Got lots of bad habits? Quitting them all at once works best

I think it's because all self-destructive habits come from the same psychological/emotional root. The act of a bad habit is simply the external manifestation of something going on inside. So quitting all habits and getting therapy for them radically changes the entire "root". Make sense? That's what I think.

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This is interesting, in that it directly contridicts the standard advice of 'take small steps towards achieving a goal; make one small change at a time.' (An approach that I don't personally adhere to; it works better for me to do my research and then make several large changes at once.

It's also interesting that their final conclusion seemed to be that when you work on several things at once, you're likely to have long-term success (18 months in the case of the study) for one -- yes, one -- of the things you worked on.

"The investigators call for further studies and note that although simultaneous counseling appears more successful than sequential counseling, 'treatment success with the simultaneous approach is likely to be limited to a single behavior.'

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