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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!

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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.

Stop Biting Your Nails

Stubbs Nomore — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:00:08 +0000

I found a useful informative inspiring article on the Internet today. It is titled, Stop Biting Your Nails. It offers those who suffer from nail biting some help, so I wanted to pass it along to readers here. I don’t need to tell you if you are afflicted with the curse to bite your nails, then you can use help to learn how to stop biting your nails from where ever it comes. Nailbiting is a curse of sorts, but you don’t have to live with it forever. Learn how to get the help that will work for you and then follow it.

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!

Tools to Help Stop Nail Biting

Stubbs Nomore — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:39:08 +0000

There are lots of ways to quit nail biting, including good old will power. If you check, virtually all the systems, cures, etc., out there that offer to help you quit nail biting exclusively focus on getting you to learn to stop nail biting in the intial phase of changing your behavior. That is all well and good, but unless you also learn behavior methods that you can employ days or weeks later when an unexpected trigger tempts you to start chewing your nails, you are subject to failure

You can quit and teach yourself methods for avoiding such temptations, or you read my book and benefit from an easy to learn system I developed for myself. Part of the process is being prepared. You need to have a few implements with you at ALL times. These would include clippers and nail file at a minimum. I suggest a set of nippers as well. You can use a lipstick balm to help smooth a ragged cuticle.

There are a number of great products you can use to help you in your battle to conquer your nail biting habit. You can find a good selection of them on on my How to Stop Nail Biting website. If you want a place to get encouragement or just talk freely about your nail biting problems, you can go to the online self-help group I started, Nail Biters Anonymous. Best wishes for growing your nails and the sense of pride and accomplishment that comes with it. Only those who have been afflicted can really know how good it makes you feel to break free.

New Book Teaches How to Stop Nail Biting Permanently

Stubbs Nomore — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:55:00 +0000

We are thrilled and proud to announce How to Stop Nail Biting has just been published as a paperback. You can find it at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. It is also available to retailers through Ingram.

Here is a copy of the PRWEB press release on Tuesday:

Learn How to Stop Nail Biting Permanently

If nail biting were a disease, it would be an epidemic. An estimated 11 million adults* in the U.S are faced with this problem. Although not officially an addiction, anyone so afflicted will attest that it is a hard habit to break. “How to Stop Nail Biting” is a new book which offers chronic nail biters an effective method by which to gain mastery over an entrenched and embarrassing habit.

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) March 31, 2009 — Nail biters now have a comprehensive system to help them stop finger nail biting permanently. “How to Stop Nail Biting” provides a systematic approach to alleviating this problem. It starts with the premise that success comes when the desire to quit nail biting is greater than the need to continue. Readers progress through exercises designed to help them permanently reverse their deeply ingrained nail biting habits.

The learning starts with the recognition of near subconscious pre-nail biting rituals, followed by rehearsing techniques designed to help one avoid, and be distracted from, nail biting temptations as they occur. The unique method outlined in the book trains nail biters to control their biting urges with techniques they can use anywhere, anytime and under any circumstances. A proper nail care routine is also included as a crucial and integral part of the process.

Many who attempt to quit have failed because they found no help from nail biting polish and other nail biting treatments after quitting initially. It is in the long term that nail biters are most vulnerable to relapsing when an unexpected biting trigger occurs. In a few unguarded minutes, they can wreck weeks of abstinence, and psychologically undermine ongoing efforts to maintain self-restraint.

Nail biters will find the system they learn from “How to Stop Nail Biting” provides a permanent nail biting cure that puts an end to this debilitating habit. They will learn to enjoy long-lasting results by gaining confidence in their ability to maintain their newfound non-biting behavior. And when nail biters begin to enjoy the appearance of their hands and nails, this strongly reinforces their ability to sustain their new non-biting lifestyle.

