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How To Stop Nail Biting – New Year’s Resolution Help

Stubbs Nomore — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:58:52 +0000

You Can Stop Nail Biting!

Let’s start with nail biting is very unsanitary, and it’s gross. You need to learn how to stop nail biting. Your fingernails carry twice as much bacteria and germs as your fingertips. Most keyboards and remote controls have more germs and crud on them than your toilet seat. Visualize you used your keyboard and then idly started to chew a nail, you have just put all kinds of icky crap in your mouth. STOP IT!

Onychophagia is the clinical term for nail biting. Besides being a real turn off the opposite sex, it can be a cause for bosses and potential employers to think you have low self-esteem. If that isn’t enough, you have to know your germy fingernails transfers millions of bacteria, fungus, and other microorganisms right into your mouth. EWWW!

Besides being unsanitary, nail biting contributes to wear and tear on your teeth, causes skin and cuticle infections, and ups the odds you will get sick from greater exposure to germs. You already know that sheer willpower is not enough to get you to stop nail biting now. You need more help than that. Check out these products and techniques to help you stop nail biting.

USE NAIL BITING DETERRENT PRODUCTS

Control-It! 3 is an odorless, colorless all-natural cream that you apply to your nails. Its bitter taste reminds you to quit putting your fingers in your mouth.

PROPER GROOMING IS IMPERATIVE

You need to have a nail file and cuticle clipper/trimmer near you all the time. Plus, you need to set aside a grooming time to manicure and polish your nails. Even you guys can use a nail strengthener to cut help keep up nail health.

LEARN WAYS THAT WILL DISTRACT YOU FROM YOUR NAIL BITING DESIRE

My book, How to Stop Nail Biting, offers excellent techniques to help you recognize your nail biting patterns and triggers. It also give you exercises you can use to take your mind off the strong impulse to bite your nails.

GET A GRIP ON YOUR ANXIETIES

Besides boredom, stress is the most obvious factor in encouraging nail biting activity. When you feel anxiety, frustration, or fear, you can be sure your triggers to start a nail-biting session are in full array. My book witll give you some relaxation suggestions. Yoga and hypnotism can help you too.

USE PAINFUL REINFORCEMENT

Some people have had success by using a rubber band on their wrist. They snap it smartly when they catch themselves in a nail biting session. It must be painful enough to send your brain a message. You have to follow-up with some positive affirmation about how to stop nail biting. The combination can be powerful, especially if you are otherwise motivated to quit.

DON’T GIVE UP. DON’T GET DISCOURAGED!

The odds are great you will relapse, probably more than once, before you gain enough experience and moxie to quit nail biting for good. So don’t be too hard on yourself when it happens. Mostly, don’t get discouraged and quit. Don’t be victimized by this bad habit. You can learn how to stop biting your nails if you are determined and keep after it.

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Stop Nail Biting Secrets

Stubbs Nomore — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:10:35 +0000

Stop Nail Biting Secrets Don’t Exist

Realistic Practical Actions to Quit Nail Biting Are the Key to Success

To learn how to stop nail biting is a learned process. Somewhere along the way, you picked up the habit. Then you daily reinforced it until it was such part of your life you felt completely helpless to quit.

You’d gather up your courage and resolve, maybe use Malvala or other anti-nailbiting cream to help, and you got some encouraging results. Here is the dirty secret behind all those remedies. They work, but none of them prepare you to quit nail biting permanently. Unless you have a system that you can rely on to help you when you get that unconscious urge to bite again, you are going to fail.

I told you before you spent a good part of your life building up a bunch of subconscious ritualistic behaviors that all reinforce your desire to bite your nails. Until you fully accept responsibility and further determine in your heart of hearts that you want to stop nail biting forever, you are doomed.

My How to Stop Nail Biting book does not have any special sauce or secrets. It will not magically help you quit nail biting. In fact, I will tell you flat-out that you are statistically liable to fail after you read the book. Just like many smokers and alcoholics need to make repeated attempts before they quit, you will fall back and bite your nails again. Here is what you will get from reading my book:

Practical easy ways to identify the triggers that lead to a nail biting session.
Advice on nail care that help reduce the triggers, such as ragged nail tips or cuticles that are stiff and begging to be bitten or pulled.
Techniques you can use to visualize your nails being normal looking.
Techniques you can use to thwart the desire to bite your nails.

