High fit

Force Quit is the core behavioral tool Alex Cooper walks her audience through. When the spiral starts — the obsessive rereading, the urge to send a punishing text, the compulsive phone-checking — she says to put the phone in another room, go on a run, take a cold shower. These are all ways of forcibly stopping the loop from running to completion. Alex describes this as the hardest and most important step: interrupting the thought before it turns into a behavior.