I don't think there's a straight linear line that one has to take to lucidity. Different things work for different people. I don't MILD. I rarely WILD. I don't use any induction techniques except to RC, and I get one a week. Imagine if I actually did use techniques. I do wake up in the middle of the night, but I don't consider that a technique in itself, unless you do other things like MILD, autosuggestion, etc.
If you constrain yourself to such a path, what if it doesn't work? Branch out, try everything, read about everything, consider what you think will work, what you think won't, why or why not you feel that way. I focus on reality checking because it raises awareness of your self and your environment. If that didn't work for me, but that was the only thing I tried, I'd be screwed. I spent two years trying autosuggestion and MILD, and it got me two lucids a year. Some people only do those and get fantastic results.
I would say: to break the habit, develop sufficient recall that when you do become lucid, you'll remember it. Change your sleeping habits to try to sleep lighter. Learn to do reality checks, and to question your state. Use autosuggestion and MILD (w/ self discipline) to remind yourself to become lucid, and not to move when you first wake up, and to build that recall. Try to DEILD during every brief awakening. Once you've done those things, you'd be likely to get a few lucids in, in which case you'd know what you were looking for and be better able to make judgments for yourself.
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