Let me relate my own experience about biting my finger nails. I can remember clearly when I started to gnaw my nails; I was in high school, bored, and under pressured athletically. I was sitting in class and had a slight split in one of my finger nails. I just began chewing the nail until I had it completely down to the quick. I was addicted from that moment on!

I believe, sometimes, we begin to bite our nails innocently, but our first bite leads to others and presto, both hand's nails are bitten down to the quick. Whoa! I believe it is an ugly habit that makes the tips of our fingers extremely unattractive. You are aware, if you bite your nails, how your nails look!

Here are my suggestions to end this habit. First, you can just quit cold turkey! This is the way I stopped! I made up my mind enough was enough! I was sick of my terrible looking fingernails! Really, what nails? There was not much left of the nail! You know the look don't you? Like the Nike commercial says, "Just Do It!"

Another suggestion that is a very tried and true method is to go to your drug store and buy a liquid called Thum or others similar to Thum. Just follow the directions and you can stop biting your nails!

Some people have followed the procedure of taping their nails to aid in stopping their craving for their own nails. It wil work if you don't rip the tape from you fingers and return to your old ways.

Other biters have tried to wear gloves. This is a great and effective method, unless you are trying to stop in the Summer and live in South Texas. It is hot!

Praying is great, using creams, getting hypnotized might work, or even having your nails removed could be a last resort (just kidding), but by now you probably understand that any method calls for that old standby...wiil power and commitment!

If you are trying to end the nail biting, I say bless you. You can do it. Just think, if you can quit, you won't be spitting pieces of nail all over everyone and everything! Stop it! Really I mean it...stop it!

Dave