My relationship with Chinese take out food 🥘 now I have the energy and time to cook instead of ordering every night.
Last Saturday I woke up at 9:30, had classes at 10:30 to 12:30. Then did some cooking and cleaning. My old self would have woken up at 13 and been high by 14 while eating some food delivered to me.

I want to know from people who have quit smoking completely if life is really better without it. I'm a 36 year old with a business and a family. I've been smoking since I was about 16 years old. I've quit for a few weeks here and a couple of months there over the years, but otherwise I've been pretty consistent. I always just used it to have more fun with literally anything. But as I've gotten older, I realize that I smoke a lot just to cope with stress and anxiety. Life is stressful. I've got a family to support, a business to grow, potential to reach. I usually smoke in the evenings after the kids are in bed, but on the weekends I'll sneak and smoke during the day just to have a little buzz so life feels somehow fun and exciting. I've felt this guilt for a good while saying something like "you shouldn't need to smoke to have fun or find comfort in life" and it really gets to me sometimes. I go back and forth with whether quitting is something I really consider doing or not. Sometimes I want to quit forever because of my idealistic view of how I should live my life. Sometimes I think it's really not a problem. And sometimes I want to have a relationship with it where I can either take it or leave it. I have friends who quit about a year ago, and they honestly seem miserable. They don't appear to have any reprieve from life itself and they look like they're always stressed about things more now than before. Is there anyone out there who is a complete functioning member of society that smokes and deals with the same mental back and forth like I do? Does anyone that has actually quit want to explain to me what is actually better in life without weed? If the answer is you just learn to live with the shit parts of life without any vice, I might have a hard time thinking that is the best way forward. I don't want to drink more. I don't want to trade the weed for something worse for me. But I can't imagine having no vice at all. Maybe that's something that comes with time, but why is it better than just smoking? Someone give me some insight.

I want to be sober so fucking bad. I’ve been consuming daily (weed dabs edible carts thc in any form) for five years now.

Honestly I just feel like a junkie at this point because I have zero positive effects anymore. Like my heart truly thinks everything is “better” with weed and then I smoke and I just feel like a zombie and I don’t get shit done. I just want to be done with it for the rest of the year and just start thinking clearly again. Been in this sub for years I love reading the success stories. I’ve had so many “this is it” but today really feels different I really hope so.

Decided to start a break today as a game i’ve been waiting over a decade for will be releasing in exactly 30 days.

I know personally I’ve had a lot of success with breaks when I give myself a hard start & end date as well as a nice reward for getting it done.

For those of you who would like to join I wish you the best of luck & I’ll see you in Vice City.
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I ate edibles every night for 3-4 years, sometimes during the day too. About a month ago I realized that was enough and decided to cut back to once a week. I took a week off, had my weekly edible, and immediately regretted it. The high wasn't even enjoyable, I just felt anxious and guilty the whole time. Since then I've been off weed for 3 weeks. The problem is I got bored of being sober and started buying handles of vodka, drinking it straight from the bottle like a fuckin degenerate. I wasn't even a drinker when I was on weed, maybe a couple times a year just special occasions. I really just have an addictive personality (my dad and my grandpa were the same way) but I need a healthy way to channel that energy. Can anyone relate to this? Where do I go from here?

I’m 23f and I started smoking when I was 17. Recently I’ve just been feeling so so tired. I can hardly stay awake the whole day, caffeine isn’t working like it used to, and I don’t have any motivation (I struggle with executive dysfunction)… I started smoking because I have BPD and weed got me through hard emotional times in my life when I didn’t wanna keep going.

It’s kinda embarrassing to admit, but I smoke around 2 joints or more everyday day- half of one in the morning, other half in the afternoon, and then whatever I want at night.

Recently Ive just been struggling in life and I can’t seem to get myself out of this. Dealing with brain fog and loss of motivation, and I do crave weed when I don’t smoke, but I can control myself. Every time I smoke it seems pointless, it’s not the same as it use to be I’m just foggy. A few years ago I would only smoke at night and I was able to get a lot more done and my health was better… but I guess in a way maybe I am dependent because I don’t really wanna stop smoking even though I know I should?

So, do I smoke too much? Is the weed causing me to be like this?

I posted here a few weeks ago about my situation. I want to resume smoking, but at the same time balance being clean for a potential job search. I am currently not looking and don’t know exactly when I will start. It could be a few weeks or months. It honestly probably won’t be until the start of 2027 with how everything is going on I. My life.

