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smoking

alcohol addiction

eating fast food

going in for sport

drug taking

helping people

meditating

cleaning teeth

being late

picking your nose

What ______________________ habits? I think everyone has bad habits. Not everyone ______________________ what bad habits are. Some smokers don’t think smoking is a bad habit. Young people don’t think listening ______________________ on the train is a bad habit. In Japan, slurping your noodles______________________ that you enjoy your food, but making a noise while eating in England ______________________ . Have you ever tried to break your bad habits? I ______________________ smoking and have stopped leaving things laying ______________________ house. I wish other people would stop their bad habits. I get annoyed when people ______________________ meetings or talk loudly on their phones in public. I also think ______________________ need to think about their driving habits. Perhaps I should ______________________ their bad habits.

How to Break a Bad Habit (and Replace it With a Good One)

Bad habits interrupt your life and prevent you from accomplishing your goals. So why do we still do them? And most importantly, is there anything you can do about it? How can you delete your bad behaviors and stick to good ones instead?

What causes bad habits?

Most of your bad habits are caused by two things…

Stress and boredom.

Most of the time, bad habits are simply a way of dealing with stress and boredom. Everything from biting your nails to overspending on a shopping spree to drinking every weekend to wasting time on the internet can be a simple response to stress and boredom.

You don’t eliminate a bad habit, you replace it.

All of the habits that you have right now — good or bad — are in your life for a reason. In some way, these behaviors provide a benefit to you, even if they are bad for you in other ways. Sometimes the benefit is biological like it is with smoking or drugs. Sometimes it’s emotional like it is when you stay in a relationship that is bad for you. And in many cases, your bad habit is a simple way to cope with stress. In other words, bad habits address certain needs in your life. And for that reason, it’s better to replace your bad habits with a healthier behavior that

addresses that same need.

How to break a bad habit

Here are some additional ideas for breaking your bad habits and thinking about the process in a new way.

Choose a substitute for your bad habit. You need to have a plan ahead of time for how you will respond when you face the stress or boredom that prompts your bad habit.

Cut out as many triggers as possible. If you eat cookies when they are in the house, then throw them all away. If the first thing you do when you sit on the couch is pick up the TV remote, then hide the remote in a closet in a different room. Change your environment and you can change the outcome.

Join forces with somebody. How often do you try to diet in private? Or maybe you “quit smoking” … but you kept it to yourself? (That way no one will see you fail, right?)  Instead, pair up with someone and quit together. The two of you can hold each other accountable and celebrate your victories together. Knowing that someone else expects you to be better is a powerful motivator.

Visualize yourself succeeding. See yourself throwing away the cigarettes or buying healthy food or waking up early. Whatever the bad habit is that you are looking to break, visualize yourself crushing it, smiling, and enjoying your success. See yourself building a new identity.

You don’t need to be someone else, you just need to return to the old you. So often we think that to break our bad habits, we need to become an entirely new person. The truth is that you already have it in you to be someone without your bad habits.

Breaking bad habits takes time and effort, but mostly it takes perseverance.

Most people who end up breaking their bad habits try and fail multiple times before they make it work. You might not have success right away, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have it at all.

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