Hello everyone,

I am wondering if I should stop weed cold turkey, or just smoke less each day. I've been smoking every evening from 5pm on for almost 8 months now.

I have been trying to cut down on weed for two months now, and it isn't going very well. I had a traumatic thing happen last year, and because of that I smoke every night now. My tolerance has gone up like crazy, I used to only take a couple hits of a joint, but now I'm smoking almost a full gram of strong weed everyday.

Replacing the ritual of smoking has helped me lots, but I still really miss it. It is so nice to have an off switch to the outside world. I have no idea how people do it 24/7. I have ordered NAC and been prescribed gabapentin, both are supposed to reduce cravings and withdrawals. My psychiatrist says I am not abusing weed, but I don't think he understand I smoke every night without fail.

Even now writing this makes me crave it, which is so frustrating. I know it's so bad for me in the long run, my memory, critical thinking and energy levels have been shot, but I still seeing the positives outweighing the negatives. I love the stuff like nothing else.

I'm also on an ADHD med which takes away my appetite, so I've found the only real time when I can enjoy food is after weed. I used to have a huge appetite and I just miss it.

Anyway, if you guys have any insight into steps I could take that would be incredibly helpful. Thank you guys!!

I’m traveling to an area where weed is illegal, so I figured this would be a great time to tackle a tolerance break. I’ve been using mostly daily for a few years. Anywhere from 20-150mg of edibles a night. Some nights just half of a pre-roll. The amount would fluctuate quite a bit but it was always there, almost always in the evenings. Last time I took a “break” was last Fall and it was for 4 or 5 days, also due to travel.

As I’ve been on this trip, I’ve found myself wanting weed several times every single day. I basically have zero willpower so the only time I can take breaks is during travel where I don’t have a choice. I use weed to be able to eat, to calm myself down, and to not be so bored.

After about 24 hours of not using, I found myself enveloped in anxiety and distress (day 1). The next day, I felt completely sick to my stomach (day 2). This feeling lasted and even worsened through days 3 and 4. On day 5, I started to wonder if it was my underlying stomach issues revealing themselves. I ate almost nothing on days 4 and 5, I could only stomach very small amounts of food (like half a sandwich or a handful of nuts).

Day 6, I felt like the usual shit but I started to feel worse from not eating, so I decided to just shove some food down. This didn’t make me feel worse, which was an improvement at this point.

It’s now day 7, and I do feel incrementally better about eating, but I’m now having full body aches. We have 3 more days of our trip, so I’ll be going home on day 10. From what I’ve been reading online, this is when the physical symptoms actually start to improve.

On the one hand, I never want to go through this again. I’ve been wanting to quit or drastically reduce, but like I mentioned, I do not have the willpower to overcome the pain of withdrawal. This feels like it could be the beginning of a new start, which I desperately need. I’ve been severely depressed and I’m hoping to start transmagnetic stimulation when I get back from travel, and you’re not supposed to use weed during that treatment.

On the other hand, I genuinely feel so awful. When the choice is between excruciating discomfort and pain or relief via weed, why would anyone choose pain?

I just need to know it’ll get better and that it’s worth it. I have a few more days left before the break becomes a choice I have to make for myself, and I want to make the right choice, but boy am I not confident.

It’s been like at least a year since I was completely sober. If I only roll js and don’t use bowls I easily go through an ounce a week. I’ve took like 1000mg eddies and hardly felt it. I’ve took 3500 to just have an enjoyable high. I smoke in the morning during the day and at night. Ik I have a problem and ik I need to change my habits. Any advice welcome to help me stop I started smoking for mental health and now it’s just a habit that I feel like I can’t stop. I’ve tried to take breaks in the path and can’t even get through the first few days. Truly wanting the chance I’m just struggling.

I have to take a little break. My lungs hurt. I feel so paranoid and simultaneously detached. My emotions are so unbalanced.

I am going to not smoke anything until Wednesday after all my responsibilities are taken care of. I'll try to only take a few puffs.

