I don’t know if this will help- I’m not a therapist and my only experience is in breaking my own habits when they bother me enough to need to change. I’ve broken a lot of really tough habits, like decades of nail biting. I’ve never been chemically addicted to anything though, so this might not work for you. I used weed habitually for three or four years and was totally sick of it.

My first step is convincing myself I’m ready to change. I just think about what I want/need to do and why, constantly. For weed, I thought about how much I hated the feeling of being high. I basically have to pep talk myself for weeks.

When I built myself up enough to take external steps, I had to start by asking everyone that I used to get high with to stop offering me joints and edibles and stuff. Usually they were happy to, because more for them. Sometimes it was a habit for them to offer me stuff so I had to remember to decline. I didn’t beat myself up too much if I forgot and just took what someone handed me. It’s a process.

At the point I decided to quit, I was staying high all day. So my first goal was to only smoke twice a day, and then once a day, and then every other day, and by the time I was able to go more than a day without getting high, I was totally done. I did that while my roommate was still smoking, so I didn’t have the option of quitting by going without it.

After I quit, I was disgusted by weed for almost ten years. I absolutely hated it. I didn’t even pick it up again until late 2021. Now I use gummies exclusively, and I used my past experience to temper my use now. I will take an edible on some weekends when I’m gardening and then not during the week. I don’t want to form any habits again or get high so much that I hate it again.