Smoking pot is sometimes considered to be kind of the little league of drug usage. Weed smokers will point out that it does not have the impact that harder drugs do and that it is much easier to smoke that weed and still be able to get up and handle your daily routine. Pot smoking cartoons seem to reflect this attitude, as they rarely show anyone in a state much more than we would think of as being tipsy at a party from one too many martinis. For some people, smoking pot just is not a big deal.

Still, there are those who come to see smoking marijuana is not the thing they want to do the rest of their lives. When someone decides they want to quit smoking pot, there are several things that you can do as a friend to help them move past the addiction.

Weed smoking, like most drugs, alters our state of awareness. Often we will say and do things that normally we would not consider doing. One way to help deter someone from pot smoking is to record them while they are engaging in a weed smoke session. Later, you can show your friend the smoking weed videos and let him or her see exactly what they are like during those times. They may see themselves alternating between extolling the virtues of smoking marijuana and trying to devise a ways to hide weed smoke when the doorbell rings. Weed smoking may bring on a round of sharing far too much personal information. The point is that when one chooses to smoke pot, there may be several undesirable events come out of that experience. Understanding this may be just what your friend needs to begin pulling away from the habit of smoking marijuana.

Just as there is no printed manual that can serve as a guide to smoking weed, there is no printed guide that will give you a nifty step by step process to lead your friend away from the desire to smoke marijuana. However, you can help your friend by providing him or her with chances to realize what the drug is doing to their lives and how they look when using the drug. You can also be that ear he or she can bend when the urge to light up comes upon them. People who smoke marijuana may find that it will take some time before they are truly past the point of craving a joint. There may be some slips as the individual works toward that time. Don’t give up on them if they fall down. Getting over an addiction is hard work and it does not happen overnight. But support your loved one by being there, supporting an professional help they go for, and also helping them to see they just don’t need to smoke weed in order to live the good life. The end results are worth all the effort.