How can you stop biting your nails?

Question

I have the habbit and will do anything!

I just do it, ive got a manacure before, but it didnt last long because the paint was chiping off, and acrillics (sp) are bad for your nails, period.

Answer 1

Just will yourself to stop--or put tabasco sauce on your nails!

Answer 2

Based on an old recipe to stop kids from doing it, get yourself some quinine which should be available over the counter at any drugstore.
Mix some of that with water and dip all your finger tips into that.
It is about as bitter a taste as you can imagine (like tonic water times 100).
You may have to do that a few times to keep the concentration up. But each time you'll put any of your fingers to your lips, the bitter is sure to stop you. Thus acquiring a new habit of not doing that.
Good luck.

Answer 3

If you can muster the will power to grow your nails long enough so that you can clip them with a nail clipper, then save the clippings, and chew on them when the urge strikes. I defeated a 30 year plus nail biting habit that way. Plus, once you have clipped them, be sure to file away the sharp edges. I found that this really helped me to overcome the urge to bite them. Smooth edges seemed to lower the urge to bite.

Answer 4

woah, when i was reading ur question, i was bitting my nails!

lol,

well, i would focus your mind on something else, and maybe start a new habbit, so that when you catch yourself biting your nails, then you switch to your other habbit, such as fdgiting with ur pockets er something like that...or as everyone else suggested, get a manicure and put something like dried glue on ur finger tips, so you will not do it more often

:)

Answer 5

instead of biting, train yourself to just run your teeth under your nail without biting down. and always carry a file for the annoying little ketches that make you want to bite. It worked for me 6 years ago and I haven't bit them since

Answer 6

band aids when u start to bite chew on something else in stead like gum it worked for me the finger nails i chewed on most i put band aids on or a couple days and always carried around gum in my purse just in case i felt like chewing

Answer 7

habits are hard to stop, but just try not to think about biting your nails. i used to have the same habit. i try to cut my nails before they even grow long enough to bite on. You could try the same

Answer 8

Look on google, and see what Finger nail biting is, you will never bite again

Answer 9

Keep your nails clipped short so there's barely anything to bite.

Answer 10

try chewing on gum or put your hands into bags because when u have a bad habbit try stoping it as soon as possible