What strategies have you used succesfully to change old bad habits?

What strategies have you used succesfully to change old bad habits?I have been reading a great deal about quitting smoking. So much so that I think I could write a pretty decent article about it. I know by heart the litany of ills that smoking can cause. I have a pretty good idea the methods that general opinion seem to favor. Yet I stop, and inevitably I fall back, once after a year of cessation. What I would like to try to do is benchmark any areas of lifestyle improvement where you may have had a success and hear from you the techniques you employed to achieve that success. The improvement you gained does not have a bearing. It can be anything from overcoming a fear, or a quirky habit to recovery from a drug dependency. It may have been achieved with support, or it may have been a completely personalized effort.

Dougal
Habits.... That's exactly what they are. If one can understand how things works we can have a better understanding with how to deal with it and so it is with our habits.

I declared to stop smoking when my daughter was born 28 years ago but I'd had an idea a few days before that I was going to do it. So over those days I kept affirming that promise to myself until she was born and I stopped there and then. It was a mental state thing, as I believe it is. And having focused my thoughts on stopping I had no trouble at all. I stopped cold turkey and never ever regreted it. (or suffered) So is the power of the mind.

Connie P
discipline and 'want - to'. My dad was a chain - smoker! coughing all the time! One day he put the cigarettes down;
he determined (will power) he'd never pick them up again;
and he did not ever smoke again; only it was several years TOO LATE !!!!!!! He died a year later with BAD LUNG CANCER! and a host of broken hearted family & friends.

P L E A S E Q U I T smoking now,
before it's too late.......

meanQueen
One thing i know about changin somethin you're so used to it is that, you gotta have strong self-consciousness and consistency.

When i was little, i had this habit of talkin way too much or should i say, bein really talkative. The fact was i disliked myself bein that way. So one day i just so happened to come to my senses that "i've got to stop this!"; i had this strong will to really wanna quit the bad talkin habit.

And from that day onwards, wheneva i wanna open my mouth to speak up, my mind automatically reminded me to THINK before i utter; whether they're necessary or not - if they ain't then i swallowed the words.

So back then everyday i kept remindin myself about the urge to quit the habit, repeatin the thought over and over again; before i knew it, the habit had already long gone.

Well, justa share a little of my own experience.
Hope it does help you a little bit!

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