Stop biting my nails

Has anyone got any offerings? I really wish i wouldn't (bite my nails)....they don't look horrendous but i just wish i stopped doing it...i do it when im bored.

:eek:

Wizard

Reply 1

Sam_B

put white spirit on the end of ur fingers

or viniger (sp?)

Reply 2

FTSE100

bite ur tounge instead. just the tip

and sooner or later u ll feel pain when ur trying to eat.

get rid of that habbit and loose weight

fantastic

Reply 3

erk

Go to Boots and buy the stuff which is similar to nail varnish and tastes yucky.

Reply 4

pink_lucie

link at the top of the screen :cool:

Reply 5

SsEe

I tried those horrible tasting things. Didn't really work. In the end I just enjoyed being able to drum my nails on the table hehe. But then I got bored of that. Have you ever got a long nail, you put your teeth to it and you just really want to bite it. Then you chew it to bits. It's like trying to give up smoking or something.

Reply 6

white_haired_wizard

ok, thanks for the advices etc. :smile:

Im a strange one, for example take my GCSES 4 years ago - for some odd reason i decided not to bite my nails at all over that period. I thought "it would be good/a test to stop doing it when perhaps it is most likely to happen". So during the whole GCSE period i stopped biting my nails...but im just so laissez faire. Im going to be strict and get all pyschological with myself now...mind games are the only way. Maybe i should tell myself that in four weeks time i will meet a beautiful woman, who just so happens to hate ugly nails...therefore i cannot afford to bite my nails :smile:

Obviously the latter isn't going to happen but it may work :smile:

Reply 7

bohogirlie

I used to bite my nails, which is quite ironic cos if you would look at them now you would never guess!! I tryed so many times to stop though! What i recommend is to bite some of them and not to bite others and then gradually over a period of time stop biting them all. I know it sounds weird but it worked for me!! :biggrin:

Oh and btw don't bother buying the stuff from boots, personally, none of the stuff worked for me, some even began to taste quite nice! :biggrin:

Reply 8

Juno

I started biting my nails in year 4 when this girl kept saying "Juno bites her nails" to everyone, and I didn't. So I decided that I would bite my nails. Although it did stop me sucking my hair.

Reply 9

Ms Red

juno_the

I started biting my nails in year 4 when this girl kept saying "Juno bites her nails" to everyone, and I didn't. So I decided that I would bite my nails. Although it did stop me sucking my hair.

i always use to suck my hair till the age of about 12, my mother was always giving out to me saying she was mortified

Reply 10

bohogirlie

Ms Red

i always use to suck my hair till the age of about 12, my mother was always giving out to me saying she was mortified

Didn;t you get hair balls in your throat?! :eek:

Reply 11

Herleif

lessthanthree

"stop'n'gro" is the product that's mostly used for this - it's such fun to peel off though :\

i think thats the product i ended up getting addicted to. After a while minging tastes really grow on u :biggrin:

Reply 12

white_haired_wizard

Right i don't understand this...i got negative repped for some reason on this post... minus 26? Wtf is all this about...a comment made to me saying "don't be so darn rude....".

Whats going on? I'd like to know where this rep is coming from....i wasn't rude.

Reply 13

LPK

i am not biting your nails :eek:

(reply to the thread title)

Reply 14

Joey12

Hi, i have the exact same problem, i have been biting my nails since i was 10 (am now 18) and i just cant stop...i even bite the skin around them and i hate doing it, they look awful but i just cant stop. I once stopped for 2 weeks when i went on holiday and i think it was because i was distracted but ever since i haven't been able to stop. It doesnt help that my boyfriend also bites his nails and the horrible stuff that u can paint on doesn't work either because i end up just sucking it off again anyway. ARGH please help!