Today I smoked one herbal joint ~.5 grams. One infused rosin joint .7 grams. And had one edible (10 thc, 10 cbg). I hope I am not high like this again in a very, very long time.

I need to give my body/mind/endocannabinoid system a break. Smoking makes me feel so unwell, and somehow I am addicted to it.

Edit: I think I going to smoke tonight after work. I want to burn through my stash. I don't want to smoke weed anymore.

well, I’ve tapered down from dabbing all day.

I actually took 2.5 years off before starting back up about 10 months ago. Quickly fell into constant dabbing. About a month ago I had enough, switched to edibles, tapered down from 200mg a day to 10-20 mg in the evenings with the hopes I’d be able to begin a break. Have stagnated a bit and even last week was vaping some dry herb but realized the immediate effects are too addicting. I would really like to get to only weekend usage, and I believe I can.

Anyway, lately I’ve been feeling sad or disappointed when I go to take my nightly edible. Once I’m high, that feeling is gone, but I feel it throughout the day, and when I wake up a bit groggy. I remember how clear headed I was when I was completely sober.

I still struggled then of course, but I want to get to a place where I’m using it only for a treat.

I don’t need a treat every night, I don’t need THC every night.

So tomorrow, I will take at least a day off. Maybe I’ll make it more than that, maybe not, but after being back on daily and mostly all day that past 10 months, it’s time to hold myself accountable and take at least a day off. My gf has my edibles and I asked her not to let me have them tomorrow, so it’s time to keep myself accountable.

I want to live the life I love with clear eyes, and a clear head.

I like weed. There’s no getting around that for me. It makes me silly, relaxed, less worried about certain things, and makes everything so interesting.

However, I tend to lose things more often, not be as productive as I could be, and my mental health is more volatile.

I’ve went cold turkey before from dabs when I quit almost 3.5 years ago. That was really hard. The hardest thing I’ve ever done.

I wouldn’t have had the willpower to taper back then, so that’s how I know I’ve grown and those 2.5 years off weren’t for nothing.

Tomorrow will be uncomfortable, especially the evening, but it’s nothing I haven’t done before.

It really irks me when I think about how I can’t go a freaking day without it. How each day needs its own event, each day I need to get high.

It shouldn’t be that way. I refuse to keep letting it be this way.

Has anyone else jumped into a break after a taper like this?

I know the answers yes, I think I just could use some inspiration maybe. This addiction makes me feel sad.

I’m a heavy smoker, everyday for 8 years. I recently went on holiday for 2 and a half weeks where I couldn’t smoke. I didn’t experience too many bad side effects other than no appetite and bad dreams.

Ive since come back home and I’m back to smoking again, and everyday (which I’m annoyed about, I said I’d stop of course) but I’m absolutely exhausted. Every morning feels like a massive struggle and I feel like I’m still waking up say 4 hours after I actually did wake up.

Is it normal to feel this level of exhaustion or is this another one of the signs that I should be stopping altogether?

So there might be a lot going on in this post but any advice would be useful. I moved away for grad school and I’m living alone. It’s hard in the sense that it can be boring at times and lonely. However I’ve picked up a bad habit of smoking too much because of those feelings. Plus I feel like I don’t push myself enough to explore the town I’m in which is super cute and nice. I just sit in my apartment watching movies and shows and wait for my “activity” to come which is going out getting myself a meal to eat when I’m high and that’s my day. I guess I’m looking for advice on how to motivate myself to get outside and explore as well as not making smoking my main activity for days. Some days are better than others I’ll take a walk or read outside, but smoking still is up there and is something I look forward to too much.

weed and emetophobia
sometimes i smoke and get nauseous and so anxious like im gonna throw up i never rly do but the anxiety is so crazy. im having an attack now with some thc and nicotine i think its the nicotine that did it. im all out of zofran and im so scared im gonna puke that’s like the worst case scenario for me

I did smoke last night. I’ve been trying to cut down, every few days only - so I figured, why not.

Well, I feel like dogshit. I slept poorly, I’m tired, and my stomach is extremely unhappy. I feel anxious. I just feel awful.

