Stopping nail biting

[Sun Wukong]

I quit smoking. I quit alcohol. I quit meat.
I quit many other things.

But stopping biting my nails appears to be just too bloody much for me.

Anyone had the plague and managed to stop it? Any good tips?

I have got a lot better, and basically leave the cuticle alone now at least, but any stress/boredom and I will be filing these bastards down flush and it makes me look like a mental.

Tips?
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[winz]

Remove nails and stop being such a quitter.
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[J4mes]

Stop and Grow.

[hedgehugger]

I used nail varnish. Didn't want to bite varnished nails. I went from total biter to talon-tastic
this was the 80's, I am woman. Blokes can wear varnish too

[Nexus Icon]

Stop using toilet paper and you'll soon stop biting your nails.


Or... Just stop doing it. I used to chew mine and eventually I just stopped myself every time I absent-mindedly raised my finger to my mouth. I haven't done it for a couple of decades now.
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[Rogerborg]

[hellkat]

Nope.

Only thing that stopped me in over 50 years of nailbiting was having acrylic ones put on. Tried all that other shite, nothing worked. I have always bitten my nails, and often completely unconsciously.

I had them removed once, my nails underneath were nice and long, albeit quite fragile. But I was back nibbling them within 24 hours, and in less than a week they were all chewed off again.

Apparently you are encouraged to eat gelatine to strengthen the natural ones once they are grown in and if you can manage not to start biting them again (uh oh, animal products, I understand you've gone full vegan hippy on that front?)

Falsies in general are so hard that you can't bite them off at all, sometimes if you get a good technician who puts on all the right stuff, you can't even scrape off the varnish with your teeth.

I have them done every couple of weeks and keep them quite short and normal looking (none of that coffin or stiletto looking chav shite) so that I can type, but usually a scandalous shade of red.

But obvs its a bit more difficult for fellas to get away with that*.

Perhaps you could have short nails done in a plain style, just clear lacquer to get you started. Once your nails have grown underneath, have them melted off and see if you can stop yourself from biting them (I totally couldn't)

You just have to commit to the cost of having them regularly infilled until they are long enough. An angle grinder is not an option

When they are growing out you can see the gap where your natural nail is, which is then "infilled" with acrylic each time you go back, and if you don't go regularly they are inclined to get quite long, the bigger the natural nail is below, the longer the falsies are. I can tell when they need doing aside from the bigger natural nail gap, I keep making typos cos the nails hiit the wrong keys, or they hit them twice and I don't notice.

Got to admit, getting used to arse-wiping with them was interesting, and certainly lessened my unconscious attempts to try and scrape the nail varnish off with my teeth, until I got the hang of a different method of arse-wiping (and keeping them shorter helps ) .


*I think Rogerborg has a false-nails fetish, as he seems to have picked up on me having my nails done, although whether it is a slutty red nails fetish, or the idea of little chirpy Thai ladies bowed submissively over my hands, I am not quite sure which is his ACTUAL fetish.
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[Baffler186]

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[hellkat]

Note gap of natural nail between cuticle and red nail, equals about 4 weeks growth, infill usually costs between £13-£25, depending on whereabouts you go.
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[stinkwheel]

Get a job on a farm. You'll soon stop.
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[Alpineandy]

I did this (and still do occasionally) but found that keeping a small pair of nail clippers on me made a difference.
My issue was that once I'd bitten some then I'd continue nibbling in an effort to smooth the nail out, but having clippers in my pocket I'd tidy the nails straight away which stopped the nibbling.
It often stopped the first bite as that was after I'd caught a nail on something and was trying to smooth that bit off.
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[Rogerborg]

[recman]

Get a bad dose of flu.
Ever since I got quite ill with it last year, I haven't bitten mine.
Can't explain it but it sure is handy for playing geetar.
I don't actually like having long finger nails tbh, so they get clipped regularly.

[Sun Wukong]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

Aversion therapy, courtesy of BCF at the BBQ.

Anyone who spots you with you digit in your mouth is allowed to dispense instant justice by making you eat a charcoal briquette.

You'd be cured in a single weekend.

Bonus feature is that I'd enjoy watching that
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[c_dug]

Why do you want to stop out of interest?

It has to be one of the least offensive and irritating habits.
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[JonB]

I have a terrible habit. The problem I have is that I don't even know I'm doing it, so when I finally click what I'm doing, im usually bleeding :rolleyes:

I suspect hypnotherapy or something radical would be the only way to cure it for me personally.
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