What’s Behind Your Phone Cravings and How Movement Can Replace Them

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When was the last time you picked up your phone? Are you holding it right now? Are you scrolling while you listen to this? Too much screen time can mess with our sleep. It’s also associated with depression, anxiety and stress symptoms in adolescents. What can help with that and help you feel better and less stressed is movement. NPR Life Kit host Marielle Segarra has tips to help us start craving movement the way we crave our smartphones.

MARIELLE SEGARRA, BYLINE: Y’all, we are way too attached to our phones. I mean, I fight against it. I don’t keep a lot of apps on there. But it’s still the first thing I look at every morning. I guess it’s partly a habit I formed and partly a craving for whatever flashy new content the apps I do have will offer me today.

KATY BOWMAN: You never know what you’re going to see when you go on there, and that is maybe part of what makes it so attractive.