This is tough.
I used to bite my nails when I was a kid until they bled.
Constantly finding a spot on one of my fingers that hadn’t been chewed on.
Sometimes I would even hold off on a specific nail, let it grow, and eventually have the satisfaction of chewing off a (relatively) fully grown nail.
It was a nasty habit.
Something that I wasn’t proud of, and yet still, didn’t want to stop doing.
My parents consistently commented about how bad of a habit this was, urging me to quit.
I would always fire back with a ‘nope’ or a ‘no way.’
It got to the point where they started forcing me to put on this disgusting-tasting nail polish meant to help people quit biting their nails.
This only added fuel to the fire.
Now, I was biting my nails twice as much.
Swimming in the satisfaction that this nail polish couldn’t stop me.
This disgusting-tasting nail polish bowed down to my willpower.
And then one day I asked myself:
What are you doing?
Why do you keep biting your nails when they taste like toxic chemicals?
What’s the point of all of this?
Quickly, I realized that I had no answer.
I had no idea why I took it this far.
At this point, I didn’t even like biting my fingernails.
Plus, there wasn’t anything left to bite.
After I realized this wasn’t something worth doing I stopped immediately.
That was the last day I can recall biting my nails.
Never again feeling the temptation to do so.
I guess if you’re in a bad habit of biting your nails, ask yourself, ‘What am I doing this for?’
Make an effort to analyze the reason behind your habit and if it’s something worth doing.
Most likely it isn’t.
Realizing that fact will help plant the seeds in your effort to quit biting your nails.
And if worse comes to worst, buy that disgusting nail polish.