How Do I Quit My Addictions For Good?

[Nito]

For the last 6 months I have developed multiple addictions I am still trying to quit

I’ve managed to quit my addictions to video games , phone addiction and porn addictions by using an app that locks all my apps on my phone.

However, there is no way for me to “lock myself out” of junk food. 

I still live with my parents and they eat bad foods and so I can’t avoid them
 

I decided to watch Leo’s video called “Awareness alone is curative”

and I think it might be my only shot at quitting my junk food addiction

If you haven’t seen the video, Leo talks about how you can quit any addiction simply by just being aware of yourself when you indulge in the addiction/bad habit

Using this method I’ve run into a few problems id really appreciate help with

1. I’m unsure I’m even using awareness correctly. 
Like how do you even be aware when you do the bad habit, I don’t understand what the difference between being aware and not being aware is.

2. Am I meant to let myself do the bad habit as much as I want? Leo says in the video to not stop yourself from doing the bad habit as long as you use awareness whilst doing it. But am I really meant to let myself do my desire 24:7 because if I do that I’m always eating since I have the desire to eat bad food A LOT.

3. Is there proof this awareness method used to quit addictions/bad habits works?  Leo never mentioned any proof of anything using it so I feel like I can’t fully believe it works tbh. 

4. is it normal that I’ve been eating triple the amount of bad food. My addiction feels like its just gotta worse because I’m doing the addiction way more now ever since Leo said in the video not to stop yourself from doing the bad habit but to just be aware of yourself doing it. 
I understand the idea is that you keep using awareness until your awareness becomes very good that you quit the habit, but I’ll honestly get diabetes at this rate bruh

5. I’m just worried this bad habit will never end. I’m stuck with what to do and I’m trying to cling onto this method for hope but so far not getting much results.

please help me. I want to quit my addiction but I just don’t know what to do.

 

please help answer my questions and give me your best advice on how to quit addictions 🙏🏼

 

 

[Nito]

Any help Is really appreciated 🙏🏼

[LordFall]

I would start to workout a lot and then it’ll be pretty useless to eat junk food as it’ll ruin your progress. Use counter leverage basically. If you’re just trying to use willpower alone that’s tough. 

[Jacko]

Can you buy your own ingredients to cook or even offer to cook for your family? 
 

My take on Leo’s video would to be mindful of the experience as a whole. E.g thoughts, emotions, feelings/sensations in the body. What’s the craving actually feel like in the body? How do you feel when you’re eating junk food? How about after? I don’t think it means you have a free pass to eat anything you like though! 

[Princess Arabia]

Most people are addicted to something. No exceptions on this forum. People don't want to feel like hypocrites telling you how to quit addictions for good while still on theirs. Most don't even know how; battling their own. Maybe rephrasing the question a bit would have had more responses. Maybe narrowed it down to "how to eat more healthy and quit junk food" rather than "how to quit addictions for good". That seems more a question for a trained therapist. 

In regards to Leo's video and "awareness is curative", it kind of puts one on the outside looking in. Almost like meta. Like watching someone else indulge, but without judgement. Keep doing that while showing love to yourself and the thing indulging in, by saying "I love you but you gotta go". Keep repeating and repeating everytime you watch yourself indulging. 

I'm not a pro at this and I get cravings myself but I give in since it's not that often or with many things. The cravings naturally go away after awhile. There are other things I might do but am not trying to quit and am comfortable doing them and is at peace with it. Sometimes the problem lingers when there's a battle going on; like confirming it's existence. Sometimes just doing it without even noticing can also have an adverse effect; can help. Who knows, things can naturally fall away on it's own. 

The body is what craves these things and it has a "mind of it's own". It operates even when there's no driver in the seat. It can seem to get programmed one way or another so sometimes instead of trying to quit the current thing, it's more effective to program it with another to override the previous program. Program it to start doing something instead of trying to stop something else. 

Edited June 18 by Princess Arabia

[woohoo123]

If your problem is food - what worked for me is enjoying the feeling of being healthy and  looking good over the enjoyment of bad food. 

Bad food always tastes good (to me) but I would eat to the point where I’d feel sick and gross. That feeling would stay with me. 

Then I’d use awareness to notice how I feel when I’m being intentionally healthy. Like the next 2 days I’d eat fresh, clean food. Snack on a bit of fruit or pomegranate, go to the gym, sleep well etc. and I just notice ‘hey, this feels good. I feel good’

Of course I’m gonna have those bad food cravings again, so I’d eat it. But then I’m always hit with that ‘sick’ I over ate kind of feeling again.

its not like I’m guilt tripping myself ‘you fat fuck!’ But I’m just noticing how I feel before and after the grease and junk food. I generally feel better before I ate it. So over time junk food doesn’t even look attractive to me because I associate it with just feeling bad/slow/heavy/thirsty/gross.

so over a period of time it became effortless to be healthy. Doesn’t mean you can’t eat junk food once in a while and enjoy it, but I’m not like fighting myself every time I see it either. 

hope that helps. 

