Thursday, 14 June 2007

Day 3: Calm Down, Calm Down.

The first example of irritability. By now the nicotine is completely out of my system and my body wants to know why and, more importantly, when the next delivery is due. My wife is a smoker but she is not giving up yet: we did not think we could both keep sane if we quit together. I am doing the first shift, and after 2 to 3 weeks she is going to give up.

Today we were discussing where we were going to take the children at the weekend. I could feel the frustration burning up inside me as we differed on some minor detail. Rather than start a full blown row, I went and sat in the garden. Putting pins into a small plastic doll saw my anxiety levels drop and put a wry smile on my face. It then occurred to me that I had not even felt the need to reach for a cigarette.

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