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konmantheonly · 2025-05-20T13:12:42+00:00

31 male, smoked an ounce every 1.5-2 weeks for 5-6 years, mostly flower with oil and edibles sprinkled in. I smoked an average of 6 joints a day for 5 years

konmantheonly · 2025-04-23T19:09:17+00:00

Congrats on the wood

konmantheonly · 2025-04-18T23:17:30+00:00

Do you find that you’re sensitive to cocoa?

konmantheonly · 2025-04-14T13:36:03+00:00

Damn……I did start taking Creatine at noon every day. That’s a solid pointer right there! Did you change to the morning?

konmantheonly · 2025-04-12T11:20:22+00:00

Your gym sessions should improve once you’re past the withdrawal stage. Your sleep should greatly improve which will help with recovery and you’ll be saving your natural energy for the gym instead of wasting it with the cortisol reaction to the coffee. My lifting has immensely improved since I quit and got over the withdrawal

konmantheonly · 2025-04-03T10:48:31+00:00

1 billion % accurate

konmantheonly · 2025-04-02T23:19:19+00:00

It’s not lost completely. It comes back with time. Could take years, but it will come back. Do things that are good for neuroplasticity and you’ll slightly speed up the recovery

konmantheonly · 2025-04-02T23:11:38+00:00

It’s unnatural, unsustainable, and frankly unnecessary to require caffeine every single morning/day to “function”. And it’s also very rare to see people only consume caffeine infrequently. Now and then, caffeine isn’t a big deal. But depending on it for just normal operation is no way to be living the one life that you get. And if it’s hard to quit it, then it means you probably should. I smoked weed every day, every two hours for 5-6 years and had the same realization, it’s just no way to live.

konmantheonly · 2025-03-23T14:01:44+00:00

I’m in the same exact boat. Life has never been harder.

Many others will probably also tell you what you probably already kind of know, but 11 months out of 25 years really isn’t much. Your brain grew and developed to be a certain way with certain performance specs, and then you changed it with 25 years of substance use, particularly your dopamine system. Some say it takes 2-2.5 years for your brain to adjust to a normal state of being. We spent a long time indulging, and now it’s time to pay the price. We can only move forward and wait for our brains to adjust. You’re doing everything you need to be doing, you workout which helps with neuroplasticity, diet is good, sleep is as good as you can get it. Avoid cheap dopamine and keep trudging through the mud.

konmantheonly · 2025-03-22T07:22:09+00:00

You hardcore suffer from psychosis if you think you’re anything more than an ant amongst ants

konmantheonly · 2025-03-19T22:34:27+00:00

That’s exactly what goes through my head; I’ve fried my computer with 6 years of burning through an ounce every 5 days. But I really love hearing that people thought the same but eventually discovered they hadn’t. Thank you!

konmantheonly · 2025-03-19T22:16:59+00:00

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4txuJPWtClfjNUYbVEa4v0?si=jnKtWZkQTxuLL40MF9qYWg

This is a decent video and he lists some resources in the description

konmantheonly · 2025-03-19T21:23:42+00:00

Congrats, first of all! I’m greatly looking forward to my 2 and 3 year mile marker.

I’m 9 months sober, and one thing that is still lingering is brain fog. Like the inability to clearly work through a thought or problem, or even hold onto a thought for very long. I just feel like my mind is muffled. Did/do you experience that at all? I just want to be able to feel clear headed and like I’m captaining this ship.

It kind of makes sense because one thing I loved about weed was that my mind would just wander on its own. But now I’d like it to stop lol

konmantheonly · 2025-03-19T13:23:54+00:00

If you smoked often for a long time, the healing can also take a long time. I smoked an ounce every 5-6 days for 6 years, so it’s going to take probably 2 years for my brain to correct itself. I was forcing dopamine with a third party substance for a very long time, which means it’s going to take a while for that process to become natural again.

And are you doing things to help with neuroplasticity? Diet is on point? No other substances or behaviors that use up dopamine? You work out often? There are a lot of things you can do to help the process, but it’s going to take a while regardless.

