How long are you not smoking, living sober? Why did you stopped, were you unhappy? Are you happier now?
Struggling here after ~6 years of daily smoking
Men who stopped smoking MJ, how is life for you?
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How long are you not smoking, living sober? Why did you stopped, were you unhappy? Are you happier now?
Struggling here after ~6 years of daily smoking
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Stopped smoking when I realized I was self medicating then started again once I could start just using it for fun again. The biggest thing for me was I couldn’t fall asleep
I can confirm I did not have sexual relations with Michael Jackson, nor did I ever start smoking him
After 15 years of heavy everyday use I’m about 3 months clean. I don’t crave it anymore.
I’ve noticed my energy levels and motivation to get things done are improving. Less procrastinating, less time stuck worrying instead of just doing. Social anxiety has gone down. I feel like my sense of smell is getting sharper. But the biggest thing I appreciate is my sleep is improving big time. Just beware, the dreams are wild and vivid since I’ve quit and I hear that’s common
Smoked every day for 10 years, stopped 5-6 months ago for a job that was life changing, after the first few days I realized it didn’t make me feel all that different honestly. I do miss it as a party or chillin type of activity though, I feel lame for saying no these days but it’s worth it for the betterment of my family
I quit for a year mainly to see if I could, I didn’t feel particularly happier or sadder but when I started smoking again I became incredibly depressed, now I’ve quit again for good this time.
A big part of it is finding things to do with your friends that don’t involve smoking.
Better. I’m less of a fucking loser now.
Man, I’ve got both ways and what I learned is this, moderation is the key. If you can’t have a bag in your house without smoking it, you’ve got a problem. If your day is spent looking forward to smoking, you’ve got a problem. By the tone of your post, I’m guessing you already realize this. My truth is that I have to be really really careful not to become an everyday smoker, my personality is very addictive and it happens in a heartbeat if I lose focus. Some folks can’t, my best buddy absolutely can not do it in moderation so he has to stay away from it. Sucks, but real. Plus, the buzz you get when you’re not smoking everyday is soooo much better and will remind you why you love it, and also why you can’t overindulge. Best of luck to you on your journey☮️
I used to smoke it occasionally but I was never a regular enough user for it to matter
There definitely is a small withdrawal if you’ve used a long time. I had trouble sleeping, poor appetite, nausea and general irritableness, lack of interest in everything. Nothing that would have prevented me from successfully quitting tho. Went away after a week. I stopped to keep my urine clean as I’m not happy with my current job.
The problem for some isn’t the weed itself but using it as a crutch to help ignore your problems. Get to a point you are happy with life without it and then consider recreational use.
I smoked daily for about 13 years, i quit about 5 years ago. Life is fine, i didn’t need it the way I thought i did when I was on it. It took a few weeks to come off it without it sucking (it is addictive.. try quoting for real before you come at me). Once you push through the first 2 weeks or so it gets easier. I still crave it to this day, i miss it. But i sleep fine, I’m not in pain like I thought I would be. And dreaming again is a treat.
I gave it for health reasons when I was diagnosed with kidney disease, it wasn’t a choice I made, I needed to do it.
It can’t take about year to fully recover from long term use. I used for about 20years, quit 6 years ago. During 20s it was fun when done socially, but when you’re doing it alone every evening it looses its appeal.
Night sweats, crazy dreams and mood swings are all normal during withdrawal.
I haven’t craved it in years, even when I’m around people doing it.
Prepare to loose some friends when u no longer partake. Nothing against it but I just feel like it steals a lot of time from you.
I was a high functioning smoker for 18 years. I mean smoke weed everyday for that period of time. I feel more energetic, I sleep a lot better( that took time though) and am way less passive in my spare time.
High functioning in the sense that I had a difficult job, that I excelled at. I’m even better at it now.
