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[MEGA] Cannabis Quitting Thread aka I need a break

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I haven't smoked in 8 months tomorrow. Due to legal reasons, I have to stay quit for another 6 months. I still miss being able to smoke but the more engaged in life, the less I miss it. There have just been times recently where I'm glad I wasn't stoned because I need to give a shit and for me, smoking took my motivation away. I was smoking all day everyday though and I know thats not everyone's experience but for me, I'm thinking this long break has been a good thing. I just see people smoke constantly now and that can't function without it-I mean people that don't NEED it, there are definitely people who need it for medical reasons but when I say smoke constantly for no reason, I was referring to the type of smoker I was. The dreamer that only thought that shit would happen but would never make shit happen. The guy who didn't see the point in anything besides smoking more. I used it as an emotional blanket and my life deteriorated. I still miss it but when I return, I will make it a weekend thing at most often and even then, as someone else mentioned in this thread, who knows if I will enjoy it like I remember?

I do smoke synths in the evening but I'm started to question my use of those because its been seeming like I only use them out of habit, not because I'm getting any sort of enjoyment out of them. Then again, I never smoke them while travelling-only when I'm home which is rare since I live in bumfuck currently.

I've found I miss getting high the most when I have nothing to or when I'm bored around friends that smoke a lot or continue that lifestyle.
 
When my tolerance got so low, and I would even have a few hits of good shit (I live in B.C, nuff said), I would find myself at the top of some gnarly bike trail, and be way to stoned to focus on what I was doing. Same thing with skiing, trying to asses snow, evaluate terrain, and remember a line gets a lot harder, when all of a sudden you are to high to remember to set your boots from walk to ski mode! And even physically, I found I couldn't climb as well, got drained of energy really fast compared to being a chronic, and my sense of balance and propreoception got really crappy. I decided not to die or get seriously hurt in the mountains just because I had this really old nostalgia for being stoned out there.
That being said, there is something about being stoned in the snow, that is just so amazing, it is the biggest challenge I face in regards to staying off the pot... Sounds bad, but I have replaced my desire to get stoned at the top of a peak, with having a beer. Everyone else smokes one, and I sip my brew, and enjoy the smell!
 
My parents are coming home at this weekend and i don't have an option... thus thought of taking a break for a while.
 
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Ive read through about 4 pages of this thread and didnt see anyrhing about this so i appologize if this has already been asked.

Ive been smoking all day everyday for 4 years (really good weed too) with literally no break. After smoking heavily for about 2 1/2 years, the euphoria and smiley giggliness from ganj went away. After that 2 1/2 year mark, the highs were just kin dof a stupor with some mild relaxation. No matter how much weed i smoke, that "good" high never comes back.

Now my questions:
1. Has anyone else noticed the "euphoria" and just overall awesomeness from weed go away after heavy use (like 2 years+ everyday)?
2. If you answered yes to the first question, has anyone gained back those "good" highs after quitting for a very long time?

I think the euphoria that i got had something to do with finding a new lifestyle, friends, culture, etc. When i started smoking i was in freshman year of high school trying to find my identity and the drug culture seemed cool. Now ive found myself more and the drug culture isnt as appealing anymore. This certainly cant be the only reason for those good highs going away though. Sorry for rambling and thanks guys :) i really enjoy this forum
 
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Yes and yes. Tolerance is a bitch. It makes me laugh when people brag about how much they smoke in a day, because after a point you are just smokiing to feel normal. And it comes back, but I always found if you have built up that tolerance once, it never takes as long to come back, and often after a long break, that euphoria just isn't the same. Especially if part of it was situational like you said, you might never recapture that initial magic, and that original buzz you are seeking. But you will get plenty fucked up if you take a month or even a few weeks off...
 
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after a point you are just smokiing to feel normal. And it comes back, but I always found if you have built up that tolerance once, it never takes as long to come back, and often after a long break, that euphoria just isn't the same. [...] But you will get plenty fucked up if you take a month or even a few weeks off...
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My experience is the same. I'm happy to say that I just scored a decent job considering my criminal record and lack of recent work history, so my break will be ending here in a couple weeks. I can NOT wait for that first mother fucking paycheck, man. %)
 
After a 9 month break I've been smoking about everyday for the past year. It was fun the first few months but has recently lost it's pazas. So rather then quit all at once I only smoke in the evenings and never more then a couple hits at a time. Hopefully when I take a break it brings more of the fun back. I might just keep smoking it at night to help sleep however, that's a good enough break for me.

