Keep your nails healthy and maintain a healthy diet. Keep your nails trimmed.
Treat yourself to a manicure as often as you can
You have earned a manicure for reaching your goal to stop biting your nails. Not to mention, having nail polish on may push back the urge to bite your nails, since you don’t want to bite into nail polish or ruin your manicure. Once your nails are in great shape, you should focus on keeping them that way, and the best way to show off your shiny new nails is to get a manicure. Chat with the manicurist about having great nails. You’re allowed to brag!
Keep your nails relatively short.
A simple manicure can help maintain your healthy nails, and so will keeping them relatively short and preventing yourself from biting them more. If you have any surplus growth, cut your nails back. Keep clippers with you at all times. You can’t bite if there’s nothing there.
A healthy diet will help you feel better overall and will help your nails repair and grow well. Eat calcium and magnesium rich foods so that your nails will repair and grow well. Not only that, but most of the reason that the human body wants to bite nails is a lack of calcium and magnesium in the body. The body needs that material back.
Eggs, soy, whole grains, and liver are also helpful to nails. Sulfurous minerals found in apples, cucumbers, grapes, garlic, asparagus, and onions all help consistent growth.
* Essential fatty acids, or EFAs, are found in tuna fish, salmon, shellfish, leafy vegetables, nuts and seeds. They are needed for human metabolic processes and help keep nails shiny and pliable.
* Keep your hands and mouth busy by picking up a hands-on hobby or chewing gum.
Find a habit to take the place of nail biting.
Whenever you have the urge to bite, do that instead. Some people like to drum their fingers, twiddle their thumbs, clasp their hands, put their hands in their pockets, or just stare at their hands. Just make sure it’s not a bad habit; choose a helpful one or one that doesn’t really matter either way.
Carry a rubber band, penny, or something else to hold in your hands. Play with that constantly in place of biting your nails.
Try keeping a coin in your pocket, and play with it when you feel the urge to bite your nails.
* Chew gum or suck on mints or candies throughout the day. Biting your nails will be tough if you’re busy chewing gum or taking in the flavor of a delicious sucking candy. Also, the sensation of your bitten nails mixing with the flavor of minty gum or an orange-flavored candy will just be gross.
* Use a nibble inhibitor. Apply it several times a day, and carry a spare.
Try a bold color like red, or a color like black that will look silly if it’s chipped because you’re biting your nails. If you don’t like color, polish them and apply some shine and growth promoter or petroleum jelly. It’s harder to bite nails that are looking great.
* Break the habit one nail at a time.
Pick one nail to “protect” at a time.
If you have one nail that appears more damaged than the rest, it might be in your best interest to start with that nail. If all nails appear the same, however, you can pick any nail you wish.
* If you find it difficult to break the habit all at once, working on one nail at a time can make things easier by allowing you to slowly build better habits instead of demanding too much of yourself all at once.
Cover your nails with plaster for 21 days
Keep the bandages on every single day until you stop biting your nails.
You can apply fresh bandages every time you shower, every time the bandage gets soggy or dirty, or every few days.
You can remove them for a special occasion, or choose to keep them on so you look silly during the occasion and are even more motivated to stop biting your nails.
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