A Quick Way To Overcome Addiction

In this quick video, we're going to explore one of the most effective ways to overcome addiction – the "nothing rule."

The nothing rule is a simple but powerful strategy for overcoming addiction. By following this rule, you'll rid yourself of any temptation of engaging in harmful behaviours. Watch this quick video to learn more about this powerful method and how you can use it to overcome your addiction!

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[MonteCarlo-rxhu]

Quitting an addiction is never the hard part. The hard part is relearning to live without it.

[danielnicholson]

For me with cigarettes, changing my mindset from “I have withdrawals and feel bad because I haven’t had a cig” to “ I have withdrawals and feel bad because I HAD CIGS” helped me quit.

[yourcalmplace]

- I just want to let anyone who’s reading this, and going through a tough time know that it’s going to be okay. You’ll get through it! ✨

[joshuasitjar]

It's normal to feel down (any negative emotion), you don't have to fight it or get rid of it, it is part of life and life accepts both part of negativity and positivity. It's just we are conditioned to get rid of negative emotions but getting rid of it just makes it worst. So yeah I think this video is helpful, just take a break if you feel down, do NOTHING and take the negative emotions in it's okay to feel shame, angry, jealous, envy, hate, joy, flattered, confused, excited, fearful and just every emotion. It's OK. Its part of life and life is whole.

[aryabolton]

Speaking as someone who's 43, and 7 years clean from almost a lifetime of opiate addiction, I have to say that no method really works unless you're 100 percent wanting to stop. Even then, there's going to be relapse . If that happens, just keep trying. If you want it, you'll get there. You really will. It took me leaving my home state, and severing contact with those who I got high with, and a great psychiatrist/counselor/ therapist . My life is so much better now. I don't know how I lived the way I did for so long. But I have no desire to ever go back. If you're struggling with addiction, please know that things can get better. It's gonna be hard for a while, and take actually putting in the work. Don't let addiction steal what you love anymore. You can do it. You're stronger 💪 than you know. You deserve to be happy and healthy. You're worth it. ❤

[pinksigil]

Optimistic way to look at beating addictions and overcoming them. Be comfortable with uncomfortable feelings and embrace it head on, it gets better over time. The hard part is doing it everyday, but it gets better over time

[badm.d]

There is NO QUICK WAY to "overcome" addiciton. It's a lifetime struggle. stay strong.

[GoodBoyShep]

One thing that helped me is writing down every time I have an urge, how long it lasted, what I was doing, and how I overcame it. I still struggle but I have improved a lot! (Another tip is to tell yourself that the urge is part of addiction. Its just your mind tricking you, and you are trying to get better.)

[Cassandra_Loveday]

I love the saying “This too shall pass”.

[raidernation]

If overcoming addiction was easy, there’d be no addicts

[yukannasenshi]

I do think that the Do Nothing Rule may be harder to incorporate in a busy life where burnout really pushes to do things that are dopamine spiking but the 10 minute rule works regardless!

[Logan-tstf]

BE OF SERVICE!! Helping others is the most gracious thing you can do and you get the "dopamine hit". It also gets you out of your own head and into social situations for long term health and development

[Mai_Tai_Meyers]

I took a break from video games about two weeks ago (in order to focus more on school/work/lifting), and the first few days were awful! It felt like there was a huge boring hole in my day where I would usually just game. I felt a bit depressed in a weird way and couldn't really describe the feeling.

After two weeks, I feel more in tune with my current (and productive) routine. I feel great and am glad I made the decision to take a break!

[MrWasian]

It's also best to keep in mind that a drop in enjoying certain activities is sometimes just natural. It doesn't necessarily mean you're doing something bad. You can be stressed from work, having a kid, moving, etc and you simply can't enjoy watching a show you really like because you are worried about stressors in your life. Part of identifying actual unhealthy addictions is being able to accurately and honestly assess if it is impacting your life negatively.

[patriaciasmith]

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

[dianforrester]

Another way that I used before back when I was struggling is whenever I wanted to do something bad, I'd stop and do something else to either keep myself busy or improve on myself, in my case it was working out or drawing or sometimes photography after a while these bad things didn't even bother me anymore and I didn't even think about it

[maximilianocatalan]

9 months and 5 days ago i quit alcohol and pornography on the same day. Has been a hell of a ride, first 3 months were like hell, now I can say I have the drive I've never felt in my life, now I want to quit social media, I'm making nice progress, to all the people that feels like it's going to be impossible, just go for it, if you lose friends, or social "oportunities" I promise to you it's for the best. A world closes, and it opens a whole new better one, just don't overthink it and try it.

[Hison-Dcarman]

I started drinking alcohol since my teenage, spent my whole life fighting alcohol addiction. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be use globally to help people with related health challenges.

[ryandubyah]

I just spent the majority of this weekend completely wasted. Missed out on valuable time with my family and the best part is, I can’t even begin to justify it. Almost exactly a year ago I spent 3 weeks in a treatment program. I loved it, really flourished in it and I’d gladly do it again.

I recognize the importance of the 10 minute rule, but I agree also with a few other folks here. It’s a significantly harder battle with addiction than to simply do nothing. But this video was definitely uplifting to watch, even if only to remind me that there is a better life on the other side of this.

It’s a rough fight, but I’m working bit by bit to turn things around.

I wish all the very best to any of you finding yourselves in the midst of addiction. Everyone’s battle is different, everyone has to approach it their way when they decide to do so.

The one common ground is, you CAN do it. ❤

[robot_]

I had a experience with this dopamine stuff, I went fishing with my dad and his girlfriend for some hours, at first I was bored and didint like it but as time went on I learned to like it more and more and by the end I was incredibly happy that we went fishing and I got to pet a live fish we caught and released . I’ve learned that the longer time away from tech you are the easier it is to enjoy mundane things like playing fetch with your dog or making a art piece.