Willow Smith Says Cutting Back on Marijuana Was A ‘Big Eye-Opener’
In the latest episode of Red Table Talk, Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris talked about coping with addiction during the COVID-19 pandemic. During their conversation, the 19-year-old revealed that she quit smoking weed.
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Smith explained that she made this big decision after realizing her social recreational use became “excessive,” while admitting that she had not smoked THC in three months.
“When I stopped smoking it was a really big, like, eye-opener,” she began. “There are so many people that I called friends in my life who kind of like… [drifted away]. It really made me think like, ‘This is really interesting.’” The singer said that after she quit smoking, she found a way to channel that energy into other things like exercise. She went on to say,
“I know this sounds cheesy but… around the time I stopped smoking, I started doing a lot of yoga and I just excelled because I was putting all of my energy into that, I wasn’t doing anything else,” she said. “And I was like, ‘Wow, what if I was doing this with everything?’ And it really made me think, ‘What have I been missing? What have I been not putting my all into or putting all of my brain power into?’”
Smith ended things off on a positive note and even encouraged her viewers to think deep about their motivations for smoking:
“Just really think about what is the first thought in your head before you smoke. What is your first thought? And if that’s a thought of stress or using it as a crutch in any way, try to think about that,” she noted. “And if that comes from a negative place, examine that. Because if it comes from a negative place, that could snowball. Just think about what are some other things that you could utilize that are physically or mentally dampening.”
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