I can only speak for myself---I personally would not be able to smoke responsibly--at least not for long. You've made some excellent progress. In my opinion, I think you're probably making a mistake, but work your own program.

Hi...well maybe it is possible for some people...I could'nt...I would wake up have coffee and a cig and then start getting high...I'm dope free for six days...I have MS...I am trying to make life style changes because my mind was starting to get crazy...good luck doing your thing...it does'nt work for me at this time in my life...years down the road who knows...I don't take or trust Pharma drugs...

Hi again I'm older 49...and have to stay at my parents because of $$ and stuff...they have gone camping for the weekend...this is the first time I have been alone without dope in ten years at least...it's not like I'm scared to be by myself...I think smoking dope for me kind of gave me something to do when I spend most of my time by myself...so far so good this weekend...I actually feel much better than usual...maybe I am going to make it this time...lol

I might as well finish my story a bit...I was a crazy Alky from age 15 to 31...I've been completely sober off booze since 1991...18 years were does the time go...anyways all the best...

It's a gamble in my opinion. I smoked about 10 times my last year of using, about the amount I used to smoke in a day! That was before MA and AA meetings and with the understanding that I was powerless over marijuana, that a power greater than myself could restore my sanity, that I had turned my will over to that higher power.

The AA book is sold at MA meetings, and it says something like

the belief that he could somehow control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. Some pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.

Personally I couldn't do what you do. My hubby can but I guess knowing your limits is half the battle. but I guess smoking a hit or two for me is the equivilent of you having a drink. I wish you the very best and hope that you don't go from one monkey on your back to another. Bottom like is, it's all your choice your free will please take care of yourself! God bless and Good luck!

Thanks for being honest about that habit. That's very cool of you.

I think that it is of course a good thing that your smoking is down to 5% of the original. If you are able to keep it down without exponentially increasing it - kudos to you. I couldn't do that. I have tried over and over and over. Sometimes these days - 8.5 months without weed, I fantasize that I'd be able to go back to 5% usage - but I know myself.
If your drug of choice is alcohol, and you are doing so well at abstaining from it, do you find it hard to get a weed buzz and not give in and then go directly for your buzz of choice (booze)?

I never was really into booze, but know that it can become a problem if I try to substitute alcohol for weed. I recently had some drinks - first time all year - and immediately I began hating alcohol and began acting like a spoiled brat, craving weed a million times more than normal. So, I just can't mess with this "other buzz". If you can, and you see that you can keep this 5% up without making it 100%, I suppose it is innocuous. But I don't know how it could be done, personally. Especially if one comes to crave that release at the end of the day, craving it all day - and then eventually finding ways to end the day earlier - or as I have done in the past, becoming a recluse whenever I don't absolutely have to be out in public.

Update...so far so good. I have taken on a new AA sponsor though and am going to continue on with the steps...so I will be cutting it out again so I can be clear headed for that.

For me...Weed and Alcohol have always been "two different animals". While I admit that I almost ALWAYS smoked weed when I drank...I smoked weed regularly LONG before I drank alcoholically and I don't get the craving for booze when I smoke. The craving for a Twinkie and bed...yes.. lol.

Thanks for all of your words and I promise that I will keep (semi) quiet, so as not to give any newbie a rationalization or permission. And if/when it becomes a problem...I will come back and share my trials and tribulations, so as to be of assistance to others.

Peace and Be well all.

I so know what you mean. I have started smoking again and I know what you are saying. I had gone about 14 months with the occasional (maybe 5 highs) smoking in that time. I have since went back to smoking again. I don't know what to say other than I too get a benefit of being able to stop nausea I have from my weight loss surgery and it helps me relax (anxiety) and helps me eat. Then I remember, but I'm an addict. So, here I sit...wondering when I should schedule my next outpatient drug counseling appt and tell her the truth.

I think the accountability is awesome and it helps others who have tried the same thing or are considering it.

No it is not possible, you just go back to where you were before, but worse. I know this from experience - not just my own, but everyone I have known who tried "controlled" smoking.

I wish I could do controlled smoking, but have found it to be an illusion every time. Planned not to smoke til after work, the weekend, whatever, and wound up smoking every morning before work, going home during the day once or twice for a booster shot, then after work and in the evenings. And I do not look, act, or smell like a pothead; no-one knew - it was not part of my social life - I did it alone. I own my own business. I am not an alcoholic, and can not imagine trying to control one substance abuse while remaining sober on another. Just ask your sponsor and fellow AA members their opinion. You don't say how long you've been doing this - did you mean since November, 10 months?? If so, you're better than me. I couldn't do it. It is a slippery slope toward relapse. The fiend in me is saying, if you've figured out how to do it, let me know, but the part of me that wants a healthier future says skip it, don't tell me. I've been single all my life, and I figure out the reason why. I could only date people who would accept my smoking habit, and what healthy successful guy wants a chronic pot-smoking girlfriend? I feel like I've wasted a lot of years.

Myself never again, been free for almost a year end of OCT. I quit knowing sooner or later I would be UA'd for transplant list, 2 months still tested +. 5 months later this is a total of 7 clean. Also it takes about 3yrs to get it totally out of your system. Mentally it depends on the person? I've been doing a form of Tai Chi called Chi Gong that works on healing the body & spirit it works.

I believe that once you have identified yourself as an addict, you can't ever really control your use of that substance. you make think you're in control because you are smoking so little, but is possible that while you are controlling how many hits you take, that you are not in control of whatever problem you are covering up by smoking weed? Just food for thought...