Has anyone quit smoking marijuana? How hard was it, and how many times did you try? Is there any substitute (non-addictive) for when you can't sleep and are going crazy?
You enjoy smoking and it's obviously medicinal for you because you relax. Maybe what you need to do is just strengthen your "moderation" muscle a bit and use it as needed for life's stresses...
I really *do* think that it is a personality based thing when trying to quit. I have been really stoned and thinking about why I can't quit. I think that it is rooted even as deep as my childhood upbringing. My wife wants to quit for financial purposes and says she can just put it down much like yourself.
She is what I call a "Functioning Stoner". And has the ability to do whatever she needs to do any still get high. I melt into the couch.
i have recently quit, i used to smoke it on weekends about a year ago then in april i began smoking it every day, all day. about 1 month ago i thought i should quit, i stopped hanging out with the people i smoked it with so much and started hanging out with new friends, i also put my money straight into the bank so i wasnt tempted to take it out and spend it. last week my mum found out about it and now i'm grounded so theres no way i can get it. i'm feeling a bit depressed and short tempered because i rely on weed to relax me, however, i may just feel like this because i'm being trapped in the house. i really over think things now and have found myself pushing others away but it should get better. i'm getting a bunch bag to let me anger out and for something better to do with my time, also i just get off the laptop and tv half hour before i want to go to sleep, have a bit of me time by reading or something. good luck :) i'm here if you need help :D x
i just quit smoking three weeks ago after smoking for 8 months everyday ...i went through a bad experience of trying to pass a drug test (which thankfully i passed) but i nearly killed myself from water poisoning...i love smoking and maybe ill smoke occasionally someday but for now im enjoying sober life...after beeing high all day every day it started to fell like a norm...and now being sober feels like a high lol
I smoke ganja for 3 years every day, eaven several times per day. In these 3 years was only 4 or 5 days when I wasnt high. When I think "when was the last day, when I didnt smoke weed" I remmember one day 6 months ago. It is realy hard for me to stop smoking. I feel empty from inside, I cant think, cant concentrate. I cant eat, because food isnt tasty anymore. I cant sleep, I cant play pc. In fact I cant do anything without ganja. Marihuana is part of me. Stoping smoking weed is like cuting of my leg. I present my self as Rasta and I want others to look at me as Rasta- I AM RASTA. But if I will stop smoking I will not be Rasta anymore, but I want to.... It is so mentaly hard and people who dont smoke ganja, but talk about ganja deserve left hook from me. I feel like only you guys who have been true everything I have been true can say something useful to me. Hope you all will get from life what you want. Peace !
I have been stone cold sober since my 28th birthday last month. (A few days after.) I am experiencing paranoia, anxiety, xenophobia (fear of people esp. my teachers and peers at school;)an emotional roller coaster to say the least. I also have a hard time falling asleep and have also started to loose the desire to look at internet pornography. The ultimate challenge right now is dealing with people who are weed smokers that know that I am trying to quit. Every tuesday and thursday my biology teacher keeps pressing me on personal issues. I genuinely believe that he is trying to get me to snap (loose my temper). He has been getting personal information about me from other college professors. He went to Harvard and recieved a Ph.D. (allegedly) in research biology (I think that was it). He is also of Indian descent but claims that he is from Lousiana so he knows all the catch phrases from the south. Every time we [class] are in lab he bitches about people, constantly. He boasts over- simplified and generalized stereotypes and hyperextrapolates information based on his perception of the male gander role. For example, he claims that guys who take care of their bodies (ie: getting a mancure/pedicure/haircuts/mass age etc.) and goto hair salons are metrosexual faggots.
I have noticed that he plays some version of reverse pyschology on the right people at the right time. Half of me is pissed off and wants to kick his fucking ass (although I am not a metrosexual "faggot" or homosexual)and the other half of me says that it is his right as an American citizen to say what he wants. God I hate deciectful foreigners who come to America just to bitch about the way America is run. God I pray for the patience to deal with this fucker and not to tear him limb from limb. Also I have had to change all the people that I used to hang out with because they were acting like trash.
