Chapter 21 - The Easy Way To Stop
This chapter contains the simple but powerful instructions for easily and permanently quitting marijuana. Just commit wholeheartedly to these two steps:
Make the firm, unambiguous decision in your mind that you will never voluntarily use marijuana again under any circumstances. Not kind of decide, fully decide.
Don't mope or feel deprived about this decision. Feel elated, optimistic, and thrilled at being set free!
Your first reaction may understandably be, "Wait, that's it? Why couldn't you have just said that in the very first chapter?" The reason is that without first systematically undoing all the decades of pro-marijuana brainwashing and false programming, you would have quickly discounted, doubted, or forgotten this advice. You likely would have relapsed back to old addictive patterns soon after, as you probably have many times before.
Marijuana addiction is an insidious, subtle trap. The main obstacle to quitting permanently isn't just the dopamine dependence itself, though that certainly creates substantial challenges. The core issue keeping you trapped is all the years of pro-cannabis cultural brainwashing and associated delusions your mind has adopted as "facts" over time. We must first thoroughly destroy those myths and illusions before defeating addiction becomes effortless.
I struggled for years, going through cycles of failing to quit and relapsing with tremendous guilt and embarrassment. But my final successful quit attempt felt easy and even enjoyable right from the start. I went straight to zero cravings and have not had the slightest desire to use marijuana again since that day.
The major difference that time was I deliberately slowed down and honestly analyzed my frustrated feelings about smoking. When I was brutally honest with myself, I realized I genuinely didn't enjoy being a slave to marijuana anymore. It made me antisocial, unmotivated, passive, and foggy-headed when sober. I started observing non-users leading more active, engaged, passionate lives without needing marijuana. I talked to other recovering addicts who universally assured me: "You won't miss it one bit - life is so much richer and fuller without marijuana ruling it."
It finally hit me that millions of people had already woken up, quit weed, and were now leading freer, more fulfilling lives. I didn't need marijuana before addiction took hold in my brain; the only reason I believed I "needed" it now was the incredibly powerful brainwashing our culture and my own addiction had instilled in me. I hated the mental slavery, lethargy, wasted money, and total lack of control that marijuana addiction had brought into my life. I knew for certain I didn't want to be a prisoner to this plant for the rest of my life.
So I made the pivotal, life-changing internal declaration to myself: "No matter what stresses or challenges arise, no matter what my addicted brain tries to tell me, the truth I know is that I have definitively smoked my very last marijuana cigarette." In my heart I knew from that moment forward I would never actually smoke cannabis again.
Up to then, I had fully expected quitting to involve months of terrible hardship and deprivation before finding any peace. But remarkably, it turned out to be an enjoyable and blissful transition right from Day 1 after putting out that final joint.
Why was abruptly stopping so strangely easy for me when it had felt impossible for so long? Because the suffering of trying to quit marijuana is caused almost entirely by the self-doubt, uncertainty, and inner tug-of-war, not the temporary physical withdrawal. The key is making the decision to stop smoking certain, non-negotiable, and final in your mind.
If you can fully commit to these few essential points, success is guaranteed:
You absolutely can permanently quit marijuana and regain control of your mind. Your addiction does not control you - you control it.
You're losing nothing real by quitting, only gaining enormously in return. Health, wealth, confidence, self-respect, success, freedom - the list goes on.
The myth of "just having one puff or joint" does not exist for addicts. It inevitably reignites the lifelong chain reaction of addiction.
See marijuana clearly for what it is: an addictive, mind-altering, perception-distorting drug - not a "harmless herb."
Recognize the difference between temporary chemical addiction and your core identity. You're now a non-user - feel elated and thrilled to be free!
Once you make that final unanimous decision in your mind to permanently stop smoking, it's a done deal - you've already achieved your goal and won your freedom! Don't sit around waiting or begging for marijuana to somehow magically leave your body first. Start living free and embracing reality with clarity right now.
The key is remaining fully locked into this freedom mindset for the 1-3 weeks it takes to move through the temporary symptoms of withdrawal and detox. As long as you know with iron-clad certainty that you have definitively succeeded in quitting already, you'll find getting through this transition period laughably easy.
If you still feel gloomy, fearful, or unmotivated about quitting marijuana at this point, it's likely because:
Certain ideas or doubts raised in this book haven't fully gelled in your mind yet. Go back and re-read the relevant passages, internalizing the core concepts.
You have a fear of failure or success itself. But relax - as long as you absorb these lessons, you absolutely will succeed. Keep reading!
You agree intellectually with the concepts but still "feel" miserable about quitting. This is normal - open your eyes wide to the reality that your prison door is finally swinging wide open!
The only way marijuana addiction can continue sinking its hooks into you is if you continue believing the illusions it has constructed in your mind. Shut down that mental loop completely and freedom becomes almost effortless. As soon as you fully accept reality, temptation immediately evaporates.
Let's now focus on keeping this clear, upbeat, optimistic mindset throughout the short period of physical withdrawal. Soon your mind will automatically default to feeling this way about marijuana permanently, without any conscious effort. And you'll look back with bewilderment that you ever saw it any other way before.
The door is opening right in front of you. It's time to walk through and never look back!
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