Tell us why you stopped smoking, maybe that'll help us understand better. You sound like stopping is so easy. For a lot of the real smokers out here, despite all the side effects of smoking most of y'all try to make us believe, weed still makes us feel good and we don't care if anyone thinks they have a right to judge how we choose to live our lives. We all sin differently doesn't make you a better sinner.
Edit: I just read your reply above. Now I understand your reason.
Totally agree - I am not taking the higher ground or anything, I respect that some people smoke weed and are fine and happy. Thats the funny thing about it - I think it really effects different people in completely different ways.
When I smoked it, I was very lazy; basically I didn't want to do anything, I just wanted to be permanently stoned, all the time. I also have a very addictive personality which probably doesn't help.
Eventually it started to make me really paranoid - and I mean really beyond normal type paranoid.
How I gave up - well, it took quite a lot for me to give up, a combination of a few things - getting into quite a lot of trouble, having some really bad experiences with weed and also from my mum begging me to give up (that was probably the main factor).
After I gave up my life kept going downhill for quite a few years, or at least thats how it felt. I had panic attacks for a long time afterwards and I was very paranoid for a long time afterwards. Also, life wasn't going well either - it seemed like I had little good fortune, nothing going for myself and so on. But eventually life started to pick up for me and now its going pretty well
I am not saying that is all related to weed, of course not. But my opinion about drugs in general is that they are an escape - all types of drugs take you to a better place; they seem really great when you are taking them but all the time you are high I think you end up neglecting your real life.