Towards the end of my relationship with them all I started noticing they would talk behind my back, and my own best friend would try and arrange social confrontations between me and other known and unknown men. The one main lady who pissed me off pretty good had this complex from being raped by a guy while she was in college. Somehow she developed the idea (and got others to accept it) that I hated women. I don't hate women I just accept the fact that they can piss off a guy in ways that another man simply cannot do (unless they are gay). Then she started pulling the reverse psychology mind babble. Then another guy, who used to be cool, started scoffing at me during conversations as if I was too stupid to formulate my own opinion about anything he would talk about. Another guy would start making implications that I should attempt to sleep with his wife (although chubby she was attractive). Another guy used to physically touch his genitals then grab anything in sight(ie: video game controllers, television remotes, doorknobs, lighters, his face etc). He would then complained that he had a rash on his ass but he kept scratching at it and then he would start to complain about symptoms of pink eye. Looking back the most disgusting aspect of smoking marijuana was the blunt. I absolutely refused (towards the end of my ganja smoking career) to smoke an object that another person had completely saturated with saliva. My God! A person can have ghonorhea of the throat, mononucleosis or a host of any other contagious bacteria/virual infections; Not to mention the natural flora of microbes that can readily be found in their mouth at all times. Hell for all I know any one of those people could have just performed fellatio on a stray animal and then rolled a joint or blunt! And the same guy who had the "ass-eye symptoms" had his young girlfriend fucked by a huge cocaine sniffing psychotic Irish-American. Then they became friends again.
RIGHT NOW I,M REDING EVERY ONES COMMENTS .YALL ARE ALL RIGHT MY FAMILY LIFE IS GOING DOWN THE DRAIN EVERYDAY OF MY LIFE I HAVE A GOOD JOB GOOD WIFE GOOD LIFE,BUT SMOKING IS EFFECTING MY SEX APPETITE I THINK .HAS THAT GOTTEN TO ANY ONE...
I,M FEELING LONELY WITH OUT NO CLEAR THOUGHTS... I WANT TOQUITE IVE BEEN PUFFING SINCE MY YOUNGER YEARS ,I,M NOW 33 AND WANTING TO PROGRESS IN LIFE,, THERE IS SO MUCH TO OFFER...
Take the plunge and quit. It is hard but worth it. When you realise how much easier it is to actually not smoke (spending less cash, not wasting time finding weed etc), you will be able to do more. I'm 32 - it has taken me 14 years to realise what time I have wasted. Don't regret your time, just start making the most of it. Good luck.
Marijuana is mentally addictive and it is a bear to release anything you are using for relief, whether it be food, alcohol, or drugs. I have smoked for 30 years and I have quit over 20x only to begin again because you think you can control it this time-huge error! You cannot control something which you use to let go of control if you know what I mean. It will always have you never the other way around. I have begun to drink extremely heavily while smoking b/c eventually it is almost as if you are smoking cigarrettes. The potency goes away and you are left with a habit, something you do without even acknowledging or enjoying it. When people would say marijuana is a gateway drug I smirked b/c I never went further but then I innocently started keeping a six pack at home for friends and then NEEDED that six pack then 12 pack then a entire bottle of vodka. I know now comes the hard part huge feelings of depression, anxiety, and the feeling everyday that I can control it this time b/c I will not drink just smoke or I will use certain amounts that way I can control it, too much craziness just to keep myself from feeling scared of the world or whatever. If you have a shot to never try it do it. I am certain once you try it you will have introduced something that is like having tried ice cream, you can't imagine never having it again even if you don't have it for years, it is just hard as heck to tell yourself no once you've said yes. It takes months to start getting your emotions back in some semblence of normalcy but you are almost always stuck at the age when you started smoking in a weird way. I wish I had never gone there but that is pointless and now I can only try and release this again. Reading these posts help a super lot and I need to disagree about eating right for the first few days or for a while, the thing they do at detox centers usually is allow you to eat whatever the hell you want. It is almost a way to get over something you want with something you can control like chips, you may eat a whole bag everynight for days but mentally it's easier to release after a while b/c it doesn't seem as appealing as getting high and being one with the universe or whatever falsity we connect to smoking.
Agree, agree, agree.
Gee we humans are silly sometimes. I wish you (and myself) the best in this journey. I have also started drinking to help quit smoking (how dumb). Now I am having trouble with that too. :(
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easybreezy Jun, 02 2008 at 12:00 PM
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