How To Stop Picking Your Nose

Photo credited to: Britt Selvitelle

Picking your nose is a bad habit not because it is bad for your health, but more because it is rude and inappropriated behavior. So how do you stop nose picking?

First of all, let’s discuss its effects on your health.

Does it harm your nose at all? If you do it roughly then it could break the skin which lead to skin infection and one thing to another it could be life threatening if it happen in the most bizzarre way.

Does it bother you to pick your nose? If not, then why you want to stop it? Just remember to do it in secluded place like in the bathroom.

What’s the benefit of picking your nose? It satisfy your need to pick your nose especially when you caught something big in there. Seriously, what are the health benefit of picking your nose? Picking your nose is the same as cleaning your nose to keep it from too many waste pilling and you should do it every shower. It is recommended that you pick your nose after you inhale dusty air.

If you form it as a habit and realize that you been picking your nose in public places then you need to learn how to stop picking your nose:

  1. I use to pick my nose in public too, but I change this habit. I change this habit to something much less disgusting. Every time I get the urge to pick my nose, I would change it to rubbing my nose instead. So far, it work for me.
  2. Use nasty smell in the finger just to distance yourself from picking your nose, or traumatize yourself to avoid nose-picking.
  3. Ask other people to remind you to stop nose-picking every time you do it. Nose picking is mostly a habit thing and often you don’t realize that you are doing it, by having other people to remind you what you are doing then you have the chance to stop it.

posted: 11 June 21
under: Daily Stuff