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i've been tryin to take a break from the herb (maybe a week or two) to lower my tolerance for probably 6 months now. i think i might be psychologically addicted to the habit of smoking. when i don't have any, i find myself hitting my pipe for resin all night. sometimes all day. never more than two. my last bowl will be some time tonight.

i'm gonna need some encouragement.

Taking a break for lowering your tolerance to a psychoactive substance, just shows how much you 'crave it'

I stopped smoking about three years and ten months now (i smoked for five, was addicted to it for three).

I would suggest you don't quit cold turkey (or at least don't do so while experiencing big changes like moving from home) because the stress may be overwhelming and can cause you depression.

Marihuana is certainly not 'that bad' but it can cause psychological (and physical in some people, including me) addiction if you use it (and sometimes it doesn't starts like that, but at the end is the purpose of it, even if we don't notice) as a means to have a 'crutch' where you can finally find some 'love'.

Some physical withdrawal symptoms that you may or may not experience (And usually start at the end of the first month) are nausea and vomit.

psychological withdrawal symptoms that you may or may not experience:

vivid and/or lucid dreams, depression, anxiety (I did not experienced anxiety however) (though i used to have social anxiety and was very very shy).

Marihuana is (as Erich Fromm says): a relatively inocuous narcotic.
it can however cause (or mimic) paranoid schizophrenia and depression.

Hope you get over you addiction, it's not the end of the world to end a substance whom we are addicted to, it may however involve some changes in the brain chemistry and therefore change your perspective of the world (and drugs).