how to cut back smoking?

Should have been your first post..

insightful and i definitely agree

to the op just keep in mind that you are your own god, you can control so many things you overlook everyday! learn to appreciate life for what its good for! definitely work out, some type of exercise will kill stress and ease your mind naturally, also makes you tired..good luck man and dont stress..21? you have your whole life to smoke pot, take a break for at least a month!

 

haha im the same exact way i can't help it, if its there im going to be tempted to smoke it. sometimes i will lay in bed thinking about the weed i could be smoking and it keeps me from sleep lol.
well, im on day two of no weed. i managed to make my last weed sprinklies last until yesterday morning [like 12am].
it is actually a lot easier than i anticipated.
when i quit last time i cut a lot of ppl out of my life who smoked, to not be tempted as much. what is really cool is this time around, i only have one guy who i buy from, thats it. he's not a close friend or anything just someone i knew from highschool, and we live 20 miles apart. so, its basically awesome. im going to try to stay clean for a month. woo hoo maybe longer.
and the next time i smoke ill be sure to enjoy it the only thing that sucks is i will not smoke for 4-20 or my birthday which is in 10 days. oh well

ps. i forgot how much i like this website good community of people loves it.

 

Forgot in my last post:

Your and your being are nothing but a series of choices. The choices you have made define the present you, and the choices you make now define the future you. All you have to do is choose, at any one time. One thing that can make a choice (like quitting) hard is that it's a LOT of choices in one, you have to declare your choice far ahead of time. Just take it once choice at a time, and make the right one each time. Each one is easy, it's only hard when you think about them all together.

ie. saying "I'll ALWAYS choose not to smoke" is a lot harder than saying "I choose not to smoke NOW" because it involves making a choice for EVERY chance to smoke you'll ever have. It's okay to make the right choice for the right time AT that time, and the right choice will likely be not to smoke. But just worry about the present choice at the moment.

Just keep putting one foot in front of the other.

 

hey guys.
well i really was not expecting to "update" this post as much, but here is something interesting i just wrote.
basically, i was sitting in my room kinda bored, thought on a whim, hey lets see if i can get any resin out of my [tiny-ass] piece. its pretty small, so i didnt expect anything really. but it gave me one last perspective i think i should really think on.
[btw a side note i am one of those smokers who contemplates a lot when smoking]
anyways, here it is
for this post i edited it and added a little at the end.




when i smoke weed, i start to look at myself in a different light.
i already have a negative perception of myself but weed enhances
it when it wants to. i think a lot of things my b/f says about me. this happens
when i am not smoking, too [mainly negative things
i just think about myself.] But when i smoke, it is magnified.
for example.
i already think i am weird bc i talk about ham a lot. i already
know my b/f probably think i am weird for it, too.
But, for example. There is this girl named Amanda that this friend
i used to have named Adrian is his girlfriend.
I always thought Adrian was really weird, and his girlfreind too.
just now, i was looking at a text message i sent to my b/f saying
"you look like ham!!!!!" recently i looked at Amanda's profile
on facebook because adrian is one of my friends who re frind
requested me. [i erased veryone from my profile b/c i was going to
delete it.]
i guess because i had recently read about her, in my mind i pictured
Amanda saying something weird, too. and then
i imagined in my mind how i must appear to my b/f.

it is upsetting that i imagine him looking at me so strangely.
it also makes me wonder why i befriend people who i think are so
strange.
maybe it is because i think i am so strange.
maybe it is the weed that has made me this strange
along with how strange i already was to begin with.

this along with a lot of other things makes me realize my
social anxiety even more.
social anxiety has been causing me a lot of depression lately.
all three jobs i had last year i was basically told i was
not outgoing enough. and a job is a problem i am having lately
as well.all three jobs i had last year basically it felt like, "rejected" me. I feel
like i am looking in a field i shouldnt be working at right now.
But at the same time it is unfair that i am 21 and unable to
socialize properly. I hate myself.. and these insecurities that
i have.
It is neat that weed can give me new perspectives, but i need
to be in a more positive aspect of my life before i should
touch it again. The only reason i should smoke is to remember
that i do not need to be smoking right now. But it is hard to
do this because i do not like smoking around people but have
memories of smoking, so that desire to smoke is there and there
for the only way i can really smoke is by myself because i am
the one who has to buy it.
since im having to buy it, im analyzing myself and my situation
a lot more critically than i would be if say, i was able to smoke
with people, because i have more of it.
So the thing is really, that i need to solve my social anxiety.
Anyone have any good tips or sources?

 

You really wrote all that to ask for a xanax source?

No, you don't need it, your mind is powerful enough.

Smoking helps some conditions, and if marijuana can help anxiety, smoke it if you feel the need. It's a lot better to be quitting weed and wining than quitting benzos and having seizures. Maybe you need the proper strain.

 

bongwater, you may want to post on the mental health forum. questions about how to treat a condition don't really sound like sl material

hope things can get better!

 

If you have a real problem, go to a doctor. there's your source.

 

first step to quitting anything is to get it out of the house... sure you can just go down to the store/corner/alley/wherever and buy some more, but that's a whole nother decision in itself. if it's in the house, you can just go for it any time your willpower fades without really thinking about it. seems to be the case for me anyways. i buy a pack of smokes usually a couple times a month. it's gone in the first few days and i go without for weeks. i have no problem not smoking but i can't do it if i still have some on me.