Welp
To this day I still do not understand chronic weed smokers, and how they claim that it isn't some sort of a coping mechanism, and also how they can quit at anytime, but hey man
Weed def isn't a coping mechanism for me.
If something is going on in my life that needs my attention, smoking weed only makes me realize that much more that I need to tend to those matters.
Like Marley said, the herb reveals one to himself.
Honestly I don't know a single serious smoker that doesn't feel the same way.
It's an introspective experience. Often sobering (no pun intended).
It can either release anxiety when you aren't supposed to be worrying anyways or it can intensify it when there are bad vibrations around you or within you.
As far as quitting goes I haven't smoked since last September. Cold turkey. I haven't quit per se, more of an extended weed sabbatical.
When the time is right I'll start up again.