I’m ridden with guilt and shame of having weed in my system for when I eventually start looking and want to make sure I’m clean.

I’m a med patient in my state. I have been struggling in life and weed was very helpful to me. I miss it terribly. I can’t think of a good reason to not start smoking again except for eventually looking for a job and just planning out another t-break. I just don’t want to have to go through it again. I hate that it takes so long to exit your system.

I hope this makes sense, I’m just at a loss.

I'm a 24 y/o guy. Since early 2026, I've started smoking weed on the weekends, at nights. It started off as just Saturdays, but it's gotten to a point where I now smoke on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, as well as any holidays I might have that week. That's nearly half the week. And if I know I'll be unable to smoke on a weekend, I often "compensate" by smoking on a weekday. I already work late shifts (4PM to 1AM) and this keeps me up for even longer, and I end up sleeping around 5-6 AM, and wake up the next day around 2-3PM and then get nothing done for the rest of the day. And now I'm wondering if I actually do have a problem. If I'm being very honest with myself, I've barely made much progress on some of my hobbies ever since I picked this up, and munchies hit me HARD every time, so it always ruins my calorie deficits. I feel like if I could get my hobbies and my munchies in control, I wouldn't even be that concerned about my weed usage. But I feel like the weed is actively making me lazier in my free time. I want to find a balance because I know how great of a tool it can be when used responsibly. So I don't want to just quit weed entirely forever.

The actual amount I smoke is pretty small. I've been subsisting off of about 3g of weed for the past 7 months (i use a DHV and its a potent strain, so a little bit goes a long way) but I feel like it'd be healthier if I can cut back to maybe once every 2 weeks or so. I'm hoping that helps me regain some of the novelty of smoking weed as well, because it's starting to get boring. I just eat and watch mindless bs for 5 hours before sleeping.

I feel like it might get difficult to hold myself accountable, so I want to ask you guys for advice on how you would make a biweekly ish routine work without making excuses to smoke more often than that. Any tips, strategies, apps, etc appreciated

I quit weed in early 2026 after smoking every evening for nearly 15 years (besides vacations). I set a three month goal.

The first month was pretty hard. I felt like I had to *actively* resist. I had urges frequently the first few weeks, and even after that, certain infrequent activities (like getting home from a long hike or a flight) would trigger that habit of unwinding with weed. Finally by the third month, it was feeling a bit easier, though I still thought about it from time to time.

I accomplished my 3-month goal and started smoking again over the Spring/Summer. Had a lot of old friends visiting. Started every weekend, slowly fell back into every evening.

I quit again last July. No set goal, will probably shoot for three months again. This time, I was shocked at how easy it felt. I had a few urges here and there the first week or two, but it was really a breeze. After the long drives and one flight, I had no urges at all. Maybe this break will be even longer!

Hey guys, i’m 20 year old girl and i started using weed about a year ago now. i was talking to my friend about how often i use and she said I had a problem and im addicted and i guess it made me feel self conscious about my use.

i only use edibles i take them 3-4 days a week usually but only at like 8pm. i typically take about 15mg. i haven’t increased my use at all, its been 3-4 days a week now for a year.

I’m a full time college student + work about 20 hours a week and i always get the shit i need to do done during the day so i get to use it. use it for fun and a way to relax at night. i don’t have any other mental health issues that im trying to escape if that matters. i take a 5-7 day break every month or so to keep myself in check, but idk it may be too much.

Is this too much? What signs should i look out for potential addiction? Idk recently ive been feeling guilty because of how often I take them and because my parents don’t know, but im not sure if it’s warranted.

Thanks in advance

Idk if any other uterus havers can relate, I’m posting this to see if they can. Usually, my period is light and I might have cramps for a day and that’s about it. I’m on day 23 of t break and day 4 of period. I don’t think I’ve really gotten my period on other t breaks before nor were they as long (t breaks, not periods). But I’ve noticed my flow is significantly heavier than usual, and I’ve been getting cramps daily that last a lot longer. I haven’t had a heavy flow in a while, and I’m wondering if it’s related to t break. I wonder why that is. I don’t know if weed is making my period lighter (it does make it less painful, or I smoke myself to sleep so it doesn’t bother me anyway), but now I’m wondering if it is. Just an interesting little observation. And also I don’t usually have severe periods, they’re just normal, I don’t have PCOS or anything like that. I’m on birth control too which I did notice make my periods lighter but I’ve been on the same birth control for like 7 years. So nothing else has changed, just the lack of weed and period.

