1. Identify your usage pattern and practice the opposite – Ruminate for a few moments and identify your current habits of using the Net. What days of the week do you typically log on? What time of the day do you usually start? How long do you spend on each typical session? To begin shaking off the habit, practice the opposite. If your habit involves you checking your e-mail or the Net first thing in the morning, try taking a shower and breakfast first instead. If your internet usage is nocturnal, pushing you well beyond bedtime, use it only in the daytime instead. If you logon before dinner, wait until you finished your dinner before going online. If you use it every weeknight, wait until weekends, or if you’re an all-weekend user, shift to just week-nights instead. It may be hard at first, but soon you will manage to get the hang of it and reduce the impact the usage has on your life instead.

2. Find external stoppers – Use the necessary things and commitments in life you have to do and places you need to go as prompters and markers to remind yourself when to log off the Net, and schedule your online time just before them. If you have to leave for work or school at 7.30 A.M, go online at 6.30 A.M to give yourself exactly one hour before it’s time to quit, or decide that you will have dinner at 6.30P.M, so sit down for an hour of usage at 5.30P.M. There is always the danger of you ignoring the natural alarms though, so a real alarm clock may be used too. Keep it some distance away from the computer so that you have to get up to shut it off.

3. Insert planned Internet time into your weekly schedule.
Usually, many attempts to cut down Internet usage fail as result of user not determine enough to limit the time. This is because those remaining slots keeping coming. Thus it is suggested to set a reasonable goal. Around 20 hours a week on-line. Design a schedule and put these 20 hours in specific time slots. Keep these sessions brief but often enough. This will help you avoid craving and withdrawal. For example plan on using the Internet from 7-9pm every night, 1-3pm and take a break, then 7-10pm on Saturday and Sunday. This is effective as you have restricted your amount of time online within these 20 hours instead of unlimited uses. Incorporating a tangible schedule of Internet use will give you a sense of being in control, instead of having the Internet control you.
Take note though, however, that these time-management techniques may not necessarily work on the first or second attempt. It’s not an instant and miracle cure for what is potentially a major problem. One must be motivated in the first place if he is trying to regain control, and stick with the determination until the problem is curbed.