I have a pretty bad pot addiction. Like I have no problem getting high at 7am on a weekend if I'm up. I started at 14 years old, so it's been over half my life. It wasn't a big deal early on. I could get baked at lunch in high school, go to physics or math class, and get like a 98 in the course. I think it did something weird to my nervous system in late high school, but it coincided with trying chakra meditations and I thought it was a premature kundalini awakening. Through university I was all about harm reduction, meaning organic mail order weed before legalization, landrace strains, homemade edibles, convection vaporizers, etc.
It has only recently become an issue because I realized I can't cold approach stoned. It's pretty retarded to put a little blissful feeling above your mating success, so the priority's finally shifting. Luckily I nipped alcohol early. In first year uni, I was drinking a few nights a week in the dorms, then read it interfered with gym recovery and boom cut it out for life. Priorities.
Anyways, I randomly stumbled upon this video. There's probably better stuff out there, but it's with a professor at Stanford. I really don't watch youtube unless it's a Chase or Mystery interview, so I skipped to around two hours. I just wanted to note she said you have to get past the two-week mark of a dopamine fast before things start to shift, and you have to reach 30 days for meaningful change. There's some porn specific stuff in the timestamps. She also said based on rat studies with cocaine, addicts are rewired for life, meaning relapse goes from 0 to 100 real quick. And you need barriers, like locking your addiction away, etc. So if online dating is a "cue" then maybe it will help to put those apps away.
