Hopefully this sticks

I’ve tried so many times over the past few years to stop smoking weed. The longest I’ve gone is a couple of weeks, and i always feel so much better when i don’t smoke, but then something will happen and I’ll buy some weed and the cycle will restart. I’m functional in the “real world,” i dont miss work or any of my obligations, but i dont like the fact that i get high every day. I’ve made promises to myself that I’ve inevitably broken. Last night was the final straw. I drank way too much and then smoked like a chimney. I didn’t feel good, i felt sick and wished that i hadn’t drank or smoked at all. I couldn’t stop vomiting when i got home, and i just felt horrible physically and emotionally. I remember clutching the toilet bowl crying and vomiting, and just repeating, “i promise, i promise.” I inevitably flushed all my drugs down the toilet and here i am with this app.

I want this to work. I want this promise to actually stick. I want my word to mean something. I’m terrified of failing over and over again. But i dont want to let my addiction control me. And that is what it is, isnt it? An addiction, not a habit. I’m an addict.

I’m just rambling now. Here’s to my first clean day, i guess. I hope it sticks.

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Happy that you’ve recognized how big of a problem it’s become to you. People say “weed isn’t addictive”. It’s not in the sense of how coke makes you fiend off of it. But your mind craves it. It’s the coping. When you feel down after weeks of not or even months, you end up back there again even when you didn’t want it.

Keep in the community and it’s important to have people that actually want to help you through this. We’re all always here for you

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Welcome. I have no experience with this but can tell you that sticking around this site will help you. Being around people who want to be clean or sober rubs off and finds a way to give you strength when you don’t have enough of your own.

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