Gradual Reduction or Cold Turkey: How to Choose
Nobody has measured which works better for ordinary habits, and the pages that say otherwise are citing substance research at something else. What decides it.
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The Snooze Button: What It Is Actually Rewarding
You know you will regret it and you do it anyway, which is the shape of a behavior with a reward attached. What that reward is, and the four ways out.
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Adding Friction: Making the Unwanted Habit Take One More Step
The delay does not have to defeat you, it has to interrupt you. Where to put friction, why the numbers you have read are invented, and when it stops working.
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Replace, Do Not Resist: Why Substitution Beats Willpower
Removing a behavior leaves a cue with nothing attached to it, and the cue does not go away. What a substitute has to match, and where the idea overreaches.
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Finding the Real Trigger: The Four-Question Log
You cannot redesign a cue you have not found, and you will not find it by thinking about it. A log that takes ten seconds an instance and a week to answer.
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When It Is Not a Habit: Where This Site Stops and Who to Call
Habit design is a real tool with a narrow range. Here is where that range ends, what sits outside it, and who answers the questions this site cannot.
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How to Break a Bad Habit: Change the Trigger
You do not break a bad habit by fighting the urge. Edit the trigger, add friction, and plan for the slip-ups. A tested, everyday guide from ProvenHabits.