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I was reading some papers about the detrimental the effect of weed on working memory. So I decided to stop smoking a week after that. Surprisingly, my cognitiv
by mruts 7y ago
I was reading some papers about the detrimental the effect of weed on working memory. So I decided to stop smoking a week after that.
Surprisingly, my cognitive performance declined severely for a period of a couple weeks, as measured by dual n-back performance against my on weed baseline. After those two weeks, it started getting better. About a month later, I was at my on weed baseline. Two months after that, I have exceeding my weed baseline by a significant margin. I took an IQ test and realized about a 10 IQ point gain from my baseline IQ, which I was pretty happy with.
In regards to accomplishing it, I dunno, I guess I just stopped all at once. I'm not the type of person who can handle moderation of anything really, so just quitting all at once worked really well. I had previously quit heroin a long time ago in my youth, so quitting weed wasn't really a big deal compared to that.
It's been maybe 6 months since I last smoked at this point, and I don't really feel any different, besides my cognitive improvements I suppose.
- namanyayg 7y agoThat's a great way to do it scientifically, thanks