Posting here for accountability but it’s been 24 hrs no thc and feeling alright… I go through 1-2 carts a month with this past month being only 1. Daily smoking for 5 years with past 3 years very heavy high thc products and daily cart usage for the past year, before that was heavy cart user in 2020-2021. Going on international trip in 2 weeks and don’t want to deal with withdrawals then so hoping cutting now will help with that. Ultimately want to get off of carts mostly or completely once I’m back but we’ll see how strong my resolve is

Im a 10th grader in high school currently number one in my class, with plans to graduate valedictorian. I hold down a job, play varsity basketball and go to the gym consistently. I have smoked weed daily for 3-4 years. I am pretty much high in school the whole time. I have not noticed any downsides to my intelligence except minor slowness sometimes. Should I quit, I want the best for my future but weed genuinely helps me in alot of ways. I have extreme difficulty falling asleep when I’m not high, and i feel like I’m a better person when i am high. I would love to hear the opinions of others on this matter.

Not for me, but for my older brother, I only smoke with him an average of 2 times a week, if not less because it is not something fixed, but my brother one day told me that it was normal for university students and that They did it 3 times a day, it seems like too much to me because depending on if I did that at strategic times of the day I would basically be smoking all day, I know they don't do it every day but even smoking three times a day some days seems too much to me. ,but I am not an expert like some in this subreddit so I wanted to ask you guys what you think of this habit.

Shit is exhausting. Feel like shit all the time because I won’t stick to quitting.

Sleeping like shit and getting high a day later and ruining the progress.

Who else just wants to finally quit so bad they torture themselves? It’s been 3 years for me. Longest I smoked before that was 1.5 years.

Fuck this Brain fog! I’m not going back to this time. I want to feel emotions and control them. and to feel strong. I want to feel healthy, I wanna sleep and dream again. I want to have good times again. THC is suppose to be a tool not an everyday thing. Sad to say I’m an addicted loser. But you’re not going to get anywhere if you’re not honest with yourself.

Who else wants to finally come to terms and go on this 1 month streak with me? Day 2 starts now. Stay safe, and I hope more of us can break this cycle and delete this subreddit.

Not sure where to ask for help?

I dont know if this is the place to ask but I am a bit desperate. Maybe if no one can help as its not the place someone could point me somewhere that might be able to help.

I have smoked weed on and off my entire life from 13 years old to 40.

I am currently trying to stop, I am taking mounjaro weight loss injections now for 4 months and have lost 20 kg, so I am at 100kg now. The weed has been excellent for dealing with the nausea, but definitely does counteract the medicine slightly as it does still give you the munchies. That said, I have still done great weight loss wise so its been really good.

I am trying to stop because I was using vape pens which were amazing, but my supplier has gone away for a while and I went back to flower. I bought a tiny might 2 to vape flower with as my mate raves over it, and unfortunately my one had a defect where it must have had some sort of chemical residue from the manufacturing process and it tasted vile, you couldnt even draw on it, felt like you were inhaling asbestos or something.

Anyway. I bought tobacco because I just wanted to smoke something and though i do like pure, I prefer a few specs of tobacco.

Started smoking cigs again, and with combustion back I felt like crap again chest wise after a couple of weeks.

Thats all the background.

Trying to stop now. I do suffer from very bad withdrawal symptons from cannabis. My usual routine is to just stay in bed all day and after 24 hours I normally feel ok, but this time its not happening.

My stomach will not stop feeling tense. Its like my body will not relax, I cant focus at all and doing anything other than lying down for more than 30 minutes makes me start feeling flustered, nauseous and confused. As well as the stomach tenseness which I am sure is from the cannabis withdrawal, I have a lot of acid in my stomach from where its so empty as well.

Its been 4 days now, I dont feel like I can handle the stomach tenseness anymore. I have only slept for 3 hours today and I really dont want to smoke/vape again (vaping is an option as my friend lent me his tiny might 2 while mine is being replaced), if only just to not have to go through this withdrawal again.

Does anyone here have any experience of severe withdrawal symptoms from regular/heavy cannabis daily usage? Has anyone experienced this before? I typed into google and it come up woth stomach cramps from drug withdrawal, could that be what this is?

If anyone has any advice for me at all I would be so grateful. I dont want to break, but at the same time I dont want to feel like this anymore.