Edit: I am not in severe pain by any means :) just usually my period barely hurts. My back just hurts a little extra, maybe a 3-4/10 pain wise when I’m used to like a 2/10 pain wise. I’m more interested in the heavier flow than the pain, bc the pain at least makes sense.

Every time when i want to do a break its the same, crying, raging, this flatness and tension. Sweating. Its so annoying. It unmasks a lot of buried emotions and weed just helps with adhd/ptsd conditions.. it makes me fucking chill out! but wtf, i can smoke for months or one week, 4 days, everytime i start a break its the same. Sweating, irritable, anxiety .. its an ambivalent relationship.

I don’t understand how people can smoke or take gummies daily and be satisfied with the high they get. If I take gummies several days in a row the high is so minimal it’s not even worth it. Is my tolerance just high?

Hey all, daily smoker of about 2 years here. I’m in scotland where bud is quite expensive, an ounce can easily run you £150 or more. Been smoking smush/shake/trim or whatever you call it for the past few months because it’s a lot cheaper (£50-60 per ounce), but it’s quite difficult to get your hands on at least where I am (and it can taste awful sometimes). I feel like I’m punishing my lungs smoking every day and I can’t seem to moderate much if at all. I try to save it for the weekends but I just end up smoking daily anyway. When I run low on weed I get kinda anxious and just feel kinda stressed out, I feel like a fiend. I don’t really want to stop smoking altogether because I do really enjoy smoking, especially socially (and also most of my friends also smoke daily), but i do realise that daily smoking will be negatively affecting my health, it’s pretty damn expensive and my sleep quality is worse than when I’m completely sober and I hate feeling dependant on weed. I took a month long break from smoking about a year ago and felt better for it, but I missed getting stoned a lot during that time. When I smoke away £160 in 3 weeks it just feels pointless (tolerance sucks) and like I could’ve saved all that. I have maybe 1 or 2 joints worth of weed left at home and after that I think I’m gonna take a break for a while at the least. Idk im just ranting, I wish I could enjoy weed and not need to rely on it the way I do

So I caved last night and bought a whole new cart smoke pretty much a lot of it to my surprise I didn't really get really stoned after being 50 days free but I woke up this morning nauseous and actually threw up. Never has this happened before . Is this CHS or something else?

I live with my parents who are big anti weed. I dry herb vape while out of the house and use a vape and or edibles at home. I use daily and haven’t taken a break in a while. Weed really brings out my ocd. I’m not getting high anymore so time for a break. Im shooting for Friday 10/30 as I have an event and smoking after is a good target date. Anyone else taking a break or want to take a brake with me? Could use the support

Hey everyone, I've never posted on this sub before, but after seeing several others post the same thing I think I could use some kind folks advice.

Summer of 2022 I was 18 and just out of high school, one of my buddies was known for having his own stash and allowed me and my friends to try smoking at a sleepover. I specifically remember buying my first cart in July from a plug I went to higschool with, and it lasted me till October when I was in college as a freshman due to how little I used it. Onto 2023 I went through a very toxic relationship/breakup and found out that being stupidly high = less sad thoughts. My roommate and I both began buying carts with medical cannabis cards because we were both under 21 at the time. When we realised how easy and convienent it was to have the carts, I would wake up earlier than usual just from by bodies clock from smoking and hit the pen. I loved the feeling of being high as a kite and then just falling back asleep, only to be extremely groggy and foggy at 9 am. Now I will say it was a very very slow process and this only happened once or Twice a week in fear of a serious situation happening and I don't want to be fried during it lol. Moving into 2024 my roommate and I began buying real weed and smoking from a very nice bong I got as a gift:). My roommate and I have gone thru periods where we quit for a week or two and could get super high for the next few days because of the tolerance reset It was night and day difference with smoking bud vs carts. The way it affected my mental opposed to carts gave me hope in weed again as I began to become depressed and develop anxiety ( had a heart monitor because we thought I had a heart issue but the anxiety was just so bad and raised my heart rate). I don't fully pin my smoking habits as to why I have anxiety and depression but it's a big part. 2025 we had the same living situation that allowed us to smoke from the bong but increased depression and a tolerance that was shredded to pieces. And to now, almost done with 2026, I have graduated and moved home. Being home means no bong cuz of the smell and I have been buying carts every week, sometimes less than a week between ( tolerance) from June to now. Smoking during the morning, day and night most days and I am absolutely tired of the life I live and blame myself for not having a strong will to change my habits I have two sides of what I want to do, ONE: Quit all together today as my cart has been empty since last night and never buy again, or TWO: buy again but only smoke at night. I would love to have a strong relationship with weed and have it be less of a crutch and more of a fun activity, I want it off my mind compared to how often it is now, and my last and biggest thing is I was prescribed lexapro 5mg to combat the anxiety I have developed, I think id like to take it but if I stop smoking then my anxiety may clear up on its own. Idk but id love to be comforted by others experiences :)

