kick the habit vs leave off

kick the habit

verb
  • To recover from or quit an addiction or habit. For example, to quit smoking, drinking, or drug addiction. 

leave off

verb
  • To desist; to cease. 

  • To omit. 

  • To stop with a view to resuming at a later point. 

How often have the words kick the habit and leave off occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )