Is there a known way to stop biting your nails? help!!!
2006-08-11 20:41:35 · 10 answers · asked by ebony3136 1 in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body
I bite them all the time usually when I'm stressing out. I never notice that I'm biting them so I'm at a loss at how to stop.
2006-08-11 20:42:35 · update #1
I used to have the same problem!
Try to rub alcohal (or nail polish remover) onto your nails. If you bite them, then they taste and smell horrible. Lemon juice worked for me.
Don't do this at school or you'll look like an idiot. When I got back home, I would put tape over my fingers. And wear them until I need to go to school. Yeah, wear them at night, even when asleep. Some people unconciously bite their nails I think. Or if you can't sleep, you might bite your nails too.
This can also be under stress so don't listen to music when you go to bed. You can listen to instrumental but only that. Then maybe you can read and eat fruit or a decent chocolate bar. Then brushing and sleep well. Taking a hot bath or shower can also help.
Oh, and try not to put your hands on your cheeks or you might be tempted to bite them.
Good luck on your nails!
2006-08-11 21:06:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I too was a nail biter for years. An elderly man saw my nails at my employment and gave me this advice: buy a nice nail file and the minute you get the "sharp" edges from biting the nail, simply file the sharpness off. It sure worked! I have since given this advice to several people and it worked for them as well. It is such a simple solution you wouldn't think it would work but it sure does. Good luck!
2006-08-15 07:40:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you be responsive to what you need to do? stop studying, go out and detect a chemist (or drug shop...I dunno what they might call it on your us of a), and detect a nail polish there in specific for nail biting. once you place it on, it rather is sparkling and un-noticable. yet once you visit bite your nails...BAM! The flavor is unfavorable. It tastes like abode paint mixed with banana. VERY DISGUSTING. you are able to purely flavor it however, no longer scent it, so do no longer complication in regards to the heady scent making you ill. That enables plenty with nail biting. Use it until you stop completly, have faith me, it works. it rather is non poisonous, via the way.
2016-12-14 04:36:36 · answer #3 · answered by wexler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, put a clear coat on your nails that way if you bite them it tastes horrible!
2006-08-11 20:42:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
use a nail coat to train yourself to stop biting.
2006-08-12 02:44:18 · answer #5 · answered by shopaholic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
insert your fingers into something disgusting like dog poo there is no way you would put them in your mouth then.
No really there are products you can buy from chemists that you put on your nails that tastes disgusting and after awhile you stop putting your nails in your mouth.
Yopu have to remember to keep putting it on though.
2006-08-11 20:45:11 · answer #6 · answered by spudster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just think that every time you bite your nails you come that much closer to losing your teeth
2006-08-11 20:43:37 · answer #7 · answered by Neil G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make it a point to count the times you bite your nails and jot it down somewhere. you'll become more conscious of this habit...
2006-08-11 22:22:55 · answer #8 · answered by curlifries 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tough problem...
I know that wearing gloves won't help - that's what Michael Jackson tried and he just ended up ruining a perfectly good pair... his only ones, and now he has to wear mittens on cold days when he's out molesting children.
Try just keeping your hands away from your face... or put Tabasco sauce on your fingers... better yet... don't wash your hands after using the john -- that'll keep you thinking.
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2006-08-11 20:52:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just remember this one here:
Germ from the toilet is on your nails!
2006-08-11 20:44:40 · answer #10 · answered by Kanda 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