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Guides for cutting back or quitting cannabis

The same guides that live in the ClearLeaf app's Learn tab and guided program — written specifically about cannabis, not adapted from a nicotine or alcohol quit guide.

• Getting your reason clear

  Motivation fades fast. A written reason is what you use when it does.

• Why days 3 to 6 are the hardest

  The peak is predictable. Here's what lands, and why the goal for those days is narrow.

• How long until THC clears your system

  The two-phase clearance, what actually drives the timeline, and the honest limits of any estimate.

• Riding out a craving

  Cravings are waves, not a rising line. Here's how to get through the peak.

• Sleep and the vivid dreams

  The most common holdout symptom — why it happens, and roughly when it lifts.

• Weed and anxiety

  Why anxiety often gets worse before it gets better — and how to read it.

• Week two, when it turns mental

  The physical part fades and the routine part shows up. What to do with that.

• Telling people you're quitting

  Who to tell, what to say, and handling the person who keeps offering.

• You used after a stretch off — now what

  One session doesn't undo the progress. The next hour is what matters.

• Quit, tolerance break, or cut down?

  Three different goals, three different plans. How to pick the one that fits you.

• What gets better, and roughly when

  The other half of the timeline: what improves after you stop, and how long each one takes.