How to Create Addictive Habits With 1 Simple Brain Hack

Smell as a behavioral reinforcement. It really works.

Adriana Azor
BrainChronicles
Published in
6 min readApr 7, 2020

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Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

When my brain rebels — and it happens often — I try to trick it.

It worked when I cut back on coffee and started mixing caffeinated and decaffeinated every morning, slowly increasing the dose of the latter. It worked when I tried beating the jetlag or when…

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Adriana Azor
BrainChronicles

Neuroscience PhD | Exposing the secrets of the human brain | At the intersection of Creativity & Science ❤ | Founder of BePeers.com | Editor of BrainChronicles