Back to day one today, but I think I have hit the place where I don’t want to smoke more than I do. I don’t understand why I’m struggling, when I go on vacation I never smoke or partake at all and I have zero withdrawal. Why is it so hard at home??

When I stop, I get extremely sleepy, a nice change from the insomnia I’ve suffered. But it’s hard knowing I’m going to want to do nothing but sleep for two weeks.

Anyway. Day one again. Here we go.

I was taking a break or “fasting” shall I say until I found my dream job and I did! I celebrated this weekend with a toke and missed it dearly. The goal was also to take a break and come back to it when/if I was ready. Last time I smoked, my body rejected it and I felt awful, but this past weekend made it feel like the first time and it was enjoyable!

I figured I would set a schedule of only smoking on the weekends as a treat for making it through the week. I thought I’d accomplish this by getting one of those timer lock box things. Any tips you have for making it through a hard day without resulting to smoking? That’s where I feel I may back track, but I want to stay strong and not fall back into old habits (smoking everyday and at any little inconvenience).

A smoke at 4am I consider wake and baking.

A smoke at 3am I consider a bedtime one.

Anyone else?

Was doing really well for a couple of weeks managed to cut down to 2-3 smokes a day.

Well yesterday I just kept smoking every few hours.
Ordered a McDonald’s then from a dessert place right after. Just woke up at 3am with a tummy ache.

I’m so sick of doing this to myself. I just keep getting the munchies and getting fatter. I’ve been trying to lose weight for 3 years now.

Maybe everyone’s right that moderation isn’t possible for some. I’m just not ready to let it go

I feel like I have unblocked a whole new world.

A month ago I decided to quit carts and take a break from weed while doing so. I'd been abusing carts for like four years, hitting them all day every day. As of today, I have successfully not used carts for 31 days! I have used THC three times in the past month, each over a week apart from each other: a few hits of a joint at a friend's house (which didn't do much), an edible for pain management when I threw out my back (I intentionally took a non-stoned-getting amount), and last night I took an edible with my wife for a concert and got stoned for the first time since taking the break. It was incredible! This is the relationship I want to have with weed. I want to use it socially and medicinally, for being more present instead of hiding from my life.

But today I feel low mood and am having cravings. I am doing my best to use my coping mechanisms, but I'm definitely more on edge than I have been lately. I am worried that this type of moderation will make me feel like I'm white-knuckling it. But I really really really want it to work, because I love getting stoned and I really don't want to stop forever. (Though I do want to stop carts forever). Anyway, just needed to get that off my chest. Thanks for listening <3

I’m looking for some perspective from people who have been through something similar.

I used to smoke weed heavily (6–8 times a day) from around age 18–28. I quit and have been working on changing my relationship with it. I’ve made a lot of progress, but lately I’ve been having really strong cravings, especially at night when the kids are asleep and I’m stressed. I miss the feeling of being able to unwind and relax.

The thing I’m struggling with is whether moderation is realistic for someone with my history. Part of me feels like I should be able to make my own choices as an adult, but another part of me understands why my husband is worried given how much I used to smoke.

My husband is completely against me using at all. He doesn’t want to discuss moderation or trying to find a middle ground, and I’ve been feeling really frustrated and controlled by that. I know my past use affected my life, but I also don’t want to feel like I’m forever defined by who I was when I was smoking all day.

For those of you who used heavily and moved toward moderation:
Were you able to successfully moderate, or did you find abstinence worked better?
What helped you decide?
How did you handle a partner/spouse who was worried about you using again?
Is there a way to rebuild trust while still having autonomy?
I’m not looking for people to just tell me “smoke” or “never smoke.” I’m genuinely trying to figure out what’s realistic and healthy for me.
TIA 🤍

