[smokeitaway]

I've been addicted to thc for much of my adult life. I know people who smoke much more than I ever did. I'd use every day, only after work, but I never didn't use it after work. I was using it as a crutch, I used it as a cure-all, I used it as a social lubricant. As mentioned in the article, I used it for anxiety, and the anxiety got worse.

I tried to quit a bunch of times, some more successfully than others. But quitting is really hard. I'd successfully exhaust my supply, but there's always bowl- and grinder-scrapings. After a night or two of smoking tar and dust, "fuck it", I'd find some more.

My #1 excuse was always sleep. Weed is the best sleep aid I've ever found. Quitting usually went fine until I wanted to go to bed. Several hours into a sleepless night, desperation sets in.

Eventually, I found a hack in LSD when I first had the determination to use it without mixing THC. I slept like a baby. No cravings the next day, or the next. I started dreaming again, after years of sleeping like a corpse and waking up exhausted.

I've since started and stopped a few times. Picked it back up to be social (and, hey, it's fun!), the habit-driving insomnia comes back with a vengeance. Stopping with LSD seems to work reliably for me. I only allow myself a hit of LSD per year, so that's how often I excuse a social session. But the last couple of times, I haven't needed the LSD. It seems that I finally kicked the compulsion. Although, I don't trust that enough to make it a more regular habit.

Edit reply to jrflowers:

No, I do not take acid to sleep. Taking it once allows me to quit thc cold turkey. I take it first thing in the morning, so I'm hungry for dinner and sleepy for bedtime. Last thing I need is a new habit.

Edit reply to gvedem (an hour and a half later I'm still "posting too fast" to make a second comment):

I bought the acid from a friend. I am aware that "one tab" is not a standardized dose and that adjacent tabs on a sheet can have significant discrepancy. But "one tab" is what I took.

[iceflinger]

>But quitting is really hard. I'd successfully exhaust my supply, but there's always bowl- and grinder-scrapings. After a night or two of smoking tar and dust, "fuck it", I'd find some more.

I've found my attempts to quit go better when I actually have a large supply of it that I'm consciously choosing not to indulge in. When your supply is exhausted your brain goes into a bit of a panic mode about it and you can't think rationally about how/why you're quitting.

[thefz]

> My #1 excuse was always sleep. Weed is the best sleep aid I've ever found. Quitting usually went fine until I wanted to go to bed. Several hours into a sleepless night, desperation sets in.

Weed and alcohol destroy your sleep. Taking marijuana to sleep is like hitting your toenail with a hammer so that when you stop you feel better, it does not make sense.

[ryanwaggoner]

They're not the same at all. Alcohol wrecks my sleep, but weed has very little negative effect.

[scythe]

>My #1 excuse was always sleep. Weed is the best sleep aid I've ever found.

I started smoking weed to get to sleep when I was in a crappy college dorm with those awful cheap Venetian blinds and a streetlight outside the window that birds liked to congregate around and chirp all night. When I got older I found I could achieve the desired effect by lowering the indoor temperature, using a decent mattress, installing curtains and (this part is still hard to manage due to funds and neighbors) having a quiet room.

[dekhn]

I had a crappy college dorm with morning birds, not all night birds.

If you can't do a truly quiet room, I've found either an AC or fan can mask most noises effectively (I can still feel cars idling outside, or hear people yelling).

Also see https://mynoise.net/ which has a panoply of sound-generation options. I have spent hours trying various noises.

[armatav]

LSD used correctly is an insanely effective way to combat addiction

[glonq]

LSD used incorrectly is an effective way to create insanity ;)

[mandmandam]

Psilocybin too.

I swear, 'they' don't want us free of addiction. (Why would they - they're making bank).

[jrflowers]

You take acid to sleep?

[cantSpellSober]

I wonder, why would acid take away cravings?

Related, in 2012 a meta-analysis concluded it helped alcohlics

> a single dose of LSD, in the context of various alcoholism treatment programs, is associated with a decrease in alcohol misuse

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0269881112439253

[smokeitaway]

I have had other successes with LSD as well. I assume it is related to mindfulness helping break thought-spirals. Show the brain a way out of the spiral, and it can rewire the escape for future use. LSD increases neuroplasticity: the propensity of the brain to rewire itself. Which is probably why LSD is also incredibly risky.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-022-01389-z/s41386-02...

[gvedem]

just curious if you know the dosage you have used--I am definitely going to try this once I've cleared the post-quitting effect on my headspace.