stop biting my nails

I backslid and my nails were all horribly bitten – I blame it on study assignments!
Now I’m slowly seeing small amounts of white at the ends of my nails again. I will refocus my efforts.

I have 9 nails unbitten out of ten. The tenth one was bitten when I was writing an essay, which I have always found to be an occasion prone to biting.

Have to put more nail polish on today I think, as when they look pretty it helps to put me off.

My new habit of not biting is going great. My nails are slowly growing and I can see a difference already. No biting yet, although I’ve thought of it lots of times and have been using a variant of the rubber band trick described here.
wahoo.

No bites yet and it has been several days. I filed my nails a little today to tidy them up. Yay!

thanks to the people here who said that associating pain with nailbiting would help. I tried that technique and I’ve gone two days without a nibble! Yay!

I bit all my life. Then I managed to stop biting them for a year before my wedding. They looked pretty, although were probably more fragile than I would have liked.
But now 6 months later – most of them are looking pretty bitten….

So I know I CAN do this – but I’m just perplexed as to what I’m doing wrong now.

• put clear polish on regularly (makes them prettier and then I can chew the polish rather than the nail).
• have a nail file in my bag and in my draw and by my bed and anywhere else I can think of.
• keep them filed and short and even, so I don’t get tempted to bite them down to match each other.
• use hand cream every time after I wash my hands.
• maybe wear gloves or something when I am studying (my most prone time)