching videos that aren't actually helpful, I just stop using my phone. The problem with this is after a couple of minutes, you get the urge to use your phone again.

Quitting my phone addiction would be really efficient for me especially in terms of my time usage. Thanks for this article, OP.

I was so damn addicted with my phone..playing games and finally when it started screwing with my life I had decided to remove the games in my phone and now I am better of. It wasn't easy but the truth is I found bitcoin and this forum. Now, spend more time reading articles, take part in signature campaign and bounty hunting. They can at least bring me some income than wasting my time playing games. I do have some games, but I have better control over me at the moment

Take the power of will and throw it simple. All the problems in your head. Turn to something useful. Grow avocado)

That's kind of a drastic thing to do for the average person.

I think it's not normal anymore for you to be addicted in smartphone. It's like a disease that must be cure in time because it might get seriously bad if you're just going to ignore it. It may lead to a serious mental illness like mental disorder or something bad. The radiation that you receive every time you use your smartphone or other gadgets is the one that causes you this kind of response whenever someone is bothering you when you're using your smartphone. The brain activity function gets low whenever you're receiving radiation which is normal if we are using gadgets that are causing radiation to us in the right way. My advice to you is that focus on something that you want other than using smartphone all day. Like doing your hobbies and other helpful stuffs, you can also read some books to cure your boredom.

What worked for me was to move to a place with no cell phone coverage.  After a year of not even remembering to bring my trac-phone when I went to town, I let the sim go broke and have not renewed it.

Actually, I worked for a company who developed cell phone software once and didn't own one because it was not very interesting to me, so I was apparently never very prone to be attracted to them I guess.  Back in the day the pager was much more useful to me.  The killer-app for me with smart-phones are driving directions but I can live without that most of the time.  I also considered them to be Orwell's 1984 'telescreen' on steroids from very early on which never had much appeal to me, but wasn't the primary reason I avoided them.

Ironically I have a pretty good stack of pretty nice phones since one of my companies used to give them out like candy.  I also bought one of the early Android phones to play around with custom software since it could be compiled (well...some of it.)  I still carry one of my phones since it has a nice cam, tells time, and the GPS is quite accurate which is handy when inventorying my holdings.  It's almost always in airplane mode.

That's not the point. If she had the cellphone on airplane mode, it would only be a matter of time before she turns it off to look something up. And no it's not as easy as saying she doesn't have any will power. She also doesn't want to be bothered ever, so no point in having a phone on airplane mode.

I tried to do this. Was very exited about it, back in January 2014, but a month earlier I discovered Bitcoin and started mining alt coins. But yeah, I miss time before the internet.

Nice one!  I do not know if I could quit it.  It is the only way for me to fight the boredom and make read of interesting articles online.  But it is really addictive and wasted your time for sometimes nonesense things.  It will make your life a little miserable because you got caught on the emotions of the things you saw on the internet.  I will try to cut off my time using internet.  Maybe I should change my phone.

You do know there's an off button on mobile phones, don't you? If you don't want to be bothered, you can just switch if off.

That,s very interesting
Thank you  :inlove:

It actually depends on how people will use their phone or their phone using them.  I am quite guilty of having my phone browsing here and there looking on social media's new post while on a date.  My special someone would also ask me to stop holding my phones but he is also sometimes like me.  Though there is something in smartphones, they are like glue once you hold it your eyes and hands attached to it.  I use my smartphone in earning some extra income.  I Playing games that pays you dollars is not bad enough right?  Plus, if I do not have computer or laptop I use my smartphone to do some business with bitcoins.

smart phone is very good and convenient. It improves and makes life easier. The main thing to treat it without fanaticism, not to become addicted to it. And remember the main thing - a phone made ​​for man, not man for the phone

but that's not easy to do. I'm trying to do the same thing.
sometimes I make it and sometimes I don't.
maybe because I don't pay attention to people around me.

I don't have a smartphone hence no addiction. I think that's the real and maybe the only possible way to live your life without constantly looking at the screen of your smartphone.

Smartphones can be addictive because we have our whole life in them. Personal data, internet banking, Facebook, documentm, whole bunch of different aplications that make our life easier. But important thing is to find the right measure, to see the smartphones as a thing that can make our life easier but not as something that we can't live without.

