Cracking your Knuckles or Fingers

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I've been obsessed over my addictions for a long time and being a science-minded person I try to look at addiction from a scientific (as well as economic) point of view. My model for addiction is that there is an innate animal instinct within people that drives them to perform actions that give immediate short-term satisfaction with no regard for future long-term consequences. If there is an action that high satisfaction that can be obtained at low cost, then the animal instinct will go for it. One way to stop this is to increase the costs of the action so that it is no longer profitable. To prevent yourself from going to a casino you can destroy your car so that you will have to walk 2 hours to the casino instead of driving for 5 minutes. To prevent yourself from looking at pornography on the computer you can tell someone else to install an Internet filter program on your computer. However, finger cracking addiction is difficult to cure because your fingers and knuckles are always on you. You cannot take your fingers off. There is no practical way you can increase the cost of cracking your figners. Maybe I'll have to wear special metallic gloves that forbids joint movement. My parents get angry at me when I crack my fingers and knuckles but all they do is tell me to stop. It's easy to command someone to do something, it's something else to tell them how to achieve that something. I tried one time to wrap my fingers but the problem with this is the itchiness and the fact that skin needs exposure to a certain amount of air or else it becomes moist and irritable.