The problem with tolerance breaks for me is that my back wakes me up an hour or 2 into sleep and keeps me awake unable to find a comfortable spot. Years ago I stopped smoking during the day for the most part. I usually start after 8pm. While I don’t get the buzz I used to it does help with me getting through a night’s sleep which is much more important to me than being high. Some days it’s down to 1 joint before bed so cutting down is a yes, abstaining is painful.
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After quitting for a solid month, my tolerance level is way low and I’m only taking a couple hits a day thru the week and a bowl or 2 on the weekend days. I used to smoke a quarter oz and hash a day…
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Ironically, my Saintly Spouse and I have been on an extended RV journey since I started this thread and events have made for an interesting kind of T-break. I thought it was worth sharing.
We were on the road for over two months. State laws & Common sense encourages me not to carry cannabis flower at all on this kind of road trip. So I don’t.
For the simple pain relief from a day driving, I leave with a well stocked GD Tincture cabinet and as a result I have micro-dosed with one hit of tincture most every evening, but no smoke of any kind for two months now.
We’re almost home and I’ve had a rare chance to stop and visit a couple of OG buddies in the last week. We passed the bowl and my first couple of hits on OG-quality bud was a rare moment. Holy shite! I haven’t been so completely and beautifully stoned in decades. Jus Sayin.
My takehome was that, for me at least, the tincture met my health & relaxation needs and was pleasant to consume. And the payoff is delightful, hope it lasts awhile.
So, if you get a chance/excuse to switch to edibles, or tincture or ??? and abstain completely from smoke for a month or so, try it. You can expect a near religious reunion with the magic of our favorite herb when you return to the smoke.
One man’s experience. 
-Grouchy
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Here’s a question maybe a stupid one but …how about detoxing would that be justifiable to a cannabis break !?
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Greetings @Rabeats2093,
Fair question. One formal definition of detoxing is as follows"
a period when you stop taking unhealthy or harmful foods, drinks, or substances into your body
So, in that sense yep, same deal.
On the other hand, detoxification implies that a “Toxin,” meaning poison, is creating harm, but the idea of a T-Break is more to allow you to regain control of your cannabis use, and structure it so that you don’t find yourself toking more and enjoying it less.
At least that’s how I understand it.
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@GrouchyOldMan Ahhh I was curious to the detox drink they sell at health stores like a quick body flush…
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I don’t truly stop. It depends on what I smoke. Have us smoked a quarter a day yes. Have I smoked a quarter this week. No. Not even an 8th. But cleaning out isn’t a bad thing. I just need smoke that’s around a low thc level when starting back. Yes cleaning out of anything is good. For you I’m sure you eat very nice. Vegetables are great but I still sin for lust of meat. Bacon and chicken. I think a true clean out would be 45 days.
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The tripping on weed can be intense. Almost like shrooms. Imop.
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I use edibles every day some days 10 - 20mg other days 40-50mg plus smoke couple times a day and vape 12-15 times a day. I keep my tolerance in check by not using the same strain 2 days in row. So far that has worked the last couple years.
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An aspect to consider when talking tolerance…
How does anyone’s strain review matter when you don’t, and can’t know, the tolerance of the reviewer? I could quit for six months and get whacked on three hits of dried, scraped resin, much less killer weed.
So, if we can’t know the tolerance of the reviewer, the high is completely independent to the user. It seems to invalidate a very important point of a strain review: how strong is this pot?
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Yes you also have people like my wife who have very little tolerance for any strain she smokes and she uses it every evening and edibles at the weekend. Any more than 5 or 6 tokes and she is out like a light lol.
So there is no real way to tell how something is going to affect you until you try it.
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Greetings @Smokinrav,
- Please do not Trust strain reviews.
- A professional “Strain Reviewer” probably needs/takes time off work for a T-Break now and again. They’d deserve it IMHO.
The question of How Strong Is This Pot, is unfortunately very subjective and useful only as a guide.
But you already know all that, right?
More to the point, not everyone experiences the “higher high” after a T-Break in the same way. After a Micro-Break, resuming is like greeting an old friend for me.
-Grouchy
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I’m 56 and also grouchy lol (lord help me, I will not become my parents at their age)
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I took a break for AM to PM. That’s amazing. I think. I was cutting back some. I wanted to see if it changed my high. Lol
Entering week 10 of TBreak.
Only thing I’ve been using is caffeine.
The ideal world for me is consuming some flowers at Friday and Saturday.
Ain’t sure whether I’ll be able to follow it or not.
Still think about smoking weed everyday.
I dream a lot and my digestive system has been working so much better. But motivation is impacted, I’m lazy and depressed. And I eat better when I’m on weed.
Wake and bake not a good thing. At least for me.
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I was or am, on a strange tolerance break, in my local coffeeshops I can only buy the crazy strong inbred hybrid plants, and I was smoking that daily for quite some years, with effect slowly dwindling. Since I started growing now I have really taken a liking to more chilled out Skunk auto varieties with the THC ranging in 12~15%, compared to the 22%+ they sell in the shop, but when I do buy some premium potent weed now, boy do I get high 
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The Skunk so far really helps with my mental health issues, while not being so strong it knocks me out, perfect!
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It’s hard man but with dedication and if you are really in it you can do it!
Good luck,
eS 
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