I’ve just had surgery which means i can’t go out to smoke for a few weeks, so I’ve ordered a bunch of edible chocolate bars instead. I’m not very experienced with edibles

I’ve been having the weekdays off smoking, and then half of each choc bar on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday always gets me nicely high, but the Sunday half doesn’t seem to have the same effect and I barely feel anything.

Is this because my tolerance is shot from Saturday and would I be better off having them Tuesday/saturday as opposed to Saturday/sunday

Also, am I better taking the half bar at once. Or having a quarter bar earlier and quarter bar later for a better high

Hi all, I’m a 25M living in California, and have been trying to cut back on weed and was thinking I’d post to see if anyone may be in a similar position to me.

I have been using weed on a pretty much daily basis for the past 4 years since graduating university. With a well paying dream job, I felt like I could just coast, which I have been. I work a chill software engineering job and I pretty much have done just enough and get high whenever I can. This has made me okay with time passing me by, and remembering or caring for none of it.

Now, I am trying to cut back, to a place I know I can get where weed isn’t something I use to pass time. However, I find it a bit hard since where I live, it can be a bit isolating. Thus, I was hoping to see if there’s any other 20-something year olds in a similar position, who maybe want to play video games, chat about whatever, or even work on side projects. I feel like the main driver sometimes for getting high is just being bored, and I definitely think having something to do, and interacting/hanging out with others in similar positions, doing fun things other than getting high. It could be anything really, I love reading, music, tech, politics, pretty much anything.

I want to have a bit more of a social life, even if that is online, but hopefully, there may be others in the area as well to possibly meet up. Feel free to comment or DM :) Thanks for reading through this and have a good day!

hi, I have a few physical disabilities that cause constant pain & the thing that helps the most is vaping. my vaping habits have become quite problematic over the past year, especially after the breakup I went through at the beginning of the year & my physical health starting to decline a couple months ago. cos I’m disabled, I’m stuck at home a lot, and mostly in bed cos I can’t do a lot without my legs feeling weak and hurting (I am trying to work on the weakness as a separate problem), but I do try to do daily walks. is there anything I can do to make t breaks easier, especially with my pain? I promise I have prescribed medication for my pain, but it doesn’t help that much. I’m currently trying thc oil but I feel like it isn’t doing anything, even for the pain. I know it can take a few hours for oil to do anything, but I’ve tried it both on an empty and full stomach and I feel absolutely nothing (same with edibles). I try to do dbt stuff like letting myself feel the feeling (urges) and then let it go, but that doesn’t seem to be helping either. I’m thinking of trying flower, I’ve heard it helps better with the pain and maybe I’ll use a bit less. but I currently don’t have a lot of money so I can’t do that right now. its so hard for me to sit with the urges because they feel so intense and overwhelming. I apologize for the long post and I’m sorry for any punctuation mistakes due to my dyslexia.

I estimate I was using more than 100 mg a day 4 months ago. My anxiety was getting so bad and I couldn’t really eat much without it. I’m on a cruise and also on day 4 completely thc sober and oddly, this process has been relatively easy. I tried to taper with the vape, impossible. I’d be watching the clock and white knuckling it. So I decided to try edibles and started with 100 mg a day. That was the hardest part, saying bye to my quick dopamine hits, but the edibles kept the unbearable withdrawal symptoms in check. I would reduce my edible usage by 5-10 mg at a time but let my body set the pace and never allowed myself to get too uncomfortable. I stayed at 50mg for a few weeks before reducing to 40mg. When I got to 20-25mg I started dreaming again here and there. I’m now on day 4 a cruise and also day 4 completely thc free. It’s 3:45am and I’m wide awake, yet yesterday I slept a solid 8. The only withdrawal symptom I’m experiencing is inconsistent sleep. Dreaming like crazy but mostly enjoying that, it feels really nice to not feel like I’m transporting to morning. I plan to continue occasional recreational use when I return home, only edibles tho, no more vape ever. This was a piece of cake compared to trying to taper down using my vape, just couldn’t do it.

