Wonderful theory as well!
Thanks! And I have some personal experience to back this up, just read below:
Currently 3 days sober, I can say it has been hell doing so after 3 years without taking a break of more than a week... Mind you, I've never had opiate/benzo WD's. I'll argue that my alcohol and caffiene WD's are actually much, MUCH easier to handle than pot WD's. I haven't slept for shit in three nights. I too have had nightmares, cold/hot flashes for no reason, etc. I've never been more bored in my life than the times I have quit pot. I even had a nightmare last night that I had broken down and smoked with my roommate, and I was so upset with myself lol. Luckily, I hadn't actually. Tryin to make it till the end of my summer school in three weeks, lets hope I don't break down and buy some ganja!
I'll be able to relate to this.
Smoked 3-4 times a day for 2 years (3-4 hits each time), not really as much as some other people, but i'm only 23 now so this was the longest streak (i was 19-20). was working BK full time (very stressful). had some 'personal' issues, so decided it was time to quit smoking, because I found myself 'flirting' more than I should've, so things went wrong, ETC...
After quitting, found myself unable to sleep for...4-5 days. I truly mean probably 100 more or less hours awake at once. It was miserable. Felt like i was floating out of my body. Time to make a sandwich went from 1 min to 10 mins; everyone customer left because it took my brain too long to figure out how to make food lol.
Was this related to my personal/emotional issues that I had at the time/all along? Or from the cold turkey of weed which would help me sleep, etc. It doesn't matter, but all of that stress I believe was held within me when i smoked. my theory is i just smoked away my problems, and all it did was put a bandage on them, over and over, until i had to rip all of those bandages at once, and it hurt. reality comes crashing at once.
I think lack of sleep could be from stress, tho. because working full-time domino's delivery i went 90 hours without sleep (and on the road that's sort of dangerous.) that is before i had any sort of guidance or understanding of my emotions, or anything. i was young blood. at that time i'd smoke randomly here and there, not much at all tho.
Oh and i have problems now sleeping anyways (prob cuz im loading up on coffee now, but it happened without it too.) i would skip every other night of sleep, while working full time, and while smoking 10hits a day. (recently). its weird. and that's happening now too, without weed. so maybe unrelated. (and i still consider myself stressed at some point every day, so its a matter of learning calmness, hope, and patience.)
But, now, I find it much much easier to stop and go with weed. I never allow myself to get too high at once, just a hit or two more than once a day. i basically like to stay comfortably buzzed all day. i make sure to deal with my emotions before anything. before i was bottling them away. now i cry more than once a day (and im a tough guy). No one needs to know i do that, but i'm not afraid to admit it. The crying usually comes from prayer, but that's another story. (I'm Muslim)
but really i think stress is something that you need to deal with emotionally, and pray a lot to deal with. smoking will not relieve stress in its own (but it can surely help).
can't say what my final point or stance on any of that is or was. just some thoughts