{"id":399,"date":"1988-11-07T15:00:21","date_gmt":"1988-11-07T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cannitrol.com\/\/?p=399"},"modified":"2012-07-07T15:17:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T15:17:22","slug":"new-job-i-had-to-become-an-ex-smoker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/new-job-i-had-to-become-an-ex-smoker\/","title":{"rendered":"New Job &#8211; I had to become an &#8220;Ex-Smoker&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/new-job-i-had-to-become-an-ex-smoker\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_405\" style=\"width: 86px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lloyd-Peretz1.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-405\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-405\" title=\"Chillaxing\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lloyd-Peretz1.gif\" alt=\"I had to become an ex-smoker\" width=\"76\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High Every Day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In one afternoon, in one moment, my life changed. I got an offer letter for a job which was actually related to the major I studied in college! It was\u00a0spot on to my major and it was really a good offer. A no-brainer. I had to take it.\u00a0I could not refuse this, or mess it up. \u00a0I had to change my lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>My current lifestyle was really chill to say the least. Working just enough to pay 1\/3 of the bills in a small house left me plenty of free time. In that free time I goofed off a lot, I really wasn&#8217;t taking anything too serious, we called it &#8220;chillaxing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, part of my lifestyle was smoking weed daily. I really did not think anything of it, in my circle it was a pretty common thing to do and it didn&#8217;t really seem to hurt the success or goals of anyone I knew. In fact, I think if you drink beer or liquor\u00a0daily that is more of a problem.<\/p>\n<p>At first, when I stopped, I simply could not get to sleep. Everything else was cool, a bit different but OK. My friends knew that I was going to start working in the\u00a0area of my dreams so they understood that it just wasn&#8217;t possible for me to continue smoking. Peer pressure just was not a factor for me.<\/p>\n<p>I gave in and ended up smoking some to sleep. I became the proverbial &#8220;Midnight Toker&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That worked out for abut a week, then the morning and afternoon cravings came. Here I was trying to get all my ducks in a row and now I had this monkey on my back constantly prodding me to smoke a bowl. The monkey won. I was back to square one.<\/p>\n<p>One of my buddies noticed, he was actually one of my hook-ups. He said he knew where I was at and he used something called Cannitrol to help him with tolerance breaks, he was a very serious smoker. He knew (and still knows)\u00a0his stuff\u00a0He gave me one of his bottles which was about 1\/2 full. This was a really odd gesture from someone I bought pot from, but hey I tried it, and it worked! It only took a few weeks and then I was able to control my use, the monkey was gone!<\/p>\n<p>My new job is great, the field is pretty liberal. It dosen&#8217;t really matter much that I used to be a pothead, heck most of my co-workers used to be. However, a current stoner just would not be tolerated. On occasion there is even a joint passed at work-related social gatherings, but now its MY choice to puff or pass, not some monkey calling the shots!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In one afternoon, in one moment, my life changed. I got an offer letter for a job which was actually related to the major I studied in college! It was\u00a0spot on to my major and it was really a good offer. A no-brainer. I had to take it.\u00a0I could not refuse this, or mess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,3],"tags":[2630,48,37,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}