nail biting solutions?

[Tam909]

i bite my nails soo much and i dont know how to stop! I've bitten them as long as i can remember and i hate them being long because they get full of dirt i know it bad but this is what i've tried disgusting nail varnish, i have braces, being banned by everyone i see. Please help!

[fluffydd]

I bite my nails too. I used to make my fingers really sore by biting my nails when I was a kid. Now I'm more strict with myself and I nibble them a bit but don't bite them really short, unless I'm quite stressed then I can't help it. I do sometimes have long nails but I can only managed that if I'm not stressed at all. I found that once my nails got a little longer I didn't want to bite them. At the moment they are quite short as I've been stressed by a few things and then I can't help biting them. Plus I do like biting them

When they were long painting them with normal nail varnish did stop me chewing on them because I didn't want to damage the nail varnish.

I hate having dirt under my nails too so I clean them with a nail brush if I've been doing anything grubby like gardening. I don't like cutting them with nail clippers because I don't like how that feels.

When I did stop biting them I had to use a lot of willpower plus it helped to have something to fiddle with as I usually bite my nails when I'm fidgety.

[BrainGirl]

I bit my nails right up to high school, but at my high school we were allowed to chew gum in class so I started chewing gum constantly to distract myself from my nails. It worked and I didn't bite my nails for over a decade! Then I had some stresses in my life and I started again

[Gazmo]

get your nails done professionally, that's how I stopped, I payed to get them done and didn't wanna waste money :3

[Dilly]

My boyfriend is constantly telling me off for biting my nails! Most of the time I don't even notice that I'm doing it!! Having long nails isn't good for my job though cos they break and that hurts (I clean rooms in a hotel).

When I was younger my mum tried bribery, painting my nails and countless other things to try and get me to stop. I found that I just picked off the nail varnish and then carried on biting them. When I had braces I couldn't really bite them properly but it didn't get me.out of the habit of trying

[JinjaMakes]

I soon stopped when a bit of chewd up nail got stuck up in my gum between my gum and my tooth. I had to go to the dentist who had to slice my gum to hook it out.

Never bitten them since.

These are mine at the mo!

[Tam909]

haha thanks guys but i'll never paint my nails or wear make up despite being a 15 year old girl! i just dont like it, im a bit OCD x i tryyy will power but i do it subconsiously and i hate having dirt so biting is just how i keep dirt out! theres no space for it! i wouldn't get them done professionally because i just wouldn't haha x but jinja makes, that sounds like hell and might just help... ill let everyone know! haha thanks all!

[kimlck]

My DH has started biting his nails again, he bit them non stop until it got to the point that i could hear him over the noise of the tv! Then he started on his skin and his fingers would always be bleeding, i couldnt hold his hand because he had sore fingers.
So every time his hand went to his mouth i would slap it, it took a while be eventually he stopped, his nails grew lovely and strong and they made his hands look nice.

But now he's gone back to biting again!!
Arghhhh!!!!!

[The Hamster's family]

Nail bitting comes from anxiety... If you work on the anxiety, you might help the biting a lot... Breathing exercices, identify the object of discomfort, staying in the "here and now" can all help to lower the anxiety level...

[kimlck]

That is true, but its also a habit and you have to break the habit.