I cant eat anything either..... the Mounjaro whilst suppressing appetite has never made me not eat at all, just made me eat less. Thursday and Friday I literally ate 3 spoonfuls of pasta only each day, yesterday I ate 70% of one sandwich and a few spoonfuls of pasta. I am hungry, but I cant eat either which I am sure is being exacerbated by the withdrawal. I cant handle it. Please any help advice or discussion would be amazing. Thank you.

I have always had issues regulating my usage, although I am mindful about it and definitely have t-breaks. But what truly makes t-breaks successful is their regularity. Lots of times over the past few years, I frequently committed to a week and cracked 4-5 days in, or reached my commitment but then didn't take a day off for another month plus. I have always admired the suggestion on here of going 1 day/week 1 week/month and 1 month/year, but never followed through - until now. (still not sure what month to take off - want it to be earlier than sober October and no-toke November of recent years.

1 month into 2025, I already have 10 weed free days under my belt - took till March to reach that last year. As a bonus, I went 5/10 days without alcohol - the t-break only counts for something when I don't replace it with a known carcinogen. The other rule is that at least half of this year's weed free days will be alcohol free as well. Good luck to all of us on this journey - moderation of this lovely substance is a lifetime project!

I've been completely clean for a little over 2 months now. My last 2 weeks at school have been super stressful and I keep getting thoughts of "Friday I could smoke just 1 to take the edge off after school play video games and relax a bit" or stuff like that. As much as I want too I feel like they are more Cravings/addiction creeping it's way back. I keep thinking just 1 wouldn't hurt but im scared that if I do the Cravings will get worse and it'll be like stopping all over again. I was a really heavy smoker... like spend all my money in that and smoke 3 to 5 infused (90% and up) joints a day so im worried to fall back in the pattern. But I'd love to be able to smoke recreationally sometimes. How bad are your Cravings after smoking usually ? Also how do you tell between Cravings/addiction and just want8bg to smoke up and chill?

Hello guys,

I'm starting a new job as an auto detailer at a repair shop, and I will be starting a 2 week job shadowing/training on Monday. I really want to quit weed so I can fully focus on my new job and be clear headed, especially because I still have so much to learn. For context, I smoke 1-2 grams of weed every day from a bong. I've tried quitting weed again and again and again, and I fail every time. However, I feel like that is because I was always sitting at home bored, as well as being in an environment where I'm used to always being high. I feel like I feel like these 2 weeks of job training would be a good window to quit weed cold turkey, but I'm worried about facing the withdrawals while learning a new job. I don't want to be cranky or make stupid mistakes. Also, when I'm going through withdrawal, I feel like my brain just doesn't work. I'm also really terrible at smoking moderately or cutting back, I feel like I'm too addicted right now and my cannabis use disorder is too strong. Do you have any advice for me?

Mind-altering substances can feel like a portal to another dimension, and when you come back, you’re subtly changed—even if you don’t realize it at first. I’ve been thinking about this in the context of new technologies like quantum computing and AI, which seem to tap into parallel universes of ideas that might never manifest otherwise. In that sense, weed functions like a “mind-altering technology”—it changes the trajectory of the universe you inhabit and reshapes your perspectives.

Occasionally dipping into those fresh ideas can be cool, but relying on these technologies (or substances) can end up taking over a part of you. One clear sign of addiction is feeling unable to live without it. The closest parallel I can give is virtual reality: people can get swept up in AI-driven simulations and quantum-powered worlds. But with VR, you can at least take the headset off. Substances, on the other hand, have a more direct and lasting impact on your perceptions, so it’s not nearly as easy to disconnect.

so for context i'm 20 and have been smoking regularly since 18 and pretty much daily since 19. i've taken some breaks because of tolerance becoming too high but i always go back.

now i'm finally ready to admit that my relationship with weed isn't what it should be. it always starts in moderation. it starts with smoking socially with friends maybe 1-3x a week and i control myself with how much i smoke. but it so quickly becomes smoking daily with or without my friends. and the even bigger problem is that once i start smoking (flower or carts) i could go on forever. like i just don't want to stop and i never feel like i get too high and i've never greened out before. this interferes with my sleep, energy, focus, and memory. which as a college student are all very important to me. i have so many things i want to do but i just can't.

