If you are a nailbiter...

[Occupy]

... but really, really want to get over this addiction, just make sure to buy chewing gum all the time and to have gum in your mouth at all fucking times.

This will do two things, first, if you are not a regular gum chewer this will give you strong chewing muscles, also, it will hurt as fuck first.
Secondly, it should distract you from biting nails, therefore making this addiction easier to overcome.

Helped me.

[Occupy]

I suspect it will also help certain people overcome their addiction of eating their own mucus.

Goddamnit bleurgh ewwwww.

[Nemo103]

Bite something else then

[Phobotech]

Oh yeah, you think I'm just ROLLING IN CASH where I can afford gum every day!? PSHHHH PFFT PPT PTHBRFTR PPPUP PIP-PUP PFFFFTTTT!!!!

[beardkiller]

At 12/20/11 07:31 PM, Occupy wrote: I suspect it will also help certain people overcome their addiction of eating their own mucus.

Goddamnit bleurgh ewwwww.

dude thats not a nailbiting addiction thats a chewing addiction

[Winrar1337]

At 12/20/11 07:29 PM, Occupy wrote: Secondly, it should distract you from biting nails, therefore making this addiction easier to overcome.

Helped me.

At 12/20/11 07:31 PM, Occupy wrote: I suspect it will also help certain people overcome their addiction of eating their own mucus.

Goddamnit bleurgh ewwwww.

It helped me overcome both.

[Occupy]

At 12/20/11 07:32 PM, beardkiller wrote:

At 12/20/11 07:31 PM, Occupy wrote: I suspect it will also help certain people overcome their addiction of eating their own mucus.

Goddamnit bleurgh ewwwww.

dude thats not a nailbiting addiction thats a chewing addiction

Yes but nailbiting and eating own mucus (ew) requires you to use your mouth, and when you're already using your mouth to chew gum you're less likely to succumb to the temptation.

[Light]

I thank you for the suggestion, as nail biting is a habit that I've had for about 14 years, but I don't really feel like investing any time into freeing myself of it. It's never been a major inconvenience to me.

[zelda1626]

yeah i have this problem but i cant afford gum every single day

[Squidbit]

If I stopped biting my nails, I'd have to start cutting them.
So no, I will not stop biting my nails as the habit has been nothing but good to me.

[saltovergray]

I pick at my nails if they get too long, i don't bother biting or clipping them.

Very efficient thus far.

[Occupy]

At 12/20/11 07:36 PM, Dew wrote: Does anyone have any idea as to why the it becomes a habit or addiction or whatever? I'd actually be interested in knowing.

Well I don't know how it happens either, but I think it's a way for the brain to focus it's attention elsewhere whenever you have a stressful problem. Biting nails focuses the attention on that and slightly reduces stress levels. Eventually I wanted to stop a lot of times, and then I would catch myself on doing it subconsciously, so I needed a way to stop doing it even subconsciously.

At 12/20/11 07:36 PM, Light wrote: I thank you for the suggestion, as nail biting is a habit that I've had for about 14 years, but I don't really feel like investing any time into freeing myself of it. It's never been a major inconvenience to me.

It does really require to have the gum in your mouth pretty much all day, but since it's not that hard with gum, it's the easiest way.

At 12/20/11 07:38 PM, zelda1626 wrote: yeah i have this problem but i cant afford gum every single day

You can buy a package with 10+ gums for about a dollar or two I think, you can use 1 or 2 gums a day, that means you only need like $2 a day, that's really absolutely nothing.

[CyanSandwich]

But what if you become addicted to chewing gum?

[Corky-D]

At 12/20/11 07:47 PM, sandwich-eater wrote: But what if you become addicted to chewing gum?

Start smoking.

[Cockupy]

At 12/20/11 07:47 PM, sandwich-eater wrote: But what if you become addicted to chewing gum?

Damn, negro, I dunno.

[KillerSkull]

I've tried that, it doesn't help stop me from biting my nails. Also, I go through packs of gum quicker than I do packs of cigarettes.

[Occupy]

At 12/20/11 08:27 PM, KillerSkull wrote: I've tried that, it doesn't help stop me from biting my nails. Also, I go through packs of gum quicker than I do packs of cigarettes.

You must be a really hardcore biter then.

[Boomstick]

At 12/20/11 07:32 PM, Phobotech wrote: Oh yeah, you think I'm just ROLLING IN CASH where I can afford gum every day!? PSHHHH PFFT PPT PTHBRFTR PPPUP PIP-PUP PFFFFTTTT!!!!

Sounds like you don't get paid in gum.

[kittenguy1]

when i was little, my dad put htis jalapeno juice on my nails. i never bit my nails after that

[Magical-Zorse]

I stopped biting my nails in middle school when I got braces.

[Occupy]

At 12/20/11 08:46 PM, Magical-Zorse wrote: I stopped biting my nails in middle school when I got braces.

Never had braces due to perfect teeth.

[Zambies]

I stopped biting my nails after I accidentally ripped part of my nail off, it started bleeding, and then got infected and swelled up to the size of a baseball.

[EmmDubya]

I nailbite occasionally but it's not much of an issue. If I took it more seriously, as I probably would if I completely and utterly fucking destroyed my nails by biting them so much, then doing something like constantly consuming gum in order to distract me would probably be a good idea. Thinking about it, over time I seem to be doing it far less than I did two or three years ago.

also, chill with the constant thread creation, bro.

At 12/20/11 09:01 PM, Zambies wrote: I stopped biting my nails after I accidentally ripped part of my nail off, it started bleeding, and then got infected and swelled up to the size of a baseball.

This sounds completely not exaggerated at all.

[Sanch]

coat your nails in semen

[Occupy]

At 12/20/11 10:32 PM, Sanch wrote: coat your nails in semen

Inb4 Chronamut: I think I'm gonna develop a nailbiting addiction *blushsmiley*

[VJF]

True story. My dad would make us bandage up our fingernails and the tips of our fingers with band-aids one by one until they were covered. Then he would pour hot sauce into a bowl and make us dip our fingers in the hot sauce and we would have to leave the bandages and hot sauce on our finger tips all day, so whenever we had the urge to bite our fingernails, we would get a mouth full of hotsauce and not want to bite our nails ever again. He would do this every time until we finally stopped biting our nails.

Very good parenting right there huh. Fucking asshole.

[Gagsy]

I don't bite as often as I used to (only now when a nail is busted), but all chewing gum did was ensure that I'd end up with bits of nail in that gum.

[zag]

eh... I bite on purpose to keep my nails short.
I'm too lazy to use little scissors and I loathe nail clippers.

[Sensationalism]

Lol oral fixations. Glad I don't have any fixations.

[Kwing]

Clip your nails short maybe?