All right, welcome back to The Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton. Today, we're going to be diving into

why it is so damn hard to quit weed and a proven process that can support you in letting

go of it if you are ready. Now, this is real for me.

I definitely struggled with smoking weed and, well, not struggling with smoking weed. I didn't have

a problem smoking it. I had a problem not smoking it anymore years and years and years ago.

And one of the things that I've found to be quite common for a lot of guys is that

weed can become something that you really struggle to let go of. And there is some very real

reasons for that. So first, I'm going to give you the breakdown of why it is so hard to quit.

Why it's so hard to let go of? Because you actually can, not that you can get

addicted to it necessarily. There's a lot of debate around that. I'm not interested in engaging

in that debate. But it could certainly be extremely challenging to quit. And then I'm going to

give you a proven strategy that works in terms of quitting. It is a little bit of effort, but like anything in life,

all the good things are. So let's begin. Reason number one, why it is so hard for you to quit

smoking weed is that it actually has a brain wiring component. So when you smoke or when you

vape THC, on a regular basis, your brain's CB1 receptors get flooded.

And these receptors normally help you to regulate things like your mood, your memory,

your emotions, your reward system, your appetite.

So this is a very, very important function within the brain.

And over time, your brain starts to downregulate them.

It basically turns the volume down on your natural internal system of being able to regulate through the CB1 receptors and becomes more

reliant on the THC, on the weed to basically downregulate or use those receptors. And when that

happens is because the THC and the cannabinoids that are in the

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