This may be because smoking "tends to be habitual, repetitious, and almost unconscious" (15 p. 8) and because the episodic nature of adolescent smoking defies description of smoking patterns (16).
Behavior change may be difficult for habitual or normative practices such as those related to nutrition or hygiene.
Furthermore, altered emotion processing may be reflected in habitual tendencies to suppress emotional expressions together with impaired cognitive elaboration of emotional conflicts ([ 31], see also [ 28, 32– 32]).
It may be that some habitual actions proceed less mindfully than others (Wood, Quinn, & Kashy, 2002), some contextual cues are less salient in memory, or individual differences exist in the ability to recall cognitions and environments.
As degeneration of the shoulder joint may be affected by habitual movement, and hence occupational activity and handedness may effect degeneration, a paired t-test was used to compare the resultant composite scores of the left and right sides of all individuals with both clavicles present, to assess whether the recorded states of degeneration were bilateral.
Only in the case of the left lower extremity is the significance of test results not fully confirmed; this may be associated with habitual use of the dominant lower extremity, which in this case was the right extremity and because of a small number of respondents the functional improvement of this extremity was not significant.
Such means of timing exposure assessment may be adequate for exposures that are habitual or easy to recall but would be ineffective for exposures that are transient or require analysis of biospecimens.
And coffee cups – which may be luxurious, extravagant, indulgent, habitual – are not easy.
Qualitative analyses also suggested that additional practices that encourage attentive eating to become 'automatic' or habitual may be needed.
The questions were based on validated instruments, however sitting may be an automated and habitual behaviour [ 67], which may be hard to recall.