When I’m sober I feel like my life is progressing, I have a drive to meet women, I get fit, I eat much healthier, in fully extroverted, I’m generally happier. My issue is I struggling to find a way to decompress so my weeks feel like nothing but work work work until I break and get high then the cycle repeats
When I’m high I don’t feel the weight of life. I’m fully content with activities I typically find boring and the activities I do enjoy are more enjoyable while high. I have something to look forward to each day. My diet becomes much worse and I become lazy/ very introverted. I’m groggy everyday and my main priority is getting home to get high.
It was really enjoyable all through my teens/college but now I’m an adult and life is already so boring (work, eat, sleep) it becomes very difficult to break off the one thing that refreshes that feeling of mundaneness even though at this point it adds to that feeling
My sleep got significantly worse, but my anxiety got significantly better.
Smoked all day, everyday for 20+ years. I quit a couple years ago. The last few years of being baked constantly just wasn’t working out anymore. Life is a bit more boring, but yes it’s better. It wasn’t as life changing as I expected quitting would be , but I would describe it as my energy level is more consistent and I replaced bad habits with good habits. Sometimes miss it but I won’t go back to it.
I’m over 50 and smoked for decades…then about 5 years ago I went on a ‘tolerance break’ for 90 days.
When the break was over, I found that I didn’t want to smoke as much.
I would occasionally take a hit (still do), but the urge for the multiple times a day blunt faded.
I’ve had people tell me that it took a few tolerance breaks for it to hit, but eventually it broke them of the daily.
I’m happier now. I loved feeling high, but realized after tolerance break that I had forgotten what it felt like to be sober. When I tried getting high again I immediately recognized that I was ‘numbing’ myself.
I think you should start by not smoking anything for 30 days. Just give it a shot. See how you feel after.
I was smoking everyday for around 2-3 years. Moved in with my gf, she isn’t a fan so I “stopped”. I still do smoke once in 1-2 months, on specific occasions.
Life got improved 200%, in terms of health, social life, work (money), I have much more energy, and I enjoy a lot of stuff that was hard to enjoy before. When I do smoke on these occasions, it’s so much better experience, also.
3 months clean, I can’t believe what have I been missing. I can’t even stand the smell now…
I’m keen to start smoking mj.
Yeah man, I quit after about 9 years of everyday use. I sleep better, I’m happier, energy levels, focus, and overall appearance have improved.
Would recommend it. I love sobriety now lol. To be clear, i still smoke but only about 10-20 times a year.
I smoked daily for 3 years. Tried to stop and realized I had built my entire life around it. Friends, job, hobbies, all of it. I knew I couldn’t quit without an entire life change. Quit my lame cashiering retail job, moved to different town and started over completely with $10k credit card debt and no job. Got a new job in retail, switched to evening shift, enrolled in 2 year community/trade school, and found new sober friends slowly.
I used to dream of marijuana and I missed the way it made me feel, but I realized all the deep meaningful insights it used to give me were absolute non-sense. I kept a journal while smoking to record all my high realizations and things and it was really important to me. When I started flipping through the pages after not smoking for about 2 year it was THE STUPIDEST CRAP I have ever read in my life. Just repetitive things or randomly rhyming words like “To live… means TO LIVE!!!!!” It was pure schizophrenic nonsense.
Anyway, got one tattoo while smoking but I had plans for full sleeves and everything, once I quit my desire for tattoos completely disappeared. Started a real career, and kept up with school, slowly finishing a masters degree. It’s been 16 years but just crossed the $100k/yr mark working a low stress office job with a great team. Never would have happened on weed. I’ve had some bumps along the way but nothing out of the ordinary or devastating.
Now I see people, family or friends, working bottom tier jobs, smoking all day long watching cartoons all weekend long for 8 years straight getting mad at me saying that smoking weed doesn’t make you lazy, “lazy people are lazy, the weed has nothing to do with it.” Also they “could quit at anytime the just don’t want to.” And they “choose this lifestyle because they don’t want to give in”. All the typical stuff I said too, while simultaneously complaining about how unfair everything is, how little they are paid, how everyone should support each other, of course while asking family and friends for free housing and offering nothing in return except “good vibes, bro”.
