I need some advice and encouragement! I’m trying to quit smoking weed, I’ve gone from a everyday all day down to every day only in the night before bed

I would like to get down to only on weekends or to completely quit

I want to quit because I feel like I smoke to much now and I really don’t even want to anymore it’s just become a habit and a cycle and just a way of self medicating now.

I would really appreciate any advice or encouragement I’m also trying to hold myself accountable so if anyone has any advice on that, that would be so helpful. M’y fiancé tells me all the time I’ve cut down so much and she thinks I’m doing well( thank God for her who told me years ago to cut down when I was smoking from wake up to going to sleep daily during Covid.)

Before covid I smoked here and there at parties or socially with friends but I was fine not smoking for months or weeks or even a whole year. During Covid i got ill and stopped eating so i started taking edibles to get an appetite after losing 60 lbs in 45 days. But then I couldn’t eat without weed and then I got to literally smoking all day everyday and since then I’ve struggled to quit

Here and there I’ve done cold turkey weeks and stuff but I still find I’m anxious and fidgety and moody sometimes even depressed fighting the urge to smoke or I can’t focus and have no motivation. I also struggle so much with finding things to do during the times I would normally go smoke

I don’t have a very addictive personality I quit vaping after vaping for a month just cause I didn’t like it. I smoked socially (very little like once every few months) cigarettes in high school but gave that up no problem. I drink here and there but I have months where I won’t drink at all. I don’t understand why I’ve become so reliant on weed to relax to calm down to deal with depression and anxiety or to just get through tough times or days. But I don’t want to rely on it at all. I want to quit and then later on if I want to smoke here and there like socially or every few weekends than fine but definitely not how I currently am. I’m almost down to only weekends but it’s been a battle and I would really love to quit this month and only smoke maybe a little around the holidays or just not smoke at all!

I feel like a horrible person, fiancé, Christian, and dad. I’ve thought about detox centres or programs in my province but I’m also so scared to say anything cause I’m afraid I’d lose my kid. I feel like a lot of my dependence is related to depression and anxiety / panic disorder (I’ve been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, anxiety and panic disorder as well) I want to stop self medicating and get help for my mental health but I’m also afraid that I can’t talk about being depressed or sometimes suicidal cause I’m a dad. Only m’y fiancé knows my feelings on all this, this is the first time I’ve openly shared this and boy was it hard. I really hope I can find some advice or help here!!

Any advice or experience or tips / encouragement would be really helpful!

Context: My relationship with weed is kinda shitty. I always smoke every last bit of my weed, I can’t save it for later, if I have some, then I become a daily user. If I don’t have any, I can easily stop for months, but even then if someone offers me some, I accept it without hesitation. It became an issue when I graduated and got my first full time job. From that point I had the money to smoke more. At one point I was a daily user for a year. I tried to cut back many times without success.

My method now: I tried to cut back to smoke only on the weekends. I left my work to focus on my true goals and start to make efforts to them. I have a new diet and picked up on old hobbies. I saw a therapist, and figured some stuff out about phisycal and mental health. This all couldn’t happen without the support my fiancé who was also a daily user but could stop whenever she wanted to. I get money from the government but she is the main income now. I’m working hard to start my own business. For the last couple of months I started a 21 day T-break and lowered my budget. On the 9th of november I purchased 5g of flower and I feel like I lowered my consume by a lot but even tho I smoked every day until I ran out. So I started another smaller T-break to clear my head out and now I got 3g on friday. I smoked all weekend (only after I got my shit done, I met with my family, did chores, made lunch, got time for my hobbies and everything) and lesser amounts, and I gave the leftover to my fiancé to hide it in the house. I can’t ask for it during the week, and she gives it back on friday afternoon. I try not to think about it, even on the weekends I will try to keep it cool.

