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Pot Habit
lunasea
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Lately, I've noticed that I've been smoking a lot of weed. Like on a daily basis. I've also noticed how its put quite a strain on my finances. The thing is whenever I stop smoking for a extended period, like two or three days, everything just feels unpleasant and uncomfortable. Keep in mind I get straight A's in school but I don't play any games or do much except smoke weed, talk to friends, and study. So what I'm looking for now is advice from any smokers or ex-smokers on the forums. How do I cut back? and What should I do instead of smoking all the time?
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The easiest way to sabotage an attempt to cut back on [whatever] is to socialize with people who still do [whatever] whether [whatever] is drugs, World of Warcraft, or eating fatty foods.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Basically, if you put yourself in situations where you couldn't smoke (at least, you would face consequences or be really uncomfortable doing so), and you won't smoke.
Before my roommate moved in, the only trick I needed to stop smoking was to look at my ATM withdrawals(I use my card for absolutely everything except for pot) and realize whoa that's a bit too much. But it's pretty hard to turn him down when he walks in with a bong in one hand and Smash Bros in the other. I don't really have an answer for you if that's the case; free hash has never been a problem for me.
It just sounds like you're smoking too much. That feeling you have will go away when you start smoking less frequently. Or it did for me.
The thing with smoking pot regularly is it's just that, a habit. It's pretty easy to kick, too. It's not like you get withdrawal, so will-power is pretty much the best way to do it.
Um... "everything just feels unpleasant and uncomfortable" is basically the definition of withdrawal.
In other words you're only half right and only because enough people don't know what the word actually fucking means that an alternative definition has forced itself into popular lexicon. All he's actually describing is that he's not used to being dead sober anymore. If you go do literally anything interesting, you forget about it completely.
I suppose you could have your lungs removed. Failing that, just...stop smoking pot if you think it's becoming a problem.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
By the way, Eggy, of course his friends aren't going to be as interesting if he's hanging around them sober while they're all high. Hanging around stoned people while straight is one of the most tedious things I can imagine. That doesn't make his friends bad or uninteresting people - it just means that he (or she?) shouldn't hang around them while they're stoned.
There are more efficient devices than bowls, but I'm not going to tell you how to make your own paraphanalia in H/A because that's too far. Just a reminder, guys, keep the advice centered around helping him to not-smoke, and less on how to smoke.
Sorry, will do. But uh...how could one go about finding these methods?
Anyway, to not smoke as much, you could just not buy it, or buy less of it when you do. Or take up crack.
and probably makes your friends think you're a leech.
My advice is restrict smoking to your leisure time. Never mix it with work or school and also if you're high then don't smoke any more, you won't get any higher.
For the first 2 or 3 days it was hard, especially since the guy in the room next to me was a big pot smoker too. However, after about a week, week and a half the desire to smoke pot was completely gone. I had no issues turning it down after that.
This might have been because I only ever smoked weed, I never mixed tobacco in with it. A lot of people I know like to mix in cigarettes to make it "smoother." I imagine if you're doing that a few times a day you'll have a nicotine addiction as well.
Oh, no, not that hard. Finding some preoccupation would do the trick. I just have a hard time convincing myself I wouldn't be having a better time stoned.
If you don't have the discipline to go cold turkey, I'd suggest seriously re-evaluating your lifestyle.
I've had issues with pot in the past, but many times I have just stopped, and yeah the first couple days are irritable and frustrating but after a few days, when pot is in front of you again, you're not even sure you really want to smoke it.
Well, he doesn't really want to completely quit, by the sounds of it. I think it would be alot harder trying to go cold turkey if you don't really want to stop smoking all together.
I'd suggest trying two set a couple of days per week where you specifically don't smoke. If you can handle that, you could setting three days, or four, or whatever, smoking less and less until you you're happy with your intake. But I think you'll find the entire process easier if you can set an actual goal of how much pot you want to be smoking.
See, the problem with this is, if you know how it works at all, a day on and a day off, or a couple days on and a couple days off, just means you're going to be consistently irritable when you're not smoking.
It's better to do longer periods...I need reality checks, personally, and I simply don't have the discipline not to smoke when I have it in the house. If I have it, I will smoke every day until I don't. What I do when I need a break is I simply don't refresh my supply when I run out...I go about a month on, a month off and so on. That way, I get a nice long break to get back to reality, and if my circumstances are ok after that month and I feel like I wouldn't be doing myself a disservice by smoking again, I'll get some more.
Anyway, as has been mentioned, video games are a great way to quit. So is a steady significant other who doesn't use as much as you do. You'll find things to do.
Exercise
Games
Reading
Homework
Skateboarding
etc.
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I regularly quit for about a month at a time every two months i.e. two months on, one month off. You've just got to avoid boredom, and remind yourself that you can use that money for more long-term fun (save up for a new PC, HDTV, vacation, etc.)
In my experience, smoking and videogames go hand in hand, so I can't agree there.
I mean, once you finish smoking a bowl, the inevitable answer to "what should we do now?" is "Let's play some fucking videogames".
Agreed. One of my favorite past times is getting baked and playing SSBM.
seriously, this man speaks the truth. What you should do however is save the money you spend on weed and buy a really nice HDTV or surround sound, whichever you don't have. Make sure you own it though, don't buy on credit. THEN get high once you have that.
And in my experience that logic isn't, and either way Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven is how I quit smoking when I did. I can see if you were saying that smoking pot is a bad way to quit videogames. I suppose if you don't actually like videogames unless you're high, yeah, it's not going to work for you then.