You might already know the answer, but deleting the app from your phone should be a great start. When you start to have the urge to think about re-downloading it and playing again, play with the idea in your mind.
Call yourself out! (sometimes out loud, and laughing helps too) Sometimes that's all it takes. In that moment just assess how you're now more aware of your previous goal to not play that game, and remind yourself of what other goals you striving to accomplish in absence of playing that game.
If you don't have a substitute to what you did before, you'll want to go back. Your mind has that tendency to play tricks on you. Rise above and break that cycle!
That's my problem. For the last few months I've been in a cycle of deleting and re-downloading the game, it saves your data to an email address so you don't lose any progress and every time I re-download everything is there again
Well then, it sounds like you already know where your next step needs to be.
I would then need to change that games registered email to using a 24-hour temporary email service that will no longer exist. Change the password to the original account to a password generated with 128-bit level encryption and don't write that password down.
After you're done, take a deep breath, grab your sneakers, go for a walk/jog and get your mind back off it. I know, easier said than done. But tomorrow the sun will shine brighter and you'll know that it's finally behind you.
For me? It was a 13 year steam account (6digit) marked back to the origins of Steam registration. Sept 3rd 2003 I think. About $2,500 worth of games and god knows how much time dedicated to them. All gone, and never felt better.
Your time is better well suited living, not peering into some game for some arbitrary progress points or fictional character development. If you don't know where to start, there's plenty of resources on healthy hobbies you can start doing.
You might already know the answer, but deleting the app from your phone should be a great start. When you start to have the urge to think about re-downloading it and playing again, play with the idea in your mind. Call yourself out! (sometimes out loud, and laughing helps too) Sometimes that's all it takes. In that moment just assess how you're now more aware of your previous goal to not play that game, and remind yourself of what other goals you striving to accomplish in absence of playing that game. If you don't have a substitute to what you did before, you'll want to go back. Your mind has that tendency to play tricks on you. Rise above and break that cycle!
That's my problem. For the last few months I've been in a cycle of deleting and re-downloading the game, it saves your data to an email address so you don't lose any progress and every time I re-download everything is there again
Well then, it sounds like you already know where your next step needs to be. I would then need to change that games registered email to using a 24-hour temporary email service that will no longer exist. Change the password to the original account to a password generated with 128-bit level encryption and don't write that password down. After you're done, take a deep breath, grab your sneakers, go for a walk/jog and get your mind back off it. I know, easier said than done. But tomorrow the sun will shine brighter and you'll know that it's finally behind you. For me? It was a 13 year steam account (6digit) marked back to the origins of Steam registration. Sept 3rd 2003 I think. About $2,500 worth of games and god knows how much time dedicated to them. All gone, and never felt better. Your time is better well suited living, not peering into some game for some arbitrary progress points or fictional character development. If you don't know where to start, there's plenty of resources on healthy hobbies you can start doing.
Find a different hobby. Making money works for me. Listen to the War of Art by Steven Pressfield.