How do I stop biting my nails?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.