so now i'm going to be taking a month break from smoking to see how it makes me feel. but that's all it is for me. a break. i want to keep smoking. i enjoy it. i enjoy how it makes me feel, i like the act, the taste, the social aspect. just all of it. but for someone who can always feel like i can do more is moderation even possible? sometimes i think maybe carts are the problem and i should be able to smoke flower on the weekends and control myself. but that's what i always start with, and then the cycle continues.

i just miss feeling like i'm putting my all into everything. now i feel like i'm half asleep and don't know what to do. the person who introduced me to weed and encouraged daily smoking isn't in my life to help me anymore and i'm stuck. please any advice or stories are welcome

To expand on the title, I started using weed about 2 years ago to cope with depression/ptsd symptoms. About a year ago this turned into me having an edible or smoking almost everyday (usually at least one to three days sober a week, actually been quite proud of myself for increasing my sober days), as my job has been killing me and I’ve been holding onto my mental health my the skin of my teeth.

Weed helped me get back into hobbies that bring me joy, helped me be productive enough to keep my home clean, and give me the motivation to act in ways that will help future me. I’m aware I’m using it as a crutch, but weed helped me stop self harming and starving myself, and I figure it’s better to choose the least self-destructive path.

However over the last month or so I’m finding myself too depressed to smoke! It used to be that I could at least find the motivation to go grab an edible or light up, and then once I was high I could actually do things like laundry and hobbies etc. Now I can’t even find the motivation to get high, like the edibles will be in different room and I can’t even bring myself to go get one. Like it’s a shitty mix of being too mentally tired to do anything and feeling like I don’t ‘deserve’ to get high. On one hand it’s probably good I’m spending more of my days sober, but I’m 1000x less productive on those sober days this last month.

I don’t even know what to do at this point. I’ve been self medicating my depression with weed, I guess I didn’t anticipate the depression ‘breaking through.’ Anyone else been in this position?

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I’m new to this subreddit, but I’ve been trying over & over to cut down on extremely heavy daily & nightly smoking hash & vaping hash oil since 2018.

I’m really gonna do it this year. My goal for this year is to literally go just one single day without smoking/vaping, & then ultimately be able to cut backdown to a few times a week max. I don’t think that’s unrealistic.

But I feel like my best friend died. I literally feel grief. I feel like I’ve lost something I can’t live without. & I haven’t even stopped yet!

My tolerance has eliminated any perceived psychological benefits (except for the medicinal/anti-inflammatory/immune modulating & anti-nausea/appetite stimulant effects). My thought is maybe I can start off by just using my CBN/THC bedtime/insomnia pen & CBD pen.

I can’t stop crying, I’m enraged, I feel so sick that I literally go days without eating or sleeping. I wanna throw a f***ing chair across the room.

So if I’m not even feeling anything anymore, why is it so hard for me to let it go, even a little? I don’t understand. I try to keep putting my bong & dab ribs away but I just end up getting them back. It’s driving me crazy.

I haven’t even managed to do it. I’ve been smoking for 11 years. It became daily in 2016.

The worst part is that I can 100% tell my brain is automatically desperately trying to substitute any other substances.

I’m never going back to morphine, I conquered that after 5 years of being secretly addicted & physically dependent while being “high functioning”. Morphine withdrawal is f***ing AGONY, I’ve experienced it several times at varying degrees of severity, but it doesn’t last forever - after about 7-10 days the worst is over. When I was on a forced tolerance break in 2017 for work (8 months of abstinence), I remember hash withdrawal being so prolonged, it was hell, albeit a different type of hell.

I wrote a post in the shrooms subreddit about addiction because psychedelic therapy is what allowed me to stop craving it a few months after I quit which was the hardest part & then it made me stop THINKING about it after like 6 months. Now it’s been 10 months morphine free. Specifically, it destroyed the psychological aspect of the addiction. If I quit morphine by myself after 5 years of being physically dependent & addicted, then I can do this. If I can fly, then I can f***ing walk.

So now I’ve been attempting to do the same thing with hash/THC but it’s not really working. During the actual trip, sure, I temporarily will be able to stop smoking/vaping involuntarily, but it’s very transient. I’m stuck & I don’t know what to do.

I’m curious if anyone has any thoughts at all. I feel so stuck & I’m really trying but it’s not working.

Stopped on the first after 5 years of daily usage. Pretty damn proud of myself if I can say so. The first 10 days were definitely the hardest with the first 3-4 pretty excruciating. Took awhile for my body to adjust but I feel great now. Still not used to having dreams every night but it’s getting better.

