Thread by @owenbroadcast

hey just on a quick serious note, as i guess this is part of my situation i have not mentioned for a while, if 2022 is the year youre trying to get straight and stop drinking and smoking weed all the time or doing drugs or something, you can do it even though it seems difficult

in fact in the beginning it seems impossible. u can still do it though. to be totally honest if you are a drug and intoxication based person, as in, that is what your general vector of energy has been pointed towards for some time, it might be the hardest thing you have ever done

but you can still do it though. i got off easy because i stopped drinking but then just replaced it with weed. once i stopped doing that i feel like honestly it took like a year and a half for the iron grip of it to release and for it to not be weird being sober with other people

that was just my situation though. i was basically an intoxication based person for like, a really really long time, thats what i did when i hungout with people and that was a huge part of my life that basically every other aspect of myself was also caught up in, in some way.

its pretty weird honestly. its pretty pedal to the metal spiritually. sometimes you feel pretty pathetic like, youre in some parking lot wondering if those guys over there would sell you weed or something just so you can feel normal at a party youre going to, that happens.

but if youre thinking about it, you can do it, and you should do it, and if you havent thought about it, i hope you think about it. u can hmu if you want although sometimes it takes me a minute to respond. i have a thread or two about it ill dig up.

heres one thread i made about it, this is kind of about the end of the line tho. theres also a thread about weed somewhere in my pinned tweets but im uhhh technically supposed to be working rn so just reply if u want to talk more about it when im around

https://twitter.com/owenbroadcast/status/1302228658225131520?s=20

here's an image i made 2(?) years ago that is a version of the temptation of st. anthony. i made this after i just started quitting that stuff and was still in the gap between the start and the goal. at the time drawing this alcohol demon in the 2nd pic was a strange experience:

alright so i already got a few dms, since i have talked about my own experience i will post the advice i normally give people when they ask me if i have any advice. i am not a counselor or anyone official however i think this advice is good if ur stuck in a loop. just my take.

i usually give this advice to people quitting weed so thats kind of what ill speak to, thats what i have the most experience with anyway. number one is easy. if ur the kind of person that smokes weed all the time, you're probably going through X quantity a month or every 2 weeks.

we dont need to get crazy specific but if ur the kind of person that this advice applies to you know what im talking about. so you're meeting a guy or going somewhere and spending X amount of money every Y weeks. lets call it 200 dollars just to have a number here.

take that money, and go spend it on something else that you actually want. or take the amount of money you'd spend over two times and spend it on something cool that will enhance your life. you can get set up in many hobbies or enhance many of them for 2-400$.

this does two things. A) now you dontt have the money. it's gone. u don't have it. and B) you now have an actual tangible representation of the physical goods that you are throwing away every time you spend that money on this vice that you have. ur burning that every single time

2. you have to physically rearrange or change up the space that u normally hang out in when you smoke. so, i actually advice people to rearrange that room and space. if you have a chair and table by the window, move it, put something else there. that space should no longer exist

your brain has an intrinsic feedback loop with the space around it. they arent separate. this goes double for drug use. in fact many overdoses on drugs that can kill you are tied to this. someone has a room they use heroin in or something, so their mind ties those things together

so whenever they go into that room, their mind says, okay, im about to get flooded with opiates, and starts prepping for it. so they start using more there, and then when they go somewhere else, and use that same amount, their mind wasn't prepping for it, and it hits different.

obviously ur probably not doing that (hopefully) but you can extract the principle from that wherein if you have a space where youre smoking or drinking alone a lot, a lower manifestation of that is happening to you when you go there, and you can change that.

3. all the last advice is obvious. you should start doing something that will raise your dopamine in this time as well, such as working out, and i also recommend a mental activity that will give you a tangible sense of accomplishment such as reading something large and difficult.

similar to before, thats so after two weeks you can look at this 1300 page book on your desk and its a tangible visual trade off, its something you "got" instead of just wasting your time. if you have a gf you should also tell her that you are going to be irritable in this time.

actually i have one more piece of advice that i guess it is good i saved for the end. if ur reading this and you were never a drug person, congratulations, you probably have no idea what im talking about but some people reading this are still "in it" so, thats why im posting this

this is actually the number 1 tip. i got this from some other guy who phrased it in terms of demons and satan, which is accurate, but if its not part of your worldview at this time you can think of it as a metaphor (its not, but, hey baby steps). its called not tempting the devil

the idea is basically that, if youre just starting, youre at the point where the iron grip on you is the hardest. youre the most under its power when youre just starting out. so, thats actually the worst time to try and take it on all at once, which is what most people do.

most people start by saying, alright thats it im going to cross this line and never use this thing again. well, the idea is that when you do that youre basically tempting the demons that haunt you, and they say, "oh, really?" and confront you with an entire lifetime of resistance

all at once. they stack it all up and say, really, you're going to take on 10,000 days of not smoking or drinking? and its this huge pile in front of you and it seems impossible, so youre like, wow yeah theres no way i can do that, and you just give up because its too much.

this is also how i stopped watching porn btw. so instead, you trick yourself and the demons and say, okay, im not going to smoke today. its tuesday, i can just not smoke for one day, ill smoke tomorrow. or maybe youre really in it and its just half the day, or just the morning.

and then once you cross that window, lets say its the next day, youre like, alright well i did one day, i can do two days, ill smoke tomorrow if i want, ill just do two days its not a big deal. and then its three days. and then its just one day to the weekend, you can wait.

i can wait until the weekend, i mean its just one more day. and then you just keep putting it off. then its almost been a week, i can wait until its been a week, i mean its just like 2 more days now. and you just keep procrastinating it and putting it off in small steps.

this basically lets you get a foothold in when youre really stuck in it and its impossible to break the cycle that youre stuck in. because like i said, when youre the most in the cycle, thats when it seems the most absurd to just 180 and break the cycle in totality forever.

thats the tale at the moment. for some people none of this is relevant but i cant help but feel that part of my operation as being a little pawn on the chessboard is shaking some of the low hanging fruit off the tree, even if its just a few people, if u know what im saying.

alright im like 3000% supposed to me working rn, so ill link one or more threads here as people post them. i made this thread on weed, for some reason one tweet in the middle is deleted, you have to click through to the bottom post to keep going (idk why)

https://twitter.com/aloelonely/status/1477387892230180876?s=20

owen jr needs me to carry him up and down the stairs, therefore i must jet. hey i have a baby now, guess thats what i got for trading in the drugs. pretty good deal. somehow i get the same amount of sleep though.

fyi having a baby and being on drugs all the time also induces their same number of typos. actually, the baby causes way more. thats the live feed. good thing im not a writer i just make pictures.