Things might get ugly, but at least you’ll have had a head start on going cold turkey.

With fingernails, though, what are you going to do, wear gloves 24/7?

Well, that’s kind of a game-changer, isn’t it?

Woman biting nails

For one thing, it kind of takes out of play the whole nail-biting suspense trope.

A buttocks-clencher, perhaps?

One positive result of this study is that no longer can we look down on nail-biters as nervous Nellies.

Man biting nails

Instead, they are would-be world-conquerors who are merely chagrined by an enforced wait at the DMV.