"Quitting" is a strong word. I've taken breaks for dopamine fasting before, but I never intended to completely stop using it.
3 years ago | 699
I don't think quitting a very reliable and convenient way of contacting family, friends, and emergency services is the best idea, but a break from doom-scrolling is always good.
3 years ago | 507
Phones aren’t inherently negative but rather the opposite. They are probably the most useful object by mass and I think life would be harder without them. But they corrupt. The mind and eventually the body. Phone use will always be a tug of war between utility and gratification. Stay strong my friends.
3 years ago | 44
I take breaks sometimes, but its never been "I'm quitting using my phone" it's just "I'm getting too attached to it and that always makes my mental heath worse"
3 years ago | 40
I feel like truly quitting your phone is kind of impossible in this day and age. Especially if you’re part of a generation that kind of grew up around them. However, i will say turning my phone off or not looking at it for a few hours makes me so much more productive and focused
3 years ago | 11
I’m in a constant battle to lower my screen time but I can’t imagine going more than a week without it and I don’t know if I’ll ever try. Feels like a part of me
3 years ago | 52
It'd be kind of unreasonable for most people to quit their phone. I'm an advocate of lowering screen time and it didn't take much for me to do that (for me it was just a matter of finding other distractions) but I wouldn't consider quitting using my phone all together. Phones are very useful, convenient, and reliable. They're also necessary for some.
3 years ago (edited) | 17
Every once in a while I just stop using my phone for a couple of days, it's not a big deal to me
3 years ago | 57
Society basically requires having a phone and internet connection so "trying to quit" seems like it's not an appropriate way to frame this. I think quitting social media can help a lot. Having healthier habbits and enforcing timmers on the phone, along with bedtime modes and work modes can help a lot. If possible, downgrading I just don't think its reasonable for everyone to plausibly even quit their phone. I know my friends/family would be worried if Im just shutting it off for extended periods.
3 years ago | 36
I feel like I can't quit my phone, but often uninstall social media apps for short periods of time to focus
3 years ago | 9
That's like asking how often you've tried to quit electricity, or transportation, or reading...
3 years ago | 3
“Quitting” my phone, never. Tried “quitting” the apps I do not really need or use anymore (mainly social media), constantly.
3 years ago (edited) | 23
Quitting means no more camera, gps, actual phone app, important texts, and much more that is not unhealthy. I say just quitting the unhealthy doom scrolling in the major social apps is all you need to do.
3 years ago | 12
My phone screen time is crazy high, but whenever I go on vacation, visit family, I hardly touch it and it is so refreshing. Still, it’s not like an addiction because it isn’t a hard thing to put the phone away when there are exciting things to do and people to spend quality time with.
3 years ago | 3
I quit mine for a few years, the hardest part was having to rely on an old gps in desperate need of an upgrade to get around when I was outside of my bubble, and then it was not having the camera after my son was born. After a few months I got one again because my partner was missing so much when he wasn't home and I couldn't share it with him. But there's a lot of freedoms I miss about not having it. If I could opt out completely from some features I would because obviously I'm weak when left to my own devices. It's 930 at night and I'm commenting on a question on YouTube instead of sleeping
3 years ago (edited) | 11
In todays world it’s almost impossible to live without a phone. If I could I would get rid of it.
3 years ago | 27
ive done it plenty of times, in turms staying off media, and have a reset, yet i keep it for music, as it has a positive impact over anything. Its a quick dopamine reset, helped me realise nature and the beuty of world around me more, also made my brain think more creativly to enjoy or create little things for fun, like playing with my cat, drawing manga, touching the celing of my room haha, cloud gazing, etc during it. I felt like media dozes me off if i do it for too long.
3 years ago (edited) | 0
2 years ago (during the beginning of quarantine) i stopped use it my phone from the beginning to around the end of april. the main reason i got it started using it again was because of my parents being annoyed that they couldn’t call me. i enjoyed not having it, it was great.
3 years ago | 2
Being a college student, having a phone makes things too easy to give it up entirely. That being said, I have quit all social media apps for personal use. I only have Instagram, but it only serves as an art portfolio.
3 years ago (edited) | 8
I actually don't have to quit it. I don't do any social media other than YouTube and twitch and I just watch those instead of tv for a bit every night. I will watch gmm in the morning to watch while i have morning coffee . My phone is usually put off somewhere so i can do other things.
3 years ago | 21
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How many times have you tried quitting your phone?
3 years ago | [YT] | 3,282