In a nod to the stigma attached to nail biting, the book’s anonymous author uses the pen name, Stubbs Nomore. When he became serious about quitting, he could find no long-term cure for nail biting and became determined to create a system for himself. Through trial and error, he developed the methodical progressive methods taught in the book. The result is a book with easy-to-follow instructions that anyone who is serious about quitting can use to rid themselves of the nail biting habit once and for all

The book can be purchased at Amazon.com, BN.com and other e-bookstores. Booksellers will find it listed with Ingram. Bold Star Communications is a publishing and marketing communications company. It provides publishing services and marketing consulting for artists, authors and small businesses

*Operant learning (R-S) principles applied to nail-biting.
McClanahan TM. Psychol Rep. 1995 Oct;77(2):507-14.
PMID: 8559875 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE

Britney Spears Wants to Stop Nail Biting

Stubbs Nomore — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:46:00 +0000

Britney Spears’ Nail-Biting Resolution December 29th, 2008

Britney Spears is determined to stick to her New Year resolution – she wants to quit chewing her fingernails in 2009.

The Womanizer superstar hates biting her nails, and longs for manicured and attractive hands. But the singer insists there is a valid reason her dirty habit – she can’t stop worrying.

She says, “Next year, I have to learn to stop biting my nails! I would like to stop worrying so much, because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just in general. I have to learn to take things not so seriously.” However Spears doesn’t hold out much hope of sticking to her 2009 promise – because she’s never kept a resolution yet. She adds, “I end up breaking them. It’s hard.

Now just imagine. Here is someone almost constantly in the public eye. A person with millions in the bank and she is still plagued by the nail biting habit. If she has this problem and can’t get rid of it, you have to realize how difficult is to quit nail biting.

I can sympathize with her. More than 5% of adults have the same problem of nail biting. If it were a medical condition, it would be an epidemic. The problem with trying to quit is that no matter what one does, it is temporary. That is, all the methods and products out there focus on getting you to stop. But, the real problem occurs days or weeks later when your guard is down and a trigger moment puts you defenselessly in biting mode. I figured out a way to stop for good by coming up with techniques that don’t require products like bad tasting polish or hypnotism. They can be used anywhere anytime under any circumstantces. You can learn how I did it on my Web site: www.howtostopnailbiting.com. Good luck to Britney and every other less famous nail biter just trying to get rid of a habit that is really hard to break.

My Story: How I Taught Myself to Stop Nail Biting

Stubbs Nomore — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:12:00 +0000

I just published details on my personal story regarding how to stop nail biting. It is never easy under the best of circumstances. For some of us, it seems like we are doomed to live with this nasty bad habit and to never be able to break it.

Personally, I don’t believe that is the case. I believe if you want to quit permanently, you can. But you need the right tools and techniques. Up until now, I never found any way that would help me in the long run. Sure, there are many ways to quit nail biting in the short run, but none of them help you days, weeks or months later when the urges come back. That is problem. How do you keep from relapsing? When I figured that out. I finally defeated this lifelong bad habit.

You can get more details when you read My Story on my Web site. It is a site that offers my unconditionally guaranteed book. I am proud of the book and confident if you follow its advice you will quit nail biting for good. Even if you don’t buy the book, it will help your own quest to learn how to stop nail biting once and for all.

Quit Nail Biting in Minutes – Huh?

Stubbs Nomore — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:51:00 +0000

If you have done any Internet searches for how to stop nail biting, you must have come across the ads for the site claiming you can learn to quit nail biting in 9 minutes. Does anybody believe that is possible? I have a hard time believing it because I know it is not so with me or anyone else I know. Turning around deeply embedded habits that not only soothe you, but stem from many ritualistic actions taken on the subconscious level are not easily defeated.

I think it takes repeated attempts to get your mind around not doing the initial things that ulitmately trigger biting your nails. It also takes having an alternative to both the subconscious trigger habits and the actual biting, skin pulling habits. Mostly, it takes great resolve and that is best built up over time, not it minutes.

Further and foremost, I think most nail biters fail after their nails have grown. That is the most dangerous time, when the reformed biter begins to relax. Learning ways to recognize the danger and having techniques you can use anywhere anytime are the best defense against relapse.