The Stress Trap

[Giulia]

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You're going through a tough time. Could be a rough relationship, the death of a loved one, family feuds. You emotions are running rampant, you're feeling incredibly vulnerable and Nasty Nico is whispering sweetly in your ear "come on, come get me, I'll make you feel better, I'll soothe your hurt, calm you, take away your frustrations. Just go buy a pack. You won't smoke the whole thing, just enough to soothe you. It'll probably make you feel dizzy anyway and you won't like the taste any more...."

Yadda yadda yadda you're HOOKED. It's that simple.

[Giulia]

Vaughn, I have a question for you: What made you think about smoking? What made you consider it after 12 years. Was it something you always wanted to do during those 12 years, but just kept at bay? Was it hiding in the back of your brain, wanting to release itself? I'm asking because I'm beginning to wonder if we ever really are free of this addiction. If your father hadn't of died would you still be smoke free? Was his death a good enough excuse for you to start again? I've often thought that we're just waiting for what we consider to be a good enough excuse to light up again. Would really appreciate hearing your thoughts on this.

And by the way - congrats on starting another quit. That takes guts.

[Trica]

Thank you I needed that. I just came out of horrible long meeting where I found out my boss's secretary is getting an office and I'm not! I need to add jerkface boss to my triggers. He could have atleast told me before I went into the meeting. But the deal is she'll have about 6 or 7 file cabinets in it to hold our division's stuff. She won't have much privacy but she'll have walls when the rest of us will be in cubicles! We move to cubicle city sometime in Feb/Mar. Uuuuuggg