I am now 21 years old and have been a heavy weed smoker for 5 years. At my peak I was smoking 7-8g a day, and before I quit I was smoking maybe 4g a day. For the past 2 years I have wanted to quit. But I struggled to get past even 24 hours. The longest I had ever managed before was at best a couple of nights without smoking and now I feel like I am, for the first time ever, making progress. The first 3 days were rough, constant anxiety, depression, total appetite loss, cold sweats and an inability to even remotely handle my work. Now I am sleeping normally again (even if I get woken up a few times a night by vivid dreams, most of them about smoking weed), the anxiety is almost gone and I am actually starting to enjoy things again. When I got home today I started thinking about watching a new TV show on Netflix and actively felt excited about it instead of just feeling the total numbness to everything I felt when I first quit. My appetite has returned and I feel happy during the day. The cravings are definitely still there, but getting less intrusive with each day, and I feel confident in being able to control them. I had wanted to quit whilst I was still right in my early 20s, to give myself a chance to have a period of youth not blighted by the fog of weed and not constantly broke from spending 3/4 of my income after rent on weed. Before I had tried the classic thing of deleting the numbers of all dealers and trying to force myself into quitting, but I always found more weed in no time. This time I haven't even deleted my dealers numbers. They have even been texting me with the standard "🔥🔥🔥Amnesia Haze and Laughing Buddha in, fat weights in the bags" and you know what? I completely ignored it. Didn't feel even remotely inclined to fire them up. Its weird because I thought I would never be able to control that impulse if I still had my dealer's numbers. But this time, idk why, something has clicked. I can do it this time and I know it.