The last time I smoked was 4 days ago. I found that I was using weed a lot more regularly than I originally planned, I’d say from once a week to about once a day and I felt like I needed a break to control it a lot more and enjoy the more positive effects without taking anything away from my life, especially since I’m between jobs and I have nothing better to do beside applying all day. Weed made that boredom a little bit easier and I applied to less jobs. So I planned to also start smoking once I secure a job and a place, and smoke once I’m done work.

But the problem is that the problems weed helped with are now coming back to haunt me like little appetite and headaches. I want to smoke on Friday after my therapy session but I also kinda want to make it 1 month into no weed. What should I do? Should I smoke on Friday? Should I make the break 2 weeks instead of 1 month or should I push on to 1 month even though I don’t know if I’d make it? I sound pretty addicted ngl.

  • You already know the answer. That's why you are writing this post.
    Of course you want to break your T break... That's how addiction works. It fucks with your mind, your emotions, and will warp your opinions for the sole benefit of getting high. Your brain doesn't want you to quit! It wants to keep on getting high. The irony is that you choose to go on this break, when you were not in the mindset of getting high.

    Now you are in the mindset of getting high, because you aren't getting any. Of course you're gonna think that you want to break your break. That's normal. But you need to understand that this is what addiction can do to us. Once you make this realization it becomes much easier to be the bigger person, take a deep breath, and tell yourself "tough tiddies, I said I would go on a break, so I am doing what I said".

    I see so many people come on here saying they "couldn't do it..." this mindset alone is exactly what addiction wants. It does not want competition! So if you are already telling yourself that you're weak, and you cannot do it, then of course by all means, that is the perfect excuse to keep on using!

    I want to tell you that you have a choice. You have the choice to break your break, and you have the choice to say a simple "no" every now and then. Your troubles are nothing new to withdrawal. Every other person deals with them. Some fail, some don't. That's life. But you STILL have a choice! The choice to do it, or the choice to just fall back into old habits. It's up to you.

    Lastly, I'll let you in on a little secret. Weed is not a problem solver, by no means. What it does, is alleviating symptoms of underlying problems, temporarily. So while the depression or stress or whatnot will fade when you light up, they will still be there, untreated. So when you eventually quit, of course our problems are gonna come flooding back up, because all we ever did was push them problems away in the first place. Weed makes us complacent with chronic symptom treatment instead of looking inside and actually doing something about the cause of the problem.

    You know the play, OP. Good luck!

  • I was in a similar boat. I think a longer t break is better for a reset, that's the hard truth. I will, if I feel my tolerance raise, give myself 5 - 7 days off - but my habit isn't a daily one so I feel mostly like my tolerance is consistent.

  • If you have a low body fat percentage you’re probably alright now. If you’ve been exercising, eating and sleeping well, you’re probably good to go.

  • If your original goal was 1 month, I’d say stick to that.

  • Push on through. Complete the month