We have two main rules:

1. If I try to find it and smoke on the weekdays I will stop completely.
2. If I have plans for a weekday with stoner friends I can accept it if they offer, but I will not ask for it. This can work because my stoner friends aren’t daily users, so they don’t have everytime, also they know about all this so they help a lot:)

Anybody has similar routine? How does this work out for y’all? I feel like I would break a time lock box to get to weed, but I wouldn’t break the trust of my fiancé by searching for it in the house.

I’m on day 7 of a 48 day moderation break. I haven’t had one longer than 25 days in 7+ years. After around 20 days I feel “I’ve proven myself, don’t really think I have a problem…”

Most of the hard cravings are gone, but I can tell you this visual strategy saves me from not giving in. Highly recommended. I am surprised by all the extra time I seem to have in the day, and I’m loving the clarity.

this is dumb but i’m taking a long break from weed. but i have a physics exam on thursday. will i feel like shit if i stop smoking weed now? i smoke every day and when its sativa i can kinda manage to do productive shit but indica and i’m gone so i just wanna quit.

but if i do it today i’m scared ill be sick during my exam on thursday. what do you think

Recently I’ve started hearing whispers when I smoke weed and have anxiety and paranoia and sometimes worry what if I really lose it

I’ve tried everything indica sativa lower thc strains I always feel overwhelmed and overstimulated ( I’m on the spectrum ) my brother says weed is good for me but I don’t t feel good but when I was in high school it was tons of fun please help me

I want to escape the cycle of getting high all day and then tearfully regretting it in the evening. I want to be completely sober, THC out of my system by January. I tossed my vape and carts into the trash outside. Will I be mad at myself for doing so when I start having cravings tomorrow? Probably. But I know I’ll be thanking myself in a month. At this point I am just desperate for this T break, and I never want to touch a cart again from now on.

I’m talking like it interferes with your job . I hate quitting cause I become so stupid and I feel like dory from finding Nemo . (Short term memory loss)

I know Brian fog is normal but my case is so weird and I haven’t heard much ppl talk about severe brain fog . It’s super bad . Idk how to explain it . I know it’s my brain rewiring but like I said , it doesn’t feel like typical brain fog.

It’s only the first couple days but it’s so fucking bad I hate it .

What helps you ? If you can relate to an extreme case of brain fog (called out of work multiple times cause of it )

Edit: realized I put Brian fog and thought of Brian griffin lol

This is long sorry!

I’m a 24 F who has been smoking weed since I was 19, when I started college. I found out recently that I’ve developed cannabis-hyperemesis syndrome, though I’m in the early stages. My lungs are hyperinflated from 5 years of heavy cart use, and I’m starting TMS and ketamine therapy in the next month so I don’t want to rely on substances.

I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, complex ptsd, and ocd in 2021 and I have been in consistent treatment ever since. A lot of my problems stem from my environment growing up - I was born in a third world country, later adopted from an orphanage, abused throughout my childhood and teenage years, and s*xual assaulted from age 14 to 20. I didn’t have access to substances growing up so I started using hard drugs and alcohol as a way to cope with my trauma as I got older.

Weed helped me in a lot of ways during that time - it helped my substance abuse and I’m almost 2 years clean from hard drug use because of it. It helped me with BPD episodes, violent outbursts, and avoiding legal trouble. Weed has been my security blanket over the past 5 years, but I’ve grown beyond that point in my life. I’m not longer experiencing episodes like I used to, I’ve worked to grow beyond those behaviors. I’m now facing the consequences of heavy smoking, and I need to stop for my own health and safety. I think the hardest part of this is trust. I just don’t trust that it’s going to be ok - before using I was in a horrible place in life and substances gave me relief for the first time. I remember the damaged self I was before college and I’m terrified to feel that way again.

I’m embarrassed that quitting smoking is such an emotional ordeal for me, but I can’t even think about getting sober without feeling like I’m in crisis. I talk with my therapist about this a lot but I thought if anyone on here has experienced similar things and came out the other side, I would love any advice. Thanks for reading :)

it was all for nothing too because i ended up having a panic attack. i feel like shit.

