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 uh curtail the behavior to the desired degree so you can reduce it a little bit you still do it sometimes but you you know instead of drinking a beer at dinner every night you just have it maybe once a week and then uh you could also replace it so rather than you know um 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 um 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