Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa

So don't think that I'm saying, oh, if you're addicted to whatever, just do these simple steps and you're no longer an addict.

That's not the case.

We're talking about bad habits here.

Now, another thing I did want to say, smoking and drinking and things like that can fall into both categories.

depending on the whole willpower side of things like I spoke about before so for example smoking for some is a bad habit and for others is an addiction so a bad habit in the sense of like oh well every time I go out I end up just slipping into that habit of just having cigarettes while I've got alcohol and while I'm socializing and for some people it's like well it's so rare I'd

don't care and I don't care to fix it because I really like that cigarette in which case don't fix it like don't change it if it doesn't bother you but for some people it's like I just I hate it I hate that I do it I don't want to do it it's just when I'm there I fall into that would be a bad habit I wouldn't consider that an addiction because it's not compulsive it's not it's more like the environment is creating like this perfect storm and then you're like I just slip into my old behaviors my old patterns

But if you're not in that environment and you're away from it and you're not paying attention to it and someone's smoking a cigarette, the last thing you want to do is smoke a cigarette.

You're like, oh, I don't crave that at all.

It's only when I'm socializing with alcohol.

That's what I want.

So that's more of like a bad habit.

Or if you are someone that has one cigarette after dinner,

And you've gotten into that nice habit and you associate it with this nice wind down routine and it's this association thing, but really it's not the cigarette itself that you're addicted to.

That would more so be a habit that you can break versus someone who cannot go two hours without having a cigarette because they're actually addicted to the nicotine from that cigarette.

Okay.

So just a little bit of an insight.

into that.

Alcohol, again, like I said, can be bad habit or it can actually be an addiction.

And based on my example, I think you can kind of see for yourself which one you would fall into.

Now, something I did want to go into is extinction.