How to Stop Doomscrolling: Interrupt the Loop
Learn how to stop doomscrolling by naming the trigger-reward loop behind it, then applying friction and replacement tactics that actually interrupt it.
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Late-Night Eating as a Cue Problem, Not a Hunger Problem
You are not hungry and you eat anyway, which means hunger is not the trigger. What the trigger usually is, and where this stops being a habit question.
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Breaking a Habit You Share With Someone Else
A shared habit has a cue that is another person, and that is the one cue you cannot remove. What changes, what to ask for, and what not to try.
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The Habits You Only Have at Work
The same person, two places, two sets of behavior. Habits are attached to contexts rather than to people, and there is measured evidence for what that means.
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What Fills the Space a Habit Leaves Behind
You stopped, and now there is a hole in your evening. That hole is the size of the thing you removed, and something is going to move into it.
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Boredom as a Cue: The Habits That Fill Empty Hands
The trigger is not boredom, it is the specific gap where boredom arrives. Where those gaps sit in a day, and why removing the behavior widens the gap.
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Gradual Reduction or Cold Turkey: How to Choose
Nobody has measured which works better for ordinary habits, and the pages that say otherwise are citing substance research at something else. What decides it.
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The Snooze Button: What It Is Actually Rewarding
You know you will regret it and you do it anyway, which is the shape of a behavior with a reward attached. What that reward is, and the four ways out.
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Adding Friction: Making the Unwanted Habit Take One More Step
The delay does not have to defeat you, it has to interrupt you. Where to put friction, why the numbers you have read are invented, and when it stops working.
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Replace, Do Not Resist: Why Substitution Beats Willpower
Removing a behavior leaves a cue with nothing attached to it, and the cue does not go away. What a substitute has to match, and where the idea overreaches.