JAMES O. Prochaska and his colleagues at the University of Rhode Island have identified six stages that self-changers navigate.
In the first, called pre-contemplation, individuals aren’t even aware of what habit they might want to change. Often, those around them – family, friends, co-workers – draw their attention to a problem behaviour, whether it’s smoking, binge drinking or eating too much of the wrong stuff.
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