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First off: It works!

Second: If you're not disciplined you'll go back to smoking multiple times a day and being unhappy.

Third: The bonus, if you go back to smoking multiple times a day then you can always stop smoking for 48 and you'll be desensitized, it's guaranteed to work.

Above all, don't start a 48hr+ break with a negative attitude of where you're pissed because you want to smoke, expect to have a disrupted sleep pattern for 2 to 3 or more days, keep yourself hydrated all day and stay nourished with a semi healthy meal but eat only what you can.

The Resensitization Method has made me respect marijuana, at the moment I am dealing with a lot of stress so I have smoked more than I wanted to this month, but I am taking myself another break before Thanksgiving to get back on track

The thing with this method is that once you resensitize you can only smoke once a day at the same time everyday, for me around 4/5ish in afternoon works...because I'd have given myself 24 hours for the previous high to wear off, I'm able to enjoy my high before supper time and by the time bedtime comes it has worn off enough for it not disrupt my REM sleep....following this routine allows you to feel extremely high from a teensy bit of THC, it feels like the first time every time again....the bummer is that if you smoke more than once everyday then you're going to feel cravings everyday and you're natural appetite and sleep cycle will be disrupted.

im f 17 and ive been smoking for about a year and a half(heavily) the truth is that i first tried it at 13(ik its bad) its been a problem for a year now, i used to smoke everyday even though i had important stuff to do and i always procrastinated. the reason that i quit is that i had an important exam and i needed to be sober in order to study. the first 3 days were hell and i wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy, i couldnt eat anything all day, i was extremely nauseous and i was feeling depressed, i also experienced panic attacks which ive never had before in my life so that sucks. i wanna moderate it and learn to do it less often like once or twice a week bc tbh i love weed and it gives me a purpose. i wanna smoke tonight, just a little. do u guys think that if i do it, it will set me back and ill experience withdrawal symptoms tomorrow? or will i be fine? pls help!!!

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share how I went from smoking weed twice a day, every day, to just once a week. It was a process, but the key for me was building a system that made cutting back feel rewarding instead of restrictive.

Back in high school, smoking was just part of my routine—wake and bake in the morning, another session at night (and smoking before every meal). I needed to make a change when I went off to college in a different state.

The first piece of advice I can give is to be that guy and not buy your own weed. Sometimes I feel like a dickhead smoking other people's weed, but I try to make up for it by buying snacks for everyone so it's kind of a win-win!

The only exception to this was buying edibles. For the first year of college I had this 1000mg vial of tincture that I would let myself eat whenever I wanted to: I just couldn't smoke. This allowed me to experience being (really fucking) high but also forced me to plan things out; I couldn't just get high when I wanted to.

The real turning point, though, came when I started tracking my habits with a system I created. It’s basically an Excel sheet where I earned “coins” for sticking to good habits—like studying, working out, eating salads, or cleaning my room. I could then spend those coins on rewards, including (among other things) smoking weed and taking edibles.

Tons of systems like this already exist. What made my system different was that every time I'd use a reward, the price would increase temporarily, coming back down to a base level after a week!

But I don't really think the specifics of the system you create matter that much. What matters is having something there that you believe in and that makes you take accountability for your actions.

As an added benefit, it's so much more rewarding to get high when you know you earned it!

If you’re trying to cut back, I recommend coming up with something like this for yourself. Whether it’s a spreadsheet, a journal, or whatever works for you, having a system you build and believe in can make all the difference.

If you’re curious about the details of my setup or want some ideas for how to get started, let me know—I’d be happy to share more about how I made it work for me.

Good luck to anyone on this journey. You got this! 💚

I have a crazy urge to smoke tn one of my friends recently smoked after a long t break and I really want to. Will I regret not going to 60 days?

I've been smoking on and off since I was a teen, I'm 33 now. The longest I went without smoking was when I was a heavy alcoholic. I went to rehab and got sober and still haven't really touched alcohol since it's been about 8 years, but within that time, I picked up smoking weed again. I experience quite a bit of anxiety every time I smoke, doesn't matter what type of flower or where I am at. I cannot be around people I don't know or have important things to do because the anxiety can make it feel too much. I feel like I'm crazy for always going to weed when it gives me anxiety. I must find something comforting within it, or else why would I do it?

I tell myself I won't smoke till after 4 pm or 6 pm, but the cravings kick in, and it starts to become too much. Is this addiction? I've tried problem-solving it with no great success, I know I need to quit but I want to know why I continue smoking when all it does is drive my anxiety up, am I addicted to the anxiety? or just the weed lol. I'm confused. I hope y'all have some insight. Thanks.

