self treatment

Mine was weirdly quick though, I started to fall into that pit, wallowed in it, and came out of it within the span of 2-3 months.

thats good

I had this ritual where every night after I got home from work I'd smoke a cigarette then get high, then a few hours later smoke another then get higher, then smoke another then get higher, then sleep and repeat

When I was drinking every single day or smoking every single day at points, it wasn't to get drunk really it was to get back to the base level of what had become the new "normal" for me.

I haven't had a single cigarette since I pulled out of that

It felt like me being drunk or high was my natural state

and sober was unusual

yeah i know what that is like @Ϻ14ᛟ

i still need to quite cigarettes

I luckily never felt that

I always found tobacco to be the easiest thing for me personally to just give up because it had no real altering affects like weed or alcohol

For me it was just trying to recapture the magic of this one night I had with it a while ago, every single night, and continuously failing and trying again, for months straight, and I totally ruined it for myself.

@Chloé Adsolution I had a bad weed habit too, and then i stopped smoking weed and a year late got into the alcohol. I never really got back into weed, it made me too paranoid

I feel like the negative effects are very downplayed nowadays

of weed

yeah

Definitely

everyone knows how bad alcohol and tobacco is

It went from the bad sides overplayed or made up

to the downsides being downplayed

alcohol did nothing wrong

But a lot of the downsides are very person to person

Say you have an anxiety disorder

Yeah, it's very personal

Weed can either dramatically help it or utterly ruin you

weed gives me existential dread

I only took it once and had a panic attack and couldn't speak for like 5 hours.

Like full on hallucinating that everyone could hear my thoughts

That happened to my friend when I tried to introduce it to her

Her boyfriend was not happy with me lol

weed just makes you want to keep smoking weed. I went on a long camping trip once and picked up some weed half way through, and did nothing but lay around and smoke. and after it was gone, i just kept thinking about how much i wanted some more weed. It put a damper on that part of the trip

Other people are perfectly fine and actually get better wth it

Well it does feel pretty good for a lot of people

It's not technically addicting but as with anything that feels good, you want more of it

(technically addicting in the physical dependency sense)

yeah

There isn't really a strong withdrawal

caffeine has a stronger withdrawal

```weed just makes you want to keep smoking weed. I went on a long camping trip once and picked up some weed half way through, and did nothing but lay around and smoke. and after it was gone, i just kept thinking about how much i wanted some more weed. It put a damper on that part of the trip```That depends too. After I recovered, I don't feel that at all anymore. Whenever I get high on occasion now, I'm totally satisfied with being completely sober for the next few days.

its mental