Habits are formed when a method is learned to be effective in solving a recurring problem, leading to a default reliance on that method.

“how the grooves kind of get formed once we learn that a certain method is effective in solving that problem we tend to default to it even if it's not the only way to solve that even if yeah going for a run would make me feel better but i'm just used to smoking cigarettes now”

“i think you know i do think there's a genetic component some people are more sensitive to certain substances than others or at least it appears to be so um however it does strike me as like very possible that a good chunk of it is learned and that now you have a story that junk food is the way that i cope or the way that i you know um uh soothe myself when i need that and you could imagine like in a sense your habits are these solutions to like recurring problems that you face”