Does missing one day break a habit?

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No. Missing a single day does not undo a habit. A 2010 study led by Phillippa Lally at University College London, which tracked how habits form in everyday life, found that missing one opportunity had no measurable effect on how automatic a behavior became. What breaks a habit is not the missed day itself, it is quitting because of it. Streak-based apps make that easy by resetting you to zero, which turns a small slip into a reason to stop. Aspra is built around this. When you miss a day, nothing resets and no chain breaks. The plan adjusts to the pace you can actually keep, so one off day stays in proportion and you keep going.