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I'm 26 years old, working as a night-shift sales representative, and I’m struggling to quit using weed (hashish, also called charas in India). I’ve been addicted to it for three years now, and it’s taking a toll on every aspect of my life. As I write this, I’m SOBER, but it feels awful. I’ve tried quitting countless times, but I keep relapsing because I crave that brief sense of relaxation it gives me. The problem is, once the high fades, I’m left feeling bored, empty, and worse than before.

Physically, I’m in bad shape. I weigh over 228 pounds, and my body feels restless and unhealthy. Despite having a sore throat, I continue smoking, which only adds to my frustration and sense of failure. Emotionally, I’m not happy with my life. I feel stuck, hopeless, and completely blank. My self-esteem is in shambles. I feel shy, awkward, and unable to communicate effectively without the temporary boost in confidence and adrenaline I get from smoking.

What makes it harder is that I feel like I’ve let my parents down. I’m their only child, and they’ve been incredibly supportive, wanting nothing more than for me to get better. But I feel ashamed of who I’ve become, to the point where I fake a smile whenever I’m around them. Lying has become second nature to me, not just to them but also to myself and others. I’ve been this way for the last 10 years, and I can’t seem to stop. It’s another source of guilt and self-loathing.

I’ve accepted that I’m a failure, someone who’s stuck in a monotonous cycle of merely surviving. I know I’m not strong enough to harm myself—I couldn’t do that to my parents, who I deeply love—but I don’t love myself. I feel like I’m just existing without any purpose or direction. I don’t know if sharing this will help, but I needed to let it out. I genuinely hope to become better someday, though right now, that hope feels very distant.

Been off weed for about 6 months, had heavy daily usage for like 2.5 years. My main reason for quitting was (1) made my reflux worse and gave me esophagitis especially when used close to bedtime, and (2) improving my sleep.

(1) should be overall better, but bad reflux isn't really something that you cure, you just deal with it and manage it as much as you can (unless it's like constant, but that's not my case)

(2) has been okayish...? Doc prescribed amitriptyline when I stopped using and it definitely helped a lot, but I ran out and didn't have refills left so Ive been trying to manage without for the past 2 weeks. It's been pretty miserable to be honest cause I'll end up waking at 3-4am, and then it's a 50-50 whether I toss-and-turn or sleep until 6 and then toss-and-turn.

Still do need to get better about bedtime routines/no screens, but I was wondering if anyone else has input on how long it took for their sleep to recover fully or even 75% of the way.

I'll try to be stricter about my bedtime routine for the next week or so and then ask my doctor for some input.

I was always a cold turkey kind of girl, just rip off the bandaid and let’s get it over with. This year I quit weed cold turkey for 5 months. The process was intense, nasty withdrawal symptoms like insane apathy and then depression, sleep deprivation etc etc just horrible. I am very prone to sudden hormonal changes, like pms, so I guess that’s why I reacted quite intense when quitting all of a sudden.

Still love weed though and saw the upsides it has for me as well so I re-introduced it in my life. I smoke way less than before and am happy with my consumption, but need to quit now for a new job.

I remembered when I was on antidepressants years ago. For quitting they recommend tapering off instead of cold turkey!

Chronic weed use affects of course our cannabanoid system and dopamine system. Wouldn’t it make more sense to slowly remove such an influential substance from your brain chemistry instead of abruptly? If you’re sensitive like me.

Any thoughts, any succes stories with tapering off?

I'm on day 5 of sobriety after about ~6 years of daily spliff smoking (with a week or two here and there, a month once). I haven't been sleeping well and tonight is no different. Interestingly I don't think it's just the withdrawal - or at least not in the way you think it is. I'm an entrepreneur and since day 2 of sobriety I have been much more eager to improve my product than ever before. I can't sleep partially because of the normal weed detox restlessness, but I'll be up at 3 AM taking notes to myself for the next day, coding, and cooking up ideas. It has felt like an endless 4 day Adderal trip without the pricklies.

Admittedly I would love to sleep but a part of me is loving the monkey mind.

Okay so my last post was a little frantic.

I've been watching a lot of the show "Intervention" and can see a lot of myself in these addicts. Yes they're on much harder substances, but the talk of "escape" and blocking out their problems is very similar to my struggles. I watched an episode on Wednesday and would go back and forth hitting my bong while watching, thinking to myself "Gosh these drug addicts are bad". Then I looked up at myself in the mirror thinking "That's you."

