werd. First two weeks are hell, after that it's fairly easy. I have to avoid friends who smoke for a couple of months, because they tend to not want you to quit and will offer you a hit anytime they see you. I've been off (99.99%) weed since Nov 1, 2015. I did get drunk about a month ago and take a hit outside a bar with the guy I used to get it from, but was able to walk away and turn him down the next time he offered.

That's probably the hardest part is cutting off friends who smoke until you're certain you can be around weed without giving in to the temptation of ... "just for tonight". I've never been able to keep it to "just for tonight". Once I start up again, it's all day, every day. And that's what keeps me from doing the easy thing now and going and getting some. Because I know it will be 1-2 years before I'm able to stop for even a day or two after that. I'm an addict with everything and that's on me, not necessarily the thing I'm partaking in, it's just me. I like to do things I enjoy and I LOVE dro.

But, I tend to just stay inside and smoke and stay on the computer all day, which hinders my relationships with others who don't smoke. I was one of those smokers that didn't like to be around non-smokers when I was high. Most non-smokers had no clue I even smoked, unless I told them. Mainly because I wouldn't see them for a long time ... because I was always high.

That just got old for me after many years. I missed being around other people that didn't smoke and I hated having to hide from them or hide the fact that I've been smoking just to be near them for a few minutes. I'm really enjoying my break from weed and don't really have many urges to smoke again unless I get around it when my guards are down. So I try to avoid that.

The longest I have been able to stay away from smoking since I was 15 was 1 year and 3 months back in 2007. I threw a party at my house and someone dropped a bag of weed on the ground that my neighbor found and asked me about. I told him I had no clue who's it was but I would go throw it in the dumpster down the road. I drove down to the dumpster and proceeded to put it into my pocket and go back home and light one up in the shower, thinking my wife wouldn't notice it. She did, but I played it off. I thought I'd just quit the next day, but the next time I stopped smoking was 2015.

For that reason I realized I had a problem and I was the problem. It was affecting my relationship with my wife and kids and I needed to stop. It took me nearly 6 months to make it past a day or two before I would get pissed about something and just go get some more as an excuse to make me feel better. But as I said above, it gets much easier with time. After 3-4 days most of the urges to just do the easy thing and go get some were gone. Then it would creep up if something bad happened, but what I did to counteract that was start investing the money I would have normally spent on weed into something else that gained in value. That did the trick for me. Watching my money grow instead of watching it vaporize every 3 days was very helpful in aiding me to quit.

I was buying Bitcoin every 3 days, which was as often as I would have been buying weed. And now I'm a very happy man. That money would have been wasted just to make me think I was dealing with something that was not really a big issue at all and that I am today able to just blow off and move on. I realized I don't really have any big issues in life, I was just creating them to have an excuse to get high. And now I'm far better off economically because I was able to quit.