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    Stop Your Nailbiting! Permanently
    Stop Your Nailbiting! Permanently
    Stop Your Nailbiting! Permanently
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    Stop Your Nailbiting! Permanently

    By Gilbreth Brown

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    This book provides the definitive cure for adult problem nail biting. The information and the technique supplied in this book offer effective, well-documented, and permanent relief from this frustrating habit. By reading this book, habitual nail biters can finally and permanently free themselves from the habit. It is the goal of this book to spread the message that life can be free from the pain and embarrassment caused by unsightly and unattractive finger nails and hands.

    This book starts by carefully describing and defining the habit. There is more to this than many realize, and nail biters will benefit greatly by the information contained here. The knowledge and insight in this section form the foundation for beginning the journey to long, healthy and gorgeous nails. For example, many habit owners do not realize that nail biting is actually a two step habit. Both steps must be recognized and treated for the habit to be completely eradicated. The habit frequently also rears up unconsciously, and so the book also provides an effective tool for recognizing and altering unconscious behavior. Many questions are answered here and misconceptions about nail biting are discussed in detail and debunked.

    After carefully defining the habit, the book then delves into why habitual nail biters pursue their habit. Incidentally, stress is rarely the cause of problem nail biting. Nail biting patterns that are frequently seen are then also discussed in detail. Reading about themselves in print will reassure nail biters that they are not alone in the world. Incidentally, research data indicates that the habit is wide spread across nationalities, age groups, and demographics. All of this information results in a powerful understanding of the habit. Many readers state that this understanding alone helps them to significantly reduce or even eliminate their nail biting problem.

    However, sometimes information alone is not enough. So then, contained in the book is an ingenious and almost perfect cure to the habit. Described in the book is a simple to perform but highly effective technique for stopping nail biting. Many people who have tried the approach mention that they simply cannot believe how effective the cure is at permanently and efficiently treating their nail biting. Internalizing the information in the book and applying the technique described results in a very powerful therapeutic combination. Even long term habitual nail biters need just several weeks to completely and permanently break their habit. Some readers have even reported success just after several days. Once cured, the habit rarely resurfaces. Curing the habit increases self confidence and self esteem considerably.

    After detailing the cure, the book provides documented and real case stories of notable successes with the treatment method. Case histories, pictures and testimonials are posted frequently on the book's accompanying web site http://www.stopyournailbiting.com. Readers are invited to browse there at will and watch the anonymous and free forum discussion board to learn more. To complete the loop, the book details why other methods of nail biting habit control are not as effective or easy as the cure discussed. Many nail biters have tried various approaches to curing the habit. Such attempts often end in disappointment and frustration. The use of spicy creams and foul tasting lotions as a treatment option is addressed. Readers will learn that bad tasting lotions are not effective for nail pickers for obvious reasons. Finally, the book discusses children, and provides tips and tricks for working with children nail biters. The cure's application to other similar ailments (cheek biting, hair pulling, and joint cracking) is discussed and readers are welcome to post tips onto the free web site forum for the benefit and well being of others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateApr 5, 2004
    ISBN9781553699545
    Stop Your Nailbiting! Permanently
    Author

    Gilbreth Brown

    Although a native of the United States, Gilbreth Brown has been living in Asia for approximately the last ten years. He is originally from Providence, Rhode Island. Born on February 8, 1966 he grew up in Providence before relocating with his parents and siblings to western RI. Currently, he is residing in Bangkok Thailand. He is a frequent guest speaker and contributor to leading business publications; however this is his first book. Gil is an avid reader, and most often you will find him browsing the self-help section of the neighborhood bookstore. His personal quest to better himself resulted in a long search for the cure to his nail biting problem and accompanying misery. The results of that search for a cure are contained here. He holds a Bachelors of Science from Boston University, a Masters in Japanese Business Studies from Chaminade University of Honolulu, and an MBA from Columbia Business School. As a result of a long stay in Asia, he is highly proficient in Japanese and Thai language. He is particularily fond of animals, in particular, dogs. This resulted from having grown up surrounded by strays that his parents simply could not turn back out into the cold. He is pictured here with two of his own recent family additions, neither of whom will win any purebred contests.

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    Stop Your Nailbiting! Permanently - Gilbreth Brown

    Stop Your Nail Biting!

    Permanently

    See real pictures and cases at:

    http://www.stopyournailbiting.com

    Gilbreth Brown

    Stop Your Nail Biting!

