Pressure & patterns
Interrupt the state.
Change what follows.
A trigger does more than prompt a behaviour. It can retrieve the physical, emotional and attentional state in which that behaviour became familiar.
The pattern is not the whole of you.
Habits become easier to repeat because they are well-rehearsed pathways. Resolve may be sincere, yet the state surrounding a trigger can temporarily make the familiar response feel like the only available one.
A habit is strongest in the state that has repeatedly rehearsed it. Change the state, retrieve Guide-Self and make the next action from there.
The aim is not dramatic self-control. It is to recognise the sequence early enough to create a small interruption—and make one useful next move from a more deliberate state.