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How to use a Substitute for Nail Biting

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How to use a Substitute for Nail Biting

Since stress is a key factor in nail biting, it is important to acknowledge those feelings of tension and anxiety. Once, you understand these emotions, you can control your responses to them, but that doesn’t mean you take away all methods of relief. In fact, in order to quit nail biting the best way is to find an alternative for the behavior.

Everyone, unless they live in a well-guarded fortress somewhere experiences fear at some point in their lives. Even the person in that protected castle probably still has moments of anxiety and stress. These emotions are naturally a part of the price of being human. The benefit of being human is having an understanding of those emotions, and finding ways to cope with them.

Simply telling yourself to stop biting your nails hasn’t worked up to this point, and it still won’t even though now you have more of an understanding of why you do it. The same behavior will still be triggered and you will find yourself absently chewing on a nail, or you will notice a hangnail that your teeth could take care of rather quickly. Ten minutes later, half your nails will be gone.

Stopping an urge that has been answered repeatedly over a lifetime is not easy. The solution is to find alternatives that answer the trigger of the stress, in a similar way. Looking at the triggers such as inactivity, sudden tension of an argument, getting a lower grader or a higher bill than expected it is easy to see why the nails are so quick to go. The nails are right there, and it’s easy, quick stress relief.

What you find as a substitute then, must be something you can keep close at hand. A nail file, a small grooming kit, or a squeeze ball all work well as you long as you can carry it with you. Whatever you choose it must be as satisfying to you as the nail biting. Keep these with you at all times, and continue carrying them even after the nail biting stops.