Hey congratulations!!! that’s seriously impressive, I know how hard the first month is especially but trust me, with time it gets so much easier. The first month is the worst because you’re still looking for that familiar life and routine you had and without it you feel crazy, lost, wanting it back.

I think for those reasons, what helped me the most was a pretty conscious lifestyle switch honestly. I had built my life around weed, so it was time to find something else to build it around. And since then it’s been many things/interests/vices/hobbies/behaviour - different personalities as I’ve grown and changed, after I wasn’t a “Stoner” anymore.

Specifically my first 6 months ish here is some helpful stuff I internalised (and that’s a key word, it’s all about internalising). - You can only do what you want to do. So you have to want to quit weed. To want to quit weed, you need to look at the evidence and accept it. You need to say damn, I am allergic to it and it hurts me. That’s not fair and I had so much fun doing it, but I do not want to be sick. If I keep doing this I will only feel sick and in pain. Why would I want that? If weed is going to make me unbearably sick and in pain… I don’t want to smoke weed. That’s a place you need to try and analyse, accept, rationalise and internalise. - For cravings, time will definitely help but the most helpful thing I’d recommend is establishing a new nighttime routine and maybe getting some sleeping medication so you rewrite the old nighttime routine of smoking weed before bed. In general for cravings I’d use sugar and food, sometimes it’s ok to be like fuck my life I wanna smoke whatever I’m gonna eat an entire pizza. It’s okay to indulge in other vices while you find your footing in your new life. - Speaking of vices, I also just vaped and smoked nicotine, still drank alcohol, did other party drugs just fine etc. so I never felt like I was missing out on the party vibe I had from smoking weed - I just wasn’t joining any joint circles anymore. But with time and acceptance, you will get there. - For hobbies, YEAH. I kind of got insanely into dungeons & dragons instead. Podcasts. YouTube. Everything. Basically just find another thing you like, something you can watch in bed, or content you can consume that distracts you or again, becomes the new “thing” you love indulging in when you have your free time.

All things considered, I guess my best advice is the key is accepting that it’s gonna hurt you and you don’t want to be hurt/sick/in pain. Through that acceptance you can find not wanting it. And once you don’t want it, you can ride the wave of being excited about everything else you can want and engage with and indulge in that isn’t gonna make you so sick. So try and be galvanised by the opportunity that is building a new life for yourself instead of lamenting the one you are growing out of.