The whole reason that you formed your habits in the first place is that they filled a need. You may have had tension or stress, so smoking, drinking etc gave you relief . As you break the old patterns you still need a way to fulfill these needs. You will be not only making an active choice to not do the old action you will also be making a choice to perform a better, alternative action in its place. Instead of smoking, you might decide to go for a run every time you are feeling tense. Instead of drinking too much, you may decide to have only 2 beers. What the new habit is that you substitute, isn't so important as whether you feel good about the choices you have made. After all, the reason you consider things bad habits, is because they leave you feeling bad about yourself.

if you think they are bad habits and still doing them, maybe you have no solution. normally people have bad habits cause they are not concious they are.

-Focus on the negative effects of a bad habit specially ones you started suffering from already or hearing that others did ; doing that intensively will at least make you mentally ready to give up such a habit or at least willing to do so , yet with no real determination or action. -Knowing that we can change those patterns and substitute them by others is the first step to work on adapting new good habits instead. Being determined to start repeating a new action again and again will eventually turn it into a habit that could eventually take the old bad habit's place. -Giving up a bad habit includes pain and effort, but the pain of the bad habit is worse than the pain of healing from it . Being aware of that encourages you to do the effort required. - Keep encouraging yourself with positive affirmations such as : " My mind is set , I can eliminate any bad habit". " I am stronger than any negative desire ". etc - Avoid anything associated with the bad habit , for example if you are a social smoker avoid being with those friends who smoke a lot . - Engage yourself in constructive meaningful activities.They will fill your time and ward off the thoughts related to the bad habits. -Get support from friends and family to pull you back from your bad habits. - Keep feeding the positive habit with effort and concentration until your cravings cease and your alternative habits take place . - Think about the barriers keeping you from changing your bad habits and the reasons why you started the bad habit in the first place. You might be able to work on the circumstances causing you to adapt such habits rather, for example you started smoking when you stopped playing the sport you mostly liked . If you start adapting the old good habit again maybe that would help you automatically pull back from smoking. Wishing you the best :)

Hello Scott, First be aware what a habit is: Any action or thought repeated several times becomes a habit with some brain grooves carrying the patterns of particular habits. We all have good as well as bad habits. You can actually change those habits and here are some ways you can adapt for triggering such a change..

Just restrain yourself from doin it . lol. Find can excuse to not do it. drink juice instead. if u are goin out for a smoke... instead just go out and scream..and fart to relieve yourself. lol