Up in smoke: True liberation

SmokeIn the last of her updates on her efforts to stop smoking, Becky Midgley is celebrating the fact that she can officially call herself a 'non-smoker'.


It's official, I am a non-smoker. I just can't stop celebrating the fact! People keep asking how it's going, and the only answer I give is 'it's amazing, I feel liberated'.

The group meetings are getting pretty samey; we go in, we say: "Yay! We haven't smoked all week", talk about any low points, get new prescriptions, and return to our desks.

I’m guessing they are still going because there is a long-term plan – they are the experts after all, so I will keep showing up and throwing in my self-congratulatory two pennies worth.

Since this week’s meeting though, I have had the worst two days at work in the history of my time here; I've never known stress like it, and normally, I don't do stress.

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