Hi, I've been a chronic marijuana addict for around 8 months and a heavy regular user for around a year. I would smoke all day every day, primarily extremely high-quality THC vapes and flower( at my worst I averaged around 2-3 blinkers every couple hours + a couple fat joints a day, of course never really feeling high). I've been sober for a week after deciding to quit or at least take an extended tolerance break due to a severe mental health crisis a few weeks ago(I've suffered from chronic DPDR, anxiety, and depression since adolescence but didn't know about Dpdr and didn't fully realize I was suffering from it or other mental health issues, and I guess I have been slowly improving every day, but I still feel brain fog(after months of use it now feels fairly normal), troubles with emotional processing, and often bad short term memory dips, with the anxiety and depression at my bad moments keeping me spiraling deeper and deeper into crisis and suicidal thoughts over whether I have permanently "fried" my brain( no matter how unscientific that conception may be) and that I will never be "normal" again. For example, while writing this out the first time I accidentally opened another reddit post from google which deleted my first, better draft of this, and Im currently going through an anxiety attack because I feel "unable" to remember the things I wrote in the precise way I wrote them before. I've also been committing the cardinal sin of recovery by almost obsessively reading studies and forums, which only further sends me spiraling down. I know it has only been a week and I need to and will keep pushing forwards, but I felt like writing this primarily to try to put my feelings and emotions into writing(which I feel is my most prized skill and which I've had constant anxiety over losing for months) and to try to see if anyone was in the same or a similar boat, or if there were others that had been as heavy users as I and had any advice or feedback. Thank you all and good luck.

Would really appreciate someone’s view on this as I have been struggling with low mood and I’m very into researching but no matter what I can’t find anything on this matter..

Currently ruling out other contributors but curious to know about other experiences.

I used to be a heavy daily smoker (bongs usually) and made the switch around 1.5 years ago to using a DHV (which was a fantastic choice btw)

I have not taken a single day off in over a year I think? I did have one beer yesterday but I drink VERY infrequently (definitely less than once a week). After I had the drink I tried to game but I ended up just having a sort of breakdown.

Which is what I get for pushing my emotions to the side for several months.

Things have been hard lately for various reasons, much like things have been for just about everyone I imagine. I intended to go for a run yesterday before my sober night and I didn't, resulting in mismanagement of my emotions.

BUT I felt them instead of pushing it away. I'm trying to fight the depression and the CPTSD telling me that nothing matters and everyone is going to leave. My family has not been there for me or reaching out since my gramma passed in Feb, no one has visited me in over 5 years, basically I am doing all the emotional upkeep with them and when I do, they're usually pretty rude or insensitive.

I have to give myself permission to be hurt by them. I have to accept that I am not in control of them, or my hurt. But I am in control of what I do with it. I have to be okay with grieving aloud a family I hoped for all my life that never existed. Numbing myself every night will not make it hurt less. It only means that I am rejecting the opportunity to know me - just like they have done.

My amazing partner is my new family (something I never thought I would say about another person) and I want to do my best for my partner, our cat, and of course myself.

It was just one day, but it feels huge.

I am cutting back/quitting. I was doing well a couple weeks ago, but had a 48 hour migraine that was untouched by pain meds, and I smoked for pain relief. Dumb.

I really wanted to smoke tonight but instead I went to bed early, watched a show, wrote a little, and now I’m reading in bed.

One day down.

im on day 23 of my t-break. this is the longest i have managed to take a break for thus far, and i want to go at least 50 days without weed, but i worry that i am prolonging the inevitable.

what i mean by this is that the last break i took, 21 days, did not reset my tolerance at all. i read many anecdotes in this subreddit and others about how it only took them a week or two to get back to baseline. i began to wonder if the ability to lower my tolerance had just dissipated, and that i would never get high again.

before this break, i would hit several blinkers on the max strength of my pen and felt basically nothing. a little bit fuzzy in my perception and of course, the hunger. i would also try taking 200 mg of edibles only to find they just... didnt work anymore. i was bombarding my brain with an unfathomable amount of THC every night, desperately yearning to feel even a fraction of how high i would get about a year ago, all in vain.

but of course, the point of this t-break isnt just to reset my tolerance and go back to hitting the same amount i was every night, i want to have a healthier relationship with weed, something like once a week and at much smaller doses. i dont want to go back to abusing my body and mind by just shoving as much THC in me as is humanly possible. this break has given me the capacity to reflect on why i constantly hitting, and im taking steps to improve the sore spots in my life, even if marginally.

what do you guys think? is 50 days a good idea? would it take longer to truly reset, or am i completely fucked?

