I'd recommend quitting entirely. You don't need it and it sounds like you can't help but have an unhealthy relationship with it. IMO like similar things, it's an amazing tool, medicine, and recreation, but it should be removed if it's getting in the way of your life.

I've gone through two weed periods in my life and while I did benefit from the perspective shift, during each period I began to suspect it was interfering with my goals. If you're not meeting your goals, you need to change things until you do meet them. Removing routine consumption of a powerful medicine that's known to affect motivation, attention, and memory (and differently for everyone which is why you can't trust anyone's "well, it works for me") seems like a natural thing to do.

Consider it an experiment and stop consuming it for 6 months while studying your progress on things that are important to you. For me, after about 8 weeks of ending my last "period," I began making progress on my goals in ways that I hadn't before. Weed made my thinking sloppy and I was stuck thinking rather than doing, exploring rather than exploiting.

Everyone that regularly consumes it thinks it's net-good for them (I certainly did). It's worth seriously considering that might not be the case for you and you cannot know until you take a long break and measure your experience.

After a while it felt like I was smoking my sats away, and daily smokers get used to the high pretty easily. Imagine putting your sats on a bitcoin layer called cannabis......it makes you feel good for an hour and then burns your sats, and every time you use it, it takes more sats to get the same effect. Its like rug pulling yourself for a few kicks.

No judgement from me. It seems you feel guilty for "seeking pleasure and comfort", and I specifically want to speak to that as an encouragement.

10 years from now, you'll look back at your life and either be disgusted at all the failed opportunities or proud of the strides you made. I'm not talking about material gains, but in character development. You have a choice, every moment of every day, to do things that will tip the scale one way or the other. Ive found that current guilt due to conscience pricks unrepented of almost always leads to self hatred in myself later. The answer is always doing the hard things now that you'll be proud of tomorrow. You have nobody to impress on here or in real life, you simply need to be able to live with yourself, which can be THE most difficult thing. Follow your conscience, discern whether your thoughts are because of unrestrained impulses crying out to be satisfied or if they are genuine needs. Telling yourself no in the small things (like eating one more piece of cake or sleeping in unnecessarily) helps you say no to bigger problems.

Bless you brother.

Do you have an addictive personality?

trick yourself into wanting to feel uncomfortable because it is the only way you can replace the desire for easy pleasure with the desire for "hard pleasure"

-cold showers -push ups 100+ -fasting long stretches -busy yourself with something strenuous and rewarding

-no weed in the house

If you want to reduce or even quit smoking, whenever you feel the urge to smoke, go for a run or bike ride. You'll quickly lose the desire to smoke.

Have you tried to change for edibles or tinctures? Smoke is a motherfucker.. it always get you back on the wrong track😅

Smoke only on special occassion

It really comes down to realizing and making a conscious decision that you do not need these things.

Awareness is key. External sources of pleasure are ephemeral. No matter how much you have, you'll never have enough. A way to improve our relationship with substances and external pleasures are in admitting this truth. There is no sense in chasing something outside of us for it never brings us what we hope it will, especially for long. Recognizing this futility can lead us to want to change our behavior and mindset. But you have to start with a decision.

Yeah i get your concern. I have only one solution.

Just don’t postpone whatever you have decided to do. Do it even after on cannabis. Complete your work daily and keep doing everyday. Your relation with cannabis will be far better. It will be very helpful to you

Like everything else in the psychedelic realm, its all about set and setting. I noticed when I would "tend to get lazy as fuck. Eat too much. Seek pleasure and comfort." it was because I was experiencing heightened anxiety when I was smoking. I was anxious because I was ignoring issues and problems in my life and I was using cannabis to escape from those issues.

However, cannabis is a terrible plant to use to escape your problems (at least it is for me). It makes me dwell on them and until I almost have an anxiety attack! Then I eat too much or seek other forms of pleasure to cope with the anxiety. Its a vicious cycle!

So I learned to try to deal with my personal problems and develop a healthy lifestyle and healthy habits first and to use cannabis in moderation only when I had the rest of my affairs in order. I stopped using it as an escape hatch. I can't say I solved my problems and never use cannabis in an unhealthy way anymore but I definitely improved my relationship with it.

Yes good 👍

"If you trully love her, you take tolerance breaks, otherwise you abuse her" - me

I was like you years ago, I smoked too much because I took refuge in cannabis, little by little I was identifying why I was smoking so much, and it was because I wanted to take refuge in cannabis due to a relationship that ended some time before and I used cannabis to simply forget, little by little I was reducing the amount I consumed by stopping going with people who smoked and starting to do sports, that made me quit smoking almost completely, nowadays I only smoke a couple of times a month