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Today is one of those days, where the work of quitting smoking just gets tiresome. It started off just fine, and was looking like a normal day. But then, some trivial thing happened, and I let it get to me.

I am finding that I do get more angry at little things more than before I quit smoking. Things that I would never even frown at before, can get me pretty mad sometimes. Many times, I don’t even see it coming, it just flares up unpredictably. What’s even worse is, it tends to last awhile when it happens.

A lot of it has to do with not having that nicotine in my brain, which would help suppress my feelings. Another part is the on-going fight to keep the addiction at bay.

The day-to-day part of a quit is a good way to be successful. You don’t have to overwhelm yourself with quitting, just break it up into small, digestible parts. But that does tend to get monotonous at times and can wear your skin thin.

I think it’s a lot like anything else. It takes conditioning to build up endurance. And it takes time to do the conditioning. So letting myself get mad is just a function of impatience.

I don’t think I can stop this any time soon. But I can work at keeping a lid on it, and getting over it soon. Letting anger take control, and indulging it, is a sure way to bust a quit.

Well, I always did like learning new things.

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