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Ideas on how to stop doing this gross habit?
This is going to sound like a troll post, but it's unfortunately not. I'm 25 and still pick my nose and sometimes eat it...
It's a bad habit I never broke as a kid and now it's just this thing I do out of muscle memory. I don't do it all the time, just when I'm alone driving somewhere, in the shower, or when I don't think anybody is looking.
I really want to stop, but don't know how. Recently I've been trying to tell myself things like keep your hands on the steering wheel and think about something else. This works most of the time, but then I won't even be thinking about it and I'll find myself doing it. Then I don't have anywhere to wipe it so I wind up just putting it in my mouth.
It's disgusting, I know and now with Corona Virus going around I really want myself to stop for good.
I'm so embarrassed by it, sometimes I'll be driving home from work and do it and then all I can think about is what if one of my coworkers saw me when they were passing by.
I think it has something to do with that I get hungry and want flavor in my mouth or that I'm bored and don't know what to do with my hands. Sometimes it's also because I can just feel the mucus in my nose and I want it out and don't mind eating it because it doesn't taste bad, just kind of watery and sometimes salty. I've been caught doing it before and it's the worst thing ever.
I really need some solid ideas on how to stop. I don't want to be 30 and still doing it.
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With the threat of Corona Virus around the world, and people able to pass on the infection before they feel sick, many as exposed and it is passed on by the germs in the air near you or on your hands from something you touched. There is no way to know for sure if such germs were on your hands and it could enter your body all too easily if you touch your face, rub your eyes, touch your nose or mouth. So I would keep that thought foremost in my mind. Getting ill with something that some recover from and some die from, should be a strong enough deterrent from doing this habit. If not, try going for hypnosis as it can break any habits, smoking, fears. Had a co worker who was spooked on purpose by a joking worker who liked to scare the waitresses and one day it caused her to spill boiling hot water on herself. She was so jumpy and fearful after that it affected her work on the job and she went for hypnosis which cured her of her fears and after that,, the guy who tried spooking her again, found she couldn't be scared, she had nerves of steel. It's up to you which one you want to try.
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