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Compulsive Habits, Relapse and Behavioral Addiction

The Science of Breaking the Loop

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Compulsive Habits, Relapse and Behavioral Addiction

By: Mark Sutherland
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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You've promised yourself it was the last time. You meant it. And you did it again three days later anyway.

This isn't a book about being weak. It's about a piece of brain machinery so efficient it once kept you alive — now aimed at a slot machine, a phone feed, a bottle, or a fridge, all engineered by people who understand that machinery better than you do.

Dopamine isn't the "pleasure chemical" you think it is — it's a prediction engine, and uncertainty is what makes it fire hardest. That single correction explains why willpower collapses at 11pm, why a habit quietly turns into something that stops listening to you, and why cutting out one compulsion so often just grows a new one wearing a different mask.

This book takes apart that mechanism piece by piece — the loop, the cues you never notice, the tolerance that keeps moving the target, the exact three stages of a relapse before it happens — and then hands you what actually breaks it: not more discipline, but fewer decisions, better cues, and a life built to outbid the loop instead of fighting it one urge at a time.
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