A riverbed dried up in August still shows exactly where the water went. Habits leave a path even after you stop.

A path persists after the traffic stops. You can look at a dry channel in late summer and read exactly where the water used to run, because the shape outlasts the thing that made it. Habits leave grooves like that, which is why quitting something does not instantly remove the pull of it. The route is still cut into you, waiting for the next bit of rain.

Having stopped something and still feeling the pull is the channel, not a failure. Decide now what you will do instead, and have the answer ready before the moment arrives.