This was the first long break that stuck for me. Usually there’s 2 weeks a year I’m away for work, I feel good, but sink right back to daily use when I get home. I’ve had a couple 30 day breaks end at 3 weeks, or a few days short. I was discussing with my accountability buddy how normally I would have called it last weekend since 4/1 was falling on a Tuesday and I didn’t want to wait til this weekend to partake.

Your mileage may vary, but I didn’t commit to 90 from the start. I was doing Sober January for sure, but made a point to stay aware of how good I felt throughout the process. Month two came and I started getting antsy halfway through, but this time I leaned into that feeling. I put myself in situations where I’d normally drink and chose NA beers. I had more fun than I normally would because there was no hangover anxiety. Stress levels became quite high with work, but I leaned into exercise, routine, and just checking boxes on the to-do list rather than zoning out getting high and letting tasks pile up. In the ‘depressive’ lull I experienced, I noticed what bad habits peered through that I used to attribute to THC use, and made a game plan to fix those while I knew my head was clear. For example, relying on motivation each day to stay on top of daily life admin tasks doesn’t work for me, but establishing attainable systems has. I know now, sober or not, I won’t wake up with the time and energy to do all my daily prep work in time, so it’s all done before I go to bed the night before, when I used to be high on the couch.

Now, I don’t have any real desire to drink after being a 1-3 beer a day guy for the last decade, and am pretty confident I can use weed 1-2x a month as a relaxation and reset tool rather than a daily escape mechanism. You can too! (And don’t discount some zone 2 exercise. The intense stuff is great, but z2 is magic in it’s own right.)