Stop Smoking Weed

Ask any pot-smoker and they will tell you the same thing, at least 98 percent of them will tell you the same thing; “Marijuana is not addictive”. And, when you do line it up against addictive drugs, it isn’t addictive in the same way that perhaps crack cocaine is addictive, but there is an addictive quality to it.

There is a psychological addiction, and that’s because there is addiction to the “high”, the feeling you get. There are those who think that most addictions really are based in psychological components, where we seek a feeling that we once had and we want to get back. Marijuana gives people a break from the pressures and stress of life, at least this is what they say, and they get in to what’s called, “chasing the high”.

Sometimes you can find the source of your addiction if you take a look at what made you start smoking pot in the first place. Most of the time, it is one of those things you get into because it’s the cool thing to do, because your friends are doing it, or someone would recommend that smoking a joint will help you get away from some of the stresses and hassles of life.

There’s an interesting argument that I’ve heard, and that is that people get in to smoking marijuana because they don’t have any direction, and it’s boring for some people to sit around and watch reruns on television or stare at the wall. So, with nothing better to do, they can smoke and it creates a rich inner life. However, the other side of that argument is that people who get into smoking lose interest in doing anything else because there is something about marijuana that seems to make your entire system lazy. You get up in the morning, and rather than get showered and get dressed, and go out and do something, or do housework, read a book, call a friend, or play cards, you smoke a joint or two or three and just hang around letting life pass you by.

Whatever you might do if you don’t have a job, and if you don’t have a whole lot going on with your life, it’s a lot easier to light up a joint, and just let the world wash over you. The sad part of this is that becoming addicted to marijuana, even if it is a psychological addiction, actually, I shouldn’t say even if it is, if it is a psychological addiction, these are sometimes harder to break than physical addictions. The sad part of these addictions is that they can go on forever, you get in to it and you keep thinking, well, one of these days I’m going to do something. One of these days I’m going to look for a job, one of these days I’m going to look for promotion at my job, one of these days I’m going to start…and you could fill in the blank with whatever they think they’re going to start. 

There is something completely debilitating about smoking marijuana. One of the recommended ways for stopping smoking weed is to get into meditation. If you can begin meditating, and get into the zone of meditating, you can actually achieve the same kind of mind-calming effect that marijuana is supposed to give you but doesn’t really. In meditation you could clear out your thoughts and this gets rid of all the negativity that you’ve been thinking about.

Some people recommend taking up a hobby. I would say it would be better to start with the meditating, because taking up a hobby can be a challenge if you’re always high. Because if you’re high, you’re more apt to make mistakes and you won’t be very good at your hobby. I know people who have decided to get into crafts, thinking that that would be a nice calming thing to do, and when they take a look at the work they’ve done when they were high, they’re appalled at how sloppy it is.

One of the important things in helping get past an addiction such as smoking weed, is to start hanging out with people who don’t make marijuana the center of their entire day. If you don’t believe that you’re addicted, think about this, what if there was drug bust in your community and you couldn’t get your hands on a joint for a month, what lengths would you go to replace the missing part of your life?