Since 2018, I've noticed many children neglecting their studies due to online gaming, impacting their entire family's happiness. I myself am one of the biggest victims of gaming; few have suffered as deeply. Countless families are searching for ways to mitigate the harm of excessive gaming, but in 2025, all the books on the market will be written by psychology experts, not by players who have successfully quit gaming.
Furthermore, these books aren't specifically designed for quitting gaming. They instruct parents on how to communicate effectively with their children, but offer no solutions for players quitting gaming. It seems that as long as parents can communicate, the child's internet addiction problem is solved. After reading these books, I found none could help me when I was addicted to games—whether it's controlling gaming time or quitting altogether, these books are largely ineffective.
Only someone who has experienced gaming addiction and successfully quit can write the best methods for quitting video games, because they fully understand the player's psychology and design quitting (or controlling gaming time) plans from the player's perspective, making them truly effective! This book presents a simple and easy-to-implement solution for quitting gaming—Zhang Jian's "Smart Reading" method. As long as parents and children implement it, it's not difficult for players to eventually quit gaming or reduce their gaming time significantly!
The "Smart Reading" method can also be applied to interventions for other forms of internet addiction, such as short videos, online novels, binge-watching TV series, and anime. You simply need to replace "games" in the following text with the activity you want to control.
A Scientific Method for Quitting Gaming
I am Zhang Jian, a former "veteran" gamer who was addicted to games for nine years from 2000 to 2008. After thousands of failed attempts to control my gaming time through vows, I finally quit gaming completely in 2009 after a rational review.
I don't want to go into a long explanation, making readers read tens of thousands of words before explaining how I did it. But I also don't want readers to take it lightly because the answer seems too easy to grasp. Actually, quitting gaming was incredibly difficult; I almost lost my life!
Why is quitting gaming so difficult? Because players love playing games!
To quit gaming, players must contend with both physical and psychological pressure. Therefore, forcing players to permanently abstain from games is virtually impossible. It requires self-awareness, planting the seed within players that gaming will ruin their lives, eventually transforming their love for games into hate, and ultimately fostering a love for a healthy real-life lifestyle.
A scientific and easy way to quit gaming is:
("Harm") Understanding the harmful effects of gaming.
("Intention") Relying on willpower to combat gaming is likely to fail, but strengthening willpower is still necessary.
("Intelligence") Relying on a "think tank" to implement external discipline (this is the most important).
("Quit") Ideally, quit video games completely now.
("One") If you can't bring yourself to quit, play only a little – quit for a month first, then play less than four hours a week.
("Plan") If even playing only a small amount of games is impossible, play according to a plan.
(The word "度" is a variant of "读") Cultivate your mind and body through "reading more books (this is the most important), earning more money, and dating," ultimately transforming your love for games into fear and eventually quitting (or playing only a small amount).
Of these seven points, the two most important are:
Rely on a "think tank" for "external discipline." If I could successfully control gaming on my own, I would have succeeded long ago. Therefore, the power of others is still needed!
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The above seven lines represent seven actions, each represented by a shorthand word, which together form "害伊只戒一季度" (Harm her only by quitting for one quarter). These seven actions will be explained in detail below.