Thought I would ad that when I came back to smoking it was completely new again. Taking a breaks worth it.
 
Just my .02 cents here, but smoking just a bit of weed everyday, because it helps you to sleep is pretty much the worst (Obviously just in my opinion) reason to smoke pot. It is the sure sign of an addiction, I was like that for a long time. You should ask yourself if you really want to be dependent on something for the rest of your life, to fulfill one of the most basic biological functions we have. It is kind of like someone who can't quit smoking cigarettes because it helps them to take a shit in the morning (I was like that for a long time too).
After I would take a long break, then get stoned at night, I would always wake up feeling like shit, and think 'gosh, did I really just get that used to waking up feeling that burnt out every morning'? Apparently I did. For the first while after quitting, I would wake up, feeling so good, I thought there was something wrong with me, it took me a while to realize that I just felt really good and alert, and wasn't used to it...
 
It's not a bad reason at all. I have trouble sleeping and used to take benzodiazapines to help sleep.

If i'm just smoking weed i'm going to wake up feeling great in the morning. If i'm taking opiates then i'm not going to wake up feeling good in the morning. Weed never made me feel shitty the next day. It's just something that doesn't have a huge effect on me. Although I know it does have some, albeit very minimal.

If it was making me feel like shit why would I do it? After a certain point it is nice to take a break because i'm not even getting high anymore. It's not worth doing once the effects are gone and that's why i'm going to take a break. The last benefit that seems to be left is increased appetite and a better sleep, so that's probably why I bring it up.
 
Well it's definitely better than taking benzos to get to sleep for sure. And I really don't want to insult or offend anyone, trying to choose my words really carefully. But imagine not having to take any drug to get to sleep, I couldn't even conceive of it for fifteen years. And it was really tough, but I got there eventually, and it was great. And I sleep really well, things like meditation, yoga, exercise, and being mentally exhausted from doing challenging things really work if you give them a chance. But more than sleeping well, is I wake up feeling more awesome than I ever did when I needed even just a taste of a pipe to fall asleep. It's the same with appetite. Obviously if you have a medical condition it's different, if you're going to be on some kind of drug to fall asleep or eat then it may as well be marijuana. But for healthy people, these two things are functions we are biologically programmed to do from day one.
 
When I haven't burned in 2 weeks or so I will get completely fucked off 1 hit and have an epic adventure. However, when I smoke it all day I don't even feel high anymore. I end up chasing the high that my brain is no longer capable of creating due to tolerance, and giving drug dealers money. Not to mention the rediculous terrible side effects... smoking all day is really fucking dumb.

Lately I've been staying sober for long periods, then buying an eighth or quarter and smoking it compulsively for a few days. This is mostly due to lack of availability and money, and once I'm sober for a day or 2 I become aware of how bad the shit is for me so I keep it up. Initially I just fiend for more though. It is definately time to drop it completely - fuck though, those low tolerance highs are just incredible. I always end up fiending, fuck, I am really hating my relationship with this drug. It absolutely makes me retarded in ways.
 
Hey Rave, It was last September or maybe August in this same thread, you had this all figured out even back then. The impact it was having in your life, how much you wanted to quit etc. And you know, reading those posts, when I was first trying to quit to score the job I have now, really made a huge difference for me. So man, just think, your words and opinions, were strong enough, and well articulated enough, to get someone else off the pot. Just imagine if you can take them to heart as strongly as I did. You can accomplish anything you want dude!
I have read some of your other posts in the dark side as well, and I was just like that, feeling lonely, and socially isolated, all that jazz (if you had read some of my posts in the dark side from a few years ago, you would know just how far I have come since then). I still have issues, and confidence problems, but I scored the job I was after, was just in a place with 250 guys and maybe 10 women, one of whom was really hot. In front of all these guys I picked her up, we had a brief but meaningful fling, I have reconnected with a bunch of my old friends, and have started online dating, and actually charming the hell out of some of these women. And this is from a guy who was in the emergency room two years ago after a suicide attempt, spent a year out of work for depression, and had basically given up hope of ever not being a lonely and maladapted stoner. But I beat it, and so can you! Just keep fighting it man, you are on the right track. I honestly think about you outside of time spent on these message boards (no homo:), and hope that you are sticking with your plan, and having the success you (and all of us) deserve in this life...Thanks for the inspiration dude....
 
Thanks a lot man, sounds like you are doing swell. My opinion on the weed vacillates - sometimes I convince myself that it's good for me, but that is just addiction. The truth I have realized is that it's shit, and so far in 2012 I have only been high roughly half the time which is a huge improvement. I've been off it for a bit and there haven't even been withdrawal symptoms. And when I've been off it life has been good.

