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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Kate Wills

Quit it! From vaping to doomscrolling, 10 bad habits and how to break them

Photograph of a broken, smoking vape
Photographs: Tal Silverman. Vape model-making: Millar Models. Photographer’s assistant: Dan Burwood Photograph: Tal Silverman/The Guardian

‘Habit is a great deadener,” wrote Samuel Beckett. And he didn’t even have watermelon vapes and doom scrolling to contend with. Most of us have at least a few behaviours we want to change, but how can you break the habits of a lifetime? We asked the experts …

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