How Do I Quit My Addictions For Good?

[AION]

Do 12 step program 

[Jordan]

Yesterday awareness worked for me. I was paying attention to myself, I noticed an emotion come up and I knew it was about to cause a thought about using my computer. I saw this was a trap so I forced myself to just focus on how I was feeling and blocking out any thought that was about to come up, made a decision to do something else and cravings didn't even come up for me.

[Nito]

On 26/06/2025 at 8:44 PM, Oppositionless said:

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.

@OppositionlessI think I’ve finally found a way to quit.   Look at @woohoo123s reply to me above

 

His comment really has helped me

 

its made me realise how much I hate feeling tired and disgusting when eating junk food

 

this has helped me realise how much I like feeling clean and healthy

 

This was only possible after Leo’s awareness video called “awareness alone is curative” because using the awareness when you’re doing a bad habit means you get to truly experience what you are doing to yourself instead of doing the bad thing without thinking. You get to feel yourself feeling ugly for doing the bad habit. 
 

and the 3rd thing which is massively helping me is i made 10 affirmations I’m now reading everyday and it’s not just about reading them but also seeing their truth in them.  Here is my list below.   Affirmations are very powerful. Don’t let anyone tel you they aren’t. Trust me. Make your own.   If you don’t know how to. Watcha  video because they are powerful

 

we can both quit our addictions. I’ve got a lot of hope for myself from just a few days ahha. 
 

here’s the affirmations 

 

 ✳️My NEW beliefs about junk food and binge eating  
Junk food tastes disgusting to me
Junk food makes me feel disgusting and weak
I enjoy eating healthy foods and hate eating junk food
I easily ignore junk food each time I see it
I always can easily stop myself from eating junk food
I am more than capable of quitting junk food
I am free from junk food and binge eating
I barely eat junk food or binge eat
I easily go for days without thinking about junk food
I love eating well and feeling healthy
I release the past—I enjoy each new day fresh.

Edited June 27 by Nito

[Basman]

You have to be convinced that you are not missing out when not engaging in an addiction in order to move on from it.

Build a strong emotionally activating case for yourself for why you are not missing out when eating junk food. Imagine how gross and stuffed you feel after pigging out on junk food. How your body will feel now and long-term compared to if you ate healthy. How you'll feel at 50 on junk vs healthy. Become hyper aware of what exactly you are doing to your body when you are pigging out.

Also check what it does for you as an emotional crutch. What are you getting emotionally from junk food and can you get that elsewhere in a more conscious manner? Do you even need this crutch, really?

On a side note, if you eat a lot of junk food because you love specific foods like pizzas or hamburgers then I think you can still eat those but you just have to make them yourself so that they are at least relatively healthy and rich foods. Half the appeal of junk food is the convenience and 9 times out of 10 you can cook something better yourself for less cost, unless you really like the greasy taste of a fry kitchen

[koops]

On 17/6/2025 at 4:04 PM, Nito said:

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 🙏🏼

 

 

It can be tough.

What worked best for me was to do a 3 day solo meditation retreat in the woods.

You can try do it, and only buy healthy food. Stick through the urges. Isolated you wont have a chance.

Its like a complete reset from day to day life. 

 

[Max1993]

@Nito Pursue a dream that will blow your mind if it were to come true. Be bored to reset dopamine receptors. 

[Jordan]

I'll see if I can find a way to quit porn for 60 days. I don't have much of a plan other than deciding to do it to see if I can. I will see if I come up with any solutions that work.

[theleelajoker]

On 27.6.2025 at 4:22 PM, Hayato said:

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.

 

+1

Vipassana meditation helped significantly, even if it did not erase all my addictions completely 

[MVPJOURNEY]

I used the awareness method to overcome my porn addiction. The “catch” moment i had with my thoughts was that even by focusing on not wanting porn, i kept the thought alive, and the habit was able to feed off that. Part of awareness (at least for me) was watching the thought arise to watch porn, then watching the thought of “i shouldn’t be doing this” and the back and forth between the two (which ultimately always led to relapse) and accepting both without attaching myself to the outcome (i did relapse a few times before being able to sit with that full back and forth and letting it fizzle out, it got weaker and weaker over time)
 

i tried everything else people are mentioning and would always find myself going back to my addiction. I feel like habits from a young age like these can be just as hard as some of the intense drug addictions and everyone has their own “puzzle” in the mind to solve, just because the pattern in the mind is so strong and repeated so many times its engrained in us, and it’s very difficult to work out the patterns. 
 

I should also mention i found this by contemplation after relapses (which Leo has a good video on how to contemplate), just to try and work out the root cause. It did take a long time and i was trying other more general things during that time - however this ultimately worked.

 

Good luck to you 🙏

[Jordan]

Why do I always think I can go without my addictions, then I fail to go without them, then I still believe I can go without them easily. It is so weird. I always seem overestimate my ability to do what I say I will. Maybe I need to calibrate my estimation and see it as though I will defiantly give into my addictions if I physically can and the desire arises. That way I can plan accordingly how to make a change. Maybe realizing this is part of the awareness method.

Edited July 3 by Jordan

[archi]

On 6/17/2025 at 4:04 PM, Nito said:

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

Leave mama's hotel

[Elton]

On 18/06/2025 at 4:54 AM, Nito said:

Any help Is really appreciated 🙏🏼

Don't use awareness as an excuse for eating junk food