I've been a daily smoker for the past 6 years, always a little stoned, smoking in the morning etc.. What I hate and love the most about THC is how it will make you focus and fine with whatever you are doing, this brough me to depression after spending few year stuck in a work / smoke / game loop. At one point I was so down I just left my job and started just smoking and gaming until my mother litteraly went to my place and brought me back to my parent house after few weeks without giving them news. I'm still smoking but at least I do social activities, sport and work again. Also started dating recently which give me more motivation to limit my consumption. It's not perfect but it's way better than my depression phase and I can somehow imagine a future where I'm not stoned in front of a PC playing the same game for 10k hours.
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It's been just a few months since I quit weed, but it feels like a completely different life. I had quit drinking a few months prior because of the obvious harms it was causing me, but I kept using weed. The harm with weed was not so obvious as with alcohol, but I wasn't living up to my idea of what I wanted from myself.
I think with alcohol it beats you up and knocks you down hard. With weed, it's more subtle. The harm is slower and more accumulated. It keeps you down, makes you slower, less ambitious, comfortable in your position, whatever that is. Even when I quit drinking I was still stuck in a pit and I didn't notice—or didnt care—that the walls were slowly getting higher and the bottom deeper.
I was a heavy user going through some 3–4 cartridges a week plus some joints on top of that. I was constantly stoned from morning to night, at work, at home, while driving, just always. My attention and memory were shot. I finally had enough. I picked a date and quit. Easy. I had one more occasion to use after that which I already planned. That one day turned into several before I got the wherewithal to quit again. The experience sealed it for me and I've been clean since!
Life is not perfect. I quit my job without a backup and I've been kind of stuck jobless. I've been living on a friend's couch since leaving an unhealthy domestic situation. The relationship didn't survive sobriety when our mutual drug use seemed to be the only significant connection between us. I'm grateful for my friend, who appreciates the homecooked meals I make (I'm paying my way with the money he's saving not ordering delivery! lol) I've been reading a lot more now that I have the attention span to do so, and I have progressed much faster in learning how to play music.
It gets easier. Good luck to you on your journey!
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Weed is secretly one of the harder things to quit, in my opinion. Not because it's extremely addictive like other substances (though it is addictive, I don't care what anyone says), but precisely because it's relatively low impact as far as substances go. I've quit for a year or two here and there but it's like I forget what a trial it was to do so, figure I could go for a doobie to unwind, and bam, a month later it was like I never quit at all. I've kicked cigarettes, I've kicked alcohol, I've kicked cocaine, weed still has a grip on me after all these years.
I've found caffeine to be the most difficult thing for me to kick, but weed is harder to give up than most people think. It's so much less debilitating than alcohol, so it's easy to live with. For me, the desire to get high drops off completely after about a week, so if you're a weekender like I was it can be difficult to shake, as you never get completely past the desire. In addition, smoking it, especially infused or more potent derivatives, gives way more of a dopamine hit than edibles, even if you ultimately get really high on edibles. Smoking it causes the drug to get into the bloodstream and hit the brain much more quickly, thus better connecting the act with the effect, making the dopamine hit bigger and the use more addictive.
If you want to quit, you need to cut out all THC for about two weeks or so, and then you don't really think about it anymore. Obviously, it will be more difficult if your friend group smokes weed, as you'll be around it, and it's best to avoid being around it when you're quitting. If you you're going to backslide, it's much better to do it with edibles, as they don't connect the act (eating) to the high nearly as well as smoking. Finally, as they say, "never quit quitting" and eventually you'll succeed.
Nicely said. Amen
yeah friend I have the personality type that makes it devilishly difficult to quit. I got off finally last year, got back on it over the holiday break and it took me 6+ months to get off again. My friend who had been suffering some extremely painful surgery stuff told me it got so bad she was eating 200mg of thc in gummies a day and internally i'm thinking 'that is like, just what i eat to not be grumpy!'.
Especially with all the terrible crap going on in the world and if you have personal crap on top it's just, so difficult.
For me the first 3 days are a nightmare, the first week is hell and the first month is B L A H. After 30 days it's not so bad. I turn into such a mega asshole those first 3 days i try to schedule a camping trip or something so im not near folks and even then my ass will be out there angry at the forest.
Staying away people having it, finding other distractions and finding other healthy dopamine sources are all that helpful.