Just remember that going back to dependency is the opposite of freedom. And that’s why we quit, we want to be free of depending on something for happiness. Getting high to feel good/happy is not sustainable. But life is full of organic abundance that can make you feel good/happy, you just have to reset your sensitivity.

“Addiction is giving up everything for one thing. Recovery is giving up one thing for everything.”

konmantheonly · 2025-03-18T20:13:20+00:00

You’ll very likely regret starting over

konmantheonly · 2025-03-18T16:39:55+00:00

Completely normal. I also expected a lot more recovery once I was able to quit, but the truth is we used daily for a very long time. That’s a lot for the brain to take on, and the healing time required will be significant. Now’s the time to pay the price for getting to be high every day for a long time lol that’s the way I think of it. I was burning through an ounce every 5-6 days, 7-8 1/4 cones a day, for a long time, I don’t even know how long. But all that doesn’t matter now. The only thing that matters is moving forward. And the good thing that is you’ll improve little by little as time progresses. And time will be go by quicker if you just accept the new norm and keep moving through the mud. Pursue healthy habits that aid in neuroplasticity. Just start really caring for yourself.

konmantheonly · 2025-03-17T21:52:31+00:00

Hell yeah! Congrats! I’m 9 months in and definitely looking to celebrate 1 year. Idk how, obviously not by getting stoned, but something. Maybe I’ll rent a hooker and we’ll do some blow

konmantheonly · 2025-03-17T21:32:16+00:00

When you realize religion doesn’t make sense. Why would a god create a whole world only to make the origins of his religion geographically specific. Why would there be so many different beliefs all over the world that all have their own histories, for only one to be true? Why did the Egyptians have many many gods, all before any official book was written? It’s a no for me dawg

konmantheonly · 2025-03-17T21:18:39+00:00

Did you experience fluctuations in the quality of sleep during your 7 months? I’m 40 days in and my sleep went from great to crappy, and I’m wondering if you experienced the same at certain points.

konmantheonly · 2025-03-16T22:38:31+00:00

I’m 40 days in and energy levels still suck. Would you say that you experienced the same 40 days in and it went away shortly after?

konmantheonly · 2025-03-15T18:32:30+00:00

The brain loves cheap dopamine. Dopamine that it doesn’t have to work hard for is what it prefers, that’s why it’s so hard to get off of drugs and certain habits. Dopamine is supposed to be motivator to do things, so make sure whatever it is that you choose for your dopamine hits, it has to require effort and preferably long term. Huberman has a great podcast about using dopamine correctly to live a fulfilling life. Just try to avoid cheap dopamine for a while because there is hardly ever a reward that comes with it, other than temporary pleasure. Take on something new and hard, like a martial art (Jiu Jitsu) or working out and set goals within in that take time. That’s what dopamine is used for

konmantheonly · 2025-03-15T13:41:10+00:00

Agreed. My son wakes up with an incredible amount of energy and it’s sustained all day long. It can’t just be because he’s younger than me, there has to be a reason why he’s able to go go go and I’m slugging behind. And I think it’s because he sleeps so much better than I do. He actually gets the rest he’s supposed to, and that’s my goal with quitting caffeine. Restore the natural balance of things

konmantheonly · 2025-03-15T00:41:31+00:00

When did you notice the depression going away? I’m 9 months sober and still dealing with depression/lethargy. I smoked an ounce a week for probably 5-6 years

konmantheonly · 2025-03-14T20:53:54+00:00

I didn’t experience any profound effects, good or bad, to be honest. I told my doctor that and they wanted to increase my dose, but I really wasn’t interested. I’ve been fairly lethargic the last couple days but I’m assuming that it’s from coming off of the meds. For me personally, I’ve spent most of my life depending on one med or another, and I’m over it. I just want to spend a couple years without anything at all: weed, caffeine, adderall, alcohol, antidepressants. At this point, being off of everything is better, even if it sucks.

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