Finally found something that works (weed)

This may not be for everyone but for me it literally worked immediately. I got rid of my stash and all my paraphanalia and haven't looked back. I don't miss it one bit. When I do think about weed, I know what's causing me to and that's the end of it. I should also add that my habit was about 15 years developed and for about the last 10 I smoked 99% of the time alone. And that I have done quite literally 'everything' stoned. Go to work, write an exam, sports, doctor appointments, job interviews, heavy machinery etc. I had a SERIOUS habit, and now I'm done, and I actually believe myself when I say it, that's the great part.

http://www.rational.org/html_public_are ... _avrt.html is the site, i got the book as well. The book is ok but going through the brief tutorial on the site is all you need. It's a simple way of thinking, and of recognizing what your cravings really are that instantly allows you to divorce yourself from them.

I "knew" the whole time I was chronic that it was my own damn fault and my own volition that got me into it. I think what made me respond to this line of thinking so well is the countless times I made it say, a month, and then would get this ridiculous craving that I just had to give into. Then I'd do whatever I had to, to get some weed. But I always found that once I had smoked some again it was so anticlimactic and I was instantly like "what the hell is so good about this stuff that made me want some?".

Anyways, taking it 1 day at a time is bs. It ensures that you still think about your drug and sets you up for relapse. Recognize that your desire to smoke is coming from a part of your brain akin to a goldfish that will eat until it dies, i.e. you will smoke/drink/inject [whatever] until you die as long as you give in to your cravings. Separating yourself (your concious 'real' brain) from your primitive mid-brain is the key. Now whenever I think about smoking, I realize it's this primitive instinct and I recogize that it's trying to tap into my concious volition as the mid brain can't do jack on it's own and that's it - end of craving.

So unless you want to feel sorry for yourself and you're convinced your "sick" this will work. You also have to really "want" to quit too. I knew I wasn't sick, just that I loved weed, and that even though the downsides of it were catching up to me, part of me still loved it so i'd keep going back to it.

Anyways, I'm done with weed for good, and I can't even tell you how happy this has made me. I hope this helps other people too as I know I'd tried a lot of things on my own, some even similar to this line of thinking but could never quite do it. And I also knew that by admitting that I was "powerless" over it that I might as well have just given up and smoked 24/7 until I died. You need power over something to quit it, I mean just think about how ridiculous it is to try and quit something that you think you're powerless over.

Part of this plan is not counting how long it's been, but I'll break the rules and share with you that it's only a little over a week. The reason I'm so excited is that I've made it this far countless times before, but this time really does feel different. I'll drop back in to the forum when I'm over a month.

If this only helps one other person than I won't have wasted the last 1/2 hour writing this. Good luck.