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So I unexpectedly became super busy this week because of school. Participants for a study dropped out and my partner and I had to drop our project and redesign and run an entirely new study in 3 days time. Needless to say, lighting up was the last thing on my list of priorities. I ran out a couple days ago, haven't been working enough to have the money or contact to buy more (60$ an eighth, sheesh, I wish squidhead...I wish).

Anyways, last night I had a dream where I banged one of my profs and woke up thinking, "Man, have I been missing out" :D
 
Ive finally decided to quit smoking pot after about 7 years of nearly everyday use.

Its been about 6 days, I feel strange. I honestly didn't notice much mental impairment when I was smoking, but now that im getting off of it I notice my brain inst exactly firing on all cylinders. It was like this when I quit for a month or so before, then it went away after a couple weeks. I guess my brain has to get used to operating without weed. I am pretty intelligent guy, but right now i feel minorly retarded and I have finals coming up, its frustrating.

Ive been wanting to quit for a while, but Ive had such an easy and steady supply ($4 grams of good stuff, my friends grow) that I put it off for so long. I still have about 10 grams laying around in my room, but have no desire to touch it at the moment. The real test will be when Im with friends who are smoking, but I think this time I want to quit enough to say no.

Ive been having very strange dreams, about people and places that I havent thought of in years. I always forget exactly how much pot suppresses dreams when im on it, and when im off they become so vivid, its crazy.

I cant wait until the stuff gets out of my system completely.
 
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I'm with you buddy, especially with the dreams about people you never even thought about thinking about. I remember one of my dreams, I haven't seen this guy in over 3 years, and in the dream I saw him in my hometown and gave him a hug, and we had this really weird... kind of distorted... conversation in which he was basically judging my actions. Very weird... He's not even from my hometown but we were so similar and I respected him a lot when we hung out. Also, sometimes the faces of people I know are distorted too, like a mixture of people I know, kind of like the Scanner Darkly suits.

And yeah, I feel pretty retarded. At first the clarity I obtained was a trip in itself and it was awesome. However, it's been 5 days since I last smoked with friends, maybe 5 days before that when I stopped daily smoking, and my attention span is thrown off, I have a hard time focusing on things and being motivated with my studies. Luckily, I have only one final left and it's the easiest one I have. If you need an excuse for your friends, and you don't want to tell them the truth, you can always say you have a drug test coming up. Good luck mayne!

edit: also time perception. I hate the way time moves so fast now, but I'm pretty sure it will slow down a little once I get used to it. I actually think I was getting a little sick from it last night. On the plus side, I finished 2 of my exams blazingly fast and I felt like the smartest guy in the world because of it.
 
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It sucks but I'm gonna have to quit fairly soon.

I moved to Baltimore after I decided to get laid off from my other seasonal job early. I planned on collecting unemployment but I had an open claim in delaware and even tho it was denied last December I couldn't close it till this December. So now I can finally collect unemployment in md but I gotta refill and do all my stuff again and my debit card won't get mailed out till the 20th

So right now I'm broke and down to my last pack of cigs. After this ill be borrowing money from my sister till my unemployment comes through(for cigs). I might not even be able to buy my family presents till after Xmas because of this bullshit much less afford to smoke dank so I gotta quit, which as weird as it sounds will be a mental mindfuck.

When I moved here I had no connects yet so my sister is supposed to get me a quarter of dank from her coworkers roommate and she already gave her friend the money. It's been a month and she said he has it but she keeps procrastinating and its pissing me off. I know she wouldn't rip me off plus she's got a year clean.

I want my shit now cuz by tommorrow im about out of resin and I don't wanna quit then get my bag and have to quit again. Fuck this shit.
 
My sister that in living with is buying me cigs till I get my unemployment check. There gonna get presents but it won't be till like a week after Xmas

In getting my quarter tommorrow afternoon and after that I'm done till I can get my money situation together
 
Ah yeah, I misread sorry about that.

I would just say to embrace the life change. It sounds like it's changing by force and you don't really have a lot of choice in the matter. Therefore you can either be pissed off about it or see it as a novel experience and run with the good that comes out of it. Sit on that quarter like it's a pile of gold, only toke at night maybe a bowl or a couple of pinches, it's really all you "need." Go for regular jogs with some good tunes, that'll keep you in shape and your tolerance low so you won't need as much to get off. If I were unemployed the biggest enemy I could see is all the downtime that comes from it. Stay busy- read books, look for a new job, paint stuff, do any hobby you enjoyed as a kid and get really good at it etc...
 
Smoked weed almost every day since university started. Almost ruined it for myself I think, will have to cut down significantly after christmas. Felt like a routine rather than a treat to look forward to by the end.
 
I have become extremely demotivated from the weed again. I lost my job, and although I wasn't dealt the best hand of cards by the people I worked for, and was untrained / treated like shit by them, I most likely would have been able to put if with that crap a bit longer, if I wasn't stoned 24/7. I would vape whole grams at a time before work, and in hindsight, it was really affecting my initiative and social skills. I just needed to do it because otherwise all I would think about was dope and I would get so extremely anxious about walking out that door in the morning without being properly blitzed. It was really a wakeup call though, that I need to get clean. I feel like my addiction deludes me sometimes, and that I can't see how incredibly strongly it is destroying my brain until I get off it. In fact, stoned me seems to think this shit is even doing me good. Relaxing stuff. Pffft. It adds so much unnecessary stress to my life. My body feels so dirty from it too, I've gone through about a half pound since August. It really isn't good for the heart, brain, or liver when you smoke all day like this. Not to mention lungs, but I am more concerned about how my heart is constantly working in overdrive from being so high, and stressing out due to all the anxiety and paranoia. It has probably taken years off my life... insanity. All because I seem to want to be a burnout so bad, even though I've been trying to stop for years. I feel like a disgusting, filthy junkie to be honest.

