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Originally Posted by
sho'nuff 
anybody know a great method to stop chewing the skin around my nails?
i have had this habit since grade school ( i dont bite my nails though).
ive been trying to stop it for the longest time. it is easy to consciously not do it, but when i am not thinking about it, i automatically do it again sometimes.
especially when there is a juicy bit of skin ready to be torn off? forget about it. even with my wife forcing my hand away from my mouth, i will struggle until i get that last bit of skin off before i let her whack away my hand. why is this?
i need to stop it. it looks ugly, bleeds sometimes, and im sure it is unhealthy for my fingers. (as for my mouth, i dont bite it unless my hands are clean though). and no, just keeping my hands dirty to prevent biting doesnt work, ill just wash my hands.
I have the same issue. It is gross.
Especially doesn't help that I do work on my car, which ends up getting my fingers super dry once I run it through some automotive hand cleaner.