# How to Quit Bad Habits

Quitting a bad habit is an ongoing process of studying your triggers, learning from lapses, and redesigning your environment.

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Author: Juan Herrera
Published: 2024-07-15
Updated: 2025-03-25
Category: Behavior

1. **Debrief your failures**
2. That's it.
3. Quitting a habit is not a **single time effort**, it's an **ongoing process** of getting to **know yourself** and your **context**.
4. Every time you fail, write down **what were you doing**, feeling, or craving. And in **which context** it happened.
5. You'll increasingly learn **when** you are the most **vulnerable** and **what** situations **trigger** this behavior the most.
6. Then design strategies to **prevent those circumstances** (e.g. avoiding people/places or self-regulating with meditation)
7. Soon enough you'll start acting differently, simply because your **rewired yourself** and **your environment**.