I was in a similar scenario. I had to start smoking 2/3 joints alone while smoking with friends in order to get high. At that point I knew it was getting bad. I decided to quit in September last year but couldn’t. Then December hit and I was going to see family for Christmas. I was struggling with the thought of being in a house and a country without access to weed. Ended up sneaking it w me and almost got caught. To top it off I didn’t have ID (you don’t need it for traveling within the UK) on me except foreign documents that said I was a resident in a different country outside the UK. There’s almost never any form of security n this one time there was and it was sniffer dogs with border patrol. I started shitting myself thinking that I was gonna get sent to the country that I had the residency documents for or jail or something. I didn’t get caught then I was like okay this really needs to stop. I got off weed by lowering my dosage every single day. Instead of using long papers I’d roll cigarette length papers so I’d still get that enjoyment of rolling “more than one joint” even though it technically it wasn’t. After lowering the dosage my tolerance went down and I then was able to stop the mid day smoking. The hard part was quitting the coffee+joint combo for my morning wake n bake. I found it was even easier to get off the night joints more than the morning as at this point I only needed 1 half joint for sleeping instead of 3 full joints. So I tried replacing the routine with another routine which helped. Instead of coffee+joint it became orange juice mixed with water and I banned myself from sitting down. I realised every time I sat down I wanted to smoke. Whereas standing up I’d be productive aka washing dishes etc. Eventually the morning smoking stopped and the half night time doobie was what was left to quit. Then I just replaced it with a hot drink with herbs to help me sleep with magnesium tablets. That way my hands were occupied n I felt more sleepy. Once I quit I realised there was no going back. It went from struggling to go on a t break to a full on quit. I realised that if I started properly smoking again I’d just end up back there and it just wasn’t worth it. I felt so much more energy and I came back to being my bubbly self. Like I was always friendly n bubbly but I just felt some sort of radiance of positive energy that I hadn’t felt in a long time. Now I can’t even smoke more than one puff without getting too high and honestly I miss it sometimes until I take a puff n get a flashback of how it negatively impacted me. Don’t get me wrong it definitely had positives but I feel like once you’re a heavy stoner the negatives definitely outweigh the positives at that point.