One of the most addictive habit is checking emails, on the other hand, researchers state the more your inbox is refreshed, the most stressful it becomes.

The study of the University of British Columbia said, there is a cap on the number of times a person should check his/her email in a day to lessen stress, three times.

The said university did a study with 124 adults to restrict the number of times they check their emails per day for seven days. After a week , respondents were urged to check it as much as they could, which counted, what their daily habit, before the testing started.

There were 10 minute questionnaires that the respondent answered as associated to their stress levels, and as an outcomes, the lesser the respondents check their emails, the lesser the stress they experience.

Requesting the respondents to minimize email checks could also lead to initial stress, as 92% of U.S. email users need it to communicate with others and 183 billion emails are received and sent everyday. With 50% of the population are scared of not having their smartphone beside them, they are always scared of not being online all the time, the syndrome is called nomophobia. Email has a big role in supporting people to feel and stay connected.

Kostadin Kushlev, a PhD candidate in the Dept of Psychology in UBC said, "Most participants in our study found it quite difficult to check their email only a few times a day. This is what makes our obvious-in-hindsight findings so striking: People find it difficult to resist the temptation of checking email, and yet resisting this temptation reduces their stress."

ushlev added on this method too, "I now check my email in chunks several times a day, rather than constantly responding to messages as they come in," he stated. "And I feel better and less stressed."