When I can’t sleep, I turn around and sleep “upside down” - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period.

Admittedly this could just be a me thing, but let’s put our faith in this method and let the power of placebo effect take hold. Boom, minor bouts of sleeplessness are cured.

What are your own examples of this?

  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
    301·
    1 day ago

    Here’s how I quit smoking about 15 years ago.

    Step one: for about a month, every time I smoked I told myself I’m ready to quit. Every cigarette, every time.

    Step two: the next month, every cigarette, every time, I told myself they stink and taste like shit.

    Took about 3 weeks into the second month and I never picked up another. Oh and I can be around other smokers and don’t crave them. They still fucking stink.

    YMMV

    • Alexander Daychilde@lemmy.world
      5·
      22 hours ago

      Something like 20 years ago now, my pack-a-day wife decided to try a vaper. Not clouds-of-vape, just a pedestrian vaper.

      She never went back to cigarettes. She decreased the nicotine and nowadays vapes maybe 2-3 times per day, I think her current level is 6… whatever units of nicotine, it’s not a lot.

      I don’t care that she still vapes at that level. If there is anything bad, it’s not much at that rate, so screw it.

    • untorquer@lemmy.world
      2·
      20 hours ago

      I realized it was causing a lot of anxiety for me. Easy quit after that because the reward was less anxiety after a few days.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        16·
        1 day ago

        Honestly, quit as soon as you can. After the two week mark, you’ll start smelling things again. At the one month mark, you’ll notice that you’re not constantly out of breath. Cravings still occasionally happen, but it shifts from “god damn it I need a donut right now” to “hmm a donut sounds good right now… But I don’t wanna bother with going to the donut shop.” The cravings never fully vanish, but they definitely change and become easier to dismiss as a passing whim.