What happens when you read my book is you learn to put your nails in perspective, to properly groom them, to identify a potential biting session, and ways to head it off. If you keep putting the tips I give you into practice, you are going to build up enough self-confidence and behavior reversal reinforcement, that you can finally quit biting your nails.

All the other stuff can work to help you quit biting your nails. Read How to Stop Nail Biting to learn to quit permanently.

You Can Stop Nail Biting – Don’t Give Up

Stubbs Nomore — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:08:07 +0000

Learning to Stop Nail Biting Is a Process

I don’t know anyone who was able to stop nail biting the first time they tried. It just doesn’t happen that way. You know what I’m talking about. In a moment of unguarded weakness, you chew off all or some of your nails in a few minutes. This can be devastating as you realize you just wrecked weeks or months of hard work to get your nails growing out.

The main thing is to not give up on yourself.

You are not a bad person, or a weak person. You have a bad disorder that causes you to fidget and release nervousness or boredom by biting your nails and pulling on your cuticles. You did not wish this situation on yourself. By reading this, you know you have the desire to stop nailbiting.

The thing you need to realize is that you can relapse and have a biting fit. It doesn’t mean you have to give up. You can start again and have success. I know, for me, it’s been tough sometimes to even care enough to get going again. But, I have found some ways to help get me going in the right direction again. The first thing is to take a few deep breaths, maybe do some meditating to release the anxiety over feeling like you failed yourself again.

Failure is only for quitters.

You just had a setback. You can get back on track to stop nailbitng right now. Once you have calmed yourself from the realization you have had a setback, do these things:

Get a good set of Cuticle and Hangnail Snippers and carefully trim away any hangnails or ragged cuticles.
Use a quality Ceramic Pocket File to smooth out your nails – all of them – even the ones you might not have bitten or chewed.
Use the file to smooth the cuticles that were damaged in the process.
Put some polysprorin on any open sores on your cuticles – this cuts down on potential staph infections.
Use a bandage for a couple of days if you need. It’s better to be embarrassed by bandage than having others looking at your unsightly nails.
Get some polish or nail hardener or ridge filler, or all three on your nails. The hardener will help keep the chewed softened tips from becoming targets for new biting episodes.
Start moisturizing your cuticles twice a day. I heartily recommend Nailtiques Nail Moisturizer. It’s the best I’ve found.
Forgive yourself for your relapse and move on with resolve to do better next time.
Vow to take better care of yourself, including your fingernails.

These things work for me. If you want more ideas and help like this, read my book, How to Stop Nail Biting. It’s available on Amazon.com and as the How to Stop Nail Biting – Kindle version.

Stop Nail Biting is Now on the Kindle

Stubbs Nomore — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:24:21 +0000

Great news for the How to Stop Nail Biting book!

Your commitment gets stronger when your resource is closer

I just got the news from Amazon today. Perhaps it is something some of you have been waiting for. That is, the book is now available on the amazing Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6″ Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology
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You can order your copy of How to Stop Nail Biting to be read on the Kindle. This is great news because it means you will have ready reinforcements and easy referrals to those tips and techniques you’ll need to keep from reverting to your old nail biting habits.

You will get all the great content, useful information and fantastic resources as paperback readers. And, if you are like many Kindle users I know, the device is nearby all the time. That means you will have convenient access to get back to the chapters that are most useful for you.

Here is the product description for How to Stop Nail Biting on Amazon:

To quit nail biting permanently, you need to know how to avoid relapsing. In order to make the desired change in your routine nail biting habit, you need to learn:

* Effective techniques to you can use anywhere anytime to arrest, distract and refocus your nail biting urges.
* New ways to become aware of and then alter your near subconscious routines that stimulate and trigger your nail biting habits.
* Useful methods to make maintaining your nails an easily accomplished long term beneficial habit.
* How to create a positive mental attitude about your long term success.

Nearly any system or product can help you stop nail biting for a short time. But, the only way to quit nail biting for good is to confidently and consistently prevent relapsing into a biting session weeks or months later.

To permanently reverse your nail biting habit, you need a complete solution. One that gives you proven ways to quit biting your nails now and useful methods to help you maintain your new non-biting habit long term.