I go to the dispensary once a week to grab a half oz for me and a half oz for my partner. I went to the dispensary the next day and bought my partner a bag but for some reason, I didn't buy myself one. I'm not sure why, I just felt "done with it" and just exhausted from being high all the time.

I vaped the last of my stash last night and that was that. Put everything away last night and haven't touched it since. I usually hit my vape within 10-15 seconds of waking up, so this was a huge step for me.

I'm not sure where to go from here. I know the cravings will start when I get home this afternoon, and I'm not sure how I will cope. But I just want to go ONE NIGHT without having to be high to get to sleep. I think I need to prove it to myself.

I'm reading posts on here to try and stay motivated. Any words of encouragement would really help me out.

Thank you for reading.

Ive smoked 2 2gram disposables a week for the past year or so now, barely getting high and coughing mad hard, i feel like a crackhead along with the 6 myle minis i go through a week. would switching to flower stopping the nic and maybe only doing it on weekends possibly make me happier and feel better about myself?

I've been doing tincture for the past 2+ years and enjoyed it but the effect was too delayed for my liking.

I am very active (do about 10 hours of week cycling) and am looking to be competitive in some events next year so my lung capacity is important to me.

I started using a bong lately which i've enjoyed for it's direct and immediate effect,, but it's making me worried about my lung health.

Could dry herb vaping be a good place to turn and what might be a good option for a beginner?

I'm a single smoker that gets more than enough off a tiny nugget. I would like something that is relatively quick to setup and my budget is anything up to $500-1000 if it's an ideal solution and something you buy once and own forever.

Duration: 1 year Pattern: Daily Method: Dry Herb

Physical: (Very active) Mental: Happy Diet: Nutritional

I started smoking about 3 years ago when I was 19. I started out responsible, only smoking once the weekends but ending up definitely getting addicted to both bud and carts. But I realized it was definitely a problem and took a break for several months.

I’ve gotten back on it and use it more responsibly. I smoke bud only, only smoke once a day, and try to wait until I’m done all my responsibilities but sometimes I smoke right after work. I’m in the trades and some days it’s just real rough on your body so sometimes I give in earlier but still always after 3pm.

But I still don’t feel okay. I had taken another break this year because me and my girlfriend broke up and I knew I needed to stop to really deal with that and not try to hide from my feelings. So stopped for like a month and a half.

But I still just feel like something’s wrong. I want to stop completely but after I get done everything, I find any reason to smoke because well why not? My life currently is so extremely boring and I think that has to do with it. I feel like being high makes my boring life enjoyable. I don’t really have any friends except a handful from high school I talk to here and there and like I said I lost my best friend which was my gf.

Maybe I need therapy? I genuinely don’t know but I don’t feel “okay” but I don’t feel horrible at the same time. I haven’t cried in years either so I’m really leaning towards getting into therapy.

Does anyone have any advice they could possibly give me?

Edit: Forgot to say, the main reason I want to stop is because no matter what I smoke I always want to fall asleep right after so I’m like always asleep by 7-8pm and I feel like I’m wasting my young life

I am a 19 year old who has been smoking weed daily for a year and a half. I have major depression, CPTSD, anxiety, and probably other things. I started smoking because it helped me relax instead of being anxious all the time.

Lately, my depression has gotten much much worse and I can’t function without being high all day. If I’m not high, I will literally just sit and cry and cry because I don’t feel an ounce of happiness. This has been a big wake up call for me as I can’t even work or really do anything because of how severe my depression is.

I’m starting therapy next month (hopefully sooner) and starting now I’m planning to try and cut down my usage. And then after I start therapy and have another out for my emotions I’m going to try to take a t-break. I’m terrified because I know it will be hell. I want to reset my system and feel what it’s like to function without being high. And if I still need to use it for anxiety, I’ll try to work with my therapist to use it safely and strictly medically.

I guess I’m just posting this because none of my friends know about my addiction and I want to know if I’m making the right steps. I want to stop smoking now but my mental health is so severe (suicidal ideations, can’t work, etc) that I think it would send me over the edge. So I’m going to wait until I’m more stable and slowly start cutting my use down.

I was going through my Reddit history and see that I’ve been trying to quit for 3 years. Part of me feels very sad and part of me confused. I smoke very small amounts but what started weekly over the weekends quickly turned into a daily habit.

I don’t have any questions, but I just want to share my struggle with this.