I don’t plan on never smoking again. It was never my goal to be fully sober but it was most certainly my goal to get a better handle on my usage. Was using to cope with everything in life and realized it was only making my anxiety worse. I want to be able to smoke for fun and pleasure and not as a vice to live.

Congrats to everyone else who made it through the month of January and good luck with your journeys moving forward!

I used edibles pretty heavily most of 2024. My tolerance kept going up so I took a break in October and had horrible insomnia. Developed a hypnic jerk and everything. I was off it for about 45 days and my sleep improved some. This is when I learned how much weed affects REM sleep.

I did start again around late December, vaping flower. Not much - one or two ‘bowls’ in my little dry herb vape. And I make sure to not vape after 5/6pm, so I’m no longer high when going to sleep.

I’ve been having some trouble sleeping again though. So.. could the weed still be negatively affecting my sleep, even if I’m limiting it to daytime use?

Today is the day I have been planning to stop vape carts for my lung health and to save LOTS of money. I am allowing myself to use edibles freely in the next couple of weeks. After that I would like to start tapering down even more. I never thought I would be a daily THC user until around 5 or 6 years ago when the vape carts made things waayyyy too easy. Wish me luck!!!

I am really wanting to quit for good, I've come to realise I really have no control with weed whatsoever and I can't moderate.

I tried to quit several times in January and have been beating myself up for never making it past 5-6 days but I'm trying to look at the bigger picture... After 20 years of heavy daily smoking, I have stayed sober for 20 days in January.

That's progress. Here's hoping I can keep it going.

hey all! I’m (28F) trying to stick to smoking weed only on the weekends, but now I’m starting to feel like I’m cheating… I’ve smoked weed nearly everyday for the past 5 years, and for the past year, my relationship with it got toxic. I would smoke like 1-2 joints everyday, and at some point it just became something that I couldn’t skip, almost like a ritual. I decided to open up to my therapist about it, and it helped me take action on trying to changing my consumption. This is where the “only weekend” thing came to mind. I just think that if I could keep myself accountable, I won’t have to eliminate it forever. I started attempting this at the beginning of the year, and been successful ever since. I really enjoy smoking weed and believe that with moderation, it could be enjoyable and harmless. But suddenly, I was thinking like what’s the point of that? Am I just lying to myself and not pushing myself enough to stop for good?

How long does it take of not smoking to be able to smoke and not wanna smoke all the time. Like ive seen post about its stored in your fat for 30 days then after that is it like you haven’t smoked before and your body is brand new to it ? Thus theoretically if you were to smoke again you wont have the same dependency you did before when you were smoking everyday? is that how it works? Btw love this thread and all the post super helpful. Personal experiences and fact supported evidence welcome :)
Edit:originally made this post in r/leaves

Hi all! I am on day 25 of a self-imposed minimum 90 day break from smoking. Overall it's going fine, the cravings and irritability went down after the first few days, and after a couple weeks I got past the night time insomnia and into the very vivid dreams stage, which I find to be very unpleasant but it is what it is. On the plus side, my lungs are grateful that I've stopped assaulting them multiple times per day, I waste less time getting lost in my own head, and my short term memory is leagues better.

The worst thing right now is, no matter how much sleep I get at night, I find myself bone tired by like 2 or 3 in the afternoon to the point where it is impossible not to nap. (luckily I WFH) I've been reading posts on this sub and r/ leaves during this journey and noticing that this doesn't seem to be a common symptom.

Is this something other people have experienced as well? If so, when does it start to get better??

thanks for reading

I used to have a very high tolerance but I follow this schedule.

I'll have one 100 mg gummy and get really high.

Then I'll wait 24 hours and have another one the next night.

Then on the 3rd day I don't have any thc then I repeat.

My question is,

If I space out my usage by 24 hours, would not skipping on the 3rd day matter?

I'm not sure if my tolerance will go up if I get high everyday but only once a day and space it out by 24 hour increments?

Or if abstaining every few days is what is keeping my tolerance low?

I'm not sure?

Starting tonight, I will be taking a break from weed (preferably a month).

The longest I’ve went is 11 days but I still feel like that was not enough.

I’ve been smoking every month since December and I really wanna take a full month away from it. Then switch to edibles and pre rolls once I come back.