I promise to not insult your intelligence with claims of quick easy stop nail biting fixes

It would be an insult to your intelligence to claim you can stop nail biting just by reading this book, or any other book for that matter. You instinctively know to successfully break your nail biting habit requires more than willpower or quick fix gimmicks.True success comes by permanently conquering your bad habits. To conquer nail biting requires your sincere dedication to steadily work a system you fully embrace.

The simple truth is to attain success your desire to stop nail biting has to be greater than the underlying comfort you get from it. You have to be willing to work hard at altering long-time habits.

Sustained success is attained more easily when you have a program you believe in

Achieving your success is much easier when you utilize a believable achievable program specifically designed to provide practical ways to stop your nail biting permanently. You will use methods you learn in the book as your personal Habit Reversal Training program and as the basis for your ultimate success.

Most nail biters don’t have anyone to talk with about their problem. I wrote the book because I wanted to help others learn they don’t have to suffer with this problem. My methods have helped many others quit for good. Give these proven suggestions an honest and devoted try and they will help you quit your nail biting once and for all.

You will find the resources of useful stop nail biting tools and products very helpful in your quest to reverse your nail biting habits permanently.

Stop Nail Biting – It Can Cause Infections

Stubbs Nomore — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:47:57 +0000

You bite your nails, or want to help someone you know to learn how to stop nail biitng? Otherwise, you would not be reading this post. You already know id is a bad habit that non-nail biters find icky and can’t fathom why anyone would do it. Besides the appearance and loss of social status issues, nail biting presents health risks.

Onychophagy means nail biting in medical terms

There is a medical term for the compulsive habit of nail biting. It is called onychophagy, which is also spelled, onychophagia, is the word doctors use to describe nails deformed by chronic nail biting. There are numerous remedies, solutions, products, and gimmicks that can help a nail biter reverse the habit. Just learning how to maintain nails with regular manicures can greatly alleviate the condition for many. To quit long term, you need more help than having a manicure. One place you can get it is in my book, How to Stop Nail Biting, which is available on Amazon.com and other online bookstores.

Nail biting is not just unsightly, it can make you sick

Many nail biters can learn to quit on their own, but for those for who suffer from it as a severe and a deeply ingrained compulsive habit, seeking professional medical help may be advised. The act of nail biting in itself typically is not a cause of llong-term damage. Nevertheless, the act of repeatedly putting your fingers in your mouth throughout the day can lead to medical problems. Consider just doing this is at least a very unhygienic practice. Your fingertips are loaded with bacteria, which puts you at varying degrees of risk when it enters your body through your mouth.

Besides carrying bacteria, your fingers are a conduit for viruses. As such, you greatly increase your chances of catching a cold or another some other type of infection. If you also pull or bite your cuticles, you create open sores that can lead to serious staph infections. These bad oral fixation habits can cause preexisting skin infection to get worse or persist.

If you add to your list of reasons to learn how to stop nail biting that it is not only unsightly, but also unhealthy, it is just one more reason to quit nailbiting now. Follow this link to find useful tools and products to help you stop nail biting.

Learn How to Stop Nail Biting

Stubbs Nomore — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:54:46 +0000

Just because you are young, talented, rich and beautiful doesn’t mean you can escape nail biting

In my book, How to Stop Nail Biting, I mention some famous people who were or are nail biters. These include Princess Diana, Jackie Onassis, Britney Spears, and LeBron James. Then not too long ago, I saw this picture taken of Maria Sharapova. She is one of the richest female athletes in the world. She is admired nearly as much for her beauty as Anna Kournikova. She has had much more success on the courts than Kournikova, and only injuries have kept her from winning more Grand Slam titles.

Still despite all her achievements, she is still struck with the same malady as millions of ordinary folks. The curse of being a habitual nail biter. The picture here tells the story. One any nail biter reading this can understand. That is, despite valiant efforts, nail biting can be one of the hardest habits to break. If it is not an addiction, it is damn close. You know what I mean.

It’s because of this I wrote my book. It gives real hope, not false quick fix promises on how to permanently quit. Just about anybody can quit for a spell. I bet Maria has countless times only to revert to the habit in a moment of weakness. There are ways to quit and there are other ways to combat the temptation to start again. That’s what you learn in my book. It’s only about $15.oo on Amazon.com. Order it and a decent nail file and you get the shipping free. Why wouldn’t you spend a few bucks to see if I can help you conquer an embarrassing habit?

