I don't have anything to contribute other than saying that !stopdrinking@lemmy.world exists and might be helpful as well. I imagine there's lots of crossover.
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Have you tried Marijuana Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous yet? Also, most Alcoholics anonymous meetings are open these days.
https://marijuana-anonymous.org/
It doesn't cost anything to go to a meeting. You can go online and leave your camera off.
Don't listen to the people who tell you that the meetings are going to force you to do anything you don't want to do. There are no AA police who can come to your house and force you to do anything. Everything is 100% voluntary, including donations.
Alcoholics are going to think a marijuana addict is a joke. I'm not talking shit about OP here but let's be real.
If someone shows up at a meeting asking for help they'll get help.
You can do it Meep. This is a hard thing to do but possible. I don’t know about that supplement, but I know none of the ‘quit smoking’ stuff I tried ever helped for the nicotine part of my addiction. Just pure determination and lots of deflections to trick my treasonous brain. After a while the daily struggle mellows into the new normal. Going on 12 years now. Don’t give up.
My grandmother stopped smoking due to my birth. I remember how she would distract herself by having a cup full of Otter-pops/Icees every afternoon. It was enough to keep her busy from the oral fixation of smoking. I haven't seen her relapse at all.
Good example. I went through phases of fruits, nuts, snack mixes, cheese plates, etc. Anything to get past a sudden attack of cravings. 5 minutes later it settles back down, so you just need to get through the initial storm.
I take 4800 mcg of NAC daily, and regularly consume cannabis products, never really viewed it as a method of cessation
I’ve found the NAC helps me form and keep to plans, generally keeps me more mindful so it might help you commit to using at a more structured time or specific scenario
As a very regular user and the child of drug counselors, I wish you the best of luck. This of course a willpower thing but it's also about reinventing your life to limit the scenarios that encourage your use.
I think you've got this. If the desire to change leads you to act to change these habits, you'll be in a better place to make those changes.
And let this be a warning to you about other drugs and your potential susceptibility to them! Pot might be just pot in a lot of people's minds but it is still a habit forming substance.
Yep. I'm not against folks smoking at all, but one man's medicine is another man's poison.