What's a word for "stopping a habit"? [duplicate]

What is a suitable word for stopping doing something that had already became part of our habit, like drinking wine or to stop drinking beer?

I had a computer dictionary and the word that comes out is commandment when I translate it from Chinese to English but I think it is just too weird.

The word you're looking for might be abstain. It's a verb, and the noun is abstinence.

There are general terms in English for ceasing to do habitual things, but more often than not, native English speakers use colorful phrases to describe that process.

For example, when people stop drinking, they generally say something like this:

I went on the wagon last week.

Click on the link to see the history of the idiom.

When I quit smoking after twenty years of nicotine slavery, I told everyone that:

I quit smoking at age 32. I went cold turkey on July 15, 1975.

Another common phrase is to kick the habit, but it's usually used for addicitions to drugs other than alcohol, e.g.:

He's been trying to kick his cocaine habit for years.

There's always the verb break.

Macmillan lists this idiom under its entry for break:

break a habit
to stop doing something that is a habit, especially something bad or harmful

It's simple and widely-used, and can be found in both lay and professional contexts.

Here are a couple examples: a book entitled Making Habits, Breaking Habits, and a News in Health column headlined "Breaking Bad Habits: Why It’s So Hard to Change".

I've also heard this proverb:

Good habits are as hard to make as bad habits are to break.