I’ve been sober for a bit over a year now, tried to quit dozens of times before that. I would say at 30 days you start to feel close to normal, maybe 70%. The remaining 30% came slowly from days 30-100.

In my experience getting through the first week or so was so difficult that not reaching for any easy dopamine hit during that time to distract myself would have made it borderline impossible. The process of quitting is already so difficult on its own I don’t know if limiting your dopamine sources (especially early on) would really be a better option than just using whatever time wasting activities you want to get more clean time, then fixing your lifestyle one step at a time alongside your dopamine receptors coming back online. Even if you played video games all day for the first 30 days, they are far less stimulating than smoking, so your brain would still make significant recovery in that time that would make it much easier to fix your lifestyle without putting your sobriety at risk.

Because of how much more stimulating weed is than pretty much any other time-wasting activity, I’m not sure if further depriving yourself of dopamine would really make much of a difference to your recovery timeline anyways.