The contents of this website are not meant to substitute for professional help and counseling. The readers are discouraged from using it for diagnostic or therapeutic ends. In a famous experiment, students were asked to take a lemon home and to grow used to it. They seemed to have bonded.
Habit forming in humans is reflexive.
We change ourselves and our environment in order to attain maximum comfort and well being. It is the effort that goes into these adaptive processes that forms a habit. Habits are intended to prevent us from constant experimentation and risk taking. The greater our well being, the better we function and the longer we survive. In our habits we see our history, all the time and effort invested.