{"id":3636,"date":"2014-03-10T17:15:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2014-03-04T17:26:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:26:33","slug":"3636","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=3636","title":{"rendered":"Playing Tetris helps you reduce cravings for food, alcohol, and cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.onionstatic.com\/avclub\/5027\/40\/16x9\/640.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/playing-tetris-helps-you-reduce-cravings-food-alco-201748\" target=\"_blank\">This is an interesting article<\/a> which might have some bearing on the obsessive compulsive behaviour some guitarists have and the question of addiction in general.<br \/>\nI generally find that when I am engaged in practice, my cravings drop away (not that I drink, smoke or overeat&#8230;)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For years, those who battle addictions to alcohol, smoking, and overeating have been forced to rely on uncertain methods for curbing their cravings, such as counseling, hypnosis, or heroin. But\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0195666314000828\" target=\"_blank\">a recent study<\/a>\u00a0by psychology researchers at Plymouth University suggests that playing\u00a0<i>Tetris<\/i>\u00a0for just three minutes can reduce those cravings in both strength and frequency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting article which might have some bearing on the obsessive compulsive behaviour some guitarists have and the question of addiction in general. I generally find that when I am engaged in practice, my cravings drop away (not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=3636\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,225,41],"tags":[722,978,721],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}