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Cut the cheap hits for a week

Pick one. Porn, betting, the feed, the fourth beer. Off for seven days. Notice what you reach for instead.

7 daysEvidence: worth trying

On a hard stretch it's easy to run on cheap rewards: fast, always available, nothing built. The popular story is that they "burn out your dopamine receptors". The science is less dramatic: what's well shown is that these habits crowd out the slower rewards that hold mood up, like people, movement and finishing things, and that they get worse under stress.

A week off one of them tells you how much of your evening it was eating. That's information you can't get any other way. Evidence: worth trying

If stopping one turns out to be hard, that's also information. Talk to a doctor.

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