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stopping smoking marijuana when everyone you know smokes

jose ribas da silva

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I want to stop being a marijuana addict but all my friends and most of my family smoke.

It's very difficult to stop smoking watching everyone smoking in front of you all the time.

How can I get out of this situation?
 
Yeah, weed culture is a little messed these days, as its position in schedule I is quite unfair. This leads to a movement of many people falsely believing that there is nothing wrong with weed. It's becoming very common even here in the midwest as we've just seen legalization for personal use.

The worst part is people not taking you seriously when you say you're addicted on weed as a result of this. I think that, like tobacco, alcohol, porn, sugar, caffeine, weed can also be pretty addictive.

Addiction isn't even 100% based on the substance, I've noticed. Substances classified by scientists and health care professionals as "non addictive", like LSD, still have people going to rehab for them (I believe the figure is 2k a year for acid). This just shows you that anybody can be addicted to anything.
 
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It is true, most people do not take marijuana seriously. As a heavy user (more than 15 years smoking daily, more than 3 g per day ), I have tried many times to quit smoking weed, none of them succeeded for long. Basically, I'm surrounded by smokers, almost all my social environment, inside of my house in front of me all the days. This is one of the main reasons why my attempts have failed. Other reason is that I love smoking weed, apart from the fact that I know I should stop smoking or try to smoke socially (but I can't). Marijuana gave me good times. It also gave me bad times. It stole a certain part of my life, since I dedicated too much time to it and little to other things. It's really hard to have fun without smoking, specially hanging out or on a tedious Sunday at home with people blowing smoke in my face.

Most of my friends who quit smoking nowadays they drink two/three times more than before. They can't hang out without tripping balls, they need to replace weed with another drug (legal or illegal). I don't like drinking at all. I cannot imagine myself completely sober at the night, partying. Is it possible to party sober? Of course, I am not considering other drug as a substitute. I don't think I would adapt to a sober lifestyle, I am a stoner!
 
Pete, that was inappropriate and any more of that will get you an infraction.

Jose: I too don't think I can quit. I don't know what to say. It's quite difficult. I get withdrawal around 12 hours. You could ask others around you not to smoke in your presence but it might be better to get more activities, get away from it more, or just focus on cutting back in general instead of giving it up entirely.
 
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