Smoking Twice a month

bruh did you mean to put this in that other thread?
lol

(...) We all dream of a long life, and according to Batuli Lamichhane, 95 years of smoking have kept her alive.
Batuli Lamichhane from Nepal was born in 1903, when she was 17 years old she began to smoke, writes the English newspaper the Mirror.
Now she is 112 years and reveals the secret to a long life, according to her - smoking.
Over the past 95 years she has smoked about 30 cigarettes a day.
She believes it is her cigarettes that have helped that she has outlived almost everyone in her village. She has even survived her own children.
- I dont really care how old I am. But I'm old. I've seen a lot of things changed in my lifetime.
Despite the fact that smoking kills, she says smoking is not a bad thing.
- I have smoked for over 95 years. There is nothing wrong with smoking," said Batuli Lamichhane to the newspaper.
She is pretty much alone having this view.(...)

Nope,I do too ..

http://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.2431/she-is-112-years-old-claims-smoking-is-the-reason-for-her-old-age.html

http://nypost.com/2016/01/26/this-112-year-old-woman-smokes-30-cigarettes-a-day/

Cheers

yellowcrocodile said:

I can’t forget the great stone I had in 2012 after not smoking for 9 years. It was exciting, fresh, breath-taking – so much more exciting than smoking every day. I loved the new insights it gave me that day (or thought it gave me). By becoming a daily stoner, I lose all of that - it’s not exciting and it becomes a burden.

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I totally agree.
It takes 28 days to clear your body of THC. One month and you're tolerance goes up to zero.

I think that should be the only motivation we need to take it easy. If we are lucky enough to not need it for medical reasons, and we want to use it to reach those beautiful highs, moderation is the key. That means, let your body rest, or you just won't get high.
I don't know if 2 weeks will be enough, maybe after 3-4 months you'll need to quit again for 28 days to rebuild that tolerance.

When you do that, I think the highs you get are way more interesting.

In conclusion, I just want to add that the insights you get are most often real. We think those are stupid stoner highdeas we have, but the truth is that if we would be able to write 10 ideas down, clearly, at least half of them would make a lot of sense.
The problem is we're high, we don't want to write, we think we're gonna remember, and we never do.

Check out what Carl Sagan wrote about this. It's an amazing read.
It's also interesting when you think of the frequency.
The man said: "I live almost all my life down".
That doesn't sound like a wake and bake to me. It seems like he is using it sparingly.

George Carlin did the same. "Once a month would be frequent for me" he said, but when he smoked that would help him pump up the material he's been writing while sober.

In short: Weed gives you a different perspective on life. But if you're always high, stoned, or "hangover", you completely lose the other perspective. The sober one.
And I'm not saying the sober one is better. I'm just saying is different. And having 2 point of views is better than one, right?

Sagan's document http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/

George Carlin's view of Cannabis



A video we made to watch when you smoke after a T-Break

not discounting your post, and i dont remember what ive already posted in this thread but...

The Entity said:

It takes 28 days to clear your body of THC.


not really, even in extremely heavy users that number is more like a week. i documented a drug test here, i smoked half a gram of dank ~40hrs prior to testing and passed, i get tested often.
but thc isnt the only factor, there are many compounds and metabolites at play



One month and you're tolerance goes up to zero.


this is really a different aspect. just because the thc has left yiur system doesnt mean your at baseline, many side effects from weed can take 2-3 months of abstinence to dissapear and also correlates to other compounds, some still unknown-such as photophobia which ive been working on maybe a year so theres hope there lol , and complete loss of tolerance can take ~5 months. note you will never return to complete baseline.






but i stay happy with my high and yes get quite high if i smoke just a couple times a week.. which is very hard to do lol

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Its also a do or dont thing for me. I cant regulate my habbit. I toke about 3.5 a day or more and a couple fat dabs at night. When i wake up, every morning im pretty tired and slow moving even after 8 hours of sleep but only untill i get my coffee lol. I've been doing it so long that i feel normal every morning regardless of working 55 hours a week. My intake is pretty high imo because i can get stoned naturally everytime im doing heavy labour the next day after smoking, eyes red and all lol. I've got far far greater problems to let a little bit of morning lag bother me

been a regular user myself for about 2 years but lately I've been cutting back because like a few of you mentioned, I felt I was feeling off rather than feeling refreshed. I avoid it completely in the mornings, I let my mind just wake up slowly with the day and try to only have some weed after a hard workout to help with inflammation. But I struggle to remember what I did when I was bored and not smoking though, I was definitely drinking alcohol more which I honestly don't miss. The whole wake & bake and smoking more and more weed felt like a drag over time and I found that even taking 1 day off between consumption was enough for me to get way more of an effect. I know it can be hard to abstain when you have a bag just sitting there but it might be that you can't and if you recognize that, it's better to try to accommodate yourself.

