Have you ever tried quitting gaming?

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I've learned not to attempt impossible things, they're a waste of time.

Nope, not really. I've got quite far in life as is, I have a good education, a decent amount of friends, I'm happy, so why would I stop gaming? I've taken breaks from gaming when there's been a lot going on, but it's my go-to method of relaxing (it, and reading, are the ones that work, TV just make me feel more stressed out as I end up feeling like I'm not doing anything).

Yes and I succeeded. Gaming didn't interest me anymore at some point. Now I picked it up again after a year or two.

Yes. I've had countless times where I've come back to the realization that video gaming has pretty much ruined my life so far and is a waste of time.

I still come back to it. 'Meh'

It's not really hard, you can do it every night...

Yea I wanna try, i think that I'll start volunteering

I tried it, deinstalled steam and all games on my pc. However after one week I started gaming again xD

yes for 1.5 yrs during my masters

Yes. And it worked.

Also, girlfriends help a lot.
Now the question is, what is harder to achieve.

I will never stop gaming :)

I quit gaming the summer of 2009. That was when I graduated high school and went into university. Didn't game from July - end of December. I was leaving home and going far away for university and I was determined to focus on school so I went as far as to get myself a Mac (got it with a deal so not too bad) to actually restrict myself OS-wise from gaming. I did very well the first semester without anything to distract me... but it also meant I got burnt out without my usual way to destress and relax. When I went home for Winter break, my sister got me Dragon Age: Origins for a present and I played that through in about 5 days. When I went back to uni, I got very depressed (again... but that's another story :P) because I had burnt myself out so much in the first semester. Without a way to game, I started watching people game on youtube since it was the only way. There I looked for videos of DA:O since I was quite obsessed with it at that point and found some guy doing Let's Plays of it. Fast forward to the present, that guy's my current boy friend.

So... I got something good and bad out of quitting gaming. The lesson learned for me though is that I shouldn't go to extremes like quitting my hobby entirely or focusing on school entirely. I should just try to manage a good balance... but it's something I still struggle with today.

I don't see the point in quitting. It's not like quitting smoking or anything else that's actually bad for you. The only one getting hurt is my wallet i guess, and i can live with that xD

have you ever tried stop breathing?
edit: Not meaning to offend. I'm just making a comparision :)

Yes and almost succeeded, in the last few years I've played soooo little and right now I'm close to a complete stop. The last game I've played and enjoyed was fallout 3, for christmas I've got the dlcs and played them having fun up to the firsts days of january, After that I didn't touch a game more than a few minutes. Now I've started playing Scourge outbreak.
I always feel bad 'cause I buy a lot of games and waste a lot of money on them, just on april I've got 3 games on steam, guildwars 2, bought xbox live that gave me 5 games, I've received a few games from friends on my birthday plus a couple more, I feel like wasting them so badly. I should stop buying stuff and ease the backlog, then stop completely :D

Once. For a girl.
That didn't pan out too well cause she cheated on me.
And who was there to soften the blow?
Muh games.

I go through phases when it comes to gaming. 4-5 months of obsessed gaming and then I'll quit and do something else. Went though religious studies where all I did was study. Didn't game. Didn't watch TV. Took my books to school and studied between classes. Took them home and studied at home Yeah.

Then I did my sports/workout thing. Protein shakes. Wide receiver for my school. Late night's at the gym. Biking. Swimming. Yeah.

Then reading. GOSH READING. GOT books. LOTR books. ALL BOOKS. TEH.

I'm back to gaming now. I will say since I've gotten a Steam account I don't think it'll be possible for me to ever give gaming up. One can hope though.

I kinda quited games for some years when I was a teen, but it was more losing interest than voluntary quitting.
The, on my late teens, I got back to gaming and tried to quit. It didn't worked.
For the last 5 years or so I just accepted gaming as part of my life, this isn't an addiction I can battle and get over. And considering this is my ONLY addiction, I think it isn't so bad.

lol wat?

I havent, but if I did I probably wouldnt make it. :P