I only used my smartphone for call and txt moments in everyday. I guess the most addictive part of using this phone is the use of internet and stored games unless of course you are doing business using it. What makes me so addictive to smartphone is by playing games if and only if I am not doing anything and thats it..

Do some thing important

Some discipline can help I guess. Also there are many features on modern phones to cut off the annoying calls/texts/whatever. But shunning an otherwise useful tool because of the lack of self control and discipline... I dunno that make no sense.

Wow, this is really incredible. However, I really do like my smartphone, along with most people. However, I do not feel like it is taking away from my life. It helps me to connect with friends all the time, and doesnt limit my time with them face to face.

Try to have vacation. Dont bring your gadget make a nice talk and live socialy. Just sacrifice your one day not holding your smart phone and find decent legal job that can make you busy.

i have tried to make them happen what you said but nothing changed .. so now, i am more addicted to smartphones than past now..

Smartphone addiction is really a big problem now a days. most of people are facing this problem. but we can easily quit by this problem step by step. so if you are a holic of smartphone then start from begning...
first you must find some more hobbies and start play with them.

I would suggest find another hobby or what ever that can make u busy and as long as its useful and profitable.

Do you still carry a phone for emergencies?

When you are addictive using the phone sometimes it does not matter if online or offline, but the essential is making calls.

this article is very educational for me  because i have a smartphone addiction too.. it is the very crucial problem of our era.. we must find some solution immediately before smartphones blows our brains out..

switch of wifi and stop using social nets like instagram,fb,snap chat and so on..stop checking your phone every two minutes. Go fitness,swimming, occupy yourself

There's this great thing called an off switch that should be somewhere on your phone you can try for a few hours.

The picture that you included in the main post it's not a smartphone, btw smartphones are much addictive and the new generations of people can't live without it(simply they can't imagine the life without a smartphone in their hands)

you can quite from your smartphone,as long you still life in big and metro city,if you want,go away from that place and life in village.

I suggest you find a good hobby like sports or music,arts or dancing?

Uh, too extreme for me.


Why not use a dumb phone (i.e non-smartphone) instead? You can't go online on those and there are no apps/Facebook/Twitter/Guardian to play with. Pretty hard to get addicted to those things. People might have very legitimate/urgent reasons to contact you when you're not at home.

I don't find a 4 inch screen all that exciting where I would want to spend hours interacting with it. I find it ok for *phone* calls. 

i guess i am the only one who is not using smart phone . people are missing their moments staying glued to their phones now a days and i really hate that. i am not against smart phones but how people are making use of it.

I have a smartphone. It's great. However I don't do facebook, instagram, twitter or any of that shit. I don't game. Hardly anyone has the number and I probably wouldn't pick up anyway. What I do use it for is taking photos, navigating and mobile internet usage. For that it's amazing.

I've bought my mobile phone €12.99 in Italy 3 years ago. It's a very nice phone, and it accepts 2 SIM cards. I don't think I'll ever get a smartphone. I have more control over my life without one, and I enjoy not living with apps with which I would have to share all my travel info, nor any personal information. I switch on the computer when I want to read/send emails, and if I don't want anything like that, I just keep it switched off.

My thoughts exactly. I find it utterly pathetic seeing people walking down the street holding their smartphones in front of their faces waiting for the next absolutely useless Twitter/WhatsApp/whateverApp message.

I've had a "smart"phone for a few years now and have never used it for more than taking pics here and there or checking the weather and I really can't stand texting. That being said, the next phone I get is going to be a flip-phone or whatever they call the non-smart phones now. I just don't get the people I know that leave their phones on while they sleep or can't be without them for fear of having a nervous breakdown. You really do see nothing but people walking about with their heads down playing with their phones and it has gotten so ridiculous that now there are repetitive strain injuries such as "text neck" from people's addictions to these things. There is such a major disconnect from people who can't put the phone away at dinner or even on dates and now what could be conveyed in a ten second phone call is drawn-out over multiple texts - it is just ridiculous.

I am not addicted to my smartphone, but my partner does... He is always using his phone, chatting qith froends, playing games, etc..  i am really fed up with his behavior...

not had a mobile for like 15 years

That's great, I liked this a lot.  I'm about seconds away from doing the same.  It used to piss me off when people were glued to their phones instead of paying attention to everything else, and now I'm doing the same damn thing.  I would not get a big yellow rotary dial phone however. 

How I quit my smartphone addiction and really started living

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