breaking bad habits

I was raised in a house hold where the use of profanity was more common than family dinners; I’ve adopted my family’s potty mouths and I would like to stop because it drives me crazy and my boyfriend says its un-lady like. When I’m in a professional setting, around my parents and other elders like a light switch I can turn the profanity off. When I’m interacting with my peers it’s almost like I don’t have a filter, unless I say the sentence in my head a few times before I actually verbalize it. My New Year’s resolution for the last three years has been to stop using profanity and I’ve failed miserably each year, this year I told myself that I’m a work in progress and I’ll try my best to work on it. During my baseline period I noticed the I used profanity once while in front of my mom and I quickly apologized; however, while with peers and my boyfriend in an course of an hour I used profanity more than forty times like twenty times per half hour. I’m going to give it my all to reduce the amount of profanity that I use each day, by reducing the amount of profanity that I use each day the less dependent that I will become on the bad behavior (bad language).
The first technique that I believe can help to rid me of my potty mouth is reinforcements; which can be described by Skinner as anything that will work towards increasing the occurrence of the operant response. Terry (2009) (pg. 101) I can use reinforcements (positive or negative) to decrease the amount of times that I use profanity throughout the day, using reinforcements to strengthen my mental capabilities and keep the profanity switch turned off. The article The Use of Reinforcer Assessments in Evaluating Psychotropic Medication Effects considers the effects of reinforcements, while working with patients which would increase or decrease the patient’s unwanted mental behaviors. While conducting research; researchers used to methods of approach when using reinforcements, deprivations and