    Reader’s Rave:

    I received the book a few days ago, read it in its entirety, and started the technique right away. I just have to say THANK YOU Mr. Brown!!! It is nothing short of a miracle. It not just the technique itself, but the background information that is written about the habit that is so valuable. I have not bitten my nails even once in three days. That seems like a short time, but for me it is a record. I can’t believe it was so simple and yet so effective. After I read the book I was a little mad because I thought, I actually paid for a book to tell me this?! But then I started it, it worked immediately, and now I think that is a very small price to pay for such freedom!

    I have been a 24 year sufferer of this habit (I am 30 right now) and my nails have been bitten down as far as they will go. They were so short that I had to start a new habit: peeling the layers of my nails until my nailbed bled. I have had many complications such as getting nail pieces stuck in my teeth, in my gums, and in my throat. I have also had infections on my fingers and in my gums. Also, since I am a scientist, nail biting is not just a bad habit-it can be highly dangerous what with all the chemicals that I work with. I was all but hopeless, having tried everything from bad tasting hot pepper polish, bitter cremes, weekly manicures, acrylic nails, and bandaging my fingers. The only time that my nails grew was when I was ten years old and I could not reach my fingers because my arm was in a cast; they lasted a matter of hours before they were torn and chewed off.

    This post may be premature, but I am confident that I will be able to keep this up, knowing what I know now. I will send the before and after digital pictures in a few months. I can’t wait to see my long, long nails!

    If you are having doubts about buying this book and you are trying to get more information from reading posts on this forum, all I can say is, just by the book!! In my opinion, the background (i.e., the secondary habit) is more important than the technique itself, so just knowing the technique will probably not help you anyway.

    Just one more note: I was not even that motivated to stop my nail biting habit. I just thought that I should, so I bought the book. The knowledge and the technique that Mr. Brown provides is THAT powerful.

    More Readers Rave:

    This is confirmation that I have received the package. I have spent the weekend reading the material, and I can say that when ¡finished reading the solution chapter I was actually laughing... Laughing because for 25 years I have felt powerless to stop this habit-and yet in one page you describe a technique that I know will work. I just had to laugh! So now, after three days ¡ have still only applied the method a few times-the strength seems to come from knowing a way out!

    We received your book this past week and I started the technique right away. ¡’m on day six of no nail biting and it’s been so much easier than I ever would have thought. Truly can’t believe it’s been six days already! I can’t wait to show the family at Christmas that after probably close to 30 years of nail biting, ¡ have finally kicked the habit!

    Hi Gil, thanks very much for enquiring. I have read the book and not bitten my nails since. ¡ am scared ¡ will go back to the habit as ¡ have been doing it for so long. ¡t has been about five weeks since I started and my nails are not fully grown yet but they are a vast improvement. ¡ hear they take about 6 months to look good after biting them for so long. My husband is amazed, I have been trying to stop for years (I am 31 and a mother to 6 great kids) and each time he has encouraged me and tried to help me. Each time I have gone back to the habit about four to six weeks later and ¡ felt ¡ had not only let myself down but let him down too. The only time I haven’t bitten my nails for a long time is when I have just had a baby (maybe there is something behind that!).

    When ¡ see people in shops and bars and restaurants who bite their nails and are complete strangers (none of my friends have this terrible habit) I feel like giving them your website to help them. But I think it might be a bit rude! As you say in your book it is a real burden and one feels quite embarrassed about doing such a childish thing when one is a grown up. Thank you so, so much for sharing your technique and I will promote your website when ¡ can.

    Copyright © 2004 by Gilbreth Brown. All rights reserved.

    No part of this book, text or photos, may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

    Stop Your Nail Biting

    1st Edition, 2004

    ©Stopyournailbiting.com

    245/2 Sukhumvit Soi 21 (asoke)

    Klongtoey, Wattana

    Bangkok Thailand 10110

    A special thank you goes to Barbara Ardinger,

    whose editing and input was excellent and highly welcomed.

    Design and typesetting, Roy Diment, VRG.

    Cover, Roy Diment

    Note To Librarians: A cataloguing record for this book that includes the U.S. Library of Congress Classification number, the Library of Congress Call number and the Dewey Decimal cataloguing code is available from the National Library of Canada. The complete cataloguing record can be obtained from the National Library’s online database at: www.nlc-bnc.ca/amicus/index-e.html

    ISBN 978-1-4120-2364-1 (sc)

    ISBN 978-1-5536-9954-5 (eBook)

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