One thing you can do to help, is buy headphones/earphones with a replaceable cable, since it's often the cable that breaks. Also your cable(either modular or n

One thing you can do to help, is buy headphones/earphones with a replaceable cable, since it's often the cable that breaks. Also your cable(either modular or not), should have good "strain relief", it's a small mechanical structure that protects some of the more sensitive parts of the cable.