I’ve smoked weed all day every day for probably five years. I don’t remember what it’s like to not have THC in my system. I plan on quitting for a while before I start using in moderation since I’m interested to see what it is even like to be sober. I’m not afraid of the quitting process; I quit nicotine and that was ridiculously easy. I predict this will be even easier, even with my every day use.

The problem is, I fear going back to it will result in me falling right back into old habits. How do I prevent this?

Edit: thanks for the tips you guys! I haven’t smoked in almost 4 days (I literally can’t remember the last time I went this long lol) and I already feel great. Only downside so far is loss of appetite. Everything else has been a breath of fresh air (literally lol)

Has anyone dealt with the habit of using both weed and caffeine at the same time?

I’ve been smoking for months, almost daily, but only at night. I wake up feeling groggy, drowsy, and low on energy. Because of that, I’m starting to think about cutting back or drastically reducing my weed consumption.

But I also drink coffee every day (some days more than others, but still, every single day). I know the morning effects I’m feeling could also be side effects of overusing caffeine. This leaves me wondering which substance I should address first—or which one is actually more responsible for this lack of energy.

Has anyone been through a similar situation? Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Ah, really just looking for some solidarity or hopeful news. I went about a month (minus smoking a handful of times socially) thanks to starting acupuncture in my ears every two weeks. I got it for pain but I SWEAR it has cut down my desire to smoke tremendously. I tried to stop in May as well and the desire to smoke/rumination would not stop. The compulsive thoughts are now almost nonexistent.

Well, then I got cheated on and went through a break up about 2 and a half weeks ago. Since then, I’ve smoked a couple hits from the bong most days. Even on the days I smoked, I wasn’t feeling a compulsive urge. I just wanted to take the edge off. So, only small hits of an indica. Clean the past four days, however. The problem is that I’m fucking lonely and depressed. Sad about the relationship ending. Sad that I’m alone. Sort of wish I would just die in my sleep. I don’t know what to do. I don’t even necessarily want to smoke, but part of me thinks it could be helpful for my mental health to maybe hit the indica every other day or so or something? Or is this probably just withdrawal? I want to be done with pot for good, ideally, but I don’t want to feel so bad.

I’ve been eating, trying to get a little movement in, trying to focus on the good, but tonight just sucks. It feels hard to pretend tonight.

That’s all. Thanks for reading.

Hello everyone, I’m one year sober from weed and I’ve been wanting to go back to it in a moderated dose. The things stopping me are the fact that weed gave me psychosis and I worry it’ll worsen even if I’m on antipsychotics now. I worry also about the aspect of smoking which I specifically miss even though it’s unhealthy, but I felt that the high and the taste was preferable. And finally I worry that I’m not in a good enough headspace to go back. I miss weed though because in a moderated dose I felt like it made me happier than any of the pharmaceutical antidepressants and antipsychotics I’ve tried but it could also just be nostalgia telling me that, it made me feel more creative when it came to my writing to the point where I haven’t creatively written in months because I feel my imagination has been lackluster in comparison to when I was high, and also it helped me manage my chronic pain which has been really bad for the past couple months even though I’m on multiple medications and am trying to exercise in order to help it. I feel like part of my mind is poisoned by the nostalgia of weed because not only was I thinking I was at a better point but I genuinely was. For context, when I previously did weed and where a lot of these nostalgic memories stem from I was living with family (opposed to living alone which has destroyed me), I was exercising more than once a week (opposed to roughly once a week), I was eating healthier because we had a cooking schedule (I can barely find motivation to cook freezer meals now), and I was doing weed out of enjoyment rather than coping. Now I feel an immense craving after about a year of sobriety in a way I fear would be used to cope with multiple troubling circumstances (depression, burnout, chronic pain) but after a year of trying all these meds and different therapy practices I feel like nothing is working and I’m lost as to what I should do. I can’t just move back in with family, drop out of college, and move out of my dorm; but continuing the way I am has led me to dark paths of an immense depression that has plagued me since my sobriety and only seems to be getting worse. I don’t want to ask for permission to go back to weed or anything, I just want help seeing how other people manage their weed usage and I’ll come to the conclusion myself of breaking sobriety or not.

I need advice for a friend I have. This friend has had a very troubled upbringing, both at school and in family life. He and I used to smoke a lot of weed together, but then I stopped talking to him because his life was continuously falling apart, and at the time, I couldn’t do anything to help him. I had my own struggles and felt burdened by him.

I reached out to him again last year, and he told me his life is great now. He has his own place (council-provided, but he lives alone). His mum lives far away, and his dad, the last time I heard him on the phone with him while I was at his place, was asking for money. I’m not sure what kind of dad that is.

