bad habits

I was always tolded that there was a little man in your nose that would bite your finger off if you picked your nose. In kindergarten, all my little friends would pick their noses and I would freak out!!!!

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When I was little I hated my mom smoking and tried hard to make her quit but she said she couldn't. I didn't believe her. Then when I was 15 I smoked to get a girl who smoked to like me. It wasn't long before I found out mom was telling the truth. I tried and tried and tried but I could not quit. I was now a nicotine addict too.

I used to suck my thumb(until about 9). One day my mom said that in the middle of the night she would put tape on, then put hot peepers stuck onto the tape. I believed her.

I was so scared I tried my hardest to stop, but I couldn't!

I used to believe that only men smoked cigarettes and only women drank coffee. I guess this because my dad smoked but didn't drink coffee and my mom drank coffee and didn't smoke. When my dad's (male) friend drank coffee in the morning I was preplexed.

I use to believe that people said dont second hand smoke i thought it ment you smoke with 1 cigar in each hand or when you had 2 cigars in one hand.I belived this till i was 12.

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my mum used to tell me if i picked my nose my brains would fall out so i used to tell my brother this plus if he sneezed without a tissue his brains would fly out of his nose

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One day i told my mom that i wouldnt pick my nose until the boogers made it look like i was a walrus

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For some reason, when I bit my nails, I always imagined them making a neat pile in my stomach. The more I chewed, the more the pile would grow and one day I wouldn't be able to swallow any more.

i used to believe from i was 3 to about 8...my dad used to tell me if i picked my nose too much it my finger would get stuck

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When I was little I used to pick my nose and one day I heard on the radio that Wayne Gretzy retired and I asked my dad what retired meant and he said to quit a job for a little bit but come back to it if you want to, so when I was about in kidnergarden, I stopped picking my nose, but after a bit I started again and in the car on day my older sister said, "I thought you stopped picking your nose," and I said , "I retired."

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When I was young, I used to suck my thumb all the time and my Mom couldn't seem to get me to stop. Then one day at the dentist's office, he said to her that if I didn't stop sucking my thumb, it'd push my teeth out. He meant that it would make my teeth crooked, but I thought that I'd really push them out of my mouth! That scared the habit out of me.

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When I was 10 I thought that if you smoked once God would shoot you with a lightning bolt!

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My mum used to tell me that if i kept biting my nails I would never grow up to be a lady. I took this literally and never bit my nails again fearing that if I did I'd always be a little kid.
To this day I still don't bite my nails - it's just yuck!

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Growing up my younger sister sucked her thumb until she was almost 12 (I kid you not) I used to think that if she kept sucking it, it would be sucked away into nothingness, like a lolipop.

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Many of us kids were told, when we were small, that we each had a snail living deep up our noses, and if we stuck our fingers far enough up there, we'd find out how the nose-snails were different from the regular dirt-snails: They had teeth, and would bite the tips of our fingers off.

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When I was little my mum would tell me to stop picking my nose or its gonna drop off and I'll never grow one back!!I was really scared so I used to hide in the greenhouse and sit in my toilet!