Hypnosis is the process of having to interact with your subconscious mind and letting it know completely about how a particular response is to be generated or negated based on the situation that one may come across.
Hypnotherapy is one of the widely used as a treatment for a lot of diseases which are mainly concentrated with the issues of the mind.
Nail biting can be classified as a response from the subconscious mind to some of the events that take place in our day to day lives such as having to wait for extended durations of time, anxiety or even the plain old mental state where the mind has nothing to actually think of and is thus rendered to an idle state.
There are a lot of efforts that are put in to control you from biting your nails.
Even those who are involved heavily in this habit are always trying to quit doing so but are forced subconsciously into submission.
To curb this desire of nail biting, hypnotherapy can be utilized.
To treat the habit, the hypnotist works on the subconscious mind of the patient and in effect takes control of the patient's mind.
While still under hypnosis, the subconscious mind answers to the commands of the hypnotist and takes it upon itself to set a particular kind of a response to a particular occurrence of an event.
After having set a response, it is generally tends to override the default response that the mind provides which is the act of nail biting.
Though the results of using hypnosis to cure the nail biting are not felt instantly, after attending a few sessions of the treatment, the patient is more likely to have shed his habit and is likely to remain that way in future as well.