So a while ago Ive managed to develop my willpower to the point where Ive stopped using both of these things.

So a while ago I’ve managed to develop my willpower to the point where I’ve stopped using both of these things. But at this point I have no idea how to actually enjoy not doing them. I can just continue like this but I’d rather learn how to actually enjoy my life not smoking weed and drinking all the time instead of just stubbornly forcing myself to not fall back into it all of the time. Has anybody figured it out.

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah I just smoke weed and drink like God intended.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I just turned 30 and had a couple deaths in my family. It’s made me do a lot of thinking and reflecting on my life, and I came to the conclusion that the only things I really actually care about (besides family and friends) aren’t actually my degrees and professional life, but rather being as physically fit, active, and healthy for as long as possible. So regardless of how I feel about the situation, step 1 is that all smoking and drinking must go. Nothing else can happen without that. But now I have to actually learn how to enjoy that choice

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I realized degrees were worthless in college and now I make 6 figures sober, happy and fulfilled remodeling and building houses
        I thought I wanted to be an architect but now I just do that anyway and then build them

        It's a pretty sweet life

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        do things you enjoy that being high and drunk prevented you from doing
        you're overthinking things OP and if you ask me i would say you're looking for an excuse
        there is none
        intoxication is a means of controlling our experience, an inferior, more volatile and more limiting means than the simple willpower you have proven to be capable of utilizing
        that is the trade you are making, less control for a 'better' experience
        the control you give up now will have a much greater effect on your future happiness than the temporary and unsustainable experience that you trade it for
        don't let the part of your brain responsible for your generating and implementing your will take a break, ever
        >Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm sorry you're smol and weak, anon. Maybe you'll make it in the next life

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lololololololol
    Anon, that's the fricking point of giving them up
    You weren't actually living life fricked up on chemicals, you were just high

    To be happy and fulfilled requires achievement, self respect, pride, people and living in the moment

    Find a girl, build a life you're proud of, do what you said you wanted to do, and then once you're on track, start building your legacy with the next generation

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ya I mean I do have an astrophysics degree and I’m finishing my masters with a lot of relevant work experience through the program, but it’s come at the cost of substance abuse and being stressed out for the last 10 years

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        If it's not making you happy, why THE FRICK are you doing it!?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Well it was at first, because I was naive and watched too much Star Trek in my formative years and thought that if I had the ability to do so, then I had an obligation to. I wanted to drag society kicking and screaming into the future. But the world is going to shit and I realized all of my motivational goals are basically impossible fiction at this point. That’s why I put my money where my mouth is and switched to environmental science for my masters, I developed a method for studying microplastics, and got a lot of experience working on research vessels. That’s what I’m going to try to do once I graduate, because being an on ship scientist still requires your brain but it’s also very physical.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            The weed makes it easier to give up the alcohol, so do that first and then cut down the weed, which is pretty easy in comparison since there’s no physical dependence component

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Also if you’re actually roped into the alcohol get some etizolam (and a mg precision scale) so you don’t get excitatory neurotoxicity when you come off it. Makes the transition painless, just make sure you stop taking it after 96h or so

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Seek validation in anything other than work. It doesn't work for 99.9% of the people. Get yourself a quiet office job as soon as you can, try to offload the work to the people who still believe in the grind.
        How are your lifts going?

  3. 11 months ago
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  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anon, it's no wonder you were addicted if you've actually developed the mindset that life is only enjoyable because of smoking weed and drinking alcohol. I've been drunk exactly once this year (invited to a cute girl's birthday party and didn't want to be the "oh, I don't drink!" mood killer. Ended up hooking up with another girl there, twas a fun night) and smoked a joint the last time like five years ago. It's simply that you don't think about those things if they're not part of your daily life. You will learn how to enjoy life without those vices on your own if you just keep being abstinent for a long enough time. Eventually, your brain will get rid of your addiction and you will realize that you don't even care about weed or alcohol anymore.

    This needs time. Lots of it. Most people need at least a year to get over an addiction, if it's a serious one even two or three. Be patient and keep yourself occupied with some other hobby. Something that takes time and sobriety, for example hiking or some competitive sport like tennis. I personally do fencing.

    I've been where you are before. Good luck.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Also, during that first period, make ZERO exceptions. Every single instance of drinking alcohol or smoking weed will instantly reset your progress and bring back your addiction in full force. You're only allowed to drink even a drop of alcohol or smoke a single joint once you've had a period of at least three months were you haven't even thought about doing those things. Be honest to yourself. Only then has your brain reset enough so that drinking a glass of champagne at a celebration or smoking a joint with an old friend won't bring back your addictions in full force and you'll be able to develop a healthy relationship with those things. I personally would abstain from smoking weed forever, with alcohol I can understand that it's rather inconvenient not to drink occasionally at social gatherings.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        It doesn’t help that almost everyone I know either smokes or drinks or both. I’m basically constantly living around the temptation. Both of my parents are alcoholics and smokers too.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Has anybody figured it out.
    Well certainly not me

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    for those of us who are not addicts, what is best to drink, to stay fit, when you are gonna get drunk with your mates on the rare occasions that you do?

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