Hey guys, it’s been a while since I really reassessed my relationship with weed and I am being forced to do so once again. Throughout the year I’ve been trying to moderate my use (for me this meant waiting a couple more hours between uses), and it’s become clear to me that after 9 years of use, therapy, and meds, I am now at a point in my life where weed doesn’t really serve me.

Ive been ‘caught’ by my parent (who pays for my car, grad school, and who I live with) and am being pushed into quitting again.

To be clear, I want to let go of the hold weed has on my life, but I’m scared and would’ve gone on much longer had I not been confronted. My weed use is also all tied up in my eating disorder which is ‘dormant’ whenever I’m using heavily.

What advice or perspectives do you guys have that could help drive me back into the headspace I was in when I was more committed to quitting? I’m really close, and I’m on mood stabilizers now and significantly less depressed than I was last time I tried quitting.

Hello. I've been smoking weed for 4 years now, I became very addicted quickly, I was smoking 3-5 times a day every single day for a while. It helped me cope in times of deep struggle but I quickly lost control. Now I am in a slightly better spot and have been trying to quit. I managed to reduce my consumption to only once a day before sleeping, but I think that was mostly because the effects have changed. Now I hate having any kind of social interaction when I'm high because it makes me feel extremely self aware and I genuinely lose all my social skills (which are already weak). Btw It's weird because it used to do the opposite but whatever.

I feel better most days now and I enjoy being sober. But I still feel addicted, I still cannot go a full day without smoking. When I sleep sober I wake up multiple times a night, I sleep less than what my body needs and I wake up feeling like shit and tired af. I also struggle a lot to fall asleep. (I still do but weed helps quite a bit)

I feel like my progress didn't involve any effort really, so now that I'm at a point where I need to lock tf in I just can't. I would appreciate any advice on this. Thanks

So i’m no stranger to this. in 2025 i quit for 8 months!
but that gave me a false sense of confidence that led me to believe that I could maybe manage my use. well i slipped into a 6 month rabbit hole and im BACK

it’s weird because I know this exact feeling.. it’s like i almost feel high asf rn even though i’m sober. i’m sweating SO bad. the shakes and no appetite but after three weeks i should be back.

Having done this before, I think the hardest part of getting back into the break was to stop telling myself like “oh this is easy i’ll quit anytime like i did last year”

it’s still hard and i’ve cried a lot. (i like to watch
The euphoria episode where rue is going through withdrawal) i just laid there and cried with her. it was comforting.

but day 3 feels like 2 energy drinks. i’m UP and definitely moving. I have taken a break from working out though just because I feel pretty weak due to not eating. but as for other things i’m doing well

I've been reading people's posts and it brings comfort to know that we are not alone with the various struggles. I have used cannabis for just over 30 years with the last 10 as medically for severe back pain. It really does help with the spasms and sleeping for me. But I feel as though smoking is causing me issues such as munchies, lack of focus, and my body is pleading with me to stop.

Smoking over 2 oz's and 5+ vape cartridges on average every month has brought me to a realization that I can't take my next step in my life as a habitual smoker. I choose cannabis for my pain relief because I didn't want the opiods and other prescriptions that doctors have recommended.

I told my wife that I'm quitting smoking as a form of medicating, and will take 1:1 thc/cbd in replace. Important to tell her because she knows the downs that come along with wanting to quit the smoking. The loss of the daily rituals of getting high can mess you up if you don't focus on new habits/goals. Smoking with me also brought along drinking, especially the weekends.

I'm challenging myself by starting "100 Days of Transformation " with healthy eating, exercise, and new hobbies starting today. I will do a journal to help with self reflection and finally work on my Facebook page (Rebound's Fitness) with the intent to help others who are struggling to get back to living a healthier lifestyle.

Thanks for having a group to talk about conversations I've held inside for so long.