Hello, everyone. My goal is to move to another state and buy a house. Tonight I smoked the last of what I had.

Going to be sober until I’m hanging out in my fully furnished home.

Hey everyone!

TLDR at bottom. Sorry long read

I am looking at reducing my use from daily to 1-3 times a week or stopping altogether.

I have been a daily user for 7 years or so and am looking at creating a better relationship. I was luckily only using once a day in the afternoon around 4pm, so not super heavy use but still strong doses which would see me until the evening.

I recently had stopped vaping due to lung issues so I switched to daily thc tincture and thc edible use.

I have a cold at the moment so I haven’t consumed thc for around 10 days or so. I have been using a cbd tincture at night to sleep. I feel fine at the moment to be honest, sometimes find it hard to sleep but that also could be the cold.

I do like the cannabis experience though especially when it comes to being in nature, listening to music and being creative. I find it did help with my anxiety but it got to a point where maybe it wasn’t helping in the same way it used to.

I was wondering if before I go back to using a thc tincture and edibles should I wait a certain amount of time so that I don’t fall back into old habits? I know that’s a bit of a personal question but wondering what others have done in the past.

I am also curious if I should just give up all together and see how I get on.

Another thing I am looking into is microdosing magic mushrooms to help with my clarity, mental outlook and social anxiety.

I’m wondering if anyone has done this (microdosed) and how it helped with their cannabis use?

I will continue to use cbd as I know it helps my anxiety and sleep, I wish I could use more of it and have it in the morning too but it’s too expensive at the moment for me.

I kind of have reached a point where I no longer feel motivated and am constantly feeling overwhelmed. I feel like I don’t have the energy to do certain things and I am really good at procrastinating. Now that’s probably a me thing that I need to work on but I’m sure the thc use wasn’t helping.

Any other things I can do to help my situation?

Thanks in advance

TDLR: looking at stopping daily use - I’m at day 10 how long should I wait until I re introduce edibles back into my life

Or should I just stop altogether?

Anyone microdosed magic mushrooms to help with quitting/reducing cannabis use? Also to help with mental clarity, motivation, anxiety etc. I guess I’m looking at other things I can do to help myself improve.

Any other things I can do to help

Wondering if anyone has any recommendations for something pleasant with no drug effect that I can smoke alongside my weed lol

I like to do half THC, half CBD in my bowls and Js but I rly just want the minor THC effect to feel creative. CBD tastes nice and prob has good effects but can get expensive over time.

Funny question but has anyone found an alternative that I can mix in and keep my THC intake low? Thank uu, love this community

Hello, recently I had committed myself to stop using carts, as they seemed to make me feel kind of sick. I have gone 11 days without using, and haven’t necessarily felt any better, so today I bought a disposable. I want to be able to use it in moderation, only at night and not during work or school. I don’t want to beat myself up about breaking the streak, I proved a lot to myself in those 11 days: that I had the willpower and could get through a day without a cart. I folded today, but maybe after this I will start again.

Last night I watched a film, baby driver to be exact. Decent movie, I’d give it a 6/10.

This morning I woke up struggling to remember what movie I watched last night, without checking my phone, it took me over 6 minutes sitting on the toilet to even remember what the movie was called, it all came back of course once I did, but still.

I have been smoking for 4 years, the last 2 years I have been permanently fried morning to evening. I need to stop, but even this isint enough to convince me…

I’m 3 days in and last night was the first time I fell asleep for longer than 3 hours at a time. I had a very very vivid dream of me vaping. I literally remember coughing and it hitting my lungs. It felt so real when I woke up I actually had to question if I smoked.

I’ve gotten sick with some sort of bronchial virus (not covid again thank goodness) but I cannot smoke it makes it so I have to go get my inhaler (yes I have asthma but smoking vapes has never triggered it)

Any recommendations to get edibles to work consistently? I have slow digestion so sometimes it will be 2 hours other times it’s been 4-6 hours later before it kicks in.

So I’m taking a literal smoke break and not all thc

Picked up some CBD 3 days ago, wasn't even meaning to take a break was just curious.

