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Is Change possible
Can people change? Most people say one can’t change, everyone always stays the same. In the book The power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, he talks about the powers of a habit’s and how one can change these habits. A habit is something someone practices continually, that is hard to give up. My habit is smoking, every time I go somewhere in my car I feel like smoking a cigarette. Duhigg hypothesizes that change can happen through the manipulation of one’s habit loop. The Habit loop is divided into 3 parts, the cue, the routine and finally the reward. To be able to change the particular habit one first has to identify what their loop is. I will be using Duhigg’s ideas of habit, to change my habit of smoking through the use of an …show more content…

This can be easier said than done because to be able to change the routine the reward has to be the same. To change the routine Duhigg suggests that one may use the Golden rule of habit change. This is the thing that will replace the routine in my case smoking, exchanging it with something else. In the book, Duhigg uses an example where someone is trying to change their habit of nail biting. He suggests that this person should find a new stimulation, he said this would help them get rid of the nail biting but keep the same reward. He suggested “... rubbing her arms or rapping her knuckles on a desk- anything that would produce a physical response.” (Duhigg, 76). This may only work if one has a Role of belief in habit change. What he meant by that Is understanding the habit loop identifying the craving and wanting to change the routine of the bad habit. To be able to change my routine I had to identify the craving which was the nicotine from the cigarette. Then I had to identify my golden rule of habit change which is either using an e-cigarette or drinking coffee. At last I had to find the Role belief in habit change. The best way to do this is to find a community, People or a group of people that want to achieve the same goal. Duhigg used alcoholics to portray the power and impact a community can have on changing a habit. He believes that “AA trains people in how to believe in something until they believe in the program and themselves.” (Duhigg, 85). In my chase, I had a friend who also wanted to quit so we decided to go for coffee once a day for a week. Instead of being in a social environment that would provoke us to smoke we meet up in a small coffee and socialized while drinking our coffee. This gave the same reward as smoking because coffee had caffeine and It gave the same social

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