what's the best way to stop the habbit of biting nails?
969273
Remember all the germs that are on you fingers and every time you put them near you mouth think how sick it may make you and if worse comes to worse take care of the animals toilet facility barehanded then you might think twice about sticking them in your mouth is is very unhygenic anyway
1174143
The best one I've found is Deet, but I've heard good things about Bite Blocker:\n\nhttp://www.bug-spray.org/
530578
Find something else that involves your hands or mouth. Start chewing gum 0 sugarless so you don't rot your teeth. Maybe take up some sort of simple craft that you can do whenever you feel stressed - maybe drawing.
350239
You can do these other suggestions until they grow out long enough to have artificial nails put on. but the real answer is stress reduction techniques, if you don;t figure out what bothering you and how to let it go, you will just switch to another habit such as hair twisting&#92;pulling or skin picking.
734784
biting nails all the way down\nran down shoes\nfur (chest or back hair)
72652
There's this nail polish that tastes really bad that is supposed to help you stop biting your nails. Or so that's what I hear. Well maybe you'd stop biting your nails if you painted them to make them look pretty. Maybe that'll help.
572671
Well damn I can't stop! I even bite my toe nails on occasion but not as much as my fingernails.  I get embarrassed cause all my friends have such nicer nails.  At the moment I'm trying to conciously not bite them.  I've been biting all my life and they are really thin and weak so that sucks.\nAnyway screw this person. I have depression and well get very bad anxiety attacks. The people who get at you for your nails have no lives.
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Try eating more Jello. Believe it or not, Jello or foods with geletin in it helps nails become more healthy. I play guitar with the nails of my right hand and learned of this and use it myself to strengthen my nails to withstand the stresses guitar strings put on my nails.
615792
I agree w/ the first answer. Also, if your nails are THAT brittle, you should consider taking a multi-vitamin. I use BC too, and something that minor should not be damaging your nail. Try it, see if it helps. If you don't like vitamins,try "Emergen-C", the little packets you mix into water. My nails grew like crazy after a month of that 2x a day.
465154
I chew on my nails alot.I'm oral retentive.
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1. Paint your nails with a clear coat, dry, then 2 coats of the color paint, dry, and then 1 coat of the clear coat again, dry.  Make sure in between each painting make sure your nails are TOTALLY dry.\n\n2.  After your last coat is pretty much dry, dip your hands in a cup of ICE waTER with ICE CUBES.  Must be extremely cold water.\n\n3.  Don't do dishes.
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Have you tried keeping them constanly polished?  I stopped biting my nails by using nail polish.  I don't want to ruin my nails when they're polished.  As soon as the polish chips, I repaint right over the old color.  I've been doing this for 10 years and my nails are now long and healthy.  But, if I go even a day without polish, I start biting again.  So, I just always keep them polished.
233594
I had the same problem.  Try Orly nail Defense.  It strengthnes your nail.  Believe me, I tried everything but this one really works.  It might take 2-4 weeks to see result.
1147590
use some nail hardner
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Though there are many ways, I will offer just one.\n\n\n   Go to the drug store and purchase a special nail polish. (I am sorry if you're a guy, but this willl only work for the ladies) The moment your fingers meet with your mouth a gross taste will fill your tongue. Also, keep this in mind: Biting your fingernails is scientificially proven to be dirtier than licking a public toilet seat. Think of that everytime you want to bite your nails, and see if it stops you. If your a man, I'll be fair. I will tell you to put scotch tape on the tips of your fingers.\n\n\n\nThese small tips should help you stop this habit.
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I am 22 and have been biting my nails since I first got teeth.  I have tried everything and nothing has worked: fake nails, hot sauce on my fingertips, rewarding myself...nothing has worked...but maybe he'll grow out of it.
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I also bit my fingernails until well past the age of 40.  The only thing that made me stop that disgusting habit was to look closely at my nails when I was out in public.  Everyone I seemed to notice had beautiful, manicured nails and mine were stubs.  I did everything to hide them, but it's pretty hard to hide your hands.  I purchased a clear polish, and every time I thought about biting I would polish instead.  You have to combine that with the sheer willpower that you want your hands to look "presentable!"  Today my nails are strong and beautifully shaped, and I think of what I missed all those years by "nibbling" all the time!  Now I don't have to put my hands in my pockets...I'm proud of my nails and want everyone to see them!  Good luck.  You can do it!