❤️ 

Edited June 18 by woohoo123

[Nito]

On 18/06/2025 at 0:49 AM, LordFall said:

I would start to workout a lot and then it’ll be pretty useless to eat junk food as it’ll ruin your progress. Use counter leverage basically. If you’re just trying to use willpower alone that’s tough. 

 @LordFall hey Ty for this. I just recently got insane motivation to build my body to an absolute monster body and wow it’s really making me feel like not eating that rubbish

 

Have you got any more tips or more advice on using this tip you’ve given me

 

i guess I can just think of all the reasons why I want to not eat it.  E.g: looking more attractive which makes me more attractive to women, more energy, less depression

[Nito]

On 18/06/2025 at 11:35 AM, Jacko said:

Can you buy your own ingredients to cook or even offer to cook for your family? 
 

My take on Leo’s video would to be mindful of the experience as a whole. E.g thoughts, emotions, feelings/sensations in the body. What’s the craving actually feel like in the body? How do you feel when you’re eating junk food? How about after? I don’t think it means you have a free pass to eat anything you like though! 

I’m not really in the position to cook for my family. Would take too much time 

 

and tbh I want to fix this addiction not by removing it but by actually beating it to the point I can look at junk food and say “no” to eating it instead of just hiding it from myself yk?

 

And thank you I will try to use the mindful stuff like you’ve said. 
 

my problem is that I’m not really sure I’m even using awareness correctly or doing awareness correctly?

like what makes awareness different from thinking about something?

I understand awareness is kind of like noticing something without thinking but I don’t get it tbh

And because I don’t understand how awareness really works it makes it hard for me to even tell if I’m doing it right 

because I don’t understand awareness Fundamentally I can’t really apply it to anything haha

apologises I dragged that explanation a lot but I want to make sure you understand what I’m asking

 

Thanks for your help previously 

[Nito]

On 18/06/2025 at 7:06 PM, woohoo123 said:

If your problem is food - what worked for me is enjoying the feeling of being healthy and  looking good over the enjoyment of bad food. 

Bad food always tastes good (to me) but I would eat to the point where I’d feel sick and gross. That feeling would stay with me. 

Then I’d use awareness to notice how I feel when I’m being intentionally healthy. Like the next 2 days I’d eat fresh, clean food. Snack on a bit of fruit or pomegranate, go to the gym, sleep well etc. and I just notice ‘hey, this feels good. I feel good’

Of course I’m gonna have those bad food cravings again, so I’d eat it. But then I’m always hit with that ‘sick’ I over ate kind of feeling again.

its not like I’m guilt tripping myself ‘you fat fuck!’ But I’m just noticing how I feel before and after the grease and junk food. I generally feel better before I ate it. So over time junk food doesn’t even look attractive to me because I associate it with just feeling bad/slow/heavy/thirsty/gross.

so over a period of time it became effortless to be healthy. Doesn’t mean you can’t eat junk food once in a while and enjoy it, but I’m not like fighting myself every time I see it either. 

hope that helps. 

❤️ 

@woohoo123 hey I forgot to reply to you. Apologises

 

just been eating so much junk food this last month everyday and it’s awful I swear haha

I have to ask you. Have you quit junk food completely now and how long did it take?

 

 And Did you have a lot of junk food aroud you, specifically your house, when you were trying to quit

 

i have a lot of junk food in my houses kitchen and i fail everyday to it and I don’t know if I’m just making it impossible for myself to quit since it’s so hard to have the willpower to not eat it

 

i will try use your advice of preferring to be healthy and feeling good since I hate feeling low energy and depressed after eating this crap.    But I’m scared how long this will take 😓

 

thank you for all your help btw and please help me as much as you know currently. I seriously appreciate it and need all the help I can get. 🙏🏼

[Nito]

On 18/06/2025 at 2:26 PM, Princess Arabia said:

Most people are addicted to something. No exceptions on this forum. People don't want to feel like hypocrites telling you how to quit addictions for good while still on theirs. Most don't even know how; battling their own. Maybe rephrasing the question a bit would have had more responses. Maybe narrowed it down to "how to eat more healthy and quit junk food" rather than "how to quit addictions for good". That seems more a question for a trained therapist. 

