What are good methods to stop biting your nails?

Question

I bite my nails, alot, and sometimes they bleed, and it hurts! I don't know how to stop (Well, i can put tape on my fingers, but then i would look like a idiot!) So can someone plese tell me a non-embarassing way that i can stop biting my nails?

Answer 1

Put nail polish on it. If you bite it, it would ruin the pretty color which would make you ashamed of yourself. Plus, it tastes horrible. Oh yeah bite on something else, like a pencil or a person or something.

Answer 2

Though they keep saying Acrylics, you will ruin what nails you might have doing it that way. And I chewed on my nails more back when I had those, and that's one hell of an expensive way to stop. I made a friend stop by making him drop and give me ten push ups everytime I saw him doing it. If you've got a good slave driver try that. You'll get in shape or you'll stop biting. I learned that the guys like nice long nails, and I quit post haste. Now it's unnatural if my nails aren't at least a quarter of an inch long (and not fake.)

The soap works, so does the nail polish, that way your nails will grow faster if you polish them. Keeping them coated stops some of the urge, but did you consider that you are biting your nails for some anxious reason?

Answer 3

Every time your at home by yourself stick to the tape..you can put a bright nail polish on whenever you go out in public so if you bite the polish will chip off into the spaces inbetween your teeth how emabarresing right?... Then when you have them a little bit longer or average length you can get acrylic nails..It makes your hands look more beautiful and your nails grow long while they are on then instead of trying to take them off yourself go back to the salon they have some stuff that melts the fake nails and leaves you with longer more beautiful nails. And yeah hand sanitizer taste gross so you can try that too.. Dont put chilli powder if you happen to rub your eyes then it will hurt like a witch!

Answer 4

My mom used to buy some stuff called stop bite. It tasted really bad. The iodine idea is a good one but it would look bad. If your nails are so short they are bleeding DO NOT have fake nails put on until they are healthy. Also you may still bite on the acrylic nails which would be rea;;y bad pn your teeth. Also relying on acrylics isnt gonna solve your problem and is expensive also if you leave them on to long the nails underneath are weakened and become suceptible to fungal diseases.

Answer 5

There this nail polish that you can put on which will make you stop biting your nails or you can clean the tip of you finger with nail polish remover so when you go to bite your nail it will taste horrible and then you will stop.

Answer 6

Go have your nails done professionally. It feels & tasts very different to put them in your mouth than just your regular nails. You definately won't be biting! You will be proud of the way they look, also. Good luck!

Answer 7

the only thing that worked for me was putting clear polish on your nails and scrape it off through out the day with your teeth or other nails when they get long enough. If it comes all off, reapply. If you don't stop eventually your teeth start to chip. Knowing that helped me stop too because it did start to happen. good luck it is an awful habit to break

Answer 8

Paint your nails. Nail polish tastes really bad. I bite my nails too. That is how i kind of stopped.

Answer 9

good methods stop biting nails

Answer 10

you could do some exercise and build up a sweat then scratch your ****, if that don't work you'll need to get a close friend to smash all your teeth out, if you do that i would have a drink or 2 first or maybe take some heroin.

and also as an alternative you could get a close friend to chop of the ends of all your fingers, get them at the first knuckle that should split the bone easy and guarantee that the roots of the nails wont grow back, but again consider heroin.