stop biting my nails

I don’t think I’m quite ready to check this off the list just yet, but I’m making a lot of progress. I haven’t bitten any of my nails completely off in about a month now, although I have slipped up a couple times and “trimmed” them a bit with my teeth instead of a file. Still a big step in the right direction though, since I used to bite them completely off to the point where my fingers were bleeding and incredibly painful. I think I’ve started slipping up more since I’m back in my hometown on winter break from college, which is a change in routine and stress level. So I just need to pay more attention, use moisturizer, wear gloves whenever possible, and quit biting my cuticles and the skin around my nails, since even when I’m not biting my nails at all I still bite the skin around them. I think that’s been harder to stop because while I’m trying to wait for the skin to grow back completely, I end up with hangnails, which I bite off, thus starting the vicious cycle over again.