Stop biting my cuticles

I’m doing this since I was little. It makes me crazy that I’m doing it when I am bored and also when I’m anxious or nervous. Otherwise I could say I should try to avoid being bored, or avoid being anxious. But I think it’s impossible to try to avoid both. It’s a weird thing.
Does anyone know why your’re doing this?

I haven’t managed to stop biting my nails and cuticles, but I have noticed that it tends to be cyclical and can be triggered by certain stimuli. My cuticle biting seems to come in 2 week waves. The week before and during my period, my fingers are usually raw. If I’m anxious, hungry or bored, it’s particularly bad. Also, when I’m watching movies in the theater, I usually chew on my fingers.

ok i’m gonna say i did this – out of necessity, really. over the past few months, my cuticle destruction has really started to show in the new nails growing… they are all brittle and scratched and horrible. seriously, it’s embarrassing. so, i still poke or bite once in a while, but i’m over the chomp-o-rama. one look at my nails w/o polish would convince anyone else with this problem to join me on the other side.

I dreamed of a trick. Now at 53 days of no thumb biting.
53 days ago I asked my dreams to show me, any surprizingly simple way to stop biting my thumbs. I saw a line drawn around the base of a thumb. So I began using a common blue pen each morning to freshen the line circle around the base of each thumb. I made a painting of it. I stopped drawing the lines about 6 days ago.
http://www.epicdewfall.ca/paintings/0600/610inkci.jpg

I stopped for a short time… and then started again, and then stopped… It comes and go. & I REALLY can’t control it.

I haven’t been biting them lately.

It seems that the more stress I have, the more I bite them.

BUT when I didn’t bite, it was great. My fingers looked SOO much better.

Now if I could just quit for good…

My cuticles are all healed and I can’t believe how pretty my hands look. There’s nothing to pick on, and even in the shower the skin stays smooth. I can’t believe it. :-)

they look like a rabid cat got to them.
sometimes they bleed while i’m in class.
GROSS.

No luck… thumbs and right ring finger look HORRIBLE!! and I still can’t figure out why I do it!

going very very bad at the moment… it’s not like I have stress, but I’m just so busy doing a thousand things and then I just find myself biting and scratching and tearing my cuticles, it’s such a horrible sight, and it hurts!! I really really must focus on this one… :-(

I’ve been biting my cuticles for years and I finally stopped. I’m back on the job market and can’t be going on job interviews with messed-up hands. I was able to stop once I started using skin oil and cuticle lotion: oil at bedtime, and lotion throughout the day. I cover my hands with vitamin oil and put on cotton gloves for the night. I used to be so embarassed of my hands, but not anymore.

There is a website called www.deeptrancenow.com, and you can buy a supraliminal recording to listen to called “Stop Nail Biting”. I’ve been listening to it, I find that it helps.