Help me!! I have a bad habit of biting my nails, how do I stop?

Question

When I get bored, I just start to nip at my fingernails, and now my nails are short and "deformed!" Please help me!

Answer 1

Each night before you go to bed...paint them with some clear fingernail polish. Every time you put them in your mouth, you will taste that and it will be nasty tasting enough to remind you to stop.

Answer 2

i'm the worst with biting my nails, can not undergo in recommendations the final time that I had them long. My answer is a million. try getting pretend nails, an astounding acrylic french nail cropping, it's going to additionally provide your nails time to advance. and a pair of. There are additionally polishes obtainable to positioned on your nails or over right of your nail polish that make your nails style terrible so which you will no longer even choose for to chew them! chew It and Nutra Nail green Tea strengthen medical care are 2 products you need to purchase for this!

Answer 3

I, too, bit my nails when I was young. Right up until about a year before I got married. I wanted to try acrylic nails just to see what they would look like for one day...I figured that I would bite them off but I liked the look of them...they looked so pretty and professional that I kept them without biting them off! That was 10 years ago and now I have grown my own and wouldn't even think about putting them in my mouth again....my sis in law, who's a nurse, showed me what kind of gunge is under the CLEANEST nails and I gagged. Just think of what bacteria your hands come across in a day....in just a few minutes after washing them and you should stop right away!!
If not, go for the acrylic nails....you'll love 'em!!!

Answer 4

There is a product that you can find at any drugstore. It resembles clear nail polish, and is applied the same way. It tastes DISGUSTING. Obviously, when you go to bite your nail you instantly stop upon tasting it. There are several different brands that make it, your best bet is to ask an employee at the drugstore.

Answer 5

I have the same problem but I get acrylic tips on mine and I have less of a tendency to bite them MUCH less or go to your grocery store and there it a nail polish in like the baby section it's called Thumb its to stop thumb sucking and nail biting with little kids but boy does it taste bad it will really make you not want to keep doing it.

Hope it helps.

Answer 6

99percent of solving a problem is admitting that you have one. What you need to do it keep a rubber-band around your wrist, preferably one that is very small. Every time you find yourself biting your nails, lift one part of the rubber-band and let it snap so hard it LEAVES A MARK. Do this for at least 1 month. you will grow used to the pain and fear biting your nails. it worked for me :]

Answer 7

There are several special nailpolishes that you can buy that taste bitter when you put them on your nails. You can also try doing things with your hands to keep yourself busy. If you bite your nails in stressful situations, try to avoid those situations.

Answer 8

same here im trying to stop so i am starting to draw when im bored even if i suck really bad. Or put rubber band on your wrist and when you bite them pop yourself. Teach's yourself not to bite nails. Or a bad way is to tape finger nails.


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Answer 9

Funny, I just put iodine on my nails, I bit them so bad.
I just have to be in thought or figuring something out.
Sometimes, I go through phases where I don't bite them for a long time...

Answer 10

I started getting manicures with clear polish every other week.

I liked how my nails looked and I didn't want to mess up the manicure.

It's cheap and it worked.