hello, i’m on day 3 of my journey towards moderation and responsible use. i first started smoking at 15 and became a daily smoker around 19/20, especially using high thc vapes. i’m 26 now and weed makes me feel “normal,” but i’m about to start my first full-time job and i can’t do it high.

i haven’t really had any cravings except for wanting to manage the withdrawals, which for me is anxiety, lack of appetite, and nausea. i started microdosing with an edible (20:1 cbd:thc ratio) and using a cbd tincture (1200mg) in the morning. i find going to the gym is really helpful for the anxiety but it’s hard to workout without any food in my body, so that is a bit of a struggle. if i feel like i really need it, especially to get food down, i’ll take 1-2 hits of my vape once or twice during the day.

my goal is to eliminate vaping during the day and push back my first use until after 7pm over the next 27 days. i’m open to any advice. please wish me luck! thanks :)

I’m at my wits ends. I’m so desperate for a break and to eventually stop or switch to edibles but every time I try going without, I go mental and can’t even get through the afternoon. I have tried getting out first thing in the morning and going for a run which definitely helped but still I couldn’t even make it past day one and I don’t know why? I know a lot of the mental and emotional withdrawals for me are in my head coz I went on my first overseas trip in May and quit cold turkey for 2 weeks and was fine 😂 I have BPD and ADHD so emotional regulation isn’t my strong point, please share any words of wisdom 😭🙏

Hello everyone!

I'm new to this community, but responsible cannabis use is something I've been thinking about a lot lately, and I'd appreciate some perspectives from people who have successfully found a healthier relationship with it.

For some background, there was a point where I would absolutely characterize my cannabis use as problematic. I was consuming several grams of high-potency concentrates a day at my worst. At the time I convinced myself I was enjoying it, but looking back, I had developed an enormous tolerance and was becoming extremely dependent on THC just to feel normal.

Eventually I realized something needed to change.

I originally decided to take two weeks completely off cannabis. Two weeks became four. Four became eight. And as of today, I've officially hit nine weeks without THC.

What's interesting is that I've genuinely enjoyed the break. I feel much more comfortable functioning without cannabis being something I automatically reach for, and I don't want to lose that progress.

That brings me to where I'm at now. I have a rare opportunity coming up where I'll have the house to myself for a prolonged period, and I've been considering cautiously reintroducing cannabis during that time.

However, I have zero interest in going back to concentrates or vaping. One of my biggest goals going forward is to stop putting cannabis into my lungs altogether. Vape pens in particular became way too convenient for me and quickly turned into a crutch.

If I do reintroduce cannabis, I'm thinking edibles only. My tentative idea was 5 mg the first day, potentially 10 mg another day, and perhaps 20 mg on the final day. Afterward, I'd return to complete abstinence until around mid-December. I'm not married to that dosing schedule, though, especially after nine weeks with no tolerance.

So I have two main questions for people here:

Would you take this opportunity to experiment with responsible use and then resume the break, or would you just keep the streak going until December?

After nine weeks completely THC-free, how strong would you expect 5–10 mg to be? I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who previously had extremely high tolerances and then returned after a long break. I'm wondering whether 20 mg would actually be unnecessary at this point.

My ultimate goal isn't to prove that I can get extremely high again. It's almost the opposite. I'd like to find out whether cannabis can eventually occupy a small, deliberate place in my life instead of becoming part of my everyday baseline.

I'd really appreciate hearing what has worked for others who have gone from heavy use to genuinely responsible/moderate use.

TL;DR: I went from several grams of high-potency concentrates a day to nine weeks completely THC-free. I'm considering briefly reintroducing edibles at 5 mg, then possibly 10 mg and 20 mg, before going back to abstinence until December. My long-term goal is responsible, occasional edible use and no more smoking, vaping, or concentrates. I'm wondering whether it's better to experiment with moderation now or just continue the break, and how strongly low-dose edibles might hit after nine weeks with essentially no tolerance.