Quote: (12-28-2014 04:35 PM)godfather dust Wrote:
I'm looking to take the dive into a career.
Are you looking for a career where it's acceptable to smoke after work is done or wake 'n bake and then get high every 2 hours from then on? There are plenty of good options for the former, many less so for the latter. I used to smoke lots of pot and still drink after the workday is done but I would fire anyone who I caught mixing vodka with their lunchtime Gatorade, or sneaking a toke, or using any other mind-altering substance when they're being well paid to use their mind and body to perform the task at hand, not escape from it. And this is in construction, not exactly a field with the highest personnel standards.
I find it amusing in a hypocritcal sort of way how many pot smokers will wake up and get high first thing in the morning but still rightly look down on anyone who can't start their day off without three shots of JD. If a person's reality is so intolerable that they can't live the majority of their life in the state which human evolution intended existence to be experienced then they need to work on changing that reality, not just their chemical perception of it. When career choice follows drug use, priorities need to be reevaluated.
I should also say that I am still a fan of very occasional drug use. They can provide an experience of a fuller/different range of emotions, and new perspective on issues a person may be going through. If this is your default state you miss these benefits, and because of tolerance you will actually not experience many of the potential effects regardless. I took a couple rips of oil the other night for the first time in a long time and was reflecting about how different and superior the experience was compared to when I was a regular user - introspective self-reflection from an outsider's perspective so to speak... It was in no way superior to the sober (maybe a little hung over) reality I'm experiencing now, but it was useful.
Quote: (12-29-2014 06:04 AM)BoiBoi Wrote:
Could you share what you did to quit? I've been smoking for more than 15 years and decided to stop since it hinders me more than it benefits me. I've been "clean" for a couple of days now, but I know that it'll be a long journey, so any piece of advice is appreciated.
I started scaling back as I got to know more people who weren't regular users and was able to appreciate that they were higher quality people, as well as watching other new introductions and old friends who were regular users descending the spiral of addiction to harder drugs. Some throat inflammation from the tube used during an appendectomy made it impossible to smoke and a week into this phase I realized, "Damn, reality isn't nearly as bad as I remembered it." Because it's just a psychological dependency as opposed to a physical addiction, if you can keep your mind occupied with hobbies, approaches, hiking, driving, drinking tea, chewing gum etc there really isn't the huge desire to relapse for most people once you clear the small initial hump.
Possibly the truest words on constant pot smoking came from South Park in my opinion.