Your post is very inspiring though, I REALLY need to stop. Today is a new day right, I really desperately need to keep off it or I'm going to waste my 20's away. I think this weed exacerbates this social isolation and loneliness I am experiencing, I've been socializing with girls really well lately so I just have to be patient. I think smoking weed inflates my ego, but at the same time, turns me into a pussy. It's absurd, but it is part of my journey to experience and overcome this kind of suffering. The shit makes me fucking retarded.

My addiction is completely insane and I've realized this but it is still taking some time to quit. I've had to revisit the situation a few times but I know that I need to drop this shit and never smoke it again.

Man - HOW THE FUCK AM I STILL SMOKING THIS FUCKING TRASH? It's the most depressing thing, it's the worst thing that ever happened to me. But today is a new day, I just went through the first few days that really fucking sucked, and I am finally able to experience happiness once again. The stuff is the devil in my life.
 
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That's a great quote Rave. Today is a new day...I like it, and it's always today too. It's never tomorrow, and yesterday only exists in our memories. From reading enough of your other posts though, I don't think you've wasted your twenties at all. You've had different experiences then some other people might have had in their twenties, and maybe not the ones you wanted too, but at least now you know what you don't want, and hopefully when you get the things you do, you'll enjoy them that much more.
 
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Did you smoke daily/a lot and experience problems with short-term memory? If so, how long did you have to abstain to start feeling normal again? I feel like my memory is even worse now that I haven't been using in a few days but that could also be due to the fact that my mind is getting a little bit clearer and I actually notice the deficits much better. Didn't take long though to start feeling better in other areas (although still worse than two weeks ago before the break) but that's probably thanks to me tapering my use to once a day just before sleep and then starting the break.
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i smoked about 2-3 joints a day. i definitely had problems with short-term memory, especially when smoking heavily. the first positive effects of not smoking were felt almost immediatly. it took just a few days to pull me out of the haze and my cognitive function and memory improved. im clean for over 3 months now and i believe things are still getting better. i definitely noticed an improvement in my social anxiety, especially in the last month. quitting wee isnt all good though, i no longer have a scapegoat to blame everything on. when im lazy, its me that lazy and when im slow in the head, then that also just because im slow in the head, and not because of weed. sobriety has been...sobering.

all in all i feel a lot better without the stuff, mentally and physcially. the thought of not smoking again once seemed impossible, but i really dont need weed as much as i thought.
 
I plan on stopping after this coming weekend for two weeks. Need to clean my body out of everything Ive been doin (weed, opiates, benzos) and am going to see how it feels. I dont plan on stopping toking forever but the opis and benzos arent doing me any good except draining all my energy. Also I need to start saving money, just in case I ever need it for any emergency. I dont like living paycheck to paycheck, even though my wage isnt that bad. After that break Im just gonna get a half onion of tree every two weeks. Half = 14g, I get paid every two weeks (14days) so thats a G of pot a day, which I can definitely work with. And ill finally be saving some money in the bank
 
edit - yoga yoga yoga guys. Seriously I'd never have a chance without it, the practice kills my cravings for weed. Physical exercise does not it's gotta be meditation style yoga. It's the closest replacement to what I get out of weed in my life.
 
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I've quit for two full weeks now to rule out cannabis as a cause of inattentive ADD, to save money, to heal my lungs, and to have clean piss in case I want to go to a PM clinic.

I have to say, other than being bored as hell, and being in a significantly higher amount pain, I feel GREAT. I feel like I'm actually living again, not merely existing. Cannabis seriously can dissociate you from the world if you smoke every day. Some people like that, but I want to be a part of this world, not watch it go by me. ;)

I plan on keeping this up for at least another two weeks. I'm breathing so much better now, btw. Cannabis really fucks your lungs up if you don't vape, I used pipes/bongs. I'm spitting out so much mucous, lol

I wanted to smoke sooo bad at a party this weekend, especially when most of the people left and we sat down to watch a movie, but I said, "fuck it! 13 days so far, might as well keep it up!"
 
Started my break today. I can smoke 5 or so bong bowls to the dome and not even be high enough to make me tired enough to sleep. Having a tolerance this high is just wasting my money and I hardly feel different at all when I smoke. This time I won't
make the mistake of going on an ice binge while on a tolerance break only to buy a sack when I'm crashing after a few days and need to ease the crash as well as get myself to eat and sleep.
 
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