How To Break Up With Your Phone By Catherine Price Book

How to Break Up With Your Phone: ‘If you are a human being and you own a smartphone by Catherine Price is a practical, science-backed paperback guide for anyone who feels tethered to their device. Ideal for parents, teachers, students, or busy professionals, this paperback edition offers a clear 30-day plan to help you reclaim focus, reduce stress, and build a healthier relationship with your smartphone.

This edition is BRAND NEW and presented in a reader-friendly Paperback format. ISBN: 9781409182900. Written by award-winning science journalist Catherine Price, the book combines research, real-world tips, and compassionate coaching to make screen-life balance achievable.

What’s inside: a 30-day plan that works

Recent studies show that heavy smartphone use can impair memory formation, reduce deep thinking, and fragment attention. In How to Break Up With Your Phone, Catherine Price explores how our phones affect brains, bodies, relationships, and society. Rather than preaching abstinence, Price offers a step-by-step program to help you set realistic goals, identify addictive habits, and change the environment that fuels constant checking.

Key sections and features

• 30-Day Action Plan: Daily exercises designed to slowly reduce reliance on your device without creating anxiety or loss of connection.
• Practical Tools: How to tidy apps, prune email, and redesign notifications so your phone serves you — not the other way around.
• Evidence-Backed Advice: Draws on scientific studies and real-world testing to explain why small changes lead to lasting results.
• Behavioral Strategies: Build new routines and boundaries that stick, from morning and bedtime practices to social and work-life habits.

Benefits you’ll notice

• Increased ability to focus and retain information
• Lower stress and fewer distraction-triggered hormonal spikes
• More meaningful in-person interactions and improved relationships
• Clearer priorities and more time for activities that bring joy

Catherine Price is known for evidence-backed, empathetic writing about technology and wellbeing. Her work is trusted by readers around the world and her other titles — including THE POWER OF FUN: HOW TO FEEL ALIVE AGAIN — complement this book for readers who want practical, joyful strategies to improve life beyond screens. HOW TO BREAK UP WITH YOUR PHONE® has been widely translated and is used by individuals and organizations aiming to foster healthier digital habits.

Use cases: perfect for bedtime reading, an office wellness program, classroom discussions about media literacy, or as a thoughtful gift for anyone who wants to scroll less and live more. This boxed-in paperback is an accessible, actionable resource that makes behavior change possible.

Whether you’re looking for a reset or a long-term screen-life balance, How to Break Up With Your Phone offers compassionate, research-driven guidance. It’s an ideal gift, a practical toolkit, and a timely keepsake for anyone ready to take back their attention and enjoy a more present life.