Anyone stopped biting their nails successfully?

[LeFromage]

Have always been a Terrible nail biter all my life - except a side effect of chemotherapy was rock hard nails and a mouthful of ulcers so I had no urge to bite them during cancer treatment and they grew amazingly (bald but with talons 😝 felt like an American eagle).

I’m about a month into no biting again (once chemo was out of my system they went brittle and the urge returned to nibble ) - I’m eating a lot of walnuts which seem to make a difference to nail quality and have trimmed my cuticles and used bio oil on them and they are slowly improving but …. Any tips to keep going and improve the strength ? Are any of the nail and hair supplements worth it?

My mum is a life long ball biter and fake nails help her. I bit my nails in my youth, but just stopped cold turkey. I did it by keeping nice hand cream with me at all times. In lectures, of an evening in front of the tv, when travelling, whenever, I would pop on some rich cream and really work it into my nails and cuticles. I still pick at my cuticles too often, but manage to keep from making sores by sitting down and doing it intentionally with clippers and moisturiser.

I've given up biting my nails, I had a huge build up of skin just under my nail and the doctors told me it was caused by me biting my nails. It was ugly enough to put me off for ever