Stop picking my lips

I’m 18 and I’ve been picking my lips ever since I can remember… My mom has told me to stop everytime she catches me doing it… I promised my boyfriend I would stop and I’m really trying but when I’m bored, nervous, or uncomfortable I do it… I’m trying but it’s really hard to stop…

Yes, I’ve been picking today. I need to use my badger lip balm (my fave).

This is such a bad habit, and it’s something that needs my full attention to get over. But right now my attention is elsewhere. But maybe it will always be like that? There’s always something more important to focus on. I’m really trying here.

I did stop myself earlier, but when I woke up I ended up picking at a chapped spot.

ummm…..not doing so good with this. I caught myself picking while waiting for my fiance to wake up next to me. He usually alerts me if he notices.

I didn’t realize how much I had picked at my lip until I looked in the mirror. Ouch! I have to go out to eat here in a little while and I am going to be embarrassed about it. I’ve got to stop this! Thing is, I don’t know I’m doing it.

Today i am beginning anew. After all the stress from my new Masters program I was just devouring my lips & hurting myself. I’m fed up and worried about my appearance in the professional world.

My plan:
Every morning I will say OUT LOUD my goal of stopping this bad habit. If I accidentally slip, I will get up and do a brief exercise to distract my body. Of course, continuing with the lip balms & glosses and Neosporin will be included as well.

I hope that I stay serious and dedicated because I know from past experience that you just have to stop- even though its so much easier to say than do.

Just caught myself picking while on the phone with credit card company :( Time to try again!

I just caught myself picking @ my lip while I was on the phone with my insurance company. I also did it again when on the phone with my bank and while I was waiting for the computer to load a page for an account that I was opening. Maybe that’s why other people doodle when they are on the phone.

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.