How do i prevent or lessen a charge cycle to complete?

(i'm using coconut battery)please help me my mac has already 34 load cycles
13 weeks old
how do i avoid completing many charge cycle
....please help

A load cycle is one 100% discharge and recharge of the battery. This can happen all at once, that is, draining your battery to 0% and then recharging it to 100%. Or it can happen cumulatively, for example, discharging your battery to 80% five times, or to 50% twice, or to 75% once and then 25% the next time, and so on.
You can minimize the battery drain by doing less when you are unplugged: turn the brightness on your screen down, turn off bluetooth and/or airport, avoid games or videos that will draw a lot of power to process.
The easiest way to avoid adding cycles is to leave your MacBook plugged in when power is handy. It is okay to leave your MacBook plugged in even when the battery is charged to 100%.
Obviously, you cannot do this 24/7 for the life of your MacBook; it is a portable and intended to be used off AC power on occasion. So exercise the battery regularly and calibrate it fully (let it discharge until it goes into hybernate mode, leave it for five or more hours, and then charge it fully to 100%) every month or two.
If you have 34 cycles in ~100 days, you are averaging one cycle every three days, which is not that bad. But the more you leave it plugged in, the fewer cycles you will accumulate.

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