%0 Journal Article
%T The Importance of Creating Habits and Routine
%A Craig A. Johnston
%A Katherine R. Arlinghaus
%J American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
%@ 1559-8284
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1559827618818044
%X One of the greatest challenges to lifestyle medicine is patient adherence. Lifestyle diseases inherently require lifetime prevention and treatment. Therefore, adherence to lifestyle medicine recommendations must also be long-term. Long-term adherence implies that a routine incorporating health recommendations has been developed. Instead of focusing on the immediacy of adherence in lifestyle changes, health care providers could consider helping patients develop a routine to slowly incorporate those changes. This perspective may enable greater long-term adherence to lifestyle change recommendations
%K long term
%K maintenance
%K habit
%K personalization
%K structure
%K adherence
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1559827618818044