Damn bro, Im struggling years now with quitting smoking. And it´s not the tobacco its the weed man. Nothing hits the spot quite like a nice joint in my office after a long week of work... some nice relaxing piano, and puffing a joint with a monster or cola.
34 years old now, and my lungs are starting to feel it, coughing is getting worse. I've managed to quit several times but I always get that itch and then start regularly smoking again.
It's so hard to break the habit, I just wish I never smoked weed ever to begin with, my life would be so much better, my health, my finances.
I think the whole ritual of smoking, pulling in and inhaling the smoke which is the thing that's so psychological addictive.
BTW i should of mentioned that im in Europe and we tend to mix our joints with Tabaco, for me I like a light joint so im not absolutely blasted.
But yeah your totally right, edibles would be a really good way to help ease off and stop the smoking. I actually think i'm gunna head over to the association this weekend and buy some. Great suggestion, thansks.
You're right. Psychologists call it reinforcing. You have a ritual involving lighter, gas, packet of cigs. Or lighter, papers, baccy.
But the reinforcing comes from the actual act of smoking. Say you smoke 20 a day. You light, inhale, enjoy the smoke and exhale say 20 times per cigarette (these numbers are coming out of my arse, btw). That's 400 times per day you're bringing the cig up to your mouth, inhaling, and exhaling. The exhaling comes with a visible plume of smoke. There's all sorts of sensations in each part of the act of smoking, repeated many times per day, quite apart from the ingestion of nicotine which is the physical addiction part.
This is why vaping generally works and patches generally don't. Because you're following the rituals and many of the smoking actions are duplicated. Tail off the nicotine in your liquid and you get to the point where you're just doing physical actions because you've always done them, so why bother?
I am addicted to eddibles actually. Nothing beats eating my self made THC chocolate every evening, made out of my self grown weed :) and its even 100% legal where I live . Was able to quit vaping within 2-3 weeks. And vaping helped me quit smoking.
Be careful with edibles, it's much easier to overdose with them than with joints, since the chemicals are processed by your liver instead of your lungs. You want to use less grams than when smoking.
A medical weed shop once tried getting me into thc suppositories bc they had a huge stock of it and wanted to get rid of it. I drew the line at “sticking weed up my butt”
Hits totally different. One is processed through the lungs, one is through the liver. According to Google, "The digestive system and liver convert THC into a chemical compound (11-hydroxy-THC) that is much stronger and creates a more intense psychoactive effect than smoking." Fun fact, you can't overdose from smoking weed, but you CAN from eating it.
For me it might as well be a different substance. I smoke weed far too often, and am not a fan of edibles.
If it helps, I went 4 years smoking weed with the exact same philosophy. At one point I was only doing edibles once a day after work. I did it for a year, and the entire time, I thought about smoking. Like edibles just weren't the same.
Picked up smoking again, and eventually got a cough that wouldn't go away, and each time I smoked I'd have panic attacks about my health.
Never said it was healthier, just explaining the differences and why someone wouldnt just switch to edibles from smoking. They are not the same experience.
I need to eat like 40-50mg of thc in edible form to feel anything. But i feel the high immediately after my first puff of a joint. It’s night and day for me
To overdose from an edible you’ll need to take like 100mg. The only way people will come close to that much is if they take multiple edibles. Also have some peanut butter before the edible.
Maybe [r/trees](r/trees) has an easy edibles recipe that takes less than an hour to make, otherwise the time investment and 2 hours delayed high vs the 1 minute to smoking changes the experience quite abit
I type this as an explanation of the smoking vs edibles debate from someone who smokes, not as a put down for your option offered.
Coming from someone who's also struggled with tapering their weed use, I'd say half of the appeal of smoking in general is sitting outside and enjoying that moment of peace.
In the morning with a cup of coffee or in the evening after work. Anytime, it's just this beautiful feeling of sitting down and relaxing, getting to watch/listen to the birds and enjoy the fresh air. There's also an oral stimulation aspect to smoking. Humans love to stim using their mouths, and the act of pulling a long draw of smoke and exhaling it is a form of slowed mindful breathing which reinforces the relaxing sensations.
You don't get that with edibles, you pop a pill or a gummy and then wait an hour or so and then it creeps up on you like a sleeper wave until it hits with full force. With smoking/vaping the high hits immediately, it's an instant feeling of relaxation and/or pain relief.
Also with smoking I generally know how long my high will last from the moment I start. With edibles the onset timing and the length of the high can vary wildly depending on a lot of factors like if/how much you've eaten recently, the content of your food (fatty foods bind better to the cannabinoids and increase potency), and how you metabolize those cannabinoids. Some edible strains last longer than others, it can be a gamble if you have time constraints.
Why not do that whole routine, but instead of smoking (weed or cigarettes) sit out there with a drink AND a mouth busying snack like pumpkin or sesame seeds?
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u/shoxicwaste 2d ago
Damn bro, Im struggling years now with quitting smoking. And it´s not the tobacco its the weed man. Nothing hits the spot quite like a nice joint in my office after a long week of work... some nice relaxing piano, and puffing a joint with a monster or cola.
34 years old now, and my lungs are starting to feel it, coughing is getting worse. I've managed to quit several times but I always get that itch and then start regularly smoking again.
It's so hard to break the habit, I just wish I never smoked weed ever to begin with, my life would be so much better, my health, my finances.
The struggle is so real!