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04/27/2025

Five Ways to Control Your Phone Habit

Some Americans check their phones more than 300 times a day

We all get distracted. We may have good intentions, but we get lost on our phones or laptops.

We innocently check our email, peek at Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or a myriad of other apps, and suddenly we are lost in the netherworld. The path behind us has disappeared, and our brains are taking in dopamine rewards to continue down the path of new stimulation.

A 2018 study by Asurion found that Americans, on average, check their phone once every 12 minutes, or five times an hour, while on vacation. Some even check their phones nearly 300 times a day.

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