| Marijuana while only a "soft drug" compared | | | | compound this many pot smokers have friends |
| to the likes of cocaine, heroin and others | | | | who also smoke and it becomes a social thing |
| can still be a very addictive and destructive | | | | making it more ingrained. |
| drug. Many people who long to quit smoking | | | | |
| pot find their lives revolve around marijuana | | | | So this being said it is possible to quit |
| and it becomes a habit that fills any gap in | | | | smoking weed without suffering cravings or |
| their lives. It can become such an integral | | | | relapses and you are not fighting with a |
| part of their lives that they feel like they | | | | chemical need but a psychological need which |
| are living in a haze most of the time and are | | | | can be overcome with willpower. While this |
| missing out on some very important parts of | | | | may sound easy it can of course be a lot |
| life. The first thing to know when learning | | | | harder in practice as the habit can run very |
| how to quit smoking weed is that the drug is | | | | deep especially for those who have smoked for |
| not chemically addictive! | | | | years. Quitting can be accompanied by anxiety |
| | | | and depression as you learn to live life |
| Pot is not an addictive drug like heroin or | | | | without the constant smoking which can seem |
| cigarettes as there is no physical craving | | | | soothing and comforting but only because it |
| that occurs when you do not take the drugs. | | | | was a part of your routine. The trick for |
| Pot does not affect the receptors in your | | | | some people is to find something to replace |
| brain like these drugs and the effects are | | | | this addiction, obviously not another |
| also not as vivid as the hard drugs making it | | | | addiction but something creative and |
| less of an issue to many people to start | | | | fulfilling. Something that makes you happy |
| smoking. The primary addiction to weed is a | | | | without an extreme high you may try to latch |
| psychological addiction, the memory of the | | | | onto as an alternative. |
| highs you once felt smoking pot always come | | | | |
| back and make you want to try to reach that | | | | So how to quit smoking weed in a nutshell? |
| feeling again even if it takes you more and | | | | You must realize you do not crave weed but |
| more pot to do this as you become more | | | | just want it! Once you learn to adapt to a |
| resistant to its effects. The smoking goes | | | | life without marijuana you will find you can |
| from a pleasurable action to a habit with | | | | quit smoking pot forever! |
| little real benefit just a perceived one. To | | | | |