I to have a addictive personality, both sides of the family have alcohol problems. It seems like sometimes it's almost genetic as getting fucked up seems so natural to me...know what I mean. I realized in my early thirties I had to set boundaries or I'd never accomplish anything in life and perhaps it would destroy me. So, work / family and God come first then after all that's done I don't mind having a little. Also, I only partake on weekends as like I said work comes first! I kinda have a military attitude towards myself to keep me disciplined and focused. When I feel like toking mid week after a brutal day at work I try to just tell myself that's a weak solider ...push through and carry on. It gets easier after time and when your attitude adjust so will your body and mind. I quite for a long time before but no decompressing at all is just as bad as decompressing all the time, as with everything it's a balance. Think of it like weight watches points...you save your points for the weekend so you can enjoy a joint or two. But, please also understand that anxiety can build up all week as you anticipate the weekend so when that Friday or Saturday comes please set limits so you don't over indulge as that's just as bad. If you don't already have one get a mini one hitter as it really helps with being conservative. Remember every one has their vice / poison whether it be religion, food or a drug everybody needs something in this cruel world but you have to balance it to remain strong. Maybe we should have a forum for regulation support on RIU to help us folks that need to decompress but also have tendencies to over indulge.

Before I posted the original post on this thread, I searched the internet for some sort of tips to self -regulate weed. All I got was..

How do I pass drug tests?
or
How do I quit, I'm addicted?!

There was very little middle ground. So when I found this forum, I thought this may be a good place to post, and I was right.
This thread is great. (I did find one blog that was about this topic, but the posts in here are far better)
The response from people about controlling/respecting weed is what I really need to hear. And also the discipline it takes to achieve that method. I think in our culture with weed, there isn't much a sense of self-regulating or ways to do. Perhaps it's because it was so taboo for so long, that self-regulating wasn't really discussed much.

For everyday smokers, I'm not disrespecting your desire to smoke everyday. I did for decades and loved it. It brought me lots of creativity and joy. I just think I'm at a point in my life where I want to use it differently. it's great to hear from others how they are controlling their pot use. Thanks for the tips Jimdamick - those are good.

As for "hangovers" - no I don't mean a hangover like alcohol or heavy drug use. But just this> when you wake in the morning, how long does it take for you to feel "lucid" and clear headed, the same kind of feeling after a good work out? If it takes most of the day until you get stoned again - well that's a hangover to me. If I do a good workout and still I'm not clear headed, I mean really feeling good, and I smoked a lot the night before, that's a symptom of a pot hangover.

The Entity - Love the George Carlin video - "once a month is frequent" great stuff - I hope I have that discipline - very inspiring.

FWIW - Haven't smoked for eight weeks, my "withdrawals" subsided at 6 weeks. As Taproot wrote, I do have urges to toke on stressful days, thinking "oh weed will help me through this", but I remember I don't want to use it like a crutch and life is meant for ups and downs so I just go through the down times, and the next day, I'm glad I did. I'm looking forward to trying my once or twice a month, and as The Entity wrote, yea the clean fresh high might need some long periods of abstinence - if it takes some cleansing, I'm up for it. This break has really beefed up my confidence to control it better, and to look forward to some highs ahead. It will be interesting to see if twice a month will give me that "fresh" high or if I can even maintain that discipline (I hope I do.) It's rather easy now not to be smoking, since weed is not in my life, and I'm not around it (even though in Oregon there is a Cannabis store almost every block!) When I do go back on at the end of this month - I think I'm gonna buy one gram every two weeks and give away at least half to a friend, so I'm limited to smoke 1/2 a gram on that one day - which I'm sure is way too much, probably should give away 2/3.

Again, thanks all.

Good to hear you have a plan. Since you live in a state that has access to it legally then I'd suggest buying a little here and there instead having a nice fat zip laying around mocking you. Set aside enough money for a few grams a month and call that your week allowance and that's all you're allowed to spend. People who gamble do this, they give themselves a set allowance so they can have fun but control the beast within. Also, if you don't already have one get a mini one hitter as it can make that gram your allowed to have over one weekend really last. It's not weed in general it's just our personalities and we have to practice more discipline. I could have been anything like alcohol or even religion. I mean shit when people get so trapped by a mindset and strap bombs on themselves to go kill innocent people I'd say that's a powerful drug. Life is about moderation...the world is so fucked up so who would't want to escape. Everybody has a vice so don't feel alone! Two thing will always happen....the vice will control you or you will control it; it's really that simple. It boils down to old fashioned discipline and respect for you and the vice...but you're in charge and the boss!! One tip that shouldn't be over looked; make sure you eating healthy and getting plenty of exercise and sleep. That should be for anyone but those hangovers or afterglow might now happen if you're in good shape. Get rid of all those comfortable stoner foods and high carb / sugar loads and eat good lean meats, fruits, nuts etc & make sure you're getting lots of clean water.

Good luck to you and all of us!