How to STOP any addiction?

Are you struggling with addiction?

Most guys are addicted to bad habits, whether it's playing video games, using drugs, drinking alcohol or fapping, they just can't stop. But the worst thing is they never admit they are addicted instead they'll cope and say things like drinking alcohol in limit is healthy bro. You should try it too! Or video games are good for you as it helps in improving concentration.

The best men don't lie to themselves, they are brutally honest and admit their weaknesses because you can only overcome addiction when you keep things real. Maybe you've already tried breaking your addiction, you listen to advice out there but it just didn't working and you keep relapsing.

Listen!

Overcoming your addictions is beautiful thing but most advice out there is pure garbage, it sounds good on paper but doesn't actually work. This article will be only advice you will ever need on this topic. We will go over five ways to quit any addiction

1. Cultivate Hatred

Most people have a very limited understanding about quitting an addiction. They will tell you to set a date to quit your addiction and distract yourself, this may work temporarily until the temptations catch you off guard and you relapse again and again and again.......The first step to quit an addiction isn't to avoid it

'NO!'

The first step is to cultivate deep hatred about that activity, you heard that right, you start by using hate. People will tell you to use robotic and strict routines to overcome addictions. They don't truly know what addictions are? They treat addictions like any other habits.

Listen!

Addictions are strong emotionally driven habits. Loneliness, boredom, greed, sadness, all this unresolved pain points lead to your addictions. We don't choose to be addicted but what we choose to do is deny our pain. No one else will tell you this but the best way to counter your addictions is by cultivating the most powerful emotion against it

HATE!!

The reason why no one ever told you this because of two reasons

First reason is because society has very novice understanding of emotions, let alone how to use them to your advantage.

Second reason is that people consider hatred and anger to be negative emotions which be further from the truth, there is a time and a place for every emotion even for hatred, think about it if you have a gambling or fapping addiction, love isn't going to rid you of it, happiness isn't going to destroy your bad habits

When you want to remove weeds in a garden you need to kill the weeds similarly to kill a bad habit you need a powerful destructive emotion

Hatred!

Most people don't know how to use this powerful emotion , understanding when to use certain emotions to your advantage, that is what true power is and that's the first step to Breaking any addiction. The way to do this is by thinking of as many bad consequences of your addiction and write them down for example if you are addicted to fapping write down how fapping keeps you away from your potential because it absorbs your time and energy and makes you feel shameful , write down how pathetic of a father it makes you and and how it destroys your dopamine receptors makes you depressed and lowers your testosterone these are just examples but it's preferable that you go much darker than that you see by linking all horrible things to your addiction, you turn that addiction into your enemy and by reading them daily you program your subconscious brain to resent those activities this way even when you're caught off guard by Temptations your subconscious brain is trained to fight against it.

Now before moving on to the next way to break addictions I want to remind you of something very important every addiction is linked to a strong emotion loneliness could lead to fapping , greed could lead to gambling and although hatred is an excellent way to combat these strong emotions and destroy your addictions. It doesn't get you to understand the root of the problem you could destroy an addiction and later start a new Addiction because you didn't resolve the loneliness problem. I advise you to start by using hatred to deal with your addiction instantly but to also come back later to understand why you even had that Addiction in the first place.

2. Purpose

When a man lacks purpose he distracts himself with pleasures, naturally he will start to do dumb things, it is only to be expected however a man driven by a strong purpose can't waste time and energy on futile activities. Can you imagine a man like Elon Musk starting to become an alcoholic or a UFC fighter on the way to the title fapping nine times per day?

Of course not!

Their purpose doesn't allow for it a, man's desire to fulfill his purpose is 100 times stronger than his desire for meaningless distractions, once again no one else will tell you that this is the way to deal with your addictions, they try to give you cheap tricks and routines to avoid your addictions but it doesn't fix you at the core of your being. Now the reason why I didn't put purpose at number one is because it's easier to cultivate hate against your addiction than it is to find your purpose in life. It can take some time to figure out what your purpose is but that doesn't make it any less effective than cultivating hatred is a true purpose is one of the most effective and Powerful ways to break addictions

3. Do NOTHING!

We've been programmed to grab pleasure the moment we feel bored or to constantly work even if it's meaningless tasks but when is the last time you did nothing, when I say doing nothing I'm not talking about stinking in your bed, I'm talking about purposefully doing nothing , just sit most people develop their addictions because they can't deal with boredom so when you reprogram yourself to be okay while doing nothing you are less likely to give in addictions

Another thing you can do while doing nothing is discover what your purpose is in life, I don't want to get too deep into it right now because that's a different topic than quitting addiction but there's power in doing nothing. It helps to decrease anxiety bring creativity to the surface and boost productivity

4. Fight dirty

If it's a fight between temptation and willpower the odds are always on the side of Temptation. A single moment of weakness is more than enough for temptation to strike you down the key is to sabotage Temptation before the fight even begins, stop seeing your smoking friends, leave the junk food out of the house, don't take your mobile in bed with you, disconnect your internet if you have to, whatever your addiction is distance yourself from it as much as possible.

listen! you have to sacrifice to be able to change, don't battle Temptation with willpower that's a last resort instead defeat temptations by being witty and smart make it an uneven fight, don't give your enemy an opening to pick up its sword that's how you obliterate your Temptations. In other words change your environment and make it as difficult as possible for your addictions to lure you in.

5. Move

The power of regular exercise to deal with addictions is often underestimated a sedentary lifestyle is the mother of addictions while movement is a killer of addiction it helps you manage your mental health. So move, you can't smoke weed while you're sprinting, you can't fap while you're doing burpees. you can't gamble while you're swimming, it's very hard to be pathetic! while you're moving intensely and here's the beautiful thing about exercise, a good session will release natural chemicals in the brain called endorphins and when you get these endorphins in a natural way you are less likely to Crave it in a cheap and artificial way afterwards because you already got your Feelgood high from exercising

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