"stable habit" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It describes a consistent behavior or routine that is reliable and does not change often. Example: Despite the chaos in his life, John maintained a stable habit of waking up at 6am every morning to exercise.
Our cross-sectional and longitudinal results, as well as findings of previous studies (6, 8, 24), show that using snus is a more stable habit than is smoking.
'Predictive' effects of behaviour frequency on later habit scores may reflect the impact of a stable habit on an ongoing behaviour, rather than a causal behaviour habit effect (Weinstein, 2007).
The consequence is typically increased adulteration by retailers, increased crime by users to meet the higher cost of a stable habit (in economic terms addictive substances have inelastic demand, so increase in price does little to reduce use), and increased incentives to producers and traffickers.
Finding a stable habit you can return to each day can be enough to make a difference, even if it's as simple as eating the same, comforting breakfast or walking through a park after your workday.
It's ironic that they won't have time for an event designed to promote health and stable habits.
The proportions of subjects with habits indicating risky alcohol and nicotine habits were approximately equal at baseline and at follow-up, mainly due to stable habits, but also because of similar proportions of patients changing from risky habits to no/low risky use, and vice versa.
They had stable feeding habit since 3.8 years (SD = 8.7 years), and were recruited among vegetarian associations.
They have surpassed young adulthood and have reached a stable smoking habit with commensurable smoking-related cognitions.
Individuals were eligible if the following inclusion criteria were met: younger than 60 years of age at baseline and younger than 65 years at follow-up, blood sample available, had baseline information on diet, weight and height and follow-up information on weight, stable smoking habits, no cancer, cardiovascular diseases (CVD), and diabetes, and an annual weight change not more than 5 kg/year.
Instructions were given to patients in order to maintain stable dietary habits and physical activity during the study.
The FFQ we used had a reasonably high level of reproducibility and validity, and the elderly population we examined tended to maintain relatively stable dietary habits.
