break a bad habit

I suck at this. I can’t seem to stop. I don’t even notice when I do it. I need help!!!!!!!!

I have been putting this one off, because I was trying to think of a bad habit that would be easy for me to break. Well, I finally realized that a true bad habit will not be easy to break, so I have decided on the one that I have been wanting to do, but feel I have no chance of actually being able to break it. But I am going to try!

The habit I wanna break is: biting my fingernails and picking at my cuticles. I have been biting my fingernails since as far as I can remember and have been picking at my cuticles since 7th grade.

Well, this picture is how my fingers look now. I would like to really be able to break this habit and have beautiful looking fingers before I get engaged, so I can take hand pictures!

As of now, I don’t know how I am going to stop, so if you have any ideas, help a girl out!!!

I won’t say. It’s for me to personally accomplish. It’s not the worst habit in the world, but psychologically and emotionally it can be detrimental to my relationship(s), current and future. So, if I really want true happiness – I will keep myself in check and break this habit for good!

I smoke. I smoke natural additive-free tobacco and I roll my own ciarettes. I have never smoked more than ten cigarettes a day, and never before noon. In fact the last several years I don’t smoke until after 5 pm.. I don’t like it anymore and every morning I am resolved, then every evening I light up. I have read everything on the subject and have quit many times, once for two years.Hearing other people’s personal stories seem to help the most, and not even success stories.

I wont mention the bad habit, but it’s something that I need to break for the sheer importance of my mental well-being. I’ll be check back every so often with updates on how I’m doing.

But this isn’t the time, it seems. Too many other issues right now to focus on this. I’ll come back to it.

That is a nasty habit!

It’s been months since I have succumbed to my bad habit. It is getting easier to fight it but I still don’t think I’m quite ready to click the ‘I’ve done this’ button yet. Putting pen to paper to really outline what my habit was and why I wanted to change it seemed to help. Telling one trusted friend about it also helped too. I’m treating myself to little presents along the way. Wish me luck. I hope I can officialy declare myself free from this habit sometime this year.

Even if I don’t accomplish this in the 30 days, at least I might make some progress. I am not going to admit defeat, not this early!

I need to find something else to do to distract myself or substitute. I like making lists. I wonder if I pull out a notebook and either make a mini-journal entry or write some sort of list down if it would be enough to change the way I’m thinking or release the stress. Something to try, at any rate – it can’t hurt.

Apparently I get more comfort from my bad habit than I realized; I’m having a hard time with the Virginia Tech shootings and can’t really focus on breaking the habit. Or more to the point, it doesn’t seem to be working right now.