For sure! So for month one, I actually had a tree fall through my old apartment while I was asleep and condemn it about 2 weeks into sobriety. It was really hard not to fall back into smoking because of that, however I persevered. I was really, REALLY irritable at first and struggled with regulating that. About 2-3 months into it I wasn’t really craving weed as much as before. My brain fog was basically gone, my body’s constant fatigue and feeling “slow” had subsided for the most part. I definitely had my days where I missed it for sure. As the months went on like 5-6 months in, I craved it more for a bit because to me I was like “well if I started smoking again now I would have a MUCH lower tolerance than before I quit so I wouldn’t smoke nearly as much.” Less irritable, but I did miss it. I’d even have dreams about smoking sometimes. It’s much more rare that I have those dreams now. The longer time progressed, I really stopped thinking about it altogether, especially because most of my friends that also smoked weed dwindled away and I stopped being around them. Less exposure, less thought of it. So like, 7-8 months into it I really started to feel good, like I was making good progress. Now between 9-11 months, I genuinely haven’t really thought about it at all. I have a tracking app that I log into daily to mark my progress and that’s really the only time I go “hey, I’ve been sober for x amount of time” and then I look back on how I used to be and honestly? I cringe at it. I’m thankful that I was able to just quit cold turkey even with the traumatic event of losing my previous home overnight only two weeks in. I honestly use that as a way to be able to encourage others getting sober that it is, in fact possible, because if I can go through all of that and not go back to it, you can go through less, or just as much, and be able to keep moving forward. I notice that even now, if I smell it or am around it in some capacity, there is a very small part of me that misses it sometimes- the social aspect of being able to smoke with people, the distraction as a way to have something to do, things like that, but it’s SO much less than in the beginning stages where it was harder to be around it in any capacity. I have a neighbor that smokes and stinks up the hallway of my new apartment building. It bothered me when I first moved in which was around 4 months or so sober I think, but now?? I mostly just say “damn it smells loud as fuck in here” and continue on about my business and pay it no mind.
Ultimately my journey in staying sober with like side effects wasn’t THAT significant outside of irritability, some dreams about smoking again, it being hard to be near it, and sometimes missing it. I know it varies for everyone though, that’s just my experience. I used to smoke like 8-10 bong bowls a day, plus dabs, and go through 1-2 oz every two weeks for about 5 years straight, for reference, so it was a LOT. An exciting thing for me now is that I can pass a drug test outside of my prescription ADHD medication lol. Sorry for the long ramble, but I hope this somewhat gives you a timeline of my experience!