reduce the amount of time you are online gradually how about finding some good books and magazines to read it might decrease your temptation to go online if you need to research a subject do it as quickly as possible without letting your focus waver on what task you have at hand if there are pages which you look at constantly for information like wikipedia try to copy all the text and save it offline this will shave off time you spend aimlessly surfing pages as far as your devices go turn off unimportant email notifications subscriptions or anything else that may shift your focus to the virtual world as far as your health goes a lot of people lose sleep while on the internet and mess up their body clock setting aside time for surfing can help get more discipline into your lifephysical manifestations carpal tunnel syndrome pain and numbness in hands and wrists dry eyes or strained vision backaches and neck aches severe headaches sleep disturbances pronounced weight gain or weight losscategories the most common of these internet addictions are cybersex online gambling and cyberrelationship addiction cybersex addiction compulsive use of internet pornography adult chat rooms or adult fantasy roleplay sites impacting negatively on reallife intimate relationships cyberrelationship addiction addiction to social networking chat rooms and messaging to the point where virtual online friends become more important than reallife relationships with family and friends information overload compulsive web surfing or database searching leading to lower work productivity and less social interaction with family and friends computer addiction obsessive playing of offline computer games such as solitaire or minesweeper or obsessive computer programming