What to do, what to do

[Ledge21]

I have smoked a cone everyday since February 1st. I am so incredibly over feeling it necessary to smoke. I am a fairly productive "pothead" I attend uni, work, have an active life. I consdier marijuana to be a vice, an acting anti-depressant. I am on a diet so I cant binge eat, and I gave up cigarettes about two months ago.
I went to the doctors yesturday, and for the first time EVER my chest didn't sound good to him. He wrote me off with teh flu, however was curious to see if I was developing an ammonia.
This is serious..I am too chicken to approach my doctor about my habits. I find it embarassing that I smoke so much, and can think of 100 different reasons why it is ok that I smoke.
This is the first time I have ever written on a forum, I am hoping it will help.
I went 2 days in May without a toke, simply because I didn't have it on me.
I have no intentions of quitting for GOOD, but I need to find ways to kick the habit of every day and try to save it for weekends or OCCASIONAL week nights.

[Cannabis Rehab Admin]

Hi Ledge21 welcome.

I think a lot of people don’t want to detox for good and would just like to smoke on weekends or every now and again. Now the addiction expert type people generally say that an addict rarely succeeds in doing that, so maybe it depends on how much of an addict you are as to what your chances will be. Although if you have only been smoking every day since February and only smoke one cone a day maybe you are not that much of an addict, there’s certainly people here who smoke a heck of a lot more and have been doing so for a lot longer, I know I did. So I don’t really know whether you are an addict or not, I suppose it’s open to a degree of subjective interpretation and all those other questions like do you control it or does it control you? Do you feel you have to do it? Etc, etc. If you want to take the American Psychological Association’s clinical diagnosis test check out this post. But you are smoking everyday and may be on a slippery slope. You will just have to try to cut your smoking back to a level you are happy with and see how it goes. I can’t say what your chances will be, like I say it may depend on how addicted you are or are not, as well as how good your will power is.

But I wish you the very best of luck and hope you keep us posted on your progress.

Take care and thanks for sharing.