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ok, I'm tired of this. officially. 2

Take heart, Jeff. You quit smoking ! Amass power from this, realize you actually quit smoking. Don't Be A Doubter. Don't assume you will fail. You won't fail unless you choose to fail.

Welcome to your Third Day of Freedom @Nana20 ! Today, most of the nicotine has left your body. WOO HOO. Your lungs have been busy scrubbing the cilia clean. and you are well on your way to adjusting your patterns incorporating your Freedom. Stay focused. Reward yourself. S

Congratulations, Rajag on your Five Years & Twenty Five Days of Freedom. Your lungs have sloughed off years of nicotine and the residue that tobacco poisons us with and will stay nice and clean as you enjoy your freedom. I can't help you with your ticker but, possibly @jillar, our ticker woman can help. In the meantime try this thread with good directions about tickers from BKP Ticker Instructions From BKP

Hey Nana ! So glad you are still with us and conquering this addiction. We all had meltdowns. I walked in a fury a few miles down to the railroad tracks and waited for the train whistle. Practiced my primal screaming for a v. long time. I was a wild woman that day. Early in my quit, I remember reading on one of the quit sites, a woman admitted to, in a frenzy having a major tree cut down at her house. She was a tree hugger ! She was regretful but, just couldn't take that friggin' tree anymore. You may establish new perimeters with your stroppy teen, this is a time for change. Be super kind to yourself. Pamper yourself and show others how you want to be pampered. Reward yourself often. Just because ! You quit smoking, ffs ! Rewards can be a soothing drink, a bath of bubbles and silence. Listening to a certain piece of music, headphones save my life. Re-visiting a happy memory, looking into the faces of those who love you human and four legged. Find your Joy. All these treats that make you happy will ignite your endorphins that addiction stole away. Glad you are laughing through all the tears. You never have to go through this again and believe us when we tell you, it gets better. It gets a whole lot better in short time. S

NOPE love

@Nana20 Welcome to Day Two of your Freedom ! Remember to pay attention to your blood sugar and have fruit/juice to sip on and reward yourself for every crave beaten every trigger faced The Significance of Rewards

5 hello, my torturers

Here are two pages of anecdotal evidence from QTrain members No Man's Land and Joel Spitzer's The Terrible 3's (resources)

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4 Hi Beaze and Macky Mac

17 aw. just showed up to turn immediately around and return to The Fun Room ? What ? Mercy is a fine attribute, you understand ?

Stick close and shout out with any concern or experience. Let us know how you are negotiating the rough bits. This will be invaluable for other quitters to know. There is only NOW. NOW always. Everything else is a construct. Stay in the NOW. This is one of the gifts that quitting helped me with, being in the NOW and completely current with myself. No future tripping or reminiscing. There is a time for all that but, not right now. Now, is where I want to live.

7 hi Mac

YAY Nana ! You quit smoking ! WHOOHOOOOO!!! is RIGHT ! HALT is an incredible tool, I still use. not for craves or triggers anymore, just for when I feel upset or unsettled. Riffing On H.A.L.T. and also check this out, a thread about what helped us through the first days Your First Days, Nicotine Free

7 you were playing for the Chicks the other day, @reciprocity with your "-" misplaced. ha ha ha. wanna play like that again ?

YAY ! Congratulations on your Five Days of Freedom, John. You quit smoking ! Ain't nothing stopping you now.

7 hey Andy, why don't you play on the Chicks side now ? nobody is watching, lol.

7 hey Big D

I'm learning English

I slept right though. sigh

If you dry it out in the fridge overnight it gets firmer. 'Silken' tofu will never really get firm, it's a different animal and nice for the cheese/herb egg like thing. If you want something chewy try some Tempeh. Tempeh is great and super firm and delicious. A soy product, not tofu. I don't bother with pressing, just leave it draining overnight and the fridge dries it out quite well. But, you don't need a 'press' if you want to press. Just put a plate over tofu in the strainer and put a heavy can on top. The texture is the texture of tofu. I couldn't describe it as being 'like' anything else. A favourite is putting it with homemade stock for a creamy gravy or creamy soup. or sautee and spanking with soy and balsamic at the end in the pan. sizzle . then putting into a bowl and shaking nutritional yeast over it. check out Chinese and Japanese and Indonesian recipes. They know how to handle tofu the best. and don't forget....wrapping it is bacon works for everything as @reciprocity suggests. good luck. @catlover