To this day, in 16 years, I haven’t met a single other person that was a daily MJ smoker and gave it up. So yeah, I admit it’s based my own anecdotal evidence, but yes I 100% believe MJ is addictive and has negative affects on your life.
“BuT lOoK aT JoE rOgAn, dO yOu tHiNk hEs uNsUcCeSsFuL!?” -Every Bong Toking Basement Dweller in America
I was a 24/7 smoker for 8yrs. I only smoke now if I’m with friends. My life is way more productive! I don’t miss being comfortably numb.
I smoked every day heavily from age 14 to 21.
I would smoke in the morning before work, some times on my break at work, in the evening when I got home, before eating, before going to bed, before the gym, when I got back from the gym.
I realized that I wasn’t having “fun” being high anymore and it was just a habit/addiction, but I kept smoking. One night after smoking before bed, I had a panic attack/paranoia, which I never experienced before. It really freaked me out and I thought I was going into psychosis or something. i was awake until like 3-4am before finally just passing out. The next morning when I woke up, I decided to just put the tree down for good and never looked back.
1 year out now and I’m honestly feeling better than ever. I’m more productive than ever, my mind is clearer. I used to always think that “I still get stuff done” so that meant there was nothing negative about smoking that often, but now that I’m off of it, I realize how much it clouds your brain and affects your motivation. I honestly never wanted to go back since stopping. Some times I wonder what it would be like to smoke one more time, but I don’t really have any desire to actually do it.
4 or 5 years now. Smoked daily for 10. I used it as a tool for procastination and neglecting my issues and personal growth. In the end, it became too much. Stopping MJ was a big step in my rebirth.
I only could do this occasionally. It made me into the laziest POS imaginable.
I stopped because it caused horrible existential dread.
Yes I’m way happier now. More productive as well.
Smoking weed made me mentally unwell. Used to smoke like a chimney. Kinda better now, might still light up like twice a year if I feel like it. But usually it aint worth the risk of experience being bad.
Nothing different.
I didn’t quit, but I’ve moved to weekends only. Life has been generally the same I think. I feel much more alert and I wake up feeling more well rested, so that’s a plus.
I also don’t have anxiety about trips where I can’t bring weed anymore, which is a plus.
I also get way, way, WAY higher when I do smoke, which is a plus.
Overall, I think it’s been positive, but certainly not some life-changing thing. Weed never held me back professionally or socially or anything, so I wasn’t quitting for any reason like that. Mostly just got tired of spending so much money on weed and wanted to not have sleep anxiety when I am out of the country without it.
The much lower tolerance has become my favorite part though, I get absolutely blitzed these days. Went out for dinner with some friends early on in the process and about halfway through dinner they were going outside to smoke (all you can eat fish and chips, gotta be high lol), and I was just like “I’m good, I’m still absolutely blazed.” Really put into perspective how low my tolerance had dropped and how much more fun weed is
Smoked every day for 15 years. First thing I did in the morning. Last thing I did at night. Smoke breaks were toke breaks. Started feeling strange being high around my young kids so stopped smoking at home at night. Stopped smoking at work after I realised it was making me dumb. Saw a dramatic increase in my earnings as time went on and never looked back. Stopped smoking when I was out because I noticed it was making me anti-social and having anxiety around crowds. I still have a lazy puff maybe twice a year but I’m glad I’m no longer an addict. Still hang around friends who get high all the time but I’m cool not joining in. I have absolutely no judgement on users. No regrets. Just personal preference and lessons.
For me my life didn’t do a major 180 after quitting (2 years clean), that’s why it was hard to stop.
I needed to say goodbye to the rollercoaster of emotions – paranoia, dread, etc. I asked myself, if this was a prescription would I accept these side effects?
