I consider myself a strong-willed person.
It takes a strong will and determination to kick a bad habit.
As a child, I had a bad habit that is not so life-threatening, but it is unpleasant. I was biting my nails. Little nervous boy 😁
In addition to the fact that I often touched my dirty hands with my teeth, there was also the effect of the aesthetics of my hands and nails - there was nothing beautiful there.
And how I stopped?
When we took the high school entrance exam, many of my friends started smoking. Supposedly, they were very nervous about the exam, so they had to calm their nerves a bit 🙂 when I asked them why they were doing that, they told me: "What are you wondering, you're biting your nails, that's even worse!".
I realized that it was a terrible habit of mine and then I said to them, but also to myself, "This day, for the last time in my life, I tore off a piece of nail with my teeth!".
That's how it was.
To this day, I don't bite my nails 🙂
Oh yeah that's a pretty poor habit to have, not really sure why people do it though. Anyway, you broke the habit and got a dual benefitt; you stopped doing it for one, and you learned that you can control your behaviours in positive ways. Well done.
Along with that success, the loss of an ugly habit, I did not acquire another one, smoking.
A habit that my friends still have today.
Yep, it's not a good look, the old bitten fingernails.