Haven't gotten high since. I know it's only been three days but this ticks all the boxes for me. When it comes to my addictions it's less about the actual high and more about the routine, ritual and doing something with my hands. I've not had a drink in 310 days because I can enjoy reading a book at the pub just as much with an NA beer.

Now it appears the same is true of weed. As long as I can dissappear to my smoke spot a couple of times a night and keep my hands busy, I don't get cravings or withdrawals.

I got rid of my THC weed. It tasted funny and was giving me a headache anyway. Now I don't know when I'll next pick up as this stuff is perfectly fine.

Do we consider CBD cheating here or is it valid?

I have posted a thread on here in the beginning of the month, voicing my concerns as a daily smoker of 6 years, with maybe a hand full of T breaks. This one was certainly quite difficult in the beginning to do. The first 2 weeks felt so long, and the withdrawals I had wasn’t exactly pleasant, I also realised I was beginning to feel depressed and anxious from long term weed usage.

It felt like whenever I was anxious or feeling slightly depressed, smoking weed became a coping mechanism that gave me temporary escapism. But in the end, all those burried feelings and emotions was eventually going to resurface, and it did so this month.

I dealt with a lot of internal battles, but I feel like the thing that helped me throughout this whole month was definitely journalling and meditating. I knowww you probably hear that bs a lot, but let me tell you, when you’ve built a habit of writing your thoughts down. Reading them back is actually hella introspective and fun. I had a lot of fun reading my journals that I started in uni, and I realised a lot things.

One of the most profound things was, everything always works out. The universe is always guiding you no matter what. All those trial and tribulations works out in the end, you just have to ride the wave. Just like this T breaks as well.

Anyways I feel like I’m yapping lol, but honestly for those who are thinking of doing this T break, I won’t recommend if you’re not ready or mentally prepared. It is a lot to begin with, but eventually you’ll understand why you embarked on it, and the rewards after will all be worth it :)

Boredom is probably one of the most difficult parts of this T break, so do keep yourself busy, whether it’s working out, doing projects, or even reading. Your dopamine receptors are basically fried from weed and the internet. So when the T break happens, you’re probably gonna find yourself doomscrolling, but remember to give yourself breaks in between. Move your body, and mind through journaling or meditating!

Also big up to those who participated, I’m really proud of us and this community for pushing ourselves to be better :) I will light one up soon for y’all

I’ve been smoking weed regularly for 2 years now. At first it was more of a weekend thing, but of course, it eventually became a habit for relieving stress and taking the edge off.

As it stands, I smoke pretty much every night. I have rules for myself when smoking to minimize the side effects of weed — I only smoke at night, I don’t drive or go to work high — but at the end of the day, I’m still getting stoned on the daily. I used to take regular, week-long T-breaks once every 4-6 weeks, but I haven’t taken more than a 48 hour break since late June. I went through a rough patch over the summer and developed insomnia; weed has been one of the only things that has consistently helped me sleep since then (even with medication). But it’s also increased my tolerance to the point where flower hasn’t been hitting like it should, and I’ve been finding it harder to get up in the morning after smoking. My finals are coming up soon, and I feel like now is the perfect time to lock in and try my hand at another break. I’m aiming for at least a week, maybe more if I feel up for it. I’m a bit nervous of how this is going to affect my sleep (at least initially), but I do really like weed, and if I’m going to be using it, I want to use it as responsibly as I can.

Anyways, I just wanted to announce it somewhere since I don’t really have anyone to tell IRL at the moment. Wish me luck, and any tips are appreciated!

I don't really have much negative effects in my life with weed. To me it enhances most of my everyday life.

When I start smoking, I have the munchies like everyone else. However, when I start smoking everyday, usually after a month, I can only eat food while high. I also seem to eat less, and less as the months progress. This in return causes me to basically never gain weight (Most people would say sign me up), but I'm always border-line normal/under weight.

