{"id":39326,"date":"2025-08-26T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prnasia.com\/story\/archive\/4759320_AE59320_0"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:37:00","slug":"thechallenge-org-new-study-by-finds-reducing-phone-use-is-over-twice-as-hard-as-enduring-a-daily-ice-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transmediavictoria.net.au\/?p=39326","title":{"rendered":"TheChallenge.org: New Study by Finds Reducing Phone Use is Over Twice as Hard as Enduring a Daily Ice Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARSAW, Poland<\/span><\/span>, Aug. 27, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ — A new social study involving 9,150 participants from 47 countries has revealed a startling modern truth: most people find it significantly harder to reduce their screen time than to plunge into a barrel of ice water every day.<\/p>\n

\"Chart<\/a>
Chart Comparison<\/span> <\/div>\n

The study, conducted by the health and wellness project TheChallenge.org, centered on its 31-Day “Digital Detox Challenge.” Participants committed to simple rules like two screen-free hours daily and a 30-minute social media cap. Despite the profound benefits reported by those who completed it, the challenge had a completion rate of just 32.5%<\/b>.<\/p>\n

This figure stands in stark contrast to the organization’s “Ice Bath Challenge,” a physically demanding test of willpower, which saw an 80.6%<\/b> completion rate among its participants. The data suggests that the psychological pull of our digital devices presents a more formidable barrier to overcome than a significant physical stressor.<\/p>\n

“We expected the digital detox to be difficult, but we never imagined people would find it more than twice as hard as plunging into freezing water,” said Karol Banaszkiewicz<\/span>, founder of TheChallenge.org. “It proves that the battle for our own attention is one of the greatest unseen health crises of our time. The struggle is not in our minds; it’s real, and the data confirms it.”<\/p>\n

The paradox of the challenge is that the rewards for success were immense. Among the participants who managed to finish, the results were overwhelmingly positive:<\/p>\n