I play Spider Solitaire a lot too. I play it pretty much on autopilot, though; I don't feel I'm likely to improve my technique any more, so restarting difficult games is basically just a way to try out options which are on average suboptimal, but might be better in this particular game.
Way to break the habit? Play something else instead, like nethack or angband :-) Or perhaps, try forcing yourself to play it for longer than you actually want to, or when you have something else you'd much rather do - as a sort of aversion therapy? I don't know really. For me, these sorts of avoidance behaviour only really occur when I feel unmotivated generally anyway; when I feel positive and motivated about life as a whole, I don't feel the desire for displacement activities.
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Way to break the habit? Play something else instead, like nethack or angband :-) Or perhaps, try forcing yourself to play it for longer than you actually want to, or when you have something else you'd much rather do - as a sort of aversion therapy? I don't know really. For me, these sorts of avoidance behaviour only really occur when I feel unmotivated generally anyway; when I feel positive and motivated about life as a whole, I don't feel the desire for displacement activities.