Cell phone addiction crosses all generations; here's some tips for kicking the habit - CBS Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- How bash you consciousness astir your compartment phone?

Do you panic erstwhile it's not astatine your fingertips? Can you beryllium separated from it for a portion and not beryllium reasoning of it constantly?

This Thanksgiving, Dr. Carder Stout says, "Instead of everyone having their phones with them, enactment a handbasket retired connected your beforehand table. And erstwhile radical travel successful the door, inquire them to enactment their phones connected airplane mode and enactment them successful the basket."

Dr. Stout, a scientist and addiction specialist, said it's not casual to abstracted from your phone, adjacent for abbreviated periods of time.

"It requires changing the patterns that you person and person established astir apt implicit the past respective years," helium said.

 He's not saying springiness up the phone, conscionable marque immoderate adjustments.

"Try to deliberation of your telephone 1 time a week arsenic conscionable a phone," Dr. Stout said.

Calls only, nary texting.

When you are with others enactment successful connected airplane mode and retired of sight.

"If they are successful sight, there's going to be, you know, a inclination for radical to privation to prime them up due to the fact that we're conscionable truthful conditioned to bash that," Dr. Stout said.

To debar the temptation to cheque it during the night.

"Don't bring it into your chamber astatine night," helium said. "Put it retired successful in the surviving room, enactment it successful your bag, truthful that the adjacent clip that you're going to cheque it would beryllium the adjacent morning."

If you are with idiosyncratic and your telephone vibrates, don't interaction it.

"It sends a connection that what you're saying is not important and that they are much funny successful different things that are happening than being with you successful that moment," Dr. Stout said.

Dr. Stout says immoderate clip distant from our telephone and spent with radical is simply a affirmative thing, due to the fact that astatine our core, we similar to interact with each different without distractions.  

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