I have met a lot of people online who have failed on quitting weed a lot of times.
Many of these people come to me for techniques on how to do it.
These are people who have smoked pot for years and years and even decades.
They have been addicted to pot for 2 or 3 decades already and they are clueless on how to stop.
They have this awakening when it finally hit them - health problems.
Some have simply woken up and realized they have just wasted their lives away and now they have no direction and a whole lot of mess to clean up.
There is no magic pill or one-stop-shop for quitting weed.
While you may be keen in quitting for a lot of reasons, the years you have spent with weed are difficult to erase from your system.
You have lived all your life doing it and you have done so for so many reasons, too.
Each individual has different reasons and different levels of determination.
There too, isn't any over-the-counter system you could buy and take or apply because of different needs.
What you have been doing for the longest time would be difficult to shake off from your system.
You have lived with smoking marijuana.
It has become part of your life.
It has dominated it actually.
Every single thing you do everyday would lead you to moments with the weed.
It has become your life really.
You are even friends with other pot smokers and you have all spent the grandest times together sewing illusions.
You were each other's beacon.
It's a cliche, but birds of the same habits, fly high together.
You may have still functioned well in society or in the community you are in but this addiction has been so ingrained in your system that it has landed on every aspect of your life.
It is a part of your daily routine.
It serves as the highlight of your day and your night.
You run to that special place when you need to.
You couldn't resist.
You couldn't live without it even for a second.
Clinging to this life you have been so used to for the last 10, 20, or 30 years will make it very difficult for you to change.
But once you are determined about quitting weed and really bent on doing it - you will have to gather all the strength in the world because it will be a long and difficult road for you.
You will be battling yourself here and the what-used-to-be's.
But there is a pot of gold at the end of this journey.
If you get through it all, like the others who have taken steps, you will learn that life is better off without weed and you'd regret not quitting earlier.