SOCIAL MEDIA

MODERATE

Sometimes the obvious solution is also the best: Delete the apps from your phone. If everybody did, we’d reduce an incremental creep that makes it harder and harder to resist social pressure, says Ana Homayoun, author of Social Media Wellness.

AGGRESSIVE

Social check-ins during a few minutes of downtime can become second nature, says Homayoun. Apps like Flipd block time-sucking/timewasting sites from your phone or computer either for a period of time you set—or for good.

EXTREME

If your habit is bigger than you can handle on your own, enlist help. Ask a friend or partner to hide your phone for periods of time. Or become a born-again Luddite, joining the 23% of Americans who don’t own a smartphone at all.