We all have that one habit that we know we should change, but we never do, cuz it’s too much of a hassle.
For me it’s consuming too much cannabis, as much as I love it I am the first to admit that I could cut back. Right now I’m definitely “addicted” in the sense that without weed, I’d have to adjust for a day or two with my sleep and appetite before it went back to normal.
The other thing that bugs me, other than the mild psychological addiction, is that it makes me cough too much.
Vaping once or twice a day would be totally fine and healthy based on my understanding. But many times per day is not so good.
My immediate method is low key and easy enough, I’m just trying to cut out all my midday consumption. I wake up at like 5am every day, so after a small wake-n-bake, I usually wait until lunch for my second bowl. Instead I’m cutting that out and making it a three bowl per day system:
This is still a lot, but it’s a big improvement since my habit at its most extreme has been to do more like 5-6 bowls per day. It’s a big time sink and theres no good reason to get that stoned all the time, even if it doesn’t cause me much mental anguish.
It’s more of a “making a good thing even better” kinda thing.
In the long term I know I want to be not even getting stoned every day, like maybe mostly keep it to the weekends or 4-5 evenings a week plus more on the weekends.
Also obviously its expensive to consume that much cannabis and its irresponsible financially right now, so thats a big factor too. Even this small cutting back will save me prolly $30 per week.
I suspect its like my dietary habits were - the transition from me with a shitty shitty diet 5 years ago, with me having a stupidly healthy diet today, was insanely gradual and involved a lot of trial-and-error plus short-term regressions to bad habits. When I tried to “fix everything,” it would always fail. Slow and patient steps forward, while being HELLA PERSISTENT, seems to be the move.
If I can reduce some weed consumption now and get to that “not even every day” mode, without it requiring any conscious effort, by 30, it’ll be chill.