One bad habit you would like to drop

farmgirlrrt
farmgirlrrt Posts: 168 Member
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I'm told it's easier to drop a bad habit by replacing it with a healthier one. What is one bad habit you would like to rid yourself? If you'be managed to give up a bad habit what was it and how did you do it?
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  • ThePlight
    ThePlight Posts: 3,593 Member
    Painting my nails daily! Not sure what to replace that with lol.
  • farmgirlrrt
    farmgirlrrt Posts: 168 Member
    Painting my nails daily! Not sure what to replace that with lol.

    Daily? You have got to have the biggest nail polish collection ever! Which one is your fav?
  • ThePlight
    ThePlight Posts: 3,593 Member
    I'd definitely have to say my Sally Hansen #130 platinum. So gorgeous, looks like pearls haha.
    Can't think of anything to replace the habit with, though. At least cottonballs and fingernail polish remover are relatively cheap.
  • farmgirlrrt
    farmgirlrrt Posts: 168 Member
    Maybe not replacing but cutting back? I hear you should let the nail beds "air" out. Not sure though.
  • HarleyFatboyFan
    HarleyFatboyFan Posts: 344 Member
    I was a pack a day smoker for 30yrs and quit two years ago by going cold turkey. I used to wheeze when I tried to exercise, got tired just walking through the grocery store. Cold turkey was the way I quit. I decided one day I was going to quit and never looked back.
  • MizSookeh
    MizSookeh Posts: 106 Member
    Ooh, I think I should replace a bad habit WITH painting my nails! I love gorgeous healthy looking nails, which mine are not!
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Some physical addictions. Silly but sad too.
  • farmgirlrrt
    farmgirlrrt Posts: 168 Member
    I was a pack a day smoker for 30yrs and quit two years ago by going cold turkey. I used to wheeze when I tried to exercise, got tired just walking through the grocery store. Cold turkey was the way I quit. I decided one day I was going to quit and never looked back.

    I'm always curious how people are able to quit smoking. I ask my patients their smoking history. If they say quit smoking....I want to know how. Most of their responses are the same as yours. They just decided it was time and did it. The ones who have the most trouble are the ones who live with other smokers and no support.
  • lsorci919
    lsorci919 Posts: 772 Member
    Painting my nails daily! Not sure what to replace that with lol.

    I paint my nails every 2 or 3 days :) wouldn't change that but maybe not spending so much money on new polishes lol
  • wheird
    wheird Posts: 7,963 Member
    Hookers and blow. Need to cut back on one.
  • fur_lucks_sake
    fur_lucks_sake Posts: 12
    I don't have any bad habits.
  • borapielk
    borapielk Posts: 26
    Getting distracted and creeping around this site.
  • MstngSammy
    MstngSammy Posts: 436 Member
    I was a pack a day smoker for 30yrs and quit two years ago by going cold turkey. I used to wheeze when I tried to exercise, got tired just walking through the grocery store. Cold turkey was the way I quit. I decided one day I was going to quit and never looked back.

    I'm always curious how people are able to quit smoking. I ask my patients their smoking history. If they say quit smoking....I want to know how. Most of their responses are the same as yours. They just decided it was time and did it. The ones who have the most trouble are the ones who live with other smokers and no support.

    I did it too. I tried the patch but it fell off in the middle of the day and I didn't want to waste a new one so I just decided to wait till the morning. The morning came and I decided to brave it. It was a weekend and hubby was home so I let him watch the kids while I "detoxed" (i could fall asleep standing up because of the withdrawal)
  • rayfu75
    rayfu75 Posts: 209 Member
    Over thinking
  • MstngSammy
    MstngSammy Posts: 436 Member
    I was a pack a day smoker for 30yrs and quit two years ago by going cold turkey. I used to wheeze when I tried to exercise, got tired just walking through the grocery store. Cold turkey was the way I quit. I decided one day I was going to quit and never looked back.

    I'm always curious how people are able to quit smoking. I ask my patients their smoking history. If they say quit smoking....I want to know how. Most of their responses are the same as yours. They just decided it was time and did it. The ones who have the most trouble are the ones who live with other smokers and no support.

    I did it too. I tried the patch but it fell off in the middle of the day and I didn't want to waste a new one so I just decided to wait till the morning. The morning came and I decided to brave it. It was a weekend and hubby was home so I let him watch the kids while I "detoxed" (i could fall asleep standing up because of the withdrawal)


    So when the weekend was done I started P90X and it help a lot with detox. At first doing the cardio hurt so bad but I noticed that it got easier really quickly. I could take deeper and deeper breaths everyday. It was so thrilling I didn't want to look back.
  • MstngSammy
    MstngSammy Posts: 436 Member
    Hookers and blow. Need to cut back on one.

    Well hookers blow. It's a no brainer IMO
  • briana12077
    briana12077 Posts: 128 Member
    procrastinating on my homework lol
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    Hookers and blow. Need to cut back on one.
    ****. you too?
  • IwearBatmanUndies
    IwearBatmanUndies Posts: 324
    Bath salts as my pre workout.
  • visabsoluta
    visabsoluta Posts: 138
    Sometimes I dont treat people the way i want to be treated
  • Sylvitryinghard
    Sylvitryinghard Posts: 549 Member
    being an *kitten*
  • Lisa1971
    Lisa1971 Posts: 3,069 Member
    Biting my nails
    Cutting down on sugar
    Cutting down on alcohol!
  • RN514
    RN514 Posts: 1,107 Member
    Over analyzing every little thing.
  • ThePlight
    ThePlight Posts: 3,593 Member
    Biting my nails
    Cutting down on sugar
    Cutting down on alcohol!

    I had that, I fixed it by painting them daily lol.. The habit I can't break now haha.
  • modernshieldmaiden
    modernshieldmaiden Posts: 18 Member
    Never doing the dishes until the point that the thought of doing them isn't just inconvenient, but it's terrifying and I'd might as well throw everything away.
    I'll replace it by... doing the dishes as soon as I'm done with them. Hah.
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    Not a habit at all but I wish I could accept compliments more naturally.
  • Cinflo58
    Cinflo58 Posts: 326 Member
    TV I am a freaking addict! I love Breaking Bad, Dr Who, Misfits, Law and order SVU, Dr Phil, Judge Judy, Walking Dead, True Blood, SONS OF ANARCHY TONGHT!!!! I need help.....I'd like to replace it with exercise
  • Cinflo58
    Cinflo58 Posts: 326 Member
    My father died of lung cancer. That's how I quit smoking. Not cold turkey,. It took me a few tries. But felt so guilty and I kept thinking what an *kitten* I was for smoking after he DIED
  • Quieau
    Quieau Posts: 428 Member
    I have the habit of eating chips with every sandwich I eat. A sandwich isn't a sandwich without chips.

    So I swapped potato chips for pickle chips. I like them better and they're better for me! :)
  • Amadbro
    Amadbro Posts: 750 Member
    Dipping. I have a perfect diet, never cheat, I lift heavy with conviction but when I leave the gym the first thing I do is put a dip in. Hell I have one in right now. My fiance hates it with a passion and I really want to quit it's just soo hard. One of those terrible addictions I picked up in the Army.

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