I will never claim that it is easy to quit nail biting. You already know it is not. Nor, will I say you will be successful on your first attempt to quit nailbiting using my techniques. What you will get is a system that can work for you. It doesn’t require treatment, or expensive programming, programs or hypnosis. It does require you to have great desire to change your habit. You have to be willing to work at replacing your ingrained habits with other ones. Just quitting almost never works. You have to replace your old bad habit with others that are not detrimental to your nails. Read the book and teach yourself to learn how to stop nail biting once and for all. Write me when you do!

There Is No Guaranteed Remedy to Stop Nail Biting

Stubbs Nomore — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:44:21 +0000

You see claims like this “Guaranteed Remedy to Stop Nail Biting” all the time. It is easy to want to believe them. Who wouldn’t want a guaranteed remedy to quit nail biting? Read the fine print, the guarantee is if it doesn’t work you get your money back. It is not an iron clad guarantee you will be able to quit biting your nails. If you are like most people who have suffered with this bad habit for years, then you know there is no easy cure. And, if you are honest with yourself, you will also know there isn’t a fix that is guaranteed.

The bottom line is this: you have to want to stop nail biting more than you want bite your nails. Once you have that commitment firmly in your head and heart, you have a chance. Then just about any program will help you get started. It could be hypnosis, bad tasting polish, or good old fashioned will power. They all work about the same once you have some true grit determination in place.

My book, How to Stop Nail Biting, offers techniques to quit now and other techniques you can learn to help you avoid back sliding. I believe you can use the techniques and information to quit forever. However, I also know there is no help, or remedy that will work without your deep desire to quit. So, my book is there to help you quit nailbiting now and avoid relapsing weeks or even months later. At least with my book, you learn to recognize your behavior and learn ways to alter it once you realize you are in danger of starting to bite your nails again. Besides desire, awareness is the biggest factor in successfully quitting your nailbiting habits for good.

The hardest part of learning how to quit nail biting is not the initial stopping period. Granted, for some folks that is extremely difficult. Nevertheless, the harder part is weeks or months later when your nails start growing and begin to look pretty decent. Invariably, something triggers your lifelong habit to put your fingers in your mouth. Before you realize what is going on, you’ve whittled away in a few unguarded moments what took weeks to accomplish. When the depression and guilt of that experience kick in, it is quite easy to throw in towel and start chewing your nails all over again.

What I have found researching the Internet is there are a few very aggressive marketers who resort to cheap search engine optimization tricks to get traffic to their sites. These same operators usually are the ones with fantastic claims about learning to quit in a few minutes. They will look for content and republish as their own. I just found the most recent post before this one repeated verbatim on some blog site setup to create content and links to my post. Like I said before, it is a cheap trick to take someone’s copy and republish as your own. Usually these sites are thrown together and look awful and amateurish at best. The marketer doesn’t care, he is looking for more links to his “sale” page.

Here is the bottom line for you. Don’t fall prey to some marketers wild claims about learning to quit immediately. If you think about it for more than a minute or two, you will know this is not going to happen. The marketer will promise to give your money back, but he is really hoping you won’t bother to ask when his “miracle” cure doesn’t work.

I do not expect you to quit the first time you try after reading my book. I am a realist. I know how hard it is to quit and that if you are determined, it might likely take more than one attempt to gather enough desire and practice useful techniques to help you guard against a relapse. How ever you do it, best wishes for learning how to stop nail biting for good.

Help to Learn How to Stop Nail Biting

Stubbs Nomore — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:21:39 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me how much advice on the Internet there is for helping people learn how to stop nail biting. Some of it is pretty good, some of it is just lame and obviously not written by a person who suffers from the problem. Then there are the claims from products and services that supposedly can cure you… one even claims in minutes. Yeah right!

Let’s face it. You already know this. To find a way to quit biting your nails for good is really really hard. Nearly all the advice is aimed at stopping the behavior in the moment. That is not all bad, but the problem as any nail biter will attest comes later when the urge to bite overtakes you and suddenly weeks of abstinence are wrecked.

If this has happened to you, then you know it only takes a few unguarded minutes to lay waste to what were starting to look like somewhat like normal nails. It is crushing when that happens and I believe it often leads to depression and complete relapse. What a bummer when this is when it occurs. I bet if you have read this far and you are a nail biter, you know exactly what I am talking about.

