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It’s already been a week and a half since I quit smoking. I’ve managed to get through a heavy Friday night, two nerve-fraying advanced motorbike lessons and a job interview without having to light a single cigarette up. It’s not a big thing and it’s starting to play on my mind. The biggest way that it’s manifesting itself is that I’m anxious to consume something, so I’m snacking quite often. The other big pain is that I’m finding in the second week, I’m a lot more tired than normal.

I have to get control over these side effects and not them affect my behaviour too much. In the end I have to believe that I have the power to control my own body. Not the cigarettes. Not the withdrawal. Letting both the addiction and the withdrawal manifest themselves is like relinquishing control of my own body. You wouldn’t let anyone else control you, so why should these two be the exception?