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Habit formation interventions may help displace existing bad habits with good ones.
Practitioners can utilize habit formation strategies to replace negative behaviors with positive ones.
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Interventions may also seek to harness these processes to displace an existing 'bad' habit with a 'good' habit.
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Habit Formation and Behavior Change
Benjamin Gardner et al. · Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology · 2016
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