We all have that one habit that we know we should change, but we never do, cuz it’s too much of a hassle.
For me it’s consuming too much cannabis, as much as I love it I am the first to admit that I could cut back. Right now I’m definitely “addicted” in the sense that without weed, I’d have to adjust for a day or two with my sleep and appetite before it went back to normal.
The other thing that bugs me, other than the mild psychological addiction, is that it makes me cough too much.
Vaping once or twice a day would be totally fine and healthy based on my understanding. But many times per day is not so good.
My immediate method is low key and easy enough, I’m just trying to cut out all my midday consumption. I wake up at like 5am every day, so after a small wake-n-bake, I usually wait until lunch for my second bowl. Instead I’m cutting that out and making it a three bowl per day system:
This is still a lot, but it’s a big improvement since my habit at its most extreme has been to do more like 5-6 bowls per day. It’s a big time sink and theres no good reason to get that stoned all the time, even if it doesn’t cause me much mental anguish.
It’s more of a “making a good thing even better” kinda thing.
In the long term I know I want to be not even getting stoned every day, like maybe mostly keep it to the weekends or 4-5 evenings a week plus more on the weekends.
Also obviously its expensive to consume that much cannabis and its irresponsible financially right now, so thats a big factor too. Even this small cutting back will save me prolly $30 per week.
I suspect its like my dietary habits were - the transition from me with a shitty shitty diet 5 years ago, with me having a stupidly healthy diet today, was insanely gradual and involved a lot of trial-and-error plus short-term regressions to bad habits. When I tried to “fix everything,” it would always fail. Slow and patient steps forward, while being HELLA PERSISTENT, seems to be the move.
If I can reduce some weed consumption now and get to that “not even every day” mode, without it requiring any conscious effort, by 30, it’ll be chill.
Great post and this is my first time on your page to see in your reply to a comment that you are living in the same state as I am. I live in North Carolina in Burlington.
Cool shit!
I am really hoping that weed be legalized here. I can't smoke marijuana due to my job doing random drug tests.
Cool cool @bigblueleadsled north carolina is a great place to be. I'm loving it now that the weather has finally gotten warm.
My condolences about your job... it really is a shame that employers would use weed testing to filter out perfectly good employees.
Go for it man! I support this being a weed smoker myself daily for the last 15+ years. I will say that all my business and other type stuff like productivity has improved by 20% at least.
Keep it up!
It's improved by 20% since what, since you cut back? Or since you started? lol
lol, I actually quit completely a little over a month ago. I have nothing against weed, but I really enjoyed it more when it was an occasional thing with friends on the weekends versus a wake n bake all day every day type of thing.
I for sure feel you on this. Definitely have been coming to terms with the fact I should be cutting back on my consumption.
Especially when it comes to traveling, being able to smoke less is a massive benefit. When I was in New Mexico a few months ago I had a very not fun run in with the po-po. Sort of why I've been hanging in the weed friendly states the past month lol.
Good luck yo! We will reach the point we are aiming for soon enough. And then when we rip the bowl it'll fuckin wreck us haha.
Yeah man the police can still be nasty in some of those states. Cutting back is good, self control is good. Cheers dude
Good luck with cutting back.. alcohol's always been my thing rather than weed - I guess it's a Brit thing - pubs and real ale and that.
I recommend selecting a month sometime later in the year ('later' is always better!) to just go weed free... the way I've managed my alcohol 'addiction' over the last two decades has been to have an alcohol free month every sept (sometimes I made three months) - without actually 'giving up' altogether
It takes at least a week to adjust every year but it's defo been positive.
The theory is that at some point I'll just quit altogether.. but not this year!
Is weed legal in New York?
A month off would be a smart move, once upon a time I took a 6 month break but that was years ago now. Having an alcohol free month is something I can definitely get behind, even for me!
Weed is not yet legal in new york but it's hypothetically speaking very easy to find
I understand how u feel. I smoke weed as well, you can as well testify of the feeling after smoking weed.
It's very difficult to skip smoking even for 24hrs but I try to regulate to 2-3 sticks (pepelin style).
What we should have in my is thar everything in life needs moderation.
So, let's vape moderately.
Please note that the moderation level is measured according to every individual's capabilities.
Nice post @heymattsokol
You know how it is @eddy-18 glad that you have found some moderation, cheers mate
I know the struggle. I myself smoke around 1g per day, for some not too much but for me it is..
Trying to cut hard but it does not work as expected..
Need to put more will and time..
All the best in your self improvement...
Yea @psyceratopsb that 1g a day is exactly what I tend to do!! my friends think I am crazy cuz they take one or two hits and are good.. I dont get it :-P
When you say 'wake-and-bake' are you eating this or vaping it or smoking it?
Weed never did get along with myself, having tried smoking it (bad headaches and being sick) and eating it (you dont get the headrush, but instead become a zombie).
I cant say I have ever had an addicited to any Class B or even A drug, and I have tried most (many years ago). They were interesting at the time but didnt really do my body much good.
Like most addictive things, you just need to cut it bit by bit and use willpower, but I cant speak from experience.
Vaping always. I can't wait until legalization spreads down to North Carolina so I can shift to edibles... if I ate a weak "weed cookie" or even "weed coffee" which is a thing now... that would be the perfect amount and it would carry me to dinnertime prettty easy.
luckily, like you, I've never been one for drugs. Other than weed I've never even done anything aside from legal stuff and one time when I did acid. People probably assume I do way more cuz Im so public about the cannabis lol
Edibles are not hard to make on your own. I highly recommend checking out Rebecca Ryan here on Steemit for some tips: https://steemit.com/@rebeccaryan
I've almost entirely stopped smoking, drastically cut vaping, and moved mostly to edibles. Once a day I eat a small amount of RSO (an activated whole-plant ethanol extract), about the size of a grain of rice or smaller. It's what my doctor recommended, although it's also legal here recreationally.
That's awesome. I may have to make some edibles eventually, I see that link you shared up above. Edibles are so convenient...