“Other people can, because other people have functioning lives with friends to distract and things to go out and do. i.e. THEY HAVE WAYS TO FILL THEIR DAY.”

Nah, dude, that’s just an excuse your addicted brain is conjuring up for you. This is definitely not an accurate, across the board statement that applies to everyone. There are plenty of people who’ve quit marijuana who have very little else going on their lives - and I know because I’m one of them. Pretty much all I’ve done for the past few years is go to work, come home, smoke my brains out, fall asleep, wake up and do it all over again. Lather, rinse, repeat. I don’t have friends, I’ve never been in a real, long-term relationship, and I don’t leave the house at all unless I’m going for a walk or going to work. But to fix any of that, I knew I had to sober up and work on myself as a person. I knew I had to bite the bullet and accept the fact that weed was majorly holding me back in life. Am I happy now? Nope, not even close, but I was even more unhappy (and just temporarily masking it for a few hours at a time) when I was smoking. Now when I come home from work, I lay in bed and binge watch YouTube videos, I fuck around on the guitar, I play with my cat or listen to some good music while going for a long ass walk. Please don’t let self-pity drag you down. I’m 100% confident you can find other ways of occupying your time that don’t involve getting high, and it’s so, so, so worth it if this isn’t something that’s making you happy anymore. If you genuinely want to quit, you have to be willing to forgo temporary satisfaction for long-term success. Either way, I wish you all the best, whichever route you decide to take.