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Need advice: "can I just smoke a little?"
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<blockquote data-quote="mrsammler" data-source="post: 540327"><p>I smoked pot pretty often from 18 to 20 and so did just about all of my friends. At a certain point I just got sick of it--the sameness of every day and evening, mostly, and the extreme self-consciousness that pot induced (in the pot of the early 80s--I'm told that that aspect of it is dramatically reduced in "modern" pot--and I just quit cold turkey one day and never looked back. I'm not saying that anyone can do this--obviously you've got to really want to quit, and to be sick of smoking pot, as I was. But my point is that my friends were all very surprised and skeptical when I first quit, but after it was clear that I was serious about it, they left me alone about it--no teasing or goading, and in fact several of them told me that they really admired my self-discipline in being able to quit so suddenly and fully. I.e., if your son argues that "everyone else does it, so how can I not?", it's possible to argue that he might be surprised how easily his "friends" will accept that he has quit (and maybe even secretly admire him for being able to do so) if he just keeps his explanation simple and emphatic ("I just don't enjoy it anymore") and sticks to it. That was my experience, anyway: a clean break with very little social pressure about it (even from a peer group that was just about all pot-smokers) if he keeps it simple, emphatic, and consistent.</p><p></p><p>But giving in and letting him smoke "a little"? I'd never do it. Let's not kid ourselves: smoking pot is almost invariably what leads difficult child to worse drugs, worse behaviors, etc. It's the gateway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrsammler, post: 540327"] I smoked pot pretty often from 18 to 20 and so did just about all of my friends. At a certain point I just got sick of it--the sameness of every day and evening, mostly, and the extreme self-consciousness that pot induced (in the pot of the early 80s--I'm told that that aspect of it is dramatically reduced in "modern" pot--and I just quit cold turkey one day and never looked back. I'm not saying that anyone can do this--obviously you've got to really want to quit, and to be sick of smoking pot, as I was. But my point is that my friends were all very surprised and skeptical when I first quit, but after it was clear that I was serious about it, they left me alone about it--no teasing or goading, and in fact several of them told me that they really admired my self-discipline in being able to quit so suddenly and fully. I.e., if your son argues that "everyone else does it, so how can I not?", it's possible to argue that he might be surprised how easily his "friends" will accept that he has quit (and maybe even secretly admire him for being able to do so) if he just keeps his explanation simple and emphatic ("I just don't enjoy it anymore") and sticks to it. That was my experience, anyway: a clean break with very little social pressure about it (even from a peer group that was just about all pot-smokers) if he keeps it simple, emphatic, and consistent. But giving in and letting him smoke "a little"? I'd never do it. Let's not kid ourselves: smoking pot is almost invariably what leads difficult child to worse drugs, worse behaviors, etc. It's the gateway. [/QUOTE]
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