I go out to a restaurant, and I eat half the size of a kids meal unless I toke up heavy before-hand.

If it wasn't for the complete appetite loss, weight loss, I would probably vape weed forever. Every-time I quit, I lose about 10 lbs in a week. And then I spend the next 2-3 months regaining my weight after I start eating normal again.

I am on a T-break right now, and don't plan on restarting for about 5-6 months. I've been working out, and my plan is to gain about 30 lbs during the the 5-6 months. That way when I start smoking again, I won't feel bad about slowly losing weight.

Yits been one week since I smoked some weed.

But for real proud of myself. Gonna hit at least thirty days this time. Stoked on life rn.

I realized that even if the bowl is half, the high will still be quite intense, anxious, unproductive and ''low-esteem''. However if I smoke a veeeeeeeeeeery tiny puff, the buzz can be nice and it's great for listening to music. I don't know maybe I just got too sensitive to it but I still like it. Plus it's very economic. Anybody else on the same boat?

coming to realize how dumb it is to smoke when I have asthma, still wanna consume in the same moderation I have been (allowing myself to do what I want generally but not smoking all day/before bed) but thinking vaping might be a safer alternative? Is that also dumb to think it would be safer to have 1 hit of a vape on a weekend morning instead of smoking a bowl?? I do feel I have enough restraint now to not hit the vape all the time, like just replace smoking with it sometimes (am I leading myself astray lol)

Just need some honesty/anecdotes/science ig lol

Hey friends currently looking to cut down THC usage at the moment. I have incredible love for the plant but at the same time I feel like I can't talk to my friends at night anymore because I'm so blasted every night. Do any of you have experience with smoking or vaping CBD? I'm possibly looking to use it on week nights any info is appreciated much love!

I was a long time daily user of weed (3-4 years). About 3 months ago I decided to stop using for a couple of reasons.

1. I noticed that it started making me really anxious for some reason

2. I am trying to get in to nursing school.

3. I noticed I wasn’t as productive as I wanted to be.

So I downloaded Grounded and started tracking my progress on quitting. The other day I hit 3 months clean. Fast forward to yesterday at thanksgiving dinner. My partner’s coworker was over and had a pen with them. I decided that it would be okay to take a hit to celebrate the holiday and 3 months clean.

I’ve felt better since quitting, however, the cravings never went away. I also unfortunately picked up a pretty heavy drinking habit and an relapsed addiction to nicotine. So anyways, I decided to try a hit off of their pen. I did not enjoy it. It made me really anxious even though it was indica, just like the reason that I stopped. I don’t think I will be enjoying weed ever again. I really do miss it, but it’s just not for me anymore.

Over those three months I’ve began unfollowing subreddits and other social media pages pertaining to weed consumption in order to distance myself from it. I think I will continue to do so. I’m not going to count this one time smoke as breaking my streak because it was such an eye opening learning experience to drive me to stay sober from weed. (Also I want to see my little tree grow)

Hopefully others read this and see it as inspiration to keep clean, or as inspiration to start their journey.

My first joints were with my ex and my brother, since that, i always smoked with them. My ex also had friends who smoked so i was smoking with them and it was awesome.

Now my brother doesn't live in the same place as me and i'm not with my ex since one year. Since 2024 i kept on smoking but i was mostly alone. Weirdly all the friends i made and people i met are non-smokers and don't plan to start, while i thought you attract what you are lol. Only people i smoke with now are older people (i'm M20 and they're like 40 to 55) and my cousin. My cousin is cool but he can act non-chalant and sometimes it just feels off.

I just miss smoking and having a good time with friends having our effect, understanding each others, chatting, listening music we like, etc, and all sort of activities while being baked. I miss feeling real connexion with other people while being high, it was my favorite thing ever about that plant. Now i'm pretty alone in this, even if i can still enjoy it responsibly, it's not as much as i used to because of this.

So now i smoke very less and less because it just depress me to smoke alone! One day i'll find other stoner friends like me and we'll enjoy our time together.