When checking my messages got out of control, I sought the advice of experts on addiction: smokers. It worked.

My phone habits got healthier when I applied classic stop-smoking techniques that have been proven to work.

McKinley Valentine
Better Humans
Published in
11 min readOct 14, 2020

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Two phones in a basket on a table in front of a man and woman talking.
Image credit: tataks

Like many people, I used to check my phone basically any time there was a lull in activity of more…

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