Getting ready to change
Established habits are not easy to break: if they were, addiction wouldn’t be such a big social problem and new year’s resolutions might have some teeth. Deciding to free yourself from a habit or compulsion is a significant step, and it requires a bit of preparation and planning if it is to stand any realistic chance of working. Often attempts to break habits and addictions fail because people haven’t thought through what is likely to be involved, they haven’t properly understood the nature of their problem, or because they are not quite ready to change in the first place.
Psychologists James Prochaska and Carlo Di Clemente believe that effective change is not just a one-off decision but the result of a whole process, ...
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