Bad Habits and What You do About Them

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Permalink Reply by LadyWillowMoonSprite on June 23, 2008 at 4:39pm

I have a bad habit of smoking.. I would love to stop. I have tried just about everything. Anyone have any other suggestions. And when I get upset or angry.. LOL, especially at work.. I growl, like a bear.And sometimes it is really so loud that and I even embarrass myself... cant seem to quit. I guess it is better than cursing. And twirling my hair.. I do that a lot. Sometimes I get it knotted between my fingers. I have been doing that for years..

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Permalink Reply by Shauna on June 23, 2008 at 4:43pm

I twirl my hair too! But I know that's a learned habit, my mom does it too. Hmm, growling...I don't have that problem, but I do curse a lot and would like to minimize that as well. (See told ya if you gave me more time I would think of other nasty habits of mine lol)

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Permalink Reply by LadyWillowMoonSprite on June 23, 2008 at 4:46pm

The growling came one day.. when I had a rude customer, so instead of cussing his butt out. I just growled, been a habit since.(lol) I probably have a few more too.

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Permalink Reply by Shauna on June 23, 2008 at 7:00pm

I guess that is a better alternative! Cussing out a customer usually ends up with you in some kind of trouble...at least growling they won't outright ask you about most of the time lol

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Permalink Reply by Alicia on June 23, 2008 at 10:40pm

I was able to stop smoking for awhile using the tarot card Strength in a spell. I printed the card out so as not to ruin my personal deck, wrote the habit I wanted to stop on the back of it, made a candle, burned the card, rubbed the candle in the ashes and burned the candle for 8 minutes for 8 days. I actually stopped for 4 months straight, but then tragedy struck and I started back.

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Permalink Reply by Mismyname on June 24, 2008 at 2:52am

Cracking my knuckles comes to mind and i am trying to stop that although all i have is will power the same goes for eating to much most of the time i just eat for the sake of it or because i am bored.

That's it for bad habits didn't i do well :)

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Permalink Reply by Angji on June 26, 2008 at 11:44pm

This gross I pick my nose I always have my best friend tried his best and hubby to make me quit i notice I do it when I want to relax... I deicded ot try to quit.....

I also use to chew on everything... Now i quitthat laso...
OH the smoking thing you have ot find out your subconsious reasons why you started...
if you need any tips message me :)

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Andrew Zuchowski on September 15, 2008 at 1:33am

Ask yourself why did I develope it? What is the trigger? What causes me to respond in this way?, this is the identification, next seek to replace it with a better response, also instead of calling it a "bad" habit which is really a moral judgement, refer to it as an "undesired" one, repeat to yourself, " I really have no desire to have no desire to (name activity) any longer" these are simple ways to help gain better mastery of yourself for yourself. I sincerely hope this helps. Joe

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Permalink Reply by Ande on September 15, 2008 at 3:04am

Wow, this is a really good suggestion. I think I may try it...I'm an *underage* smoker. I know, no lectures please...But I got with my best friend and we quit for a month or so and promised each other we wouldn't do it anymore. Then she died August of 2007 and I started again. I've tried to kick it cold turkey and replacing it with something else, but nothing worked.

I hope this helps, thanks for suggesting it. =]

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Permalink Reply by FarmieD on September 15, 2008 at 7:00am

OMG!!! did we read th same book??? lol

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Permalink Reply by Dream on September 15, 2008 at 5:30am

Perhaps it will help if you understood the physiology behind habits. When we have an experience of something an electrical impulse in our brain is fired. The synapse that forms is strengthened each and every time we experience that habit. With each firing, the synapse grows stronger...like a muscle being exercised. That's why old habits die very hard because our brain is used to firing off in that direction and the connection is VERY strong. To break a habit, you must get your brain to fire in another direction. Its not an easy thing to do with life-long habits. But each time you get your brain to fire in the new direction its connection grows strong and the old connection grows weaker until eventually it withers away. Again, its like muscles. If you work them out, they grow stronger. If you don't, they wither away.

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Permalink Reply by FarmieD on September 15, 2008 at 7:06am

So we're evolvin these bad habits? Thats pretty interestin, think y'could pass them onto yer kids? I understand "monkey see monkey do" but actually evolvin th habit itself as genes? would that mean we become "ill" if we stop them? or is that what withdrawal is about?
Its a fascinatin thought....
What happens if'n these "bad" habits y've stopped suddenly appear when yer in a highly stressfull or perhaps curiously uplifted one?

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