I'm doing 30 things
I quit once. It took me six weeks. I put on a lot of lip balm, but toward the end I started to notice that I would use my teeth instead of my fingernails and I told myself that that would be okay, if I just used my teeth, but then I started using my fingers to push my lip back to make it more accessible to my teeth and then I just started picking again, and I feel terrible about it. Today, I ran my fingers over my lips and they were so rough I couldn’t even feel my fingers.
What I’m afraid of is that I’ll have calluses on my lip if I stop picking them, but I’d rather have those than these painful lips.
I chew gum, now, but that doesn’t really help because the problem in in my hands, I always need to be doing something with them (I’m an artist, maybe that has something to do with it) so I fail there, but the gum does help a bit.
I’m just going to try and quit cold turkey. We’ll see how it goes.
