CLEARING THE SMOKE

I’ve always known that this day would come, where I would reflect on the journey I started in June this year. I challenged myself to quit smoking and here we are, it’s August 2019, and it feels like I’ve had the longest three months of the year.

Constantly finding myself under tremendous stress trying to juggle work, studies and life in general, resulted in me picking up the habit of smoking. The first time I smoked was when I landed my first job. I was working at an Italian restaurant in Bruma, Johannesburg, while