Quitting Pot - Should You Tell Someone?
Making the decision to give up smoking marijuana can be tough enough! Do you really need the added strain of a family member, partner or friend to remind you of your progress?
Any smoker who tried and failed to give up smoking will tell you that there is nothing worse than someone who likes to remind you of how well you’re doing when you’ve had a hard day at work and really feel like a smoke! It doesn’t comfort you or reassure you that you’re doing the right thing. In fact, you’d like to find a way to shut them up once and for good!
Quitting can be hard and very stressful for the quitter and those around them.
To avoid getting yourself into a stressful situation, I recommend that you only tell those people who you see on a regular basis that you are quitting smoking weed. However, do not announce it to them all. Let them ask you. And when they do ask you if you’re going to sneak off to the parking lot with them, you can politely respond “no sorry – I’ve cut down”.
Don’t say things like;
“I’d like to, but I can’t because I’m trying to quit.”
“Sorry, I’m in the process of quitting”
“I’m trying to give up and here’s you flaunting it in my face! You moron!”
You must be definite about your words and definite about your decision. If you’ve made the decision to quit smoking pot then you say “I’ve quit smoking pot”. No ifs, buts or maybes!
If you have a partner, I feel that they should be the only person you confide everything with. You may talk to this person about how hard it has been or how difficult you’ve found it. If they are a valuable person to have in your life, it will be in this moment that you can make an accurate judgment as to whether they are truly here to support you or whether they’re just in it for the money, sex and the ride!
If, however, you make the decision to announce your quitting proposal to everyone and anyone that you meet, then you’re setting yourself up for some serious egg on the face if you don’t follow through with it. Are you the sort of person who needs someone else’s permission to quit smoking weed… or can you make that decision all by yourself?
If you can make that decision all by yourself, then you have no need to gain any approval from friends or family. Leave it at that and move on with your life. A sad fact that you may or may not realise is that in life, you become just like the friends you spend the most time with. Notice how the wealthy hang around with the wealthy, the poor hang around with the poor and the pot smokers hang around with the pot smokers! What you will very quickly realise is that when you give up smoking weed you will automatically start attracting a new group of friends who thankfully will be non-smokers.
Make the decision that is right for YOU, not someone else.
Gary Evans, The Cannabis Coach provides an interactive complete marijuana stop-smoking system to guide you through your mental and physical cravings from your quit date on to smoke-free status. Get your life back on track and start saving money! http://www.cannabiscoach.com
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