You HAVE to replace pot with SOMETHING.

You have used pot as a method for dealing with stresses for a long time, and have failed to develop alternative methods of dealing with those stressors.

It does not have to be Xanax... it might be Rock Climbing... it might be reading...

But you are going to have to examine your life from the point of view of what drives your toward pot as a solution... and examine whatever that may be from the perspective of coming up with EFFECTIVE alternatives.


In my experience... the people who succeed at getting off of any external crutch are the ones with the intellectual strength to fashion an artificial limb to replace the crutch.


Don't look at it as a personal problem... look at it as a procedural problem in brain chemistry and organization.

Get yourself into a mental space where you can essentially sit outside of yourself and observe your own behavior dispassionately.

Out-think it.