It's been a while since I've smoked marijuana. The same streak as this pmo streak (non-related) so like 80 days maybe. Weed isn't harmful or destructive in any way, but I temporarily quit for a few reasons. 1)Smoking weed is all I did, kinda. Along with porn, I smoked in between and skipped class. Occasionally got drunk in the daytime. I know realize this was due to anxiety. It made me anti-social, in a way. 2) I want my brain to have a break from drugs, alc, etc. I was smoking alot of weed (quarter a day) and drinking alot, and taking a significant amount of mdma on a weekly basis. I wanted to heal a bit. Now doing more reading, meditation, & cardio aids my brain. 3) It significantly helps financially. Smoking 7 grams a day is costly, I don't care about this one. But I was spending $60 a day. I now have just money lying around. 4) Health. I quit tobacco, bc I figured why not. Weed also also has some effect on your lungs. I smoked weed out of a bong and packed the bowl half with tobacco (to save weed). So yeah, I can breathe alot better now. At work, everybody smokes weed. It's all they talk about. I can tell some think I'm weird bc I don't now. But it's funny bc they're talking about smoking an eighth a week. Like, you really smoking? Lol I'm just not the type of person to be constantly talking about how high I get, even when i was smoking. I was just thinking tonight, it's really really fun. I love how it's illegal and just the high itself. Idk, I'm gonna sleep on it. Also thinking just to continue taking a break until I have successful sex. Smoke a celebratory blunt. I know that sounds like I'm going the wrong direction, I'm not. I'll just know I'm healed. I don't really care about sex at this moment, working on myself and the healing of the brain.
I know this may not be the widely held view, but I disagree with the notion that weed isn't / can't be harmful from my personal experiences of being around friends who smoke it heavily at university. Firstly, some of my friends where defiantly addicted to it / had to use it daily as a way of destressing to the point where it became a habit. Several of my friends would skip doing important real life things and addressing real life issues because they wanted to smoke weed / rather smoke weed. I know people who have been left paranoid beucause of the weed they smoked through university. However, I do want to caveat this with I do remember one person who defiantly had mental issues, and weed properly chilled him out and helped him. So overall my view is that it can be helpful to some people and benefit them, but I also believe that it can have many negative effects on people. Granted everyone is different in those respects, but I would ask you why do you want to go back? Why now when you have been off of it for so long? Is it really going to be beneficial to your life? Is there not something better you can be doing that will solve the craving?
How on earth do you smoke 7 grams a day? Like without being wasteful? Especially with a bong? O.O Either you have so much tolerance you don't feel the first 4 grams or your weed is crap. ^^ I'm sorry, I know this is beside the point, I just can't wrap my mind around this one. I don't drink much but I do smoke up weekly, 1-2 days/week on average. But usually not more than 1 gram, that gets me high enough. For me the day is pretty much done once I smoke up, means I rarely plan to do productive things while I'm high. So I do it in the evening usually or at a weekend when I know I can relax. I also stopped smoking up alone several years ago. For me it's a communal ritual and it feels better that way. I've been smoking for 10 years now, after 5 of those years I had to take 1 year break because I was living in Singapore and I had no issues. I was thinking about it now and then, but no craving to speak off. So my consumption pattern I have seem to work in so far, that it doesn't have a negative impact on my life. Porn is a vastly larger problem for me. I also take MDMA and psychedelics since 9 years. During all these years I have kept the consumption of that stuff to 3-4 times a year. Since a few years it dropped down to 1-2 times. The reason being I never bought a stash to keep at home. I only take it at parties/festivals or on a special occasion like going to a cabin for the weekend with friends. I'm telling you this to give you an example of a consumption pattern that seems to have very little negative impact on my life. Of course this evidence is only anecdotal and I've been burned several times through drugs. But if you don't want to give up on them entirely, you might wanna try to connect your consumption to more special occasions rather than having an always accessible source at home. Like you're planning with the blunt after successful sex. When it comes to quitting porn I learned that weed doesn't make things easier. It feels almost three times as good to get mindfucked by porn when you're high than when you're sober. In the end it's all about ritual/habits tho. If you're afraid you'll turn back to porn once you get high again, you need to be prepared beforehand to introduce a new ritual that replaces PMO.
Yeah, well is easy if you just smoke pretty much all day. Not that proud of it, since I wasted some of my life. I think I'm gonna stay on this temporary quit, and when I go back it'll be just a little. Not constantly. And I know everybody says this, but the weed I got was steady fire. I just built up tolerance. Used to smoke an eighth in 2 weeks, then easily an eighth a day, then got carried away. Kinda like porn
I used to do weed mdma cocaine shrooms etc. My advice is quit. Anything that you burn creates cancer inducing fumes. Normally you mix tobacco with blunts so this increases the risk. Not to mention the link to paranoia. Get clean bro switch to alcohol or something and vape.
aw, I kind of just stopped it by choice, my friends are still really into it though. It just always made me really paranoid whenever I was around anybody, and it wasn't just one time. it really messed up my self confidence actually but taking a break helped me to see that what I believed about myself wasn't true at all. it was just all in my mind I guess. I still don't do it today, of fear ill fall back to how I was before What helped me to see that it just wasn't good for me was actually something kurt cobain said in an interview. how after a couple months of doing weed, heroin, cocaine, it gets as boring as breathing air. I suppose that's why people take those breaks and then just come back to the drug
