27 year daily smoker
Im a long-term lurker who is now 25 days smoke free. I’ve spent every day since the age of 13 smoking weed. My first experience was with my mother when she told me she was leaving my father. This addiction has maintained its grasp on me for 27 years.
I am now free, clean and sober, and have such a vastly different outlook it’s pretty crazy. I can never see myself going back, but it wasn’t easy to stop. Life has tested me in many ways since I made that decision. I find myself on this sub Reddit daily gleaning from your experiences anything that will help me in mine.
I have learned over the last 3 1/2 weeks that weed is a cheap thrill, only temporarily providing relief. The cost of smoking far out ways the benefit in this I remind myself daily sometimes hourly. I say to myself sure you can smoke that joint, but how is it gonna help you? I remind myself of the struggle the first few days and weeks after I decided I wasn’t smoking anymore. I asked myself if I wanna go through that again for the sake of momentary relief. The answer is always no.
You all can do this stay strong! Be worthy of your suffering.