The phrase "reduce habit" is correct and usable in written English.You can use it when you want to express the idea of trying to break a habit or practice a certain behavior less often
For example, "I'm trying to reduce my habit of eating fast food."
Health benefits are accelerated by community-wide efforts to reduce habits that impair health [ 12].
Second, Korean women in their 20s and 30s can have poor weight reducing habits, and rely diet restriction rather than exercise.
In 2 meta-analyses, it was found that for smokers who are unwilling to stop smoking completely but want to reduce their habit size the use of NR compared with placebo increased the likelihood that they would make a cessation attempt and that they succeeded more often with the cessation [ 4, 12].
In Finland, short intervention involving an exercise where adolescents identified stains on their teeth as a result of their smoking behaviour, helped to reduce the habit [ 8].
While interventions to reduce the habit in rich countries is now showing positive results, the tobacco industry is pursuing new markets in the developing world [ 3, 4].
'I think for a lot of patients you're breaking the habit, so you're not just treating their nicotine withdrawal, so if you're using nicotine replacement, giving them an inhalator might help them reduce the habit of having to have something to do with their hands (GP 19)'.
This will reduce the habit of going elsewhere in the house except in cases of illness and aging.
In fact, the very act of recording how much time you spend watching TV (and what you watch) is likely to reduce your habit.
But it would reduce the "habits of hypocrisy and meanness" that Jefferson identified as the result of legislating against thought.
Given the demographic, epidemiological and economic transitions and changes in pattern of tobacco and alcohol use in India, the health loss from the tobacco and alcohol will grow even larger, unless effective interventions and policies to reduce these habits are implemented.
