Bad habits can take over your life. They can make you fail at work,
school, and relationships. It is important to address these issues. Self
help books are great for this. Here are a few.
James Claiborn, Ph.D. and Cherry Pedrick, R.N. have collaborated on a
book about all habits. It is called
The Habit Change Workbook: How to Break Bad Habits and Form Good Ones.
This book follows a cognitive-behavioral approach to bad habits. It
uses psychological principles to get to the root of bad habits. Then, it
goes into great detailed steps of how to break them. It also tells about
a group of people who have bad habits and explains how each one is
conquering theirs.
What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do: Bad Habits and Addictions
is a short book on the subject by Henry Cloud and John Townsend. It
offers a religious perspective to those who feel overcome by their
failings. It gives advice on how to find ways out of habits and
addictions.
If you have children you want to help, there is a book for you, too. It
is called
Good Kids, Bad Habits: The RealAge Guide to Raising Healthy
Children. In it, Jennifer Tratchenberg discusses the kinds of habits
children have as they are growing up. She gives insight into how these
habits can follow them into later life. Then, the author helps parents
set up a program that is designed specifically for their child. This
will help the children to break bad habits.
Of course, what subject would be complete without an "Idiot's Guide?"
Suzanne LeVert has come up with the
Complete Idiot's Guide to Breaking Bad Habits. This book is a
tremendous introduction on the subject of bad habits. At the same time,
it does it with a sense of humor and warmth. Reading this book may not
break your bad habit. However, it may put you in the right frame of mind
to do it.
Self help books for breaking bad habits are very useful tools. They help
those habituated to understand their problem behaviors and find ways to
banish them. It always helps to have a second opinion. Reading these
books on bad habits will give you advice that you would never think of
on your own.
Here is a video presentation of
these and a few other books on bad habits...
