Abstinence is not the goal of the treatment, but adaptive use. Psycho-education, self-observation and development of offline activities appear to help the patients to reduce their time on the Internet and/or with video games. The case studies showed different results: two of them did not mention treatment follow-up, precluding the analysis on these data57,58; an article showed that the psychotherapeutic outcome was unsatisfactory due to consecutive patient dropouts60, two other articles have demonstrated the positive prognosis end of psychotherapy59,61. It is still early to assert if CBT will be the therapy of choice for these patients.Regarding CBT protocols and associated treatments, a study presented the structure of the treatment but without patients’ results64. Other study mentioned success regarding psychotherapy with their patients, but no data revealed this statement62. Two studies have demonstrated the association of CBT to electroacupuncture, revealing that it is more effective when these two interventions are applied simultaneously65,66. Other studies showed successful treatment63,67-69. We believe that there are few protocols that can demonstrate depth the satisfactory outcome of CBT in greater depth. The omission of this information in several articles corroborated to encumber a better analysis in this article.