How do I stop biting my fingernails!

[SgtBuddy]

I need to stop biting my figernails! How ? I have been doing it for decades!

Seem I bite them when I am bored. When I am stressed they grow fine. I just noticed this again when I got orders to Kuwait. My first 2 weeks here were super stressfull. When things calmed down I noticed I had fingernails again. Kept saying I wasn't gonna do it, but alas, I type here with a manicurist's nightmare!

Any ideas?

 

[Riprorin]

Never had this habit but it damn annoying to be around someone that does.

I'll pass along any suggestions on how to stop to my wife. (of course she'll tell me to go to hell).

 

[Legendary]

Put something that tastes nasty on them.

 

[Platypus]

When I was younger, I would put band-aids on a few of my fingers to stop it. It worked after a week, I wouldn't feel the need to bite them. I have other nervous habits though

 

[Danman]

Originally posted by: Legendary
Put something that tastes nasty on them.

Put sh!t on it.

 

[tcsenter]

There is some stuff you either get OTC pharmacy or through a prescription that you brush on your fingernails. It is very bitter and nasty tasting.

Other than that, diligence and more diligence.

 

[technogeeky]

Originally posted by: SgtBuddy
How do I stop biting my fingernails!

Scratch your bum without any undies on.

 

[RU482]

just start picking your butt...but wait, that could start another nervous habit

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

stick your fingers in your naval periodically throughout the day.

 

[Thegonagle]

Buy a few nail clippers (one for the key chain, and one or two spares for the house) and form a new habit. It's been working for me.

 

[FSUpaintball]

I knew a girl who broke the habit by putting some fingernail polish that tasted like atomic bomb peppers on her nails.

Of course, that probably goes against your "Don't ask, don't tell" policy

 

[Thegonagle]

Originally posted by: FSUpaintball
I knew a girl who broke the habit by putting some fingernail polish that tasted like atomic bomb peppers on her nails.

Of course, that probably goes against your "Don't ask, don't tell" policy

I'd probably like the taste of that nail polish. I'm a freak for hotness.

 

[Moonbeam]

Don't. Just bite them when they get long. Nobody will know.

 

[abaez]

I have had this problem all my life and have tried almost everything and I can't get to stop biting them. I tried
the polish, the chili, the lemon stuff. After awhile it just wore off. My mom said she would give me
$100 bux for each nail she can cut with scissors... I still can't do it.

 

[Sealy]

This seemed to work for someone I know recently, every time you go to do your bad habit ie. biting your nails, just think of your grandma/mom/dad/brother...whoever naked. You'll stop real quick!

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

How do I stop biting my fingernails!

Uh.... Discipline or self control woulnd't be such a bad place to start.

nik

 

[Thegonagle]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

How do I stop biting my fingernails!

Uh.... Discipline or self control woulnd't be such a bad place to start.

nik

OK, Mr Perfect!

 

[SgtBuddy]

Thanks for the suggestions folks. But with sticking my fingers in my butt and thinking of my grandma naked, I now have even BIGGER problems!



Bandaids work well.

 

[RegaPlanet]

go treeplanting for a summer. So much dirt under your nails everyday you wont be able to bite them anymore. Worked for me.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Legendary
Put something that tastes nasty on them.

i don't believe this will work for me, since its a nervous habit, it isn't like i bite them because they taste good

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
stick your fingers in your naval periodically throughout the day.

why would that slow anybody down??

 

[MrPabulum]

See, here's what ya do: get a friend to smack whichever hand you wre nibbling with a straight-edged ruler. Almost as much fun atomic pepper nail polish. A couple of hard smacks later (if you haven't absent-mindedly kicked the tar out of him after the first one), you're cured! Easy as that, no?:Q

 

[Ryan]

TO stop biting my nails, I just ran my teeth underneath my nail instead of biting them. It's worked for me

 

[roncarter]

u stop by stoppingg.. duh!

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Chop off your fingers. Than no more nails. Simple.





Edit: But seriously, I can't stop biting them either. I just try to keep cutting them really short so there is nothing to bite.