• agingelderly@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I stopped smoking weed during the week so that I had something to look forward to on the weekends. It’s pretty pathetic

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      7 hours ago

      That’s smart, it’s a form of dopamine loading, you deny yourself immediate rewards and that builds anticipation, also it lowers your baseline dopamine so that even small rewards feel meaningful, this way you stay off the headonism treadmill and conserve your weed which saves money