Same, when coming out of surgery on anesthesia my nurse kept trying to remove a line from my hand and i wasn’t having it. Had knuckles to crack. The habit for me is just that ingrained.
I kept track of every single knuckle pop, so if I popped one whole finger it would be 3 pops. I started by measuring my baseline and then setting goals. If I made my goal that day I could do something nice for myself like play video games or get desert with my family.
Took me almost 2 years.
And for 3 to 4 years after occasionally I’d have nightmares that I started popping them again. And over that same time period as winter would approach the desire to pop them got really intense.
How did you eventually break the habit? I’ve found it the most difficult thing to stop, because I do it when I don’t even realize.
Same, when coming out of surgery on anesthesia my nurse kept trying to remove a line from my hand and i wasn’t having it. Had knuckles to crack. The habit for me is just that ingrained.
I replied to the post you replied to with how I did it. 👍
I kept track of every single knuckle pop, so if I popped one whole finger it would be 3 pops. I started by measuring my baseline and then setting goals. If I made my goal that day I could do something nice for myself like play video games or get desert with my family.
Took me almost 2 years.
And for 3 to 4 years after occasionally I’d have nightmares that I started popping them again. And over that same time period as winter would approach the desire to pop them got really intense.