I quit smoking weed 18 days ago after 11 years of everyday use. For those 11 years it was a morning, noon, and all night habit, not just talking about a weekend toker here. I was quite dependent on it, not to a horrible extent, but dependent none the less. I got a great career, house, and fiancee while being a "smoker", but I was tired of getting high all the time and had wanted to quit for quite awhile now. Felt simply that I was getting a little too adult in life to still be smoking, have more responsibilities now, and just felt like it was a good time to quit and do more with my free time. It's been self inspiring and very motivational to be clear headed and clear thinking again. I feel like I'm at 100% for the first time in over a decade... and it's a good feeling.
Yeah, just joined Hubski. Got tired of Reddit and it's not the place for me anymore. I prefer smaller communities and a larger focus on content and community. Been lurking Hubski for awhile.
Not to knock on you, but just as a more general point; I hope we start getting users from somewhere else than reddit. Sure, they might be a good userbase to find people from, but I'm sure there are insightful people all over the internet. Hubski being a reddit refugee camp is not exactly the ideal.
I totally agree, and realize it's silly considering to say since I'm new here. I know I just got here, and I was a Redditor, but I came here specifically to find a nice aggregation site... but without the over-populated feel to it that comes with any forum community that gets as big as Reddit. I notice there are obviously quite a few of them here, but this system seems to be a little better about being able to avoid people or ignore them completely if need be, which is nice. It's also not as dependent on up/downvotes, which is also nice, as I hope it will discourage people pandering for internet points. You make a good point though. Reddit is just kind of the Facebook of aggregation sites right now. It's like Google+ users hoping they get some people that didn't come from Facebook. Sure it will happen, but my guess is it will be few and far between.
It's been self inspiring and very motivational to be clear headed and clear thinking again. I feel like I'm at 100% for the first time in over a decade... and it's a good feeling.
That's great, congrats! I imagine that the clarity you are feeling will only increase. It can be a hard transition to make because along with the habit comes personal relationships which are often centered around smoking pot. Sometimes you don't realize how much they hinge on that shared experience until you quit. Good luck with both the physical and social side of quitting.
Thanks, and you are dead on. I don't really hang out with any smokers any more, and the one that I do totally understands and doesn't do it around me anyway. I quit with my fiancee who was also an everydayer, and we've both been solid. No way I could have quit if she was still smoking, it would have been too frustrating and probably caused some rifts between us to say the least. Thanks for the kind words.