3 Ways To Break Bad Habits If you want to break a bad habit, there are kind of three potential paths you could take. The first is you can eliminate it entirely. So elimination. Second option is you can reduce it so you could like curtail it to the desired degree. I don't want to never drink caffeine. I just want to drink less of it. And the third option is you could substitute it. You could replace it with a different habit and of those three, oftentimes replacing it is actually the more effecti