Improving yourself starts out with challenging bad habits. Whatever it might be. You know you could do better without it. While some habits are worse than others, you’ll learn strategies that can break any habit.

1.Extinction - Discover whats reinforcing the habit and stop it. Ask yourself, “What makes me do this?”. Whatever it is, is what you need to suppress.

2.Alternate response - Try to get the same reinforcement from a different response. For example, if you smoke, try to get the same pleasure from doing something else.

3. Que’s & Antecedent - Narrow down the incentives that cause the habit.

4. Response Chain - Break the chain of responses that cause the habit. If you get the urge to smoke when your alone, avoid being alone. Then you’ll stop the chain of events that cause you to smoke.

5. Negative Practice - Associate the bad habit with something discomforting. If your bad habit is doing cocaine, imagine how your body will feel when your lungs start bleeding. You’ll start to see how your habit is hurting you. You can really have some fun with this one!

You can try just one method or multiple. The more you understand about how your habit works, the more you can focus on breaking it. One thing that might help you is a journal of your progress. This will encourage you to keep on going when you have the urge. Remember that asking your friends and family isn’t a weakness but a way of having encouragement to fall back on.
Good luck!