Stopped after 30+ years and this is my progress (1 year)
Almost a year after I stopped biting I can finally make this post.
The hardest part was getting from Picture 1 to Picture 2. That’s probably the longest I had ever gone without biting. I had to get my nails long enough to not be embarrassed walking into a nail salon to get my nails done for the first time in years (Picture 3).
The longest I managed to get them to was the Christmas and New Years set (Picture 5 and 6). I shouldn’t have because my nails were too weak and my nail bed wasn’t ready for it which lead to my nail breaking (Picture 7). It was so painful and had to run to a pharmacy to get help removing it because I couldn’t do it myself.
Last picture are my current nails. My thumb nails have now broken in half (don’t have pics) because I just can’t bring myself to cut them when I have made such progress but I should.