Quit playing video games

I always seem to fall back on them becos they are an easy escape. But I really need to focus on my personal life and realize they are more or less a diversion. I feel like I’ve played all of the good ones anyway, it’s just…meh. I’m not 40 years old or anything but regardless, I have to finish college and find a job and my attention always seems to set them as a main focus. Maybe it’s because they’re an easy out. I just have to replace it with something equally addicting (somehow). Studies say it takes about 30 days to break a habit so I’m gonna give it 30 days. In the meantime I guess I’ll replace them with another hobby. Or try to.

I’m 15 and I’ve been playing video games for YEARS, its been pretty bad, i was basically addicted, especially with world of warcraft. Luckily I’ve been smart enough to come to my senses and was able to quit. I deleted not only world of warcraft off my computer, but everything else pertaining to video games.

(Days without play: 1 / How long will i make it?)

The Xbox is still packed up and sitting in the closet. I am going to look into donating it to a charity for kids. Once I have physically gotten rid of it I can then declare this goal done. Until then it stays active.

I haven’t played in a few days. I packed up my xbox and put it in the closet. I’ve had urges to play but they go away within a few minutes. I hope I can stick to it!

I’m giving up playing video games because I’ve realized that they are taking up too much of my precious time. I have several hobbies which I pursue and want more time to dedicate to them. Also my girlfriend hates when I play video games so this will help my relationship.

I have an Xbox 360. I may give it to my nephews as a Christmas gift. I’m going to pack it up and put it in the closet for now so I cannot just hop on there and play if temptation strikes.

Hahaha, I completely forgot about this goal… I must of played whats 8 hours x 2 months? ... Did the math, I must of played about 480 hours worth of games (roughly 20 full days all up) just playing video games (minimum)... Hah! I’ll have to get back to working on this goal then… Other wise there is no chance what so ever of getting a “life”.

I’m 15 years old and I’ve been playing video games since I was 5 years old. I recently watched a video on youtube which had an 11 year old boy who graduated from community college with 4.0 GPA. I was amazed how this young boy accomplished in life. He was never interested in video games but was talented in other stuff. I’ve always been screwing around in school and always wanted better grades shown on my report card.
Maybe before a whole new school year starts, I will do the same as you did.

hi micepop can I join u here :)
its 7am now, i’ve just deleted my games
I dont remember how many times I’ve done this, I tried to quit gaming many times before, since 3 years ago…
anyhow, I’m 21 now, my results at University is getting worse.
I’ve been kicked out from Uni in Australia in 2007 from gaming. I wont do it to myself again.
I also deleted all the series from my computer, I’m trying to get youtube blocked too :)
all the best everyone

It used to be spread pretty evenly with video games and anime – Around 50% of my time went into playing video games and 50% went into watching anime. All I’ve done is take video games out of the equation and put full time into watching anime. In fact, I stayed up till 5AM watching anime and then woke up at 11AM and watched anime until now (Code Geass.. Good anime BTW).

I think I’ll have to cut back on anime as well, which it seems has been whats been keeping me sane while I was “off” video games. I won’t start the anime quitting goal just yet though since I’m compelled to finish watching Code Geass to the end.

Still, at least I’ve managed to stay away from games, even if it didn’t really help me slow down my screen time at all.. It might of even increased..

So many new games being released and here I am sitting like a chump doing nothing. I have no money so I can’t buy new video games (Which is a good thing I suppose) but I also can’t buy anything else or afford to take up any new activities… Video games was just about everything I had. :(