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0 pointsOJFord2y ago0 comments

> If people are addicted to something then the only thing they can do to stop being addicted is to quit cold turkey.

Haven't you gone on to prove yourself wrong by mentioning food diets? Many/most of which are not quitting something cold turkey?

Unless you're going to tell me that e.g. 'intermittent fasting' is quitting eating on Wednesdays or 0000-2200h cold turkey, like that was the addiction.

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ViktorRay2y ago

People on food diets quit the unhealthy foods in a “cold turkey” way.

Many of us have no issue eating the occasional nacho or chocolate cake or drinking a coke here and there. Other people do have issues controlling their intake of these junk foods. I meant that people quit the junk food “cold turkey.”

So the digital analogue is quitting the “junk apps” in a cold turkey kind of way….

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