Indeed, you can get addicted to such "soft habits" as video games, texting, television, Facebook, sugar, exercise, shopping, sex or pornography. Often, the substance or activity is used to regulate moods and emotional states that would otherwise feel intolerable.

I show how you can also get hooked on such "soft" habits as Facebook, over-exercising, drinking too much Diet Soda or eating too much ice cream. Regardless of what kind of habit you want to break, here are ways I recommend to begin the process.

By Margaret Bristol for Bookish In the mid-1990s, Kristen Johnston was starring on the hit NBC series "3rd Rock from the Sun," alongside the revere...