How Do I Quit My Addiction?

I was addicted to chess too. It was good mental stimulation and I was happy to find the mind I didn't know I had. 

Even defeated a AM once on time in a 10 min game. I knew I had no interest in pursuing chess any further. Also why play chess all the time when a computer can do it much better. you would be better off doing something special to you.

You could spend your time learning difficult things to get off chess. that might work. 

or you can start some other addiction. 😉

Keep up, u will get a Chess wife like those YouTubers. Bohot-Tez

Observe the destructive consequences of yours habits and move on. 

Focus on any other activity that gives you pleasure without causing any harm to you.

Just force yourself to be busy on other activity. Your mind will try to remind you about chess for a few days and then you will forget. Just stop being in contact with chess. 

Works for breaking down every destructive habit.

Play pokemon the whole day instead, it's a chess game with a story. You'll get over your addiction for chess

Whats you elo BTW?

Dam, I thought this will be something related to Alcohol, Marijuana or sex. lol

OP you got me good! Good luck playing chess. 

yeh nashe acche hain!!

Self  Conttol is first way .

Punish yourself  , like  if  you  are munching  much on sugar  carbohydrates  fat  than  you  will  walk  so  and  so  distance like 2 km .

I love only "TUBORG STRONG"

Good that its chess, it could be worse and is generally worse. I faced difficulty in life and just wanted some exit, just endless quora/fb scrolling to hide from my situation/pain and it turned into addiction. I have work but still will just do mindless scrolling and work keeps collecting and at end of delivery phase I worry about it, loop to more scrolling.

I have just accepted for now, but you seem smart and trying to take action, In general anyway start listening to Andrew Huberman, here I found for addiction: 

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Once you get into these podcasts, although long you can just go through and gain lot of insights.

I was addicted to Chess in school days 😅

But lockdown se addiction return ho gaya 😕😅

When I first read addicted, I thought you were addicted to pawn moves

You didn't seem to have played crystal from above pokemon listing, give it a try

Lol you are just in my shoes... I stopped playing by uninstalling chess.com and lichess. If you keep yourself busy for a week when you uninstall, you are done..

Google Hikikomori. Looks like you're already halfway to that state. Better take some drastic steps to revamp your life. Take up any form of physical workout - not talking about going to a  gym or running - even just walking or cycling or invest in a pair of dumbbells  The endorphins released after even a small workout can be a huge antidote to depressive thoughts and those nihilistic feelings.

As for addictions nothing works better than quitting cold turkey. 

Good luck in your endeavors!

start a youtube channel

I was in a similar situation last year but then I got busy with my studies/projects and I eventually stopped playing all together. Same with happen with you. Maybe you are not in a situation where you have to get sh1t done, that's why you are wasting your time on playing; once you get busy with your life this habit will fall off. 

P.S My chesscom rating is ~1500 blitz with 12,322 games played xD.

Give your board to someone else. If u r playing online block that website. That will stop your impulse urge to play. 

Go out...talk to some beggar or roadside hawker...see how there life is difficult....what real struggle means ..then probably ur problem will look v small to u n easily move on

Join a gym and be regular.
It will become a healthy addiction soon

Identify a prime land in your locality. After that take 1 month leave and grab the land 

Post it here after june 30th about your status. Good 👍 luck

Okay my suggestion is different from others..

Join a nearby chess club.start learning tactic. Plan long games. Explorer. Either make you master. Then start teaching others. open Yt. Stream make channel. Or they (club) beating you in chess. And make publicly shame make you leave the game.

Any update, did you got it under control or not?

Start coaching newbies and convert that into your earning.

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@SakataGintoki - Looks like you get addicted to whatever you get into. Are you into stocks/shares? 

This also happens to me. But when I see the total time played, it showed I had played for 34 days in around 1 year. Which opened my mind to see how much time I had wasted.

Also  you are getting ego hit when you lose and dopamine rush when you win. But none of that helps you to become more intelligent or generate wealth.

Start with any other Habit. Keep adding one more every week. Once u reach multiple addictions... U might slowly get away from chess. Start with Cooking Habit and make it an addiction. Choose Habits which eventually help you and turn it into an addiction.