Things that trigger bad habit

Things that trigger bad habit

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Assignment: Things that trigger or stimulate your bad habit or behavior to occur?

3.

Analyze your “triggers”

or environments that make your habitual behavior more

likely to occur

.

In other words:

a.

What

settings, people, or times of day or week trigger or stimulate your bad

habit or behavior to occur? (e.g. smoking, eating or drinking too much);

Or,

b.

What setting, people or times of day or week tend to prevent you from

engaging in the behavior or habit you want to increase? (e.g. studying or

exercising more).

c.

Also look if you have paired or associated two stimuli (e.g. the smell of coffee

triggers your cigarette craving).

4.

After analyzing these triggers, describe how you would avoid them or change them.

In other words, how would you control your environment so as to optimize your

success? How will you gain control over the settings that either trigger the bad

habits or prevent you from building good habits. Some people may smoke while

drinking coffee, so giving up coffee may help in changing the target behavior.

5.

Identify how you could use

classical conditioning

to change your behavior (eg. Pair a

noxious stimulus with a bad habit, or a pleasant sound or smell with a good habit

you want to build).

6.

Identify

operant conditioning

techniques such as:

Most of your bad habits are caused by two things… Most of the time, bad habits are simply a way of dealing with stress and boredom. Everything from biting your nails to overspending on a shopping spree to drinking every weekend to wasting time on the internet can be a simple response to stress and boredom.