I failed at every attempt to combat my phone addiction. This new approach worked. FacebookTwitterEmail I spent 1/4 of every day on my phone. I decided to do something extreme to stop.bobmadbob/Getty Images One dreary January evening, after one of those long work days where I thought, “I’m tired, I’ll just lay in bed for a few minutes and check Instagram,” I fell into a black hole. I blinked, and suddenly I’d been in bed for an hour and my eyeballs were seared from all the blue light and my back hurt from curling up in a little pill bug ball and I’d forgotten to eat dinner and all I’d gained was the dubious certainty that Courtney from high school was definitely going through a breakup.