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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: Asante]
#27355930 - 06/20/21 01:44 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Asante said:
Its been 19 years since I quit my cannabis addiction.
Do you think it's accurate or helpful to tell people "addiction" is a lifetime brain disorder and a progressive disease that "addicts" will battle until their death? Millions of druggies and drunks are being told by so called experts that they are powerless and unable to make choices and decisions. I suspect you don't accept the "powerless" teachings of AA?
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 2
#27385611 - 07/13/21 09:17 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Niffla said: I used to drink daily. For years. Every single day I'd at least drink a 6 pack. Minimum. A lot of days I'd drink more than that. I went through many years where the days I went completely without a drink, for the entire year, was maybe a total of 2 or 3 weeks. These days occurred when I had absolutely no choice but to stay sober for whatever reason. Other than that, at some point that day I was having a drink.
In the last few years I have cut back dramatically. In 2019 I more or less cut that in half, in 2020 I got it down to drinking around 6 days a month, and now in 2021 I've gotten it down to 3 to 4 drinking days a month. So yeah, I haven't completely gone sober by any means, but it's night & day from what life used to be for me. Instead of daily it's maybe once a week, sometimes just once every couple of weeks.
But man, still, not a day goes by that I don't think about it. Everyday at some point the thought enters my head: "man it would be nice to go have some drinks right now". Now that urge is very rarely if ever strong enough for me to actually act on it, but still the thought doesn't ever go away. And like a true addict I am always looking forward to that next drinking session. Even if that session is a half month away.
Can anybody else relate? Doesn't have to be necessarily alcohol.

Niffla: I offer you a mindhack to get out of this. This actually works.
What you are suffering is that you fail to close an .exe in your wetware that keeps spamming you.
You can fix this easy as 1,2,3.
1) Think HARD and identify as many as possible VERY GOOD REASONS not to drink, then sift through these to find what yunites them, so you can strike more and more off that list as you consolidate them into more powerful reasons.
2) formulate 5 or 10 short slogans that in a positive way affirm these most important reasons. Dont say whats bad if you keep drinking, say what gets better and better if you don't drink. You are not lying to yourself and you know it. Shit improves for years to come as the damage undoes itself.
3) every single time you get even the slightest thought about drinking, state out loud your Top 5 or Top 10 reasons why staying quit gets way better and better.
Thats all, spam yourself like coca cola and mc donalds spam you, by repeating slogans over and over.
But these are HEALING slogans.
Now you give your brain a problem. It gets spammed shut every time it suggests a relapse even in the slightest. You march those slogans that are so meaningful to you in like its blitzkrieg. It systematically strips your brain's suggestion of all weapons and rank.
Your brain is not stupid: keep this up and keep strengthening your convictions, and your balance will tip and your brain's default will be to rather smash a bottle on the floor than to drink one drop.
See how low the tier, the investment is? Just those three things.
So, form your platoon of the best possible reasons to do whats right and march them in at the slightest queef of an implied relapse. And again. And again.
It will stop.
Thats how your biocomputer works and this is one way to program it.
Get your soldiers in the game!
THOUSANDS OF TIMES IF YOU HAVE TO 
You won't have to.
Your brain is your friend and he's a quick learner
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GoodTryer
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: Asante]
#27406568 - 07/29/21 02:58 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Really helps with sleep :-(
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Big_Dub
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: GoodTryer]
#27424628 - 08/11/21 08:32 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've decided to take a break from smoking weed. I've been on and off for years.
My goal is to only smoke weed that I grow and I'm not growing any for a while haha
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#27474199 - 09/19/21 09:53 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: enjoi-more]
#27520675 - 10/27/21 08:16 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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I just wish my mind wasn't wired to like it so much. Playing video games 8 months sober and having my brain go "wouldn't this be cooler with weed" really wears you down
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Cory Duchesne
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: Anonymous #9]
#28600457 - 12/28/23 03:29 AM (1 month, 9 hours ago) |
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Cannabis and Irritability (B)
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: Cory Duchesne]
#28601453 - 12/28/23 07:29 PM (30 days, 17 hours ago) |
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I've smoked weed 12 times this year. And each time was only like 2 or 3 hits. Major progress. 2024 I am making a goal not to smoke at all
Going to the gym has helped me so much.
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: Big_Dub]
#28601455 - 12/28/23 07:31 PM (30 days, 17 hours ago) |
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Good job, Big_dub! I've only smoked weed for a few days in a row and that's it in the last two and a half years. My girlfriend at the time offered to bring some over and I said, "sure." She gave me a few grams when she left the next day and I smoked it over a few days.
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I started teaching past few years and I want my mind to be sharp, so that put me in a position to really only smoke on weekends. Then I got a dog, and I live about 3pmin drive outside of town so there's enough "inconveniences" that made stopping very easy and enjoyable. Been reading a lot more too
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: GoodTryer]
#28601836 - 12/29/23 06:07 AM (30 days, 6 hours ago) |
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GoodTryer said: Really helps with sleep :-(
I've found it helps me fall asleep but the quality of my sleep is worse. Studies have shown the same.
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: Anonymous #10]
#28601969 - 12/29/23 08:57 AM (30 days, 4 hours ago) |
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Well, since I have spent close to $50k on cannabis to alleviate ptsd symptoms...
I am trying to take a break, maybe quit permanently.
I thought about going to a dispensary after work, but as I was driving home, I decided, nah.
Hopefully I can just keep the momentum up. I can abstain for very long periods of time, but the first week sucks.
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lifeiswhatyoumake
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: skOsH]
#28602117 - 12/29/23 11:14 AM (30 days, 1 hour ago) |
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Have you tried going to therapy to treat your PTSD?
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I stopped smoking daily, which lead to not really smoking anymore ever. I just do not have any desire to smoke weed these days.
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skOsH
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lifeiswhatyoumake said: Have you tried going to therapy to treat your PTSD?
I am currently looking for a good therapist who specializes in ptsd treatment, hopefully hypnotherapy as well, that is in network but also not too far away...
Although I would drive 100 miles if they were really good
Hopefully in the future, I can be part of a MAPS study, and then work for them, which I think would be an amazing line of work
Still trying to cut back on the cannabis. Still spending less for sure, and I am saving more money overall, so I would say thats a win. I was net gain $0 for the previous 30 days a week ago. Just waiting on getting paid this week to keep building up something I can have as a financial cushion, so paying for therapy won't be too painful on my finances, because if I did it when I wasn't financially ready, I think the therapy would not work, or be detrimental to my mental well being if i was strapped for cash, hence why i am trying to be as frugal as possible. That's just my opinion, however. I think once I do find the right therapist and get plenty of exercise and meditation. I should be more balanced.
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: skOsH]
#28612224 - 01/06/24 07:54 PM (21 days, 17 hours ago) |
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For a few weeks now I have completely reeled it in on weed. Not buying it anymore at all, and only smoked a few roaches I found on the ground. Life without weed is better for me now cause I have projects and studying to enjoy that I can’t do while I use weed. It’s a trade off. I found I wasn’t able to “quit” weed till I had something better to do instead. Thankfully now I do.
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skOsH
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Yeah, I am definitely cutting back, simply because I need to save more money.
I basically withdraw how much money I have as spending money, in cash, after each paycheck as a way of tracking my savings
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