Benefits of quitting cannabis

For those of you who have read my posts so far, I should not have to convince you of my addiction to cannabis. However, I don't find it difficult to go for up to a week without it (as long as there has been a sufficient period since the previous week of abstinence!) - I really, really hope this doesn't piss anyone off. I'm not gloating, just stating a fact.

Over the 19 years of my cannabis addiction I have always had a few days off after smoking what I consider "too much". It's been my way of keeping weed from completely dominating my life, and I have always appreciated the slight detox and the first joint to follow! So, when I read that some fellow cannabis addicts are struggling to get through the first few days of a quit it makes me curious. Are there different levels of cannabis addiction? I only start to find it difficult after a week, then it becomes increasingly difficult until it peaks in the 3rd week and life becomes unbearable.

I'd welcome any thoughts on the subject.

Well, this post has me worried now!! It's now been a week, and I'm fine, so let's hope that it doesn't suddenly get a lot worse for me.

I don't think it will though.

As far as different levels of addiction goes, I have no doubt that there is something in that.  I know that some people do smoke from waking in the morning to going to sleep at night.  Although I have been like that sometimes, thankfully this time I had yet to let it get that bad again.

There was a time in which I was working a really crappy job, and was smoking for 90% of my time out of work.  As a conseqeunce of this I felt really bad at work every morning and for the entire day, so by the end of the day I would have had such a bad day that I could think of nothing else I wanted but a joint, and because of this I'd feel really bad at work the next day, so by the end of the day I couldn't imagine not having a joint, and on and on.

Unless things get radically worse in the next few weeks I'll conclude that I have, at most, only a mild physical addiction, and any sign of this almost certainly should be put down to addiction to the tobacco I smoke with it.

But I have had a powerful psychological dependency, and habitual usage patterns that are hard to break, which keep me locked into a cycle like the one described above.  I think it is my current habits that have made a significant contribute to my success this time - for example, I no longer hang out with heavy smokers (one of the almost sure fire ways of failing is association with former smoking buddies).