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How can I effectively break a bad habit?
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Commit yourself to a punishment every time you do whatever your habit is. If your bad habit is biting your nails, for example, commit to eating a tablespoon of tobasco sauce every time you bite your nails. Soon youll associate the habit with the punishment, and youll stop doing it. Sort of Pavlovian-style.
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If your "bad habit" does not violate the rights of others, then allow yourself the faith and freedom to "judge not". Therefore, you have a habit that you would like to transform. Denying your need does not transform it. Set goals to indulge your habit less. Make choices to do things with your life that are in conflict with your habit. Consider what you enjoy of your habit and how you can experience similar results from different activities. If you are spiritual, turn the creation that you are, including things about yourself you don't understand, over to that which created you and does understand why you do the things you do. Affirm your surrender and faith in your creator's ability to raise you past this habit, but also to accept your need for the habit and its function until something else can be developed to fill this need. Be prepared to feel lost and mourn the loss of your habit, once it passes. I have a habit I've had for 30 years or so, and it has gradually subsided. It was never an event, where one day I just stopped. I may have denied it a while. But now, with enough time having passed and enough surrender attained, I go most days without indulging in this habit. And I still miss it. But when I go back, and try it again, it is not the same. I have not yet found its replacement. I just have just feel less guilty or afraid of being found out. NOW. If your habit violates the rights of others, you should get help to stop immediately and once you have done whatever it takes to stop hurting others, then allow yourself to "judge not."
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Habits are hard to break. It takes a lot of discipline and will power. Don't let starting the habit back up again discourage you. If you give up then that is when you lose. you just have to keep trying. You have to truly want it and sometimes it may take counseling to help you out.
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do the opposite everytime in the place of the bad habit. you should start a good habit.
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How bad is it, if your really tried and it is really bad get help and then you may stop.
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hit your head everytime you do it.
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Wear gloves!
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Be strong in ur mind level. . Take a resolution that u have got to stop it.(Not like our usual new year resolution, ha ha ha
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by starting a new good habit in place of the old one
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As has been said by others, it is a good idea to replace the bad habit with something positive, but another thing you can do is garner yourself a 'support group.' It can be a support group of one, if necessary, but tell them what the habit is that you are trying to kick, state the things you are going to try to do to change this habit, then ask for your support group's suggestions. If you have a set back, ask for encouragement from your support group.. . It is always easier to tackle something with someone behind you to catch you when you fall.. . Good Luck!
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