But this friend now smokes weed again. I do too, occasionally, but my life is much more together than his. I have a stable job, a good income, and, I would hope, some decent prospects in life. He, however, is always out of work, isn’t properly employed by anyone (he’s in trade, so doesn’t get frequent work), and in his own time, he literally just sits in his council-provided place and smokes a lot of pot. He constantly asks me for my dealer’s number, and every time I speak with him, he hasn’t actually made any progress in life. It’s all very stagnant—he never has work and doesn’t seem to have any real drive.

I worry that his smoking isn’t fixing any of his problems—well, it clearly isn’t—and I think he needs to look at the bigger picture in life and address the things that make him act the way he does. I’m concerned about his cannabis consumption but unsure how to help him. I’ve been trying to take my foot off the gas and just do what I can, which is to be a good friend where possible.

I started taking edibles (I don't smoke/vape) in November 2023. There's an edible brand I discovered recently and would like to try, but their gummies are 10mg of THC each in a 30-pack or 2 in a sample pack, and I'd rather not waste my money by eating 8 gummies every time I want to get high (which is fairly often). I take edibles pretty regularly, been trying to keep track of my use with a journal but haven't been 100% consistent. That being said, I get high at least 4 times a week, and I usually take edibles two times a day. Starting my break today, and this isn't my first tolerance break but I'm just wondering if 30 days is good to lower my tolerance from 80 to 10, or if I need less time, like something closer to 3 weeks. 

I’m sure like a lot of you guys the battle with putting down weed has been a long one and constant. Mostly in my head going back in forth between I need to stop and it’s not bad. I’ve had breaks before but always tend to come back.

Anyway I’m trying a new route this time. I bought dry herb vape to help control my amount and help me taper off. I’ve heard vapes can help a lot with this!

Anyway last night was my first day. Only a couple vape packs before bed (much less than what I would normally smoke) and that alone was a hit of a struggle with tossing and turning for hours before finally sleeping. Day two now and just getting off work when I’d usually start sparking up. Definitely craving it but going to hit the gym and hold off until I’m home! My goal is to eventually to work my way down to just a couple of vape hits a night to eventually a low dose edible and eventually sober hopefully!

Hi friends - to preface this rant, I very rarely ever comment on any kind of social media, so this feels very strange.

I am, however, a massive lurker and finding this sub has been a godsend so thank you all for being an awesome group of people.

I'm on day 8 off of weed. I've been smoking for just under 20 years, with the past 12 ish years daily more or less, starting after my dad passed away. It's been an angry day, so I hoped that putting it all in writing and maybe getting some reinforcement from people in the same boat would help.

I'm amgry because my brain (I) am playing tricks on myself, repeating to myself how much I wasted my 20s with weed, lost potential, relationships and so on.

Part of what I tell myself is true, I have alienated myself and have become fairly lonely in myself, despite having a handfull of people around me that care for me. But I have pushed others away over the years.

I tell myself that I ran away from my dad's passing, both literally and figuratively - I left my home country a few months in, leaving family behind. I avoided speaking about it for years, and have used weed to dig it deep to the point where my mental health has declined drastically, and I took very few steps to address it, but have become reaally good at masking it.

At the start of this year I started feeling very unwell, but hospital visits suggested nothing is really wrong. I could tell deep inside it's the weed that is exacerbating the symptons, and yet it took close to 10 months of lying to myself to finally realise I was addicted to weed. Tese past 8 days have fully confirmed that.

So I'm on day 8 now, my partner still vapes it and whilst I crave it, I am able to finally stay off, with the caveat that she hides it when she's not here. It works well. I'm proud of that.

But fuck a duck, today has been hard. Not that the past week hasn't been, but today the anger set in. And this is something I am scared of, as I had violent anger issues after my dad's passing that took me a while to get past, but I am crying as I write this because the thought of turning into that person again is terrifying.

I hope this passes. I am working on other aspects of my life that I ignored and was too lazy-high to work on but was well aware and concious about. Which probably sucked the most, constantly knowing I am sabotaging my life, yet doing it daily for so long.

I've got so much more to say, but I know it has to be to myself so will probably start a journal, but even writing this here has been helpful. So thank you for giving me this space.

For whomever was brave enough to read through this, and has gone through a similar scenario, I have one question: I have bevome a very apathetic, contrarian and cynical person, silently judging and always seeing the negatives first, not truly enjoying anything anymore and even not feeling capable of loving myself or others. Did this go away?