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first dont be hard on yourself it is hard to break habits expecially if they make us feel good i love to eat and i was over 300 lbs until i decided to be serious and buckle down and i had to develope a hobby so i took up taking care of plants and doing jijsaw puzzles i lost half my weight with in 2 years it is still hard but it can be done just take it a day at a time

By constantly telling myself "I can do this!" What sets me back is doubt that I am not strong enuf to change or if the change is even worth it. Its a constant struggle, but so long as I keep saying and knowing I can do it, then the motivation keeps me going. And also not being mad at myself when I fail coz when that happens am like, "Forget it then! I'll just remain me!" Also knowing what is in it for me should I rid myself of those habits does help, and visualizing myself constantly as the better person I want to be.

Accept the fact that there are gonna be times when you will fall, simply out of habit. For ex., you typically order a drink with dinner. You will need to make very conscience efforts to make your changes, but realize that when you do make a mistake, it is NOT a failure, but merely a slip you dont wish to make again. Subconsciously, when we feel we have failed, we give up entirely, and you dont want to do that. Good luck.

I did never ever succeed in definitely overcoming my own vices, I never was able to flee from them; I only succeed a bit in moderating the most bothersome among those vices so that I may survive while feeling that my own vices have not yet completely destroyed my life.

It demands constant and hard consciousness and a glowing hope to fiercely face a troublesome vice and to thus do something, to expose oneself to things or events, or to severe prohibitions, so that the routine of the particular troublesome vice is interrupted, sort of strategically delayed, sometimes if only for just a while even luckily forgotten.

In making carent the object of the particular vice it might be possible to avoid being concretely enslaved to that particular object, because, when you are eager to drink, and the drink is not there, you may not be able to satisfy that habit; when craving to smoke, and the cigarette or cigar is not there, and the money necessary for you to purchase them is not there, and nobody is there to lend you a cigarette, when you may have to choose between tobacco or snuff and bread for your own survival, you may not be able to quench your own drive of producing and in-taking that type of smoke.

As for smoking, I concluded that it was sort of completely nuts to spend one's own money on something that is called cigarettes and then light them up and thus produce smoke in the air and in-take that smoke, fill one's own lungs with that smoke. Completely nuts!, but a lone mental reason will never ever be strong enough to break the obnoxious habit.

The same might be with any whatsoever type of drug. The same may be said of addicted onans, of habitual perverts of any whatsoever other abuse.

Thus the unwanted vice is like of one being at a place and not liking that place. One might try and be drastic and resolute, and thus physically abandon that habit, that place, thus getting out and into another place, away from the old habit and away from the old place.

It must be like a concrete physical removal, like away from America and into Europe, or from Europe and away into America, a long-distance flight, where the soul very definitely may be compelled to follow with, in an apotheosis of glowing freedom and bliss.

I'd say my most poisonous vice is drinking. I find, for me, that it is just best you avoid it. Whenever I haven't drank in awhile, I sort of lose my craving for it. You can still enjoy a drink at a restaurant or a night out - but don't get carried away. So, I suppose, avoidance and cold turkey works for me.

Or else, I'd suggest gradually cutting down. I am trying to cut out diet soda from my life. I began to drink it too much. Replace it with something healthy (water) and allow yourself a diet soda on the weekends (Friday, Saturday, Sunday only- and only one cup per day.)