| It always amazed me that some people were able to | | | | My life is so much better now and I feel better than I |
| quit smoking weed with relative ease. Some people | | | | have ever felt before, I have the life that I was |
| can stop smoking weed like they are giving up fast | | | | desperate to have when I was depressed, |
| food, without a second thought they just do it. | | | | overwhelmed and anxious. Now I'm overwhelmed by |
| I didn't find it that easy. Quitting to me meant changing | | | | all the great things in my life and I have myself to thank |
| my entire life, not a small thing but a HUGE deal which I | | | | for it. I quit weed and now I am going to show you |
| was both excited and apprehensive about. Weed was | | | | how you can quit too, no matter what your |
| part of every area of my life, smoking before work, | | | | circumstances. |
| smoking at lunch and then as soon as I got home from | | | | The first thing you need to do is decide that you want |
| work. I'd usually smoke three or four times a night | | | | to quit. I can hear you say 'of course I want to quit!' But |
| (sometimes a few more!) and I'd always smoke | | | | do you? Do you think that weed makes you happy or |
| before doing any chores to 'get me in the mood.' It | | | | that you need weed to get through all the stress you |
| wasn't just whilst I was smoking that I was high, weed | | | | have? If you think you need to smoke weed for |
| will stay in our system for days after smoking so there | | | | whatever reason then your giving yourself mixed |
| was never a time when I was free from the effects | | | | messages. For example you want to quit because |
| of weed. | | | | your unhappy but the only thing that makes you happy |
| To me, quitting weed sounded great until I had my last | | | | is weed. So what do you do? You keep smoking |
| joint and looked at my empty tin. I was already wishing | | | | weed to make yourself happier. Of course this is |
| I had more and I had only just smoked 'my last joint.' I | | | | nonsense and when you really think about it I'm sure |
| told friends that I wanted to quit but six months later I'd | | | | you see that weed doesn't make you happy in the |
| still be smoking and saying the same thing. I kept saying | | | | long run, it will more than likely make you feel |
| to myself 'maybe I'm just meant to be a smoker' but I | | | | depressed and so you will smoke to feel better. That's |
| was well aware of what weed was doing to me and | | | | the trap most people (including myself) fall into. |
| knew that if I could only find a way to quit then things | | | | It's easy to overlook something as 'small' as this but it |
| would get better. | | | | can easily make the difference between quitting today |
| What I needed was a proven way to quit smoking | | | | or not being able to quit at all. |
| weed, I had read EVERY piece of information I could | | | | Next, you need to know what triggers you to smoke. |
| find over the months and nothing worked. I was | | | | For me it was boredom and habits I got into like |
| begging for someone to help me stop smoking weed | | | | smoking before work. Waking up and thinking 'weed' is |
| and no one was giving me the right answers, I was | | | | a bad habit and once I learned how to change these |
| STILL smoking even though I was desperate to quit. | | | | habits (along with other changes) I found I was able to |
| In the end I found the answer, I quit smoking weed | | | | quit. It can be done when you know how. |
| more than one year ago and will NEVER smoke again. | | | | |