The Nail Biting Problem
I have had a bad habit.
I've been biting my nails for the past 22 years. As such, my nails have never been long enough to clean my nose / ear in one single scrape. Sometimes, I'm so good at biting, that they bleed because the nail bed is exposed.
My primary school English teacher, Mdm Lim, got so sick and tired of my incessant chewing that she threatened to make me wear a glove if she caught me again. But of course, I continued, behind her back. Jessie would sometimes snap at me, because of the noise. Nothing deterred me from the good-old-chewing. I would start from the edge, then slowly work my way round the nail.
A couple of weeks back, Jessie helped me apply a layer of clear varnish over my nails. The pungent freshly-varnished odor did turn me off for the first day or so when I raised my finger to my lips. After the odor went away, I brought it back up again, this time, and chewed off a tiny edge of the nail. It tasted weird, and chewing that tiny bit brought out a small amount of the odor, again. I spat out that tiny nail bit, and somehow stopped chewing for the entire week.
After a while, the old habit just died.
I have a nail biting problem too, and i bite it even with nail polish, cause i kind of forget that i have it. So sometimes i have little tummy aches. I know something that works, you can apply the nail bitting solution that taste super super yucky, the only down point is that it is gone after you wash hands and it's really expensive. So, i fell in love with fake nails. =)
lol... the quickest solution is to chop off your fingers!!!
haha.. nah.. just kidding, an alternative way is to get this bitter apple spray and spray is all over your fingers.
Janice : But a guy can't wear fake nails right? haha!
Anon : Hey, that's a good tip. Same like the chilli padi trick, but it does wear off after you wash your hands?
We now have :
1) Nail varnish
2) Fake nails (for the women)
3) Bitter apply spray
Thanks for the ideas! This post will be archived no worries, and soon be searchable in Google.