I go to university (college) and I'm not 'around the stuff all the time'. Maybe it's not only you, but your friends, social group or perhaps even the college itself. Of course, you're the only one that can make the change, but maybe try to have an objective look at the situations you find yourself in, and who you're with, and see if you can choose to be in situations where you're not faced with the temptation.
One technique I've heard of, and that has worked for me with other things, is to imagine the most horrible, disgusting or frightening metaphor for the thing-to-be-quitted (in your case, marijuana), and then merge the two so that when you think/use/have anything to do with the real thing that you don't want to use/drink/eat/whatever anymore, you can only associate it with the negative image/metaphor. The example I remember best is someone associating raw white sugar with broken glass; he didn't want to eat sugar anymore after imagining it as broken glass ripping apart his insides! For me, I stopped drinking Coke cold turkey, just stopped. I simply saw it as a digusting, overly-sweet drink that left my mouth dry and sticky. Now, I can't stand it. This technique might be worth a try for you, if you can come up with a metaphor/image that is digusting/terrible/frightening for you personally.
Good luck!
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