stop picking my nails

stronger*
lol

ok, so i took off my old polish, filed my nails, and put on like 5 coats of sally hansin hard as nails clear polish, and my nails have grown quite a bit.
bc now when i get stressed, i just pick the nail polish off, bc its really hard to get off.
and its not as fun as picking at my nails, so i just stop alltogether after a while.
then, when i get home i put on a couple more coats of polish.
i really love the polish,bc its clear, but it has a pink tint to it, and it makes your nails stringer.
i totally recommend it
(:

so, ive been trying to stop for like ever.
but school starts next week, and so im really trying now.
it was my goal over the summer, but that didnt happen…
lol
but hopefully i dont get stressed about school and pick them really short again…
i might get acrilics again, bc that helped last time, but then i would bite the tips off the fake nails!
but it did help some, and hopefully this time i can stop myself from picking the real ones and biting the fake ones.
we’ll see….

_{I don’t know how I will ever stop. It seems such a petty problem compared to other things that I don’t even ever really think about it… I just … I don’t know undertsand how I can enjoy it. What’s wrong with me?}

i can’t stop! my fingers are always so ugly. i hate it, but i don’t know what to do

I recently started to pick my nails again. It’s not as bad as before though, so I’m happy about htat at least.

I was in my car en route to work when I realized that I really need to stop doing this… and it’s so hard! All I want to do right now is pick my nails. I’ve tried stopping before though every time I do I always pick them when I’m really involved in something else and completely unaware of my nails (whether I’m thinking really hard about anything, watching tv, or just being stressed out). And right now as I type this I have this huge urge to take my middle finger’s nail and scratch it up against my thumb’s nail and I would be doing it if I weren’t aware of the urge and my desire to stop.

Anyone have advice where to start, what habit can you replace this with? As I do this, it seems, all the time!

I’ve been wanting to stop for years and finally I just googled “stop picking my nails” and this site came up, kind of cool site

I’ve been picking my nails less lately. I guess it’s because I’m busier these days, but I think that’s a good thing. I should just keep preoccupying myself until I am totally free of this habit.

but I finally did it.

nail polish keeps me from destroying my nails. i now have the longest nails i have ever had. holey moley.

now to tackle the skin around my nails. its still gross. ugh. lotion works. just the motion of putting lotion on my fingers helps calm me down. and then it hides all of the pickable skin.

so my suggestion for ya’ll is lotion and nail polish!