Personally it wasn't very hard for me to go down this path because I never found social media (which lets face it is the big driver of phone overuse) to be all

Personally it wasn't very hard for me to go down this path because I never found social media (which lets face it is the big driver of phone overuse) to be all that interesting in the first place. That said I treat my phone mostly like a phone. I have my calls and texts whitelisted. If you're not in my contact list, the phone won't ring or ding. Then if I hear it ring, I know it's someone I know. I remove most of the apps on my phone and keep it on my desk at all times. No different than a phone you would have hanging on a wall. I treat it the same, so I don't feel the need to really "use" it. I will take my phone with me when I go places, and use it for music or maps in the car, but because I mostly treat it as a phone, I don't really see it as anything other than that. When I started doing this I was admittedly pretty bored, but over time I just found other things to do and am never bored now. You just get used to it. Humans are pretty adaptable.