An addiction is basically when a thing begins to control your life and interferes with your daily activities, work and relationships. When your phone starts to do that to you, it has become an addiction you need to immediately break. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 5 effective ways to break a phone addiction.

The First Few Minutes of Your Day

The first way to break a phone addiction is to dedicate the first 10 to 30 minutes of your day, at least, to planning and creating a good start to your day, rather than unlocking your phone to browse various internet or social media platforms.

Create No-Phone Periods

You have to be strict with this one because this can significantly decrease your productivity and efficiency once you are unable to carry it out. If you find yourself constantly being distracted by your phone, it is necessary to create a no-phone period, where for a specific number of minutes or hours you close off your phone and stay completely dedicated to your work.

Don’t Lose Sleep Over Your Phone

Set limits. You should never allow your phone deprive you of your sleep. Be disciplined and set limits. The moment you stop putting energy into caring for your basic needs and start putting all your time and energy into your phone, you are allowing your phone dictate your health and well-being. Please stop that, your phone is not worth your health.

Customize Your Notifications

The fact is the lesser notifications you receive, the less likely you are to get distracted by your smartphone and constantly check your smartphone. Therefore, customize your smartphone notifications by turning off notifications for the apps that distract you the most.

Work on Building Real Life Relationships

Rather than spending hours building virtual relationships, try to get real and work to develop real world relationships. Real world relationships are more physically and emotionally gratifying than virtual relationships, so try to move your relationships with people from your phone to a real world platform. Instead of chatting, try to meet up somewhere next time (but be careful with this however and take this step with people you are without a doubt sure you can trust. The key phrase here is ‘without a doubt’.)

source: http://www.opinions.ng/5-effective-ways-break-phone-addiction/

Nice one... phone is really taking the place of real life people. Imagine always chatting with a Lalastica you'll never meet and ignoring the neighbours next flat you always see...

Easier said than done

sounds good, doesn't work

check this

Really?, I don't know how this can be possible

You really tried sir.. But I think mind will be difficult.... maybe I needed to be given a million dollar anyday I stay for 5mins without my phone joking! Good article

Thank you. Guilty.

break ke?

foonu
cant go 5 minutes without it..break fire

I need deliverance . It has eaten me so deep that I can't breath without phone. I don't know if anyone is in my shoes

STORY

OK

Make u of " touch light phone" for the rest of your life.One thing is certain,u won't bother about Facebook,nairaland etc that causes addition again.

d

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Easier said than done

Not in this generation

A Girl ask me what Wahala means?
Wahala is wen u Sneak ur Oga Motor
and Accidentally kill an Army's
General in front of a Barrack

lacoach:
I need deliverance. It has eaten me so deep that I can't breath without phone. I don't know if anyone is in my shoes

So who should visit Synagogue?
You or your phone?

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I hope I can work on these

As an introvert, I prefer fone relationship to real life relationship

What effective ways to break nairaland addiction?


What effective ways Nigeria and APC government to break from stealing taxpayers money for foreign medical checkups?

I need deliverance

JARUSHUB:
An addiction is basically when a thing begins to control your life and interferes with your daily activities, work and relationships. When your phone starts to do that to you, it has become an addiction you need to immediately break. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 5 effective ways to break a phone addiction.

The First Few Minutes of Your Day

The first way to break a phone addiction is to dedicate the first 10 to 30 minutes of your day, at least, to planning and creating a good start to your day, rather than unlocking your phone to browse various internet or social media platforms.

Create No-Phone Periods

You have to be strict with this one because this can significantly decrease your productivity and efficiency once you are unable to carry it out. If you find yourself constantly being distracted by your phone, it is necessary to create a no-phone period, where for a specific number of minutes or hours you close off your phone and stay completely dedicated to your work.

Don’t Lose Sleep Over Your Phone

Set limits. You should never allow your phone deprive you of your sleep. Be disciplined and set limits. The moment you stop putting energy into caring for your basic needs and start putting all your time and energy into your phone, you are allowing your phone dictate your health and well-being. Please stop that, your phone is not worth your health.

Customize Your Notifications

The fact is the lesser notifications you receive, the less likely you are to get distracted by your smartphone and constantly check your smartphone. Therefore, customize your smartphone notifications by turning off notifications for the apps that distract you the most.

Work on Building Real Life Relationships

Rather than spending hours building virtual relationships, try to get real and work to develop real world relationships. Real world relationships are more physically and emotionally gratifying than virtual relationships, so try to move your relationships with people from your phone to a real world platform. Instead of chatting, try to meet up somewhere next time (but be careful with this however and take this step with people you are without a doubt sure you can trust. The key phrase here is ‘without a doubt’.)

source: http://www.opinions.ng/5-effective-ways-break-phone-addiction/

Praise be

since I joined NL, I can't do without my phone for a day





and can't let me run of data

What of those addicted to naira land.

How will they break off the addiction?

I'm No. 1 though

u can't bro except u ain't addicted to phone.

Phones addiction has taken alot of people into their graves. Broken marriages and those who can't seem to pass exams. Countless havoc it has caused.

Once I get home each day, my phone is off from 7pm. Put in on again 7am in the morning.

Some Nigerians have 2 phones. Some 3. Only in 9ja. No where in the world will you meet people carrying so many phones around.

A word is enough for the wise.