Unlearning a bad habit

[Jamal]

 

[Lycanthrope]

Does anybody know any other techniques?

Yeah, just stopping.

I became a vegetarian cold-turkey, I cut sugar out of my tea cold-turkey. Ph34r my awesome will- and staying-power

 

[Picard]

It will take more than just an elastic band to have me drop some of my bad habits.

 

[Venomous]

It will take more than just an elastic band to have me drop some of my bad habits.

what he said.
we don't even realise when we do most of those things.

 

[MegasXLR]

A psychiatrist shared the following technique with me:

Wear a loose-fitting elastic band around one of your wrists. Every time you engage in the habit, snap yourself with the elastic band so as to cause some pain.

Some years ago I unlearned some bad habits (for example dramatically reduced coffee and sugar intake) through self-hypnosis. A problem with self-hypnosis though is that it takes great mental strain and lately I'm too mentally fatigued to do that sort of thing.

Does anybody know any other techniques?

I used to swear a lot as a boy while chatting with mates, I read about the method somewhere and therefore pinched myself every-time I realized that I used a swear word. Eventually I would stop just before I uttered the words. It worked for a long time and only in later years I fell back into the habit again but still much reduced as when I was a kid.

 

[Picard]

I used to swear a lot as a boy while chatting with mates, I read about the method somewhere and therefore pinched myself every-time I realized that I used a swear word. Eventually I would stop just before I uttered the words. It worked for a long time and only in later years I fell back into the habit again but still much reduced as when I was a kid.

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