“I used to bite my nails until they bled, so I tried 4 treatments – this was the most effective”

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“I used to bite my nails until they bled, so I tried 4 treatments – this was the most effective”

By Shahed Ezaydi

7 months ago

7 min read

Over the years, writer Shahed Ezaydi has tried various treatments and therapies for quitting nail biting. Nothing’s worked. In fact, she’s moved onto nibbling the skin around the nails now too. But as she approaches her 30th birthday, Shahed has been desperately trying to work out how to stop the habit from taking over another decade. So, she’s been trying four different interventions to see if any of them are more effective than the old-school methods we’ve all tried. The question is: have any of them worked?


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