Also I don’t have to hide it anymore. Not worried about smell or red eyes or the image of myself as a user.
I don’t binge eat like I used to. I could really put away calories while high.
Those are the main ones. I do miss the way it felt to lock in to an activity after smoking, now I have to earn it.
Quit after 7 years of daily use. First month was rough, insomnia, irritability, weird dreams. by month 3, mental fog lifted completely. Stopped because i realized i was using it to avoid dealing with actual problems. Year and a half sober now. more present, better memory, saving money. Not always “happier” but definitely clearer and more in control. Worth it.
Haven’t smoked for 7ish years now. I stopped immediately after an “inconclusive” drug test at work.
Haven’t missed smoking and never craved it after. I did have edible gummies a few years later but that was a one-off thing
After years of heavy use, I did 9 weeks clean at the start of the year. It felt more like a sabbatical than actually quitting and I enjoyed the sense of clarity and dreams during that stretch … but I also became pretty depressed.
I’m cutting down again though and want to quit for at least a few years –I think having a hard schedule will help me. Key for me is that smoking pot makes getting by alright but destroys certain ambition. Essentially, I want to date again, and I’d rather become a sex addict or lean into that than keep smoking pot.
I never did it, but I watched my uncle struggle with life for years after giving up his daily habit. I have to imagine that his lungs felt better though. Out of his huge family of siblings, he was the only one who just wasn’t a complete asshole.
Recently quit after an embarrassing experience. The first few days were tough, anxious, bad mood.
It’s only been two or so weeks and it went from being the first thing I think about and a constant through the day and night to not even on my mind.
You gotta put it in your head that you’re stopping. I’ve grabbed a few puffs here and there, but the money and health concerns were getting real for me.
I had a kid and the desire to be stoned just went away. I’ve smoked a few times since he’s been born and I can’t seem to enjoy it as much anymore. I just get too paranoid he’s going to need me for something.
I felt like a useless person, just getting high all the time. That gave me anxiety. It made me feel like I was no different than a junkie.
Every time I try it, even if it’s just a single puff, it brings on feelings of immense guilt.
Life has been better without it.
Smoked every day for 15 years and now non smoker for 16. I don’t miss the forgetfulness and paranoia that was getting worse. That was one of the main reasons of quitting.
20 years heavy smoker. I moved to a place where its hard to get and not worth it. I miss it. Sometimes I travel only to smoke. I did smoke to much in the past, so I guess this situation is better for me. Do whatever works for you, its okay to try and fail before you find your way.
Better. I stopped about 3 months before my daughter was born. Only other time I’ve actually smoked was in Vegas bc obviously…I just take gummies now. Save your lungs!
I quit 15-20 years ago. I don’t miss it but can acknowledge or look back on the hood smoking times like after a meal or with a cup of coffee. Overall a terrible habit
I smoked daily from about 2000-2019-ish, and basically just quit cold turkey. I’ll still hit anything that isn’t mine when out with friends, which isn’t very often these days. Don’t miss it at all. I feel so much better, and I’m way more productive. I’ve lost the consistent numb that weed provides, which can be a blessing or a curse
I smoked almost daily for a couple of years. One day it was like a switch flipped, and it started giving me really bad anxiety. After I had a panic attack I quit. I tried it again a few times after that but every time it just felt bad so now I’ve been sober over a year. I do miss it sometimes but overall I feel better and clearer.
I stopped in 1977 because I joined the military…. “Retired” in 1998 rolled a doobie one day… I noticed a change in the strength, somewhat stronger (to say the least). Halfway through the joint I was effing baked, the world started to spin the wrong way and I hurled. Didn’t try again for a coupla years… same deal… I just stick to beer and booze now.
I’m about 1 month sober and I hate it. Insomnia has seemed to develop.
