#2nd day
2nd day of quit but first day back to work. I had a stressful situation at work and was ready to lose my cool and all I could think about is that I need a cig and that I can't handle this kind of stuff without a cig. But then I asked myself, "how is smoking going to help this situation?" Of course the answer was: it won't. I realized I need to either change my work situation or learn a different way to deal with stress. So I didn't smoke. I walked away from the problem for awhile and worked on something else until my head cleared a bit and then went back to it. And I made it through. It turns out it wasn't as big of a problem as I thought and I was overreacting. My lesson for today is I am strong enough to learn how to deal with stress in a different and more productive way then by inhaling poison into my lungs, which doesn't help with stress anyway.
