Do you bite your nails??
By silentkiler
@silentkiler (307)
India
September 16, 2008 4:06pm CST
Well this is one of the worst habits and also an unhealthy act. I had this habit of biting nails till last year but at the starting of this year it was 1 of my resolutions not to bite my nails. Though now also sometimes I do bite it. It just happens. How many of you are also indulged in this habit?? I see that it is a very common habit. A few of my friends and also my cousins do it. I don't like it because we are taking germs into our mouth.
Thanks for your time.
Together against biting nails.
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44 responses
@fasttalker (2796)
• United States
17 Sep 08
I used to bite my nails when I was a kid. My mom broke me by putting cinnamon oil on my fingernails. I know sounds awful but it worked! It stays on for a while and I had to do it with one of my kids. It worked for him too. The other one was afraid to start I think! LOL
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@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
26 Sep 08
[i]Hi killer,
I haven't tried doing that even when I was a kid..Maybe because mom will always cut it short and I have nothing to bite..LOL!
That is very common to some of the kids as well as adult! It's not nice to see really![/i]
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@babystar1 (4233)
• United States
26 Sep 08
No I do not bite my nails. There are germs under your nails and if yoy bite them the germs get into your mouth. I know someone that bites there toe nails and that is really sick.
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@chinniR (661)
• India
18 Sep 08
hi, i was doing that when i was in school. but i stopped it as my mom always used to shout whenever i bit my nails. also once when i saw my friend with long nails, i really wanted to have such nails. that's when i stopped biting it and started to grow nails. now i don't bite my nails.
@cuttyrish (2667)
• United States
17 Sep 08
i do not my nails, even though it clean, because we may never know what germs lies on it... i have the habit of cutting my nails though.hehe, to the point that it hurts already.. some of the persons that i know that bite nails are nervous..
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@longbangod (1785)
• Philippines
17 Sep 08
Thanks God I don't have this habbit. Though I also observed a lot of people who are really fond of biting their nails. You are right it is not a healthy habbit, it could lead us to a certain sickness condsidering that nails as part of our hands are really dirty.
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@kylie_quistis (1220)
• Philippines
17 Sep 08
Very thankful I don't. It was unhealthy habit, some said that hands and feet are the parts that are easily to get germs and get dirty. So yeah, million of germs might enter on our mouth, however, I do have some habits when I am nervous like putting my hair behind my ears or arranging things that I see.
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@Darkdevil (109)
• Bangladesh
17 Sep 08
Nail bite is one kind of worst thing.for me no not at all. afterall there are many things in this world to eat so why i shakk take germs in body by eating those rubbish!
@mushylauff (81)
• Belgium
17 Sep 08
yeah, i do.
i don't know why.
i started doin it since i was just a little girl.
i stoped but then it came back.
I think it became a manerism...
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@joanbarrameda (16)
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17 Sep 08
Wahahaha. I do that when I was a kid. During my elementary days I think. I wonder why I had that habit.. I'm glad I overcomed it. Hehe
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@trixyteddy (1070)
• India
17 Sep 08
I have other stupid habits which I need to cut off, but biting nails, no, never. It is yuckeeeee....
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@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
17 Sep 08
Yes unfortunately I have this vice. I cannot stop from biting my nails especially when I am agitated watching a soccer match on television. Up till now I never got ill due to this habit. However it is not something that I boast about.
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@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
17 Sep 08
no!i dont have habbit of biting nails.i even hate long nails
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@k1virus1978 (543)
• Singapore
17 Sep 08
I think biting nails is so gross, nails contain full of grems and yew..... Yucks, if you bite them you are swallowing the germs inside your body.
@stardustkp (186)
• Sweden
17 Sep 08
No, I don't. I try my best not too.
Maybe you can paint your nails (transparent lack, if you don't want any unnatural colors)? Or put lemon juice/pepper on your nails, to make them taste bad if you would want to bite them?