I used to smoke every single day. Before work, during work, after work. Honestly it becomes a crutch for dealing with real life and while it did serve its purpose.. I don’t miss it.. at least not every day. Once in a blue moon I will wish I could know the feeling again but it’s pretty rare.. Im much more present .. memory is better etc
I had consistent heavy use for about a year. I had many days where I was high for the majority of my waking hours. That period of life wasn’t a complete waste, but I wish it didn’t take a whole year of my life.
I am still fine getting high and do occasionally partake in weed. It’s been a couple months since I’ve taken an edible, but I use it maybe once every few months. I’ve had a significant decrease in my use.
Life is very good. Weed gave me a lot of time and headspace to really reflect on what I wanted, who I was, etc. I feel much more confident in who I am as a person.
When i stopped smoking, my memory improved, and my sleep was way better. It was a night and day difference. Life got a lot better when I stopped smoking consistently.
It’s been a little over 10 years now since I stopped. I smoked almost daily, often multiple times a day for around 3 years. And yes, I was unhappy. Essentially I was self medicating. I stopped because I was 24 years old, making minimum wage and living with my parents. I figured I needed to make a change if I wanted more from life, and it seemed like the obvious thing to do. Took a couple attempts to be fair, but after a little while I didn’t crave it anymore. I picked up a new hobby (reading) to replace all the newly saved time. That took a couple attempts to stick as well. But now I enjoy it a lot.
And yes, I’m much happier now. Life is better now than I ever though possible, honestly. Don’t ever want to smoke again.
Not me but a guy I went to school with recently. Both went to a local tech school for drafting, we both hit it off since we’re both veterans and a bit older than most of the other classmates. He and his wife were daily smokers/edibles for years. He quit before we graduated cause he knew most places do drug screens. He said he’s less paranoid, sleeps better, better focus and food tastes better. Me on the other hand want to roll a big fat blunt but my wife would kill me.
Have been sober over a year!I feel like I can fly. Life is equally as colorful without it as it was with it, but now life feels warmer. I stopped because I recognized I was addicted but it took the power of God to heal me completely from it. I tried to stop numerous times, all of which failed.
I am not as anxious or paranoid, I do not get irritated as easily, I do not avoid people as much, I have completely lost my cravings for it. I cannot say I am happier now because I am very good at navigating happiness regardless of how life looks, but I can say I am more free and I do not feel as restricted, shameful, or dirty if that makes sense
My then crippling anxiety is incredibly manageable now
I’m fairly certain it didn’t start the anxiety but by fuck did it magnify it.
A daily intensive smoker for probably about 25 years. Bongs and pipes, then later, spliffs (I couldn’t be bothered with rolling and smoking spliffs in my younger days). I stopped about 10 years ago after being diagnosed with COPD. But I was also just personally at that point where I was ready. Made a HUGE difference to my mornings and my days in general. Much more engaged and with it. Not as groggy. Generally just felt much more energetic. I still have a puff here and there, and it’s much more appreciated. I ALWAYS have such a good laugh. One thing I will say is that when I’m stoned, my head goes to a very much more creative space. And this is not just me saying this. Art, creative ideas and inspiration/interaction. I just go on a different plain.
But overall, it became part of my identity at a point in my life where my place was where everyone came to smoke and hang out. Then I was smoking at work during my lunch breaks. I wouldn’t say I miss it as I can get it and smoke if I want. I think I prefer where I’m at now, energy wise. I’m 55. Having said all that, I had a puff the other night and was totally baked I lay on the floor next to my dog. Which was nice.
DREAMS
Wasn’t really that complex for me, I realized that getting high wasn’t fun anymore because the paranoia was starting to get to me, so I stopped. Didn’t really change my life other than making it more annoying to hangout with a couple particular friends.
I’m fine. Script ran out about a year ago. I had a little saved up. Maybe smoked 4 bowls on the last 8 months. No bucks given
I realized that smoking was making me anxious, so I started smoking less. Eventually, I noticed that I felt terrible on the days I did smoke. As a result, I basically quit. Although it didn’t feel like a formal quitting process, I simply stopped doing it. That was almost 20 years ago. Since then, I’ve become much more active and clear-headed. Smoking weed is not for everyone. Once you realize that it’s not a good fit for you, it’s a no brainer.
