Finger Nail Biting

DAIR

DAIR

DAIR

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I've been doing this for as long as I can remember. And I would love to stop now. It's been seven days since I last chewed a nail off.

It hasn't been easy because I've had to consciously stop myself from biting them. From time to time I find myself staring at them. I'm just so tempted.

So do we have any former nail munchers here. How did you quit?
 
Never been something I've done but there's plenty of products you can put on your nails so they taste vile if you end up absent mindedly chewing on one.
 
I heard it was equivalent to licking inside a toilet bowl 10 times which at the time was sufficient to convince my infant mind.

Buy a nail clip and use it, simple as that really.
 
tom_e said:
Never been something I've done but there's plenty of products you can put on your nails so they taste vile if you end up absent mindedly chewing on one.
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See I thought about those. However I doubt it would really stop me.

skyripper said:
Nail biters and nose-pickers typically have better immune systems than those that don't.. so carry on :)
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Could be on to something. As I'm seldom ill.

I'm just tired of my nails looking all packed up
 
Got the same problem

Only time I never bit my nails was when I was in India. From true fear of disease. Best they havs ever looked but I guess the sun and sea helped too. I thought afrer seeing my hands look decent I could stop but still can't.
 
DAIR said:
See I thought about those. However I doubt it would really stop me.
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I think it's more just to remind you of what you're doing so you can stop yourself rather than being the actual reason you stop.
 
The longer they look the more I want to bite them... Perhaps taking a clipper to them might help.

I'll give that a try.
 
My kids granddad on their mums side bites his nails to such an extent that on some fingers he no longer has nails. He just chews the mangled stumpy bits where his nails used to be.

I bring up a little sick every time he shows me.
 
Stress and nervousness was the main cause for me. Though basically my SO kept moaning and slapping me, i eventually stopped. Now i take relatively good care of them and very rarely bite them.
 
I bite them, always have always will.

Whether other people find it disgusting is up to them, I don't do it in public usually sat at the PC browsing the net, giving myself a manicure with my teeth.
 
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