When I first decided to learn how to quit smoking weed, I didn’t think that anyone could tell me how to quit smoking marijuana. I already knew. You quit smoking pot by not smoking it anymore. Plain and simple! Today, I laugh at the way that I used to think. The simple fact of the matter is that marijuana addiction is a very real thing. And to overcome it you need to take certain steps and actions. We’ll get to that in a minute.
The thing about weed is that the people who smoke it don’t think they have a problem. “I don’t have a drug problem,” they say, “I just smoke too much weed.” So they never get help for a marijuana addiction because they never think of themselves as marijuana addicts. It usually takes another few years of them being unhappy and feeling unfulfilled before they get back to the original problem and think, maybe it was about quitting weed after all.
Because smoking weed is a very costly enterprise. I spent thousands of dollars on my pot addiction and that’s just in the amount that I spent on the actual marijuana itself. I also lost money from all the time I spent stoned on the couch not being productive. I lost at least one job because of my smoking and I lost a girlfriend as well. I lost a lot. And for what? To sit around on the couch wasting my life with my so-called loser friends. Just to smoke marijuana?
When I decided to quit I was very close minded. I thought that I could quit marijuana on my own and I didn’t need anybody to tell me how. I’d just quit by not smoking. Only it didn’t work because despite what everyone thinks, marijuana is a very powerful drug with addictive properties and a miserable withdrawal syndrome that makes you go back to smoking weed just to sleep. It’s a horrible cycle. The key becomes in breaking the cycle.
But how do you do it? How do you learn how to quit smoking weed? Good question and it’s what this site is all about. I haven’t smoked weed in five years and I am happier, healthier, and wealthier than I have ever been. And, now I share the information, about how to quit, with people on the internet just like many other people. What do I have in common with them? I am willing to share what worked for me and what didn’t. I point you in the right direction and the rest is up to you.
But, you see, that is very important. Because until I was willing to listen to others who actually quit smoking weed, I was destined to just go back to smoking. I could never stay quit because I didn’t know how. Just like you don’t know how right now. But, I am hear to tell you, there is no shame in that. You see, most weed smokers are very close minded. They want to quit, think they can do it on their own and don’t want any one else’s help or advice. If that is you, I certainly understand… However, if you have tried by yourself and, for whatever reason, found yourself smoking again, I am hear to tell you that there is hope.
That’s exactly what happened to me. I would try to quit using marijuana and then when something went wrong (or even if something really good happened) I would be right back to smoking. And I couldn’t understand what I was doing wrong. But looking back it is very clear. You see there are millions of people who have joined together to help each other give up weed for good. These are usual people just like you and me for whom smoking weed had become a problem and they figured out how to solve it by learning how to quit smoking weed. And many of these people are online willing to give you the same strategies that have worked for them.
Yet, you won’t listen!
Why, because you are close-minded and determined to do it yourself. And you will spend a year a two spinning your wheels and getting high and feeling terrible about yourself and then you’ll be back online looking for information when the information was right in front of you to begin with!
The problem with most weed smokers is that they are unwilling to listen to those who can help them with their marijuana addiction. For me this was rehab and Marijuana Anonymous. I never wanted to end up in MA or rehab because I thought that I was better than that. It never occurred to me that getting help from people who actually have the answer to your problem is not a sign of weakness but a sign of wisdom. And you may be in that frame of mind as well.
The simple fact of the matter was that when I opened my mind and started to listen I suddenly found the answer that I was looking for. And, I was so mad at myself for not looking for it sooner. Once I realized that there were people who could help me, I let them help me! I learned strategies for dealing with triggers and avoiding temptation. I managed to get clean and stay clean and I did it just by taking suggestion and actually listening to people that could help me.
For me, my search started on the internet. I started reading every marijuana rehab website that I could find. I started going to MA. I got a therapist. And I joined a support group. I made dozens of new friends who are now the best friends in my life. And we all were after the same thing — discovering how to quit smoking weed — and we helped each other.
That’s the main point of this website about quitting weed is to tell people to pull their head out of their behind and start accepting the help that is staring them in the face. I know that it won’t be easy, but I am determined to tell you how I quit smoking weed until you realize that you are worth it, that life is worth it, and that you deserve better.
Til next time,
I’m out