How do I stop biting my nails?

It is hard! (I know from experience) but what has helped me the most it to wear fake nails (nails- not talons) and to decorate them so that you do not want to ruin them by biting them. (about $10 / 1-2 months for a kit).

start chewing on gum. it'll keep your mouth distracted from chewing/biting your nails.

Biting nails is usually a learned behavior in response to a reaction to some stressor in our lives. It can be associated with mental health concerns such as anxiety. There are many means to go about addressing biting our nails like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for example but it is best to consult with a Psychologist or someone trained and licensed is this area to determine the best treatment options.

Several treatment measures may help you stop biting your nails. Some focus on behavior changes and some focus on physical barriers to nail-biting. Keep your nails trimmed and filed. Taking care of your nails can help reduce your nail-biting habit and encourage you to keep your nails attractive. Have a manicure regularly or use nail polish. Men can use a clear polish. Wearing artificial nails may stop you from biting your nails and protect them as they grow out. Try stress-management techniques if you bite your nails because you are anxious or stressed. Paint a bitter-tasting polish, such as CONTROL-IT or Thum, on your nails. The awful taste will remind you to stop every time you start to bite your nails. Try substituting another activity, such as drawing or writing or squeezing a stress ball or Silly Putty, when you find yourself biting your nails. If you keep a record of nail-biting, you will become more aware of the times when you bite your nails and be able to stop the habit. Wear gloves, adhesive bandages, or colored stickers whenever possible to remind you not to bite your nails. Snap a rubber band on the inside of your wrist when you start to bite your nails so you have a negative physical response to nail-biting.

Painting your nails or getting them done professionally, even a clear or nude coat, can be great motivation to stop picking at or biting your nails! The drive to keep the polish intact is a great motivator!

There is a clear nail polish at the store you can pick up - our nails will taste rather bitter when you begin to bite at them

Put cayenne pepper on the tips of your fingernails. Each time you feel the need to bite, you will remember not to do it.

Biting nails is something you do when your nervous or are bored you could put nail varnish on them or even clear nail varnish so it will look like you haven't got any nail varnish on and it might stop you from biting them.

You will need to root out the cause - what usually is going on when you start doing it? For example, is it stress? If so, then you will have to try to relieve it and really have the willpower to stop.

I have learned that it's a mind over matter process. For me, it helped me by chewing on small straws, almost like the ones you would stir coffee or a drink with, or even gum. After a while, I lost interest in nail biting.

I bite my nails all the time and I have found that the best thing for me to do is wear nail polish because then I don't want to ruin my nails and won't bite them. I think different things work for everyone.

I wish I knew. I'm still trying to figure that out myself. I've been biting for many years and the longest i stopped was 3 weeks.

There are bad-tasting nail polishes that are made to help people stop biting their nails. However, if your nail biting stems from anxiety, it may help to work on increasing the positive ways you try to address and lessen anxiety. Instead of REMOVING your habit of nail biting it may help to REPLACE it with things like breathing techniques, mindfulness, grounding techniques, positive self talk, and self-soothing activities.

Reward yourself when you don't bite your nails. Distract yourself when you feel like doing it. Find other things to do when you get the urge.

Distract yourself and keep your hands busy. That will help and will keep you from biting your nails.

I used to have this problem personally. :3 What I did to break the habit is I started painting my nails, so whenever I went to bite them, I remembered that I didn't want to mess up my nails, and if I forgot not to, it tasted really bad. :P And now, even to this day, I've stopped biting them, but I still paint my nails anyways.

Part of stopping a bad habit is replacing it with a good one. Such as instead of biting your nails, can you chew gum? Or, do you happen to know what it is that makes you want to bite your nails? Because if you're aware of the behaviour or reason that triggers the nail biting, when you feel like biting...try doing something else. My brother used to be a nail biter, and we had him chew gum or carrot sticks.

Start by taking really good care of your nails. Take some hair, skin, and nail vitamins and put oil on your cuticles everyday. Putting this much time an effort into making your nails pretty will help you from bitting them. For me, keeping polish on them helped too.

Always bring a gumnalong with you. So You can replace a gum instead of nails. It might sound ridiculous but somehow it does works.

Nail biting may be brought about my mannerism, or it may be indicative of some anxiety or compulsion. Either way it is shown to be bad for ones health in the long run, making the individual vulnerable to infection through the small wounds on the nails or ingestion of microbes present under the nails. It can even promote oral diseases. There are many ways found on the internet that can condition someone to stop biting their nails, such as putting on nail polish or pepper or wearing gloves. However, this may only be curing the symptom and not the underlying cause, which may be anxiety or compulsion that could be indicative of a deeper problem.