Category: Safe Haven
Is anyone a really bad nail biter like me? Have they tried to kick the habbit for 12 years with no success what so ever like me?
I just wondered if anyone has any tips for me or any other zoners who chew their fingers or bite their nails to help them to stop doing it. I've tried that nasty tasting stuff you paint on them, but that makes any finger foods or anything you eat after touching a mug, glass or piece of cuttlery or finger food taste absolutely vile, I've tried the gloves, but its, extremely difficult to read Braille books, magazines and things or type on your computer keyboard, I've tried painting them with that miracle grow stuff which kicks in after four days and they shoot up a couple of centimetres, but I just chew that stuff off as well if I stick them in my mouth again. I've been doing it as long as I can remember, probably back to when I was teething. I've tried all the methods mentioned above, the gloves, the bitter-tasting nail paint stuff, the miracle grow, ordenary nail varnish but its, no use, I just can't seem to stop though I desperately want to stop. I know its, genettic from one of those live hospital programs I watch and my mum bit hers, but not half as badly as I've always bitten mine. If anyone out there has any suggestions, I would like to know how successful and effective they were. Mum says false nails aren't the answer either, as they can drop off and you lose them for good, and they're not very easy to apply either. I just need to get my own nails to the stage where I can start playing the guitar again, where I can have nicer-looking hands and I neer want to bite them again.
*grins, smiling, yep, i'm a nail biter, did stop for 1 year, i think it's all will power and using nail clippers help, so when i get the erge to bite them, i'll break out the clippers, sometimes, smiles
I'm also a nail biter. Just too lazy to use scissors:)
Troy
I guess alot of blind people bite their nails? I do it, have done it all my life. It's a bad habot and I've tried to stop but heh, it doesn't work.
Hmmm! Think I've got the right idea. Don't upset myself or go mad about anything, that's when I'm most likely to bite them and just let them be when they're coming on nicely, just edging over the tops of your fingers.
Maybe, get a manecure? They don't have to be that long to be neatened up and painted and look all nice, and once you have them all pretty and smoothe and shiny and well-shaped, you want have the urge to nibble and wreck them? Just a thought. I'm always more careful of my nails if they're looking nice.
I bite them, I never cut them. LOL
I am a nail bighter to. I have done it all my life. I think my father did it to. I bight right down to the skin.
I'm a nail biter too, it's really bad. I have found that getting my nails done all pretty like resonant said helps. My problem is that because I've bitten them for so long, when ever they do grow they are weak and brittle and split before they even get to the ends of my fingers and the cycle begins again. Putting the tips over my nails and then getting them painted with Bio Sculpture which doesn't reck your own nail underneath as much as acrilic does. Really helps. It is a little expencive though, but after getting your nails tipped once, and the filled 3 or 4 times, and deending on how fast your nails grow, you will only have to go back every 3 or 4 weeks to begin with. Your own nail will grow, and the tips will be snipped off, if you continue to get them painted, and let them grow naturally then you will stop biting them. I bite the skin around my nails too, and think another reason i can't stop is because of how ti feels. With the biosculpture and the tips on my nails though, everything is able to grow back with out me rouening it. I too play guitar and am very concious of my hands when I perform. it's quite imbarrasing sometimes
I have bitten mine to the skin, hurts like heck.
Troy
Aw'w' tell me about it Troy. When I don't have any nails left, I bite round them. My right thumb for example, where the skin dried up, cracked and even came away which both looks and feels incredibly sore. I think I've just done it for the last time though.
I cant think about having long nails. That is because I have bit mine since aI was a little girl. I started with my finger nails now on to my toe nails to right down to the end.
I have no solutions for you. My mom used that bitter tasting stuff on me when I was a kid, but it didn't stop me from biting. I have also tried getting fake nails put on, but I couldn't stand them. I have also gotten manicures and tried really hard to let them grow, but I always end up biting them again. And because my job involves typing all day, long nails get in my way, but that, I suppose, is just another excuse for biting them.
always been a nail biter and nothing seems to work