The phrase 'harmful habits' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the negative effects of certain behaviors, such as smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol. For example, "Many people struggle to break free from harmful habits like smoking and excessive drinking."
According to hard data, five harmful habits herald the coming of heart disease.
Smoking is one of the most common harmful habits in the world, especially common among young adult male population in Turkey.
We must ask ourselves what harmful habits of thought we enable when using the language of goodness and badness, rather than specificity, context, and critique.
We need to aggressively promote the healthiest behaviors, offer help in quitting harmful habits and encourage patients to take charge of their lives as best they can.
Nonetheless, the results over all were encouraging, since getting teenagers to give up smoking — or change any potentially harmful habits — can be notoriously difficult.
Treatment most often is directed toward changing harmful habits, such as discontinuing cigarette smoking, dieting to lose weight, controlling alcohol abuse, or managing stress more effectively.
Sticking with issues of public interest, this fact sheet from anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health details the national trends in the harmful habit from 1974 to 2012.
If we go three weeks without complaining, we can be freer of this harmful habit just by bringing complaining into our conscious awareness.
Not even taking a lead through Calum McDonald was enough to see them break a harmful habit, conceding an equaliser to Craig Easton and, ultimately, lacking the wit or the strength to prevent their relegation to the First Division.
Cigarettes The tax on tobacco is seen as both a useful earner for the Treasury and a way of deterring people from persisting with a harmful habit, so another 17p of duty on a packet of cigarettes is to be expected.
My apologies to His Holiness, but air conditioning is hardly a "harmful habit," but plain and simply a matter of public health, particularly in a warming world that is overwhelmingly poor.