I still have more than half of my cart full, it was $40 and I don’t wanna waste money, what should I do?

So l smoke (usually eat edibles) on the weekends. This weekend I wanna do a tolerance break but I'm sooooo wanting to smoke. I tell myself no because I wanna prove to myself that I don’t need it, but I know very well I don’t need it I just feel like doing it.

Background: My mom is an alcoholic and the main thing that makes her that to me is how she acts angry and abrasive about it, lies about it and hides it. It’s always made me scared of addiction.

This is why I limit my consumption to weekends even though I don’t hide it, I don’t act differently although sometimes I do get paranoid, and I am very honest about it (although I don’t bring it up much to my family members who are anti weed) But I also feel like what if the desire to smoke is bad ? Like what if it’s doing too much and I’m having a hard time drawing a line in the sand.

So basically I’ve been smoking weed since I was 12 years old and yes I know that smoking at that time is extremely bad for your brain but it wasn’t chronic use, it’d be very infrequent and frequent if that makes sense haha, like it’d be on the weekend with my mates and maybe the odd time during the week after school but then i wouldn’t really touch it for a couple weeks and it’d just be like that so im 99% sure that type of use didn’t permanently damage my brain. Also there was a time in my life where I basically didn’t touch it for 6 months and then when i did start smoking after that i went back to that type of smoking use as when I was younger ( maybe even less). However when i was 15 (like summer 2021) it turner to chronic use every day . It started small like a 0.1 bong rip a day but eventually started smoking more and more as tolerance became an issue ( I’m sure you all know this slope ). Over the past 3 and a half years , I’ve had a handful of 1 week t breaks, a ten day t break and like 6 months ago I had like a month and a half almost 2 months where I barely touched it like a not even a joints worth of puffs all in all but I started smoking again back to chronic use after that however after new years I decided to sort out my smoking once and for all as I started noticing how my brain was affected ( started feeling foggy, quite out of it , not great memory and felt like I was seeing things out of the corner of my eye that where actually there but my brain perceived as something else for a split second). Since new years, I’ve only had a couple puffs on a joint on one day and my brain does feel much better, I’m making a lot less mistakes at work , i feel sharper and just better all in all ( my brain does still perceive things in my peripheral as something else for a split second but even that’s getting better). So what I’m trying to say is if I smoke a bit once or twice a month, will my brain still fully recover or should I just not touch it at all? (Also i started microdosing psilocybin recently which obviously promotes neurogenisis in your brain and I feel like that’s helped as well)

I have CPTSD and ADHD. I also just started my graduating semester and I’m fucking stressed and depressed. I have to work at least 20hrs a week and have two 12hr internships a week. I miss having my vice I miss feeling numb and it feels like this feeling will never end I feel so horrible every fucking day I’m so fucking irritable and miserable I wanna fucking relapse I just wanna escape feeling this way I hate it so much. When is it gonna be over fuck.

Went 4 days then smoked 4 a week. 3 days now and I’m bedridden due to my brain not producing dopamine I think cus of weed . Even though I know if I smoke ( even just a 0.5) I’ll be going through withdrawals for days. But my brain feels that 30 m high is worth the days of withdrawals . Any help ? Haven’t passed 4 days ever .

For the past two weeks, I’ve only smoked a small amount once a week after smoking all day every day for years. I’m so depressed.

The weekend is supposed to be my “free” time to smoke a joint if I want, but will it just worsen my mood over the next week if i do?

Will I start to feel better soon?

I don't know if moving out of my house (it wasn't really a toxic environment but I kinda just felt like a disappointment to my mom and we had hella issues that's still ma dukes though) made things easier but I can eat sleep and have minimal stomach pain despite not smoking. The hardest part now is genuinely just being bored, the time flies by slowly and im not as into the media I consume but it is what it is. I'm not gonna go out of my way to cop bud but if someone has it I'll probably smoke with them. No cliche shit but things will be better if you have enter the break or cold turkey with optimism. Tapering off is definitely possible if you keep yourself busy.

I'm taking a tolerance break from vaping carts. I was vaping carts for a year every single day. As the months went on I noticed my tolerance go up slightly so I increased the voltage. A few weeks ago I stopped when I didnt feel anything from the cart at all even with the voltage turned all the way up. How long should my tolerance break be?