My Partner Still Smokes. I Quit Anyway. Here’s How That Actually Went.
The first thing I noticed was the smell. Not the way you notice a new smell, but the way you notice something that’s always been there once you’ve decided you…
Quitting Weed at 42: What 20 Years of Daily Use Actually Cost Me
I wasn’t what most people picture when they think of someone with a weed problem. I had a career, a mortgage, a life that worked – on the surface. What I…
Quitting Weed as a Woman: What Nobody Warned Me About
The morning I decided to quit, I spent about two hours reading everything I could find about what to expect. Forum posts, Reddit threads, a couple of medical…
I Looked Back at a Year and Couldn’t Name One Thing I’d Done
At some point around Christmas of my second year at university, I tried to remember what I’d done since September. Not highlight reel stuff, just anything. A…
One Year Without Weed — Real Talk
A year ago today I smoked weed for the last time. I didn’t know it was the last time when it was happening. I just stopped after that and didn’t go back. So…
15 Years Daily. One Last Joint. My Story.
Fifteen years. Most days. That’s the sum of it.
I Thought I Was Relaxed. I Was Just Numb.
I told myself for years that cannabis helped me relax. I believed it completely. I had exams, deadlines, social anxiety I hadn’t fully named yet, and at the…
I Quit Weed and Lost Two Friends. I Don’t Regret It.
Marcus and I had been mates since we were nineteen. Jay came in a few years later through work. Both of them smoked. I smoked. That was, if I’m honest, most of…
The Training Session That Made Me Quit Weed: An Athlete’s Story
It was a Tuesday in October. I’d trained that same circuit every week for two years. I knew what my legs should feel like at the halfway point, what my lungs…
My Relapse After 6 Weeks — and What It Actually Taught Me
Six weeks clean and I thought I had it. I didn’t have anything. I just hadn’t been tested yet.