In regards to Leo's video and "awareness is curative", it kind of puts one on the outside looking in. Almost like meta. Like watching someone else indulge, but without judgement. Keep doing that while showing love to yourself and the thing indulging in, by saying "I love you but you gotta go". Keep repeating and repeating everytime you watch yourself indulging. 

I'm not a pro at this and I get cravings myself but I give in since it's not that often or with many things. The cravings naturally go away after awhile. There are other things I might do but am not trying to quit and am comfortable doing them and is at peace with it. Sometimes the problem lingers when there's a battle going on; like confirming it's existence. Sometimes just doing it without even noticing can also have an adverse effect; can help. Who knows, things can naturally fall away on it's own. 

The body is what craves these things and it has a "mind of it's own". It operates even when there's no driver in the seat. It can seem to get programmed one way or another so sometimes instead of trying to quit the current thing, it's more effective to program it with another to override the previous program. Program it to start doing something instead of trying to stop something else. 

I can’t believe I didnt reply to this. Ty for the help

 

I have to ask, Did you make up that tip about saying “i love you but you gotta go” yourself? And does it actually work?

 

and with your last paragraph, I have to ask, what do I reprogram my mind with instead of just trying to stop my current program of eating junk food 

 

 

[Oppositionless]

God I'd love to know. I really thought going on a meditation retreat and working my ass off 10 hours a day would take away the urge to smoke weed. Was not the case. But I did have a heart opening which was nice.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

You just stop doing it. Whatever it is that you're addicted to. And whatever shit you need to do, you just do. It's that simple. LMAO

[Oppositionless]

Just now, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

You just stop doing it. Whatever it is that you're addicted to. And whatever shit you need to do, you just do. It's that simple. LMAO

I don't think you understand how much addiction compromises free will. But in a certain sense you're right.

[Jordan]

I have addictions too with computer and phone use. I haven't done this but I think the easiest way is making it hard to use like putting the power cord in my trunk when I am not using my computer and make a decision just to use it 1 or 2 days a week. The extra effort to do it will give you enough time to realize that you decided not to do it. For junk food the awareness thing might not help if you still have it in your environment. You could get into the habit of only eating things you cook and make yourself and consider all other food poison.

[Princess Arabia]

1 hour ago, Nito said:

I can’t believe I didnt reply to this. Ty for the help

 

I have to ask, Did you make up that tip about saying “i love you but you gotta go” yourself? And does it actually work?

 

and with your last paragraph, I have to ask, what do I reprogram my mind with instead of just trying to stop my current program of eating junk food 

 

 

I got that "I love you, but you gotta go" from Leo's video, I believe it's called how to stop addictions or maybe cravings. 

Just what it is you want to accomplish, just focus on that instead of the junk food cravings. Keep it there and keep it there some more. Don't say I want to stop.....say I will....do or eat so and so. The subconscious doesn't read the word no it only hears what comes after that because no is not a reality. What is is. I do not want to, is not what's happening. I eat healthy is. Keep it in the present. 

Edited June 26 by Princess Arabia

[Ulax]

@Nito I think, at least in part, you need to find some ways to emotionally regulate yourself. And you need short term and term strategies for this. Reason being that I think addiction is often a way of coping with emotional dysregulation. For short term, DBT therapy can help imo. For long term, maybe work on reducing chronic stressors if possible, work on therapies which can heal your nervous system and do the basic of sleep, exercise and diet.

That said, I think it’s important to diagnose the roots of your addiction correctly. For example, maybe your nervous system is dysregulated from having undiagnosed dyslexia and having low ability to meet the demands of life. So doing therapy wouldn’t help.

Also, I think consult the works and opinions of addiction experts. And see if you can get 1-on-1 coaching with addiction experts if finances allow.

That said, I am just a random dude on a forum who thinks he is Leonardo DiCaprio ;). So take my opinions with a pinch of salt imo

[Ramanujan]

@Nitoleos videos on addiction suck ass. they are horse shit.

look elsewhere for videos/content on stopping addiction

 

i also have junk food addiction and it is difficult to quit it. 

cold turkey is the way to quit addiction permenently

environment matters . change you environment

 

[Deziree]

Eat at your friend's place. A retreat might help. Be hardcore on changing your diet and hit the gym. 

[Javfly33]

Don't be so weak and little confident. If people are able to kick 20 year addiction of smack I'm sure you can kick porn and bad food. 

 

 

 

[Hayato]

Focus on introducing fruits and vegetables and excluding the junk food.

It is a gradual process and you have to be very consistent and mindful.

And no matter how many times you relapse just don't quit.

If you persevere you will succeed.

 

Edited June 27 by Hayato