Peter Attia· MD
generally speaking i think there are three ways to break a bad habit you can eliminate it entirely so you can just go cold turkey cut it out never do it again you could curtail the behavior to the desired degree so you can reduce it a little bit you still do it sometimes but you know instead of drinking a beer at dinner every night you just have it maybe once a week and then you could also replace it so rather than you know you know drinking a beer you replace it with water or whatever now when i'm thinking about myself personally when i actually am changing behavior i don't usually think about breaking bad habits that often in fact most of the time i'm focused on building or establishing new good behaviors which necessarily um displace the old ones like for example with eating it is a bit of a zero-sum game i mean not entirely i guess you could just keep eating more and more and more but generally if you say i'm going to eat more good things it kind of drives down the bad things is that the way it normally works then i think a lot of the time it does and that's why i tend to focus on that for my personal life is that it's kind of like two plants you know like one plant if it grows a little bit more and you know spreads its leaves a little further it starts to crowd out the other plant you know it just soaks up more energy and resources in sunlight and your good habits are kind of like that