Well, the truth is there is no miracle cure. I believe you need will power, determination, a means to recognize your behavior patterns and some tools and habits to help lower your temptation. Finally, you need a system you can rely on to help you avoid biting your nails and pulling your cuticles whenever and wherever temptation arises. I believe you will find those all those things in my book.

Whether you read it or not, do these things for yourself. Get a pair nippers you can have with you at all times. Get the best nail file you can find and keep it with you as well. Don’t be shy about using either no matter where you are. Better to have a moment of embarrassment over fixing a hangnail or jagged edge in public than have some really ugly nails and cuticles all the time. Secondly, make sure you use a good hand and nail cream regularly, meaning several times a day. Finally, learn how to do a manicure, or get one regularly. Groomed nails are your best defense against relapse.

If you want some suggestions on tools that you can order from Amazon.com, click on the Resources link at the top of this page. There you will find some affordable useful tools. Get those nippers and file today.

If You Don’t Take Care, Your Bitten Nails Will Show It

Stubbs Nomore — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:29:34 +0000

Here is a simple truth about growing out your bitten nails and gnawed cuticles. Even if you manage to stop biting your nails for a period of time, you are vulnerable to relapsing for many reasons. One of the primary reasons is you haven’t taken the necessary steps to learn how to take of your nails. Or, you haven’t taken the necesssary steps to make taking care of your nails.

What I mean is if you aren’t taking time to proper groom your nails and cuticles with lotions, files, polish, hardeners, et cetera, it’s only a matter of time before you succumb to your old habit and all your hard work will be for ought. If you think about the inordinate amount of time and energy you put into biting your nails and the tremendous effort you went through in the process of learning how to stop nail biting, it’s just a shame you didn’t follow. Lack of follow through and real dedication to quitting are what puts people right back on the habit chewing their nails and pulling their cuticles until they are once again embarrassed for anyone to see them.

Don’t let this happen to you. If you have read my book, you know I give you plenty of suggestions for stopping nail biting and for proper nail care and maintenance afterwards. No one can help you, but yourself. The thing is, you are all you need to quit nail biting. So get started and keep after it. You are not going to reverse a lifelong habit in a few days. It may take repeated tries. But, you can do it. Good luck!

No Short Term Solutions to Stop Nail Biting

Stubbs Nomore — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:45:06 +0000

When it comes to nail biting, there are no “quick fixes” or easy short term solutions to help you learn how to quit your deeply ingrained fingernail biting habit. It’s easy enough to fall prey to those kinds of claims because for most nail biters they have suffered through repeated periods where they quit for a while then started again.

That repeated failure is the case should be enough to tell you there aren’t any easy ways to change one of the hardest of all habits to break. Just by the fact your fingers, hands, nail and cuticles remain always within sight, touch and feel adds a very difficult degree to quitting your nail biting habit. The bottom line is simple. You have to want to quit more than you want to chew your nails. If any part of you is not ready to make this kind of committment, you are setting up to fail.

Besides just summoning the will power and determination to quit, you need an effective reliable plan that takes you well beyond the first stage of reversing your lifelong nail biting habits. Think about it. Weeks after you have quit and have long stopped using the nasty tasting polish, or have had the effects of some other kinds of avoidance therapy wear off, you are still vulnerable to returning to your nail biting habits. It is then you need the deep self-administered training to fall back upon. You can’t wait to get home to polish your nails, or excuse yourself to go leave so you can quiet your nerves and steel your resolve.

You have to have a program that works to avert your nail biting or cuticle pulling habits available to you at all times. In other words, it has to be avoidance techniques that can be done under any circumstances in any situation. That way you have a great chance of keeping your newly grown nails intact. On the other hand, if you don’t have such a strong system to fall back upon, you are likely to cave in and start your habit all over again.

You know once you get started with the habit even a little bit, the odds you are going to become dismayed and give in to do more damage run high. That is why most nail biters who fail to keep up their new non-nail biting habits fails. One thing leads to another and once good looking nails look bitten to the shame of the nail biter.

You may be able to come up with your own solution for how to handle learning how to stop nail biting for good. If you do, that’s great. If you want to try what I found to work for me and others, then get my book, How to Stop Nail Biting. For the cost of one nice lunch, it will give you the outlook, tools, techniques and confidence to quit nail biting for good. It’s easy to read and understand. You can finish it in one evening and get started on your learning new ways to effectively fight back one of the most difficult of all habits to break.