Very good. Been about 14 months clean and loving every minute.
Smoking pot in the first place is dumb
I don’t smoke, but at the moment I’m doing 40 mg of edibles every other day. I could do without it if I had to, but right now I’m really enjoying it.
So much better!
I started smoking way too early, I was still a teenager very much. And then I continued doing it for 12 years, about 5 years on the daily, 2 years quite heavily. Stopped 1.5yr ago because my gf at the time also got into the habit, and through seeing her doing it every day, I realized I am wasting so much of my time being high and “just chilling”.
And last but not least… when I was doing it on the daily, I never really got that high. I was chilling and numb, but never that real shit that I originally liked. Now that I’m not doing it, whenever I very rarely get offered one and join in at a party, oh boy am I in for a ride, and I love it. It’s like when I was just trying it way back. But even when I do it, I never think of picking it up again now.
I had a kid and realized that smoking and drinking was a waste of my time and I didn’t want my daughter to see me high or drunk. It has been awesome. Honestly, I even started trauma therapy, which has been a huge help.
Weed is one of the best drugs to use if you don’t want to work on any of your personal issues/problems.
I smoked daily for over 20 years and I now haven’t smoked in the last 10 years except for a few parties. My problem is that I transferred a lot of my addiction from pot to eating and have gained a lot of weight in the last ten years. It is still better that I did especially since that time I have gotten a job that has random drug tests and I really like my job and am making more money than I ever compared to when I smoked weed.
I occasionally get a bug to do it once in awhile but I don’t need it anymore. In my 20’s I was smoking every single day and it turned into a problem for me. Alcohol was also a vice for me too. I can honestly say after stopping both I’m a much happier person.
It’s better than it’s ever been. Life was pretty miserable back when i got high all the time. The worse it was, the more i wanted to just get high so i could deal with life being so shitty. My life has done nothing but improve since i was forced to quit.
I was a 3+ times a day stoner for about 12 years, ever since I was 16. I did a lot of great things with my life while being a stoner, but I never stopped battling with cyclical depression and self care issues.
One psych I started seeing during the pandemic was a big anti-pot person. I’d seen several psychs previously and always ignored any suggestions to moderate or quit my habit (they don’t understand how much it helps me, or how little it actually matters since I was doing well in life, so I thought). This psych was different in a lot of ways though. He was a very highly respected practitioner who had written a book about the subject (among others), and was one of the nicest, realest dudes I’d ever received care from. Like, he knew I wasn’t going to just give it up like that, so he wasn’t stern or judgemental about it at all. Just compassionate and informative.
He slowly and carefully broke me down over many months and eventually convinced me to try giving it up for a few months to see how it affected my behavior. It was hard, but within only a few weeks I noticed how much more often I was waking up in a good mood, and how much easier it felt to take care of myself (exercise, proper dieting, some hygiene stuff, reading for pleasure, etc.). I didn’t smoke for an entire year because of how much better I felt.
It’s been 3 years since then, and while I have definitely smoked some herb, my relationship with weed is completely different. Now, getting high is a once in a while thing (1-2 times a month tops, almost always in social settings) and I am not struggling with any of the issues I used to. To really demonstrate how serious the changes have been for me – I went through a rough break up about a year ago and started getting high daily again for about a month as a way of coping, and it was incredible how quickly my issues came back. I was already depressed because of the break up, but the pot was definitely not helping. Because I had that contrast from the prior years, it was really easy to see what was going on and quit again.
Long story short, it has been a very positive change for me. I still enjoy getting baked sometimes, but I don’t long for it, and I’m much happier overall.
I stopped years ago. My brain thanks me.
Smoking what tho?
