Using the proven Easyway method, the authors show how to break free from smartphone addiction without feeling deprived or missing out. It’s about shifting your mindset.

4. The Easyway Method

Start by observing how your phone habits affect your time, focus, and relationships. Recognizing the problem empowers you to make meaningful changes.

5. Awareness Is the Key

Replace mindless phone use with fulfilling activities—reading, exercising, spending time with loved ones, or enjoying nature. Life offline can be deeply rewarding.

7. Rediscover Life Beyond the Screen

Modern smartphones are deliberately built to keep you engaged—through notifications, endless scrolling, and addictive apps. Understanding this manipulation is the first step toward freedom.

1. Smartphones Are Designed to Hook You

Many believe they can’t function without their phones for work, socializing, or staying informed. However, excessive usage often leads to stress, distraction, and wasted time.

2. The Illusion of Necessity

Simple actions like disabling notifications, limiting screen time, and creating phone-free zones can significantly reduce your dependency.

6. Small Adjustments Lead to Big Changes

Cutting back on phone use gives you more time, mental clarity, and deeper relationships, leading to a happier, more meaningful life.

9. Reclaim Your Time and Focus

The solution isn’t abandoning smartphones entirely but learning to use them intentionally, only when they genuinely add value to your life.

10. Mindful Use Is the Goal

Smartphones give the illusion of control, but they create dependency. This subtle addiction makes it harder to stop, even when it negatively impacts your well-being.

3. Addiction Disguised as Convenience

Smartphones promise convenience but often take over your life. True freedom comes when you use them as tools, not as a crutch.

8. Freedom Lies in Balance

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If Buddha Had A Smartphone, What Would He Do?

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master."

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"The Allen Carr method has helped millions quit smoking. Now its experts are determined to tackle the UK's obsession with digital devices" - Daily Express "You'll be aware off how your devices affect you and most of all, you will enjoy the feeling of regaining control" - Daily Mirror Do you pull out your phone at every idle moment? Do hours slip away as you mindlessly scroll? Has your smartphone added a level of detachment between you and the outside world? Sadly technology which should be a wonderful boon to us has started to blight our lives. The average adult spends nearly ten hours a day looking at digital screens, leading to unprecedented levels of stress, isolation, procrastination and inertia. The fact is that digital dependence is an addiction and should be treated as such. Allen Carr's Easyway is a breath of fresh air when it comes to addiction treatment. Tried and tested as an incredibly successful stop-smoking method, its principles have since been applied to other addictions such as alcohol, gambling and caffeine with outstanding results. Here, for the first time, the Easyway method has been used to overcome digital addiction, and it really works! Smart Phone Dumb Phone rewires our relationship to technology. By unravelling the brainwashing process behind our addictive behaviour, we are freed from dependence and can reassert control over our time and productivity. Including 20 practical steps to help you along your way, this wonderful guide will release you from the clutches of your smartphone and allow you to live in the moment. It truly is the easyway.

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