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 Wednesday at 01:29 PM 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 Wednesday at 06:06 PM 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