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I’ll be honest and say I have a pretty toxic relationship with weed. I started smoking weed after college but the use dramatically increased when I was laid off. Life started to get more stressful and the monotony of constantly interviewing, applying to jobs, prepping for hour, doing courses to up skill started to take a toll on me. I understand that I should stop because having such an addiction and using it as a source of escapism is pretty toxic. I want to ask if anyone here has had a similar experience and how did you find a way to stop smoking weed
You’re not alone. I also struggle to put it down. The key for me to just stay busy and keep it away from me. Don’t buy it or have it nearby because I’m weak.
How does weed help you escape? It makes me feel worse so I don’t use it anymore.
You just quit one day. Many of us have and never looked back I understand it's habitually addicting, but at least it's not physically addictive like Nicotine. You can do it. Just throw away all ur weed shit. Don't put it in a box, throw it out or give it all away. Now. Clean break, and don't ever take a little hit from someone else. I had an expensive desktop hose vaporizer at my peak daily smoking days. Gave it away. Also oil pens etc. fuck it. It's literally doing you a disservice and not helping you. As someone who got high every day if I wasn't in class, and then if I wasn't in work for like 8-10 years, I'm very familiar. This addiction kept me from aspiring to do more, because I would just be cool with being a recluse and playing PC games or whatever bullshit, instead of moving up in my career and developing social skills and dating. Eventually this lifestyle lead to depression. Since I quit that has completely all turned around. And seriously fuck all the complete braindead idiots who refuse to acknowledge the harm weed can do psychologically and vocally praise it as some kind of ultimate ailment for everybody and everything. You're so overgeneralizing it's sad. Now looking around at my peers, there are some that can handle high stress successful careers and family, and use it as a healthy once in awhile break. And that's perfectly fine. But for people like us, that's much more difficult and not worth it because of our addictive personalities. Then there are the people who never grew up and still daily smoke, and unsurprisingly most of them aren't going places.
People who aren't going anywhere use weed, and people who are going places use weed. It's not a simple function. If you used weed and weren't able to keep it in control, it's not your fault, just the way you are, and it's valuable for people to hear your point of view.. But your escape may be someone else's healing...never assume you know what is in someone else's head, or how they got to that point. Your anecdata doesn't extrapolate to 75 million people in the US alone, and hopefully we will get a lot more scientific studies soon, depending on politics.
I actually mentioned those people in the last section. OP clearly has an addictive personality (which I can definitely relate to) and I'm trying to give them the push to quit. That said I personally believe most are better without it, if they don't have a real medical use for it, based on my anecdotal evidence.
/r/petioles or /r/leaves or just be more intentional and use strains and consumption methods that support your needs. consider "micro-dosing" more for your stress needs and macrodosing less frequently and later in the day, to separate out the concerns. set realistic goals and achieve them, not unrealistic goals that depress you. iow, take life in sprints.
I've been smoking for years. Used to be productive but only smoked at the end of the day. After some difficult circumstances, I've started smoking multiple times a day. I no longer feel myself if I don't smoke. I feel like my personality has changed drastically and have no motivation or joy left. I want to go back to my earlier self but I've left that person behind a long time ago.
you need to just try your best to stop and not get hung up if you relapse. Sobriety is rarely ever a straight line, most people relapse multiple times but it’s all about how you move on. Eventually you’ll realize it’s been months and you’re not even interested. Or if you cave you remind yourself why you don’t like it.
I think it’s a bit of an outlier to _start_ after college. Most college friends who smoked weed stopped after graduation. Come to think of it, I don’t know _anyone_ who started after college. A thought, OP: given your question, can you appreciate better what homeless people must be going through? Some of what you wrote seems like it could be written by a “future you” who never found a job and was unable to win the addiction battle and ended up on the streets.
I’ve been smoking since high school but I only do it at the end of the day before bed now. It’s a nice little treat after a productive day. Will probably stop at some point but I enjoy it a lot so I have a hard time giving it up. But any time I get the delusional idea that I’m gonna wake n bake and be productive, I need to give my head a shake. It’s just not that kind of high.
I smoked maybe once a week in college, it’s been a while since I smoked. I like it, not enough to do it more often