I agree with everyone else that our real answer is probably to learn more control and more awareness so that you can turn the bad dreams into empowering good and fun ones.
However, just because I like weird challenges I thought: What would it take to stop lucid dreams? Not recommended in my opinion, but here are some ideas: To figure out how to stop lucid dreams I first analyzed how to make them happen to figure out what the opposite would be. To start having lucid dreams people work on increasing awareness in everyday life, questioning stuff that is weird and unusual and does not follow what happened before, increase awareness to the here and now and decrease distractions that cause one to move through life on autopilot, improve memory, and of course get lots of rest so that they do not just need the sleep to deal with a lack of sleep. So to stop lucid dreams, I think you would need to (again I do not recommend this, but): reduce your awareness in everyday life, stop questioning the unusual, start doing things more and more on autopilot without paying attention, and induce insomnia and get less sleep so that when you are asleep you are more likely to just need the sleep for basic rest. Oh, and increasing stress in life could also reduce lucid dreams. Overall, such an approach has many issues with it.
Alternatively, since expectations and intensions are crucial in inducing lucid dreams, I wonder whether they could be used to reduce their frequency by telling yourself firmly that tonight you will just have a restful night without any of what you had experienced before, and the secret there would be to believe and expect that it will work.
I would however if I were you work on improving control and awareness in lucid dreams. There are tutorials on this site to help with that. I remember when I got really good at lucid dreaming I used to actually look forward to nightmares because I was confident that I could handle them and I knew that nothing in my dreams could harm me, and that was empowering.
In addition, work on relaxation perhaps through meditation and other relaxing techniques to be more at peace when you go to bed.
Good luck!
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