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>>263054 Then lastly there's psychology and programming. Get a new alarm. This might sound odd, but get an alarm with abnormally small turn off buttons and a very large snooze button. Make sure the sound is clear and functional, but NOT annoying to you. When you get used, trained even, to subconsciously hit the off button first, there's little to fix it and the alarm is useless. This will happen fast if your alarm is annoying, since you subconsciously want to shut it up quick and continue to sleep. Secondly, program a radio alarm 20 minutes before your main alarm goes off. Make sure it's soft enough to sleep through, but comfortable to listen to if you were awake. This helps you transition from your stage into almost awakened and you'll be clear minded enough to actually get up when your main alarm goes off.
The no reading in bed "one time" mentioned is part of sleep hygiene. Read about it on wikipedia and it's links. It might help.
Lastly there's programming, which thankfully I never had to use beyond age 12. You associate an event with sleeping through tedious repetition. In my case, I picked a cassette with a collection of fairy tales and listened to it every time I went to sleep. Stories are perfect, because they're fun once, then they begin to bore, even though they're interesting if not heard before. If you force yourself to listen, even after it becomes boring, your mind WILL tune out and eventually through Pavlovian conditioning, you WILL sleep 3 minutes into the tape every time thereafter.
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