2 Days Sober. It Sucks. 

please dont stop documenting for as long as you can! thank you! I wish you all the strength and willpower!

It's a sub-personality that's developed around the addiction, around the substance and the psychological reasons you were dependant upon it, you can wire it out of you. But it's stuck in your neurology right now, it's going to take time. Good on you for trying to take control on what you see as a dysfunctional aspect of yourself. I don't consume a lot of weed daily, but I consume it almost daily, maybe I should move away from it myself. I use it for unhealthy and healthy reasons, although there's probably healthier alternatives to sleeping, definitely not good that I use it to avoid neuroticism, depressive symptoms. You trying to generate activites to occupy your mind while your recovering is a good idea.

Wow. Firstly well done for making a positive change. Everything you said was so relateable. I’ve struggled with weed since the age of 16 and I’m 24 now. My grades fell off when I started, at 18 I wanted to make a change so I joined the navy. I’ve been a civilian for 12 months now. I’ve lost 16kg, lost “the one” and lost my job in Germany that I tried so long to get. Weed for me used to be something I enjoy. Now it’s a coping mechanism for when the shit gets rough. But it never fixes the problem. Any opportunity I had when I was on leave I’d smoke up, the only reason I’d stop is because I’d loose my job if I continued. The only real grounding I had was through the lass. Now I’ve got to soldier on myself, and I haven’t got boot camp or a deployment or 800 sailors to help me through the process. I’d love to get on a video or pod some time. Keep it up bro

You’re doing amazing, I smoked my last joint on new year eve and 3 days in, we can do this man 🤟I’ll be following your progress! Keep busy!

you got this ! everything that we want in life isnt easy to get but when we do its like you are on top of the world.

Hey mate congrats on day 2! What I realized is if I keep myself physically busy to help.

Hey man I've also been wanting to begin my recovery from addiction of weed. It's difficult to start. Everyday I say tomorrow is My chance. I wake up the next day saying today's not the day. On days where I would work at 5 am. I would wake up and have a bowl from the bong, get some breakfast in me and have another two bowls before heading to work. It's so unsustainable. Dangerous and unhealthy. I've got to to stop thinking I feel normal after smoking weed and feel the feeling of whatever I'm referring to as not normal. Weed keeps me busy on random little tasks rather than thinking about the big pictures of what I want to achieve. It keeps Me stagnant. I wish you luck my friend. And i offer understanding.

Greetings from Finland! Stay powerful dude. 3 weeks since i quit weed.. My mind is getting clearer everyday. I’ve been facing and fighting for all my suppressed emotions from last almost 15 years.. like thats rough dude. Realle almost broke me.. But I KNOW this is good for me in the long run. I respect your courage to share all this publicly. Its a great boost of motivation for a lot of people for sure.

Good point on being the "withdrawaling you". Day one done for me. May I suggest a YT channel called "Sober Leon". Highly recommended. We're in this together.

I am sober for about three month now. The Main thing was weed but alcohol too and when I was drunk enough, sometimes other stuff. My life has become a lot better already but I have a lot to learn after being high for 24 years basically. Wish you the best man. Greetings from Hamburg, Germany❤

Dont stress man. Take it day by day. Youll get through the worst of it in a matter of days. I promise you it will be worth it. I wouldnt trade my sobriety for the world

Okay I just watched your most recent videos, I'm subscribed and I'll try to watch every video you upload. Some things that worked for me the times that I've tried (and now that I'm trying to consume less to eventually quit) were def trying to keep myself busy like hanging out with friends (of course better if they don't smoke) and if I could't hang out or I had/wanted to be alone I kept busy editing videos or old photographies, sewing and making my own patches, singing, dancing, playing guitar, ukelele (and now I've got a bass for Christmas!) and I got back to writing, even photography and making videos and also very important drawing! Which I always enjoyed as a kid and I did sketches when I was a teenager but then mixing weed with what was never a very good neither safe environment and more stuff that happened around those years until some years ago made me just drop all of those hobbies, some of them sooner than others. And also some of those hobbies were eventually some of the first and last professional jobs I did related to my passions, which could all be summed up in "art" and any creative thing or process. And one thing that helped be to get back to doing any of them was to do it just for the fun of it and sometimes just because I felt like I needed to do it. For myself and no one else. And also very important (and I'm just saying this if there's someone who can relate and or could find any of the things that I've said or will say helpful): don't expect any of the things you do to be perfect! Treat you with the same empathy and care you feel for your loved ones. And don't ever get to see your hobbies or passions as something productive in the business/capitalist meaning but something productive for you, for example I started to enjoy drawing again when I stoped fearing the fact that I never learned how to draw and I fully accepted it, I accepted and loved more the fact that I was trying! And what I did didn't have to be "perfect" or "good" or had to please anybody so I shouldn't fear what other people could think of what I did or about me. And guess what? I got better at drawing after some time. I got better at writing. I'm in two bands playing the guitar and sometimes singing and most recently a third one playing drums. I even got paid sometimes and I could care less about that, I cared about how much I, my friends and the public enjoyed the show. I even participated in a self-managed DIY themed art exhibition with an art collective after almost 6 years of my first and last photography exhibition. Just like the baboon from Bojack said: "It gets easier. Every day it gets easier. But you gotta do it every day. That's the hard part. But it does get easier."

Keep it up!

Hey man. Looks like we quit weed on the same day. I am also 2 days sober. For me, it was a realization that weed was creating the conditions for me to be depressed. Despite being productive, functional, and by many metrics successful, I have been smoking weed consistently and using it as a means of suppressing emotions and boredom. But there is a real value to being emotional, and to being bored. These are signals our mind gives us to encourage change, discovery, and growth. Weed allowed me to stunt those feelings and develop myself into a sort of homeostasis in my life that is impeding my development. I look at it as a sort of adult pacifier. Literally something to suck on and cope with the stresses of the world, rather than confronting them head on. I don't want to be pacified any longer. I am experiencing a lot of negative emotions now that I've quit, but that is kind of the point. Embracing the idea that I need to confront my negative emotions is a powerful philosophy that gave me plenty of motivation to take that first step in quitting. Hopefully it holds out. I am experiencing some minor physical symptoms (headache and stomach ache,) but nothing I can't tough out for a couple days. Best of luck to you and happy new year.

Im here for the ride! Im wrapping up day 2 as well. Lets do it

Hey! Just reached your Chanel! I quit 6 months ago after smoking rlly hard, idk if you are quitting for ever but if you are, best wishes for your process is hard but is incredible to try it out ! We learn a lot about ourselves!

I love your videos buddy keep them coming. Did you find yourself losing weight during your weed addiction because of a lack of appetite? For me I only really cared about smoking so I’d never get much of an appetite, plus with the added anxiety of smoking also decreases appetite even more. 15 days in and starting to get hungry a lot more! Also taking vitamins incase I’ve made myself malnourished in the process.

Morning 2 was my worst part of withdrawal yet I was up for 36 hours and only slept 2 hours the first night.

I smoke today, and tomorrow and saturday my journey begins

do a water fast for 7-10 days it will help reset the dopamine receptors. I smoked weed for like 14 years every day filling the empty space and time that getting high used up and replacing it with useful behaviors was the hard part. You gotta focus on killing that old self and replacing it with a new guy or else the old guy comes back

Get into yoga and breathing techniques. Yoga is generally the path of self control

remember to exercise dude fr