Learning to Stop Nail Biting Is a Process

The main thing is to not give up on yourself.

Failure is only for quitters.

• 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.

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Nail biting can be conquered.

However, to learn how to stop nail biting is never easy for those who have had a lifelong affliction to this most unwanted habit. It arguably is one of the toughest habits to break. There are so many things that go into nail biting. It is not a simple process of chewing on a fingernail or puling on a cuticle.

Nail biting involves an elaborate process that is most done in a subconscious state of mind. You don't think about it when you brush your hair from your forehead, or scratch a minor itch somewhere, you just do it without giving any full thought to the action. The same is true for the involved process of doing visual and tactile inspections by nail biters.

Nail Biting Is a Ritual. You Need Rituals to Learn How to Stop Nail Biting

Many non-nail biters will look at their nails consciously to admire them, or check for potential grooming needs that will be done later in private. They do this with no urge to remove a hangnail or correct a jagged fingernail, which is what happens when a nail biter looks at or feels his or her nail. That is the preparation that stimulates the brain into a desirous action.

I believe there is some kind of chemical reaction in the brain. Not unlike anticipating something pleasurable about to happen. Addicts are known to experience pre-high symptoms, lovers are known to have a quickened pulse and heightenend feelings of sensuality before any physical activity takes place. 

You can put cigarettes and alcohol out of sight, you can stay away from most other temptations while you build your will power, but your fingers are always with you. As such, it's tougher to beat than any non-nail biter could ever imagine.

To stop nail biting, you need to train yourself to recognize your biting habits and then you need to train yourself to use alternative behavior patterns so you can overcome the powerful urges to groom your nails and cuticles by biting and pulling instead of using proper implements in private in a a manicure salon. That is what I teach in my book, How to Stop Nail Biting

To Stop Nail Biting You Start with Desire to Quit. Then You Need Nail Grooming Products to Help You Stay On Track

The first thing you start with is the desire. You have to have a plan and a fall back plan too.  You get all that in my book. Additionally, you need the proper nail grooming tools to help you. To begin with, you might need some help from a product like Control-It! 3 Jar ~ 21 Day Fingernail Biting Treatment OMEGA3 Extra Strength. This doctor recommended cream heals cuticles, unlike polish that drys cuticles, STRONGEST SUCCESS RATE Available.

You also need some hardener polish, even the guys. Some argue it dries the nails and it might. I argue having stronger nails, especially at the tips is more important than moisture in the early going. If you can keep from chipping your newly growing nails, you avoid wanting to get after the break, tear, jag or what have you that will trigger a biting sequence.

Quimica Alemana Nail Hardener is a popular and affordable option. And guys, you can smudge the polish as it dries to matte it a bit. If you are concerned about your vanity or masculinity, think about how crappy your nails look now. This is a minor tradeoff for a few weeks to get your nails back in shape and lower your biting recurrences in the process.

To Quit Nail Biting, You Must Have and Use the Proper Nail Grooming Tools

Minimally the other tools you need are clippers, nippers and a good file. I recommend Tweezerman Stainless Steel Squeeze and Snip: Cuticle and Hangnail Snipper It is easy to carry in pocket, purse or briefcase. Use it to carefully and cleanly trim your cuticles whenever you notice something not smooth. Don't get aggressive or over snip and cause sores or more damage.

For clippers, just about any will do. If you want something more of a better quality than you find in the drugstore, try the Tweezerman Folding Nail Clipper. I have found the Tweezerman brand to offer consistently great value and high quality products. That is why I also like the Tweezerman Ceramic Folding Pocket File. It is a little bulky as its only drawback. An alternative is the Two Piece Men's Nail Kit in Black Leather Case. It contains a file and clipper in a nice case.

Commit to Quit Nail Biting Today.

Then commit to use tools like these to help you conquer the habit. For the most help, get my book so you can start learning techniques you can use anywhere in any situation to help you thwart nail biting temptations. This is especially helpful weeks or months later when your nails are grown, your guard is down, and a triggering event takes place.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Nail bitings, skin pulling and cuticle biting are all associated. Many afflicted with one will also be involved the other related aspects.

When it comes to learning how to stop nail biting, if you are also a cuticle biter or skin puller, you need to get rid of the things that attract your habit. This includes hangnails and ragged cuticles. They are just begging for your attention and you know once they have it, you are going to obsess on feeling the affected area if not just immediately jumping on it with your usual biting routine, which you somehow erroneously equate with grooming your nails.

The thing you need to realize is biting, pulling and other related activities are not grooming. So anytime you attempt to take care of what might start out as a minor problem using your teeth and fingers, you are just feeding your habit and risking an escalation of the problem. That is, a minor hangnail can turn into a bloody sore or a full fledged chewing onslaught that sacrifices a few fingernails or other cuticles in the process. The once seemingly innocent activity of dislodging a hangnail can produce awful results.

If you are lucky, you might be successful and get the problem solved with no damage to live skin and no urge to keep on trimming away. But, such situations that get resolved with no outwardly apparent problems carries a serious negative impact. That is, by having had relative success, you are subsconsciously encouraged to continue your bad biting behavior.

One way to avoid such negative behavior, in fact, I believe the best way to avoid such behavior is to keep a cuticle trimmer with you at all times. The Tweezerman Cuticle Nipper pictured here is perfect. You can put it in your pocket or purse and have it ready to use anywhere anytime. If you want to learn more about how to stop nail biting once and for all, check out my ebook. It comes with a satisfaction guarantee. Give a try, the no-risk offer means you have nothing to lose and much to gain

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