Smoking makes me anxious but I can’t stop?

[Anonymous]

I’ve been smoking weed pretty much daily for about 4 years now, for the longest time I only smoked at night but I’ve started occasionally smoking in the day for the past year or so.
I’ve noticed it makes me extremely anxious especially when I have to interact or even walk past people. I get so internally terrified it’s embarrassing lol. I love the feeling of being high and it helps me escape my thoughts but since I smoke every day I’m having high anxiety really often and it’s getting overbearing.
But yet when I’m not high, I find myself wanting/needing to smoke and looking forward to it. I don't know I know I should stop smoking so much but I’m having a really hard time actually wanting to stop, smoking is like the highlight of my day because everything else sucks. I stay up until like 5-6am just smoking weed.
I just smoked before writing this and I’m walking home so anxious and uncomfortable, but I can probably promise that I’ll do it again later even though it makes me feel horrible. Is this it being addictive or is it a problem with me?

I kinda just wanted to vent about what I’m struggling with, but any advice or responses would be nice. It would be comforting if someone could relate

[bigmatt98]

I get the exact same feeling when I smoke weed it was after I took a break for about 2 years and then tried to smoke again the high was exactly like that. But you have to ask yoyr self honesty do you like how this makes you feel and if you don’t then you need to be strong with yoyr self and stop using it and save money too

[Notcreativenough]

Hey I've been there myself. I would look at other areas in your life that are causing your dopamine crave. For me it was my career and long time marriage, I made a change and haven't looked back. Good luck.

[Shamalien]

I can relate. Keep it to a small amount before bed, then you can still enjoy a little treat and live normally. Start taking a day break here and there after a month or do of weening