My Dr. said I need it 😏
I smoked almost constantly, all day everyday from 2009-2019. I haven’t smoked for almost 6 years now.
After I quit I went back to college and got my career started, bought a house, got married and had 2 kids.
My stress levels are so much lower as is my ability to regulate my emotions. My motivation and executive functioning skills are much better as well.
The comfort of weed is really nice but I don’t miss it, my life now brings more comfort than I ever had before.
I smoked weed pretty much every day from age 18 to 29. I quit and went about 30 years without touching it. Now I will occasionally do an edible or a vape. Edible helps me sleep and I only vape at concerts or weekends with the guys away from home.
I was high everyday for about 20 years. Stopped for a year, started again for a couple months, realized I just didn’t like it anymore. Was tired and wanted off the ride. And now I’m about 2 years completely free of THC.
I was never a heavy smoker, more of a microdoser I guess. But I did it most mornings and evenings (and some lunch hours) from age 19 to 42 (minus a year I spent in Japan). After that I cut out the weekday mornings and lunch hours, then by the time I was 50 I was down to weekends only. Then by 60 it was maybe once a month, and now I’ve only done it once in 5 years. Might try it again this weekend for old times sake.
I never really noticed much difference in my health, attitude or energy level. I mean I’ve grown and evolved every year for 68, and it was part of my life for 40, but it never struck me that I was different when I stopped or started.
I used to smoke in college for a couple of years, I eat a lot less and I save money by not door dashing at 3am
I stopped drinking and smoking weed and cigarettes this past 5th of June. My first born turned 3 on the 6th and it’s a commitment I did for him and I.
I want him to have the healthiest dad and I don’t want to lose precious moments with him. He is the joy of my world.
If also been losing a lot of weight and sleeping early and waking up early too.
I miss smoking weed the most, but it’s ok. I smoked for at least the past 20 years so it’s ok.
I’ve been feeling great tbh. Something clicked and can’t explain it.
Heavy smoker for about 18 years and had to give it up for a job. Didn’t miss it at all tbh or craved it. Done it a couple of times during the holidays or long periods off but don’t enjoy it. However I kind of went insane after 6-8 years as Im not a drinker. But found a few other ways to take a trip away from myself.
Go for GOOD hypnosis therapist and you’ll have no crysis and no recidive…
I repeat-GOOD one (check forums…)
Smoked for 25 years straight, all day everyday. Had to quit for health issues. I take edibles sometimes. Was easier than I would have thought. Memory is better, thinking is clearer. Vivid dreams.
I smoked D9 all throughout college, and then D8 all throughout law school. I’ve quit for three months now as I’m joining the army soon.
Honestly, I don’t feel any different. The biggest struggle is getting a normal sleep schedule, but I wouldn’t say that I am more or less happy. Perhaps I have less brain fog, but it’s not really noticeable.
I quit for about a year at a few different points; early 20’s quit for 2 years, then stopped again from 25-26, then cut back some in my late 20’s. Dreams get super vivid, it’s easier to wake up early or on less than optimal amounts of sleep, aside from the actual feeling of being high (and becoming more introverted), I didn’t notice tons of life changes. Less late night snacks maybe? lol
Quit for 6 months for a job, no noticeable changes outside of being slightly less patient with people, then I started again fairly recently as I felt I was in a good place. My dreams only really got crazy right after I started smoking again, then went back to normal.
I’m in the same boat, going on 6 years now. I recently took a break and realized how much different my mind works sober once the fog clears. Give it a try, it’s tempting for a week or so and sleep/hunger is fucked up but after that it gets better.
I stopped two weeks ago roughly because of job interviews and I start a new one Monday so I want to have a clear mind. It’s a software dev role, if it were anything else I probably wouldn’t care but being high makes it significantly harder. I can get a ton done if it’s just me working on my own project but can’t seem to do it when I’m working with others and have other responsibilities so I figured just best to pack it in for good. Feeling good so far, no longer craving it but I do miss it