Here come the cravings, and lack of self confidence over my decision to quit as there is always a part of me who resists change when I could so easily get baked right now. I have been here before, and it is worth the bullshit to get through to the other side. Cold turkey, obviously, because as soon as I smoke once I turn into that guy who loves weed again. I just booked a flight to go travelling the world in a few weeks. I've never done much travelling before, and I'm super excited to be in tropical paradise for the winter months. I will be having so much fun, that I won't be thinking about pot, and by the time I get home my system will be all cleaned out.

The only reason I haven't quit yet, is because I decided to be baked out of my mind while getting off the harder stuff. Getting off the hard shit was priority. In the past year of my life, I have completely phased out alcohol, cocaine, and Mdma abuse, and while I have been getting used to this lack of a "party" aspect to my life, and also while recovering from hard drug related physical damage, I have decided to at least let myself be baked.

The heavier you smoke, the tougher it is to stop. It's not like I am missing out on just a joint at the end of the day. Even that would probably be tough. I'm always smoking weed, it never stops even when I'm already high all I want to do is smoke more pot. I am attempting to change my entire lifestyle to become a much healthier man. It will be one of the toughest things to accomplish in my whole life.

When I stop smoking, even for just a few hours, torture and agony ensue. The depression, restlessness, and burnout that hits me is completely debilitating, and I often consider ending my life. I become a hateful monster, whereas normally I'm just a chill stoner. Screaming fits and outbursts are typical, as well as insomnia, sweating buckets, puking up any food I eat, and I am no longer comfortable in my own skin. I don't feel normal for about a month, and I don't think the cravings for more and more dope ever really go away completely. I've quit for 3 months before and I know all this shit eventually subsides. I am in fact a sane person, with a severe drug addiction is all.
 
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11 days in and still going strong.

I feel like the worst is behind me. One of the shittyest parts is that I started accutane recently, which is tough on your liver, so im not supposed to drink either. Also, my shoulder and knee have been bothering me recently and keeping me out of the gym, which is also incredibly frustrating for me. These factors have made quitting twice as hard for me.

Im determined to make it this time though. In fact, I have no doubt that I will succeed. I love weed, but ive had my fun with it and it is unhealthy for me in too many ways. Ill check back in here semi-regularly. Almost all of my friends smoke weed so I dont really have much of an outlet to talk about my struggles.
 
My last 5 or 6 bags have been my "last one". I want to quit I know weed is detrimental for me after abusing it for so long, After 12 years of smoking I feel like a fucking mess within the first couple days and cave. I only have like a gram left (a nights worth).. I need to man up and make this the end of it and just deal with the withdrawal. I'm on vacaction from school now too so this is really the perfect time.
 
I've smoked 3 times in 3 days, all resin.

My sister is still supposed to get my bag but it hasn't happened yet. 2 out of the last 3 days I haven't been to sleep before 5am. I'm not as irritated as I thought I would be. It's not gonna be easy but won't be as hard as I thought it would be.

I'm finally getting my unemployment soon but ill spend that on Xmas and with the next 3 checks or do I gotta pay $200 rent, ce phone, and buy a couple Xmas presents

When I finally get my quarter imma try to cut down and make it last but after its gone ill have to take a short break till I get my money situation together. I'm not looking forward to it but I think it will be a good change

For the most part (minus lack of appetite, chain smoking cigs, no sleep) its all in your head

Good luck guys
 
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I have become extremely demotivated from the weed again. I lost my job, and although I wasn't dealt the best hand of cards by the people I worked for, and was untrained / treated like shit by them, I most likely would have been able to put if with that crap a bit longer, if I wasn't stoned 24/7. I would vape whole grams at a time before work, and in hindsight, it was really affecting my initiative and social skills. I just needed to do it because otherwise all I would think about was dope and I would get so extremely anxious about walking out that door in the morning without being properly blitzed. It was really a wakeup call though, that I need to get clean. I feel like my addiction deludes me sometimes, and that I can't see how incredibly strongly it is destroying my brain until I get off it. In fact, stoned me seems to think this shit is even doing me good. Relaxing stuff. Pffft. It adds so much unnecessary stress to my life. My body feels so dirty from it too, I've gone through about a half pound since August. It really isn't good for the heart, brain, or liver when you smoke all day like this. Not to mention lungs, but I am more concerned about how my heart is constantly working in overdrive from being so high, and stressing out due to all the anxiety and paranoia. It has probably taken years off my life... insanity. All because I seem to want to be a burnout so bad, even though I've been trying to stop for years. I feel like a disgusting, filthy junkie to be honest.

Here come the cravings, and lack of self confidence over my decision to quit as there is always a part of me who resists change when I could so easily get baked right now. I have been here before, and it is worth the bullshit to get through to the other side. Cold turkey, obviously, because as soon as I smoke once I turn into that guy who loves weed again. I just booked a flight to go travelling the world in a few weeks. I've never done much travelling before, and I'm super excited to be in tropical paradise for the winter months. I will be having so much fun, that I won't be thinking about pot, and by the time I get home my system will be all cleaned out.

The only reason I haven't quit yet, is because I decided to be baked out of my mind while getting off the harder stuff. Getting off the hard shit was priority. In the past year of my life, I have completely phased out alcohol, cocaine, and Mdma abuse, and while I have been getting used to this lack of a "party" aspect to my life, and also while recovering from hard drug related physical damage, I have decided to at least let myself be baked.

The heavier you smoke, the tougher it is to stop. It's not like I am missing out on just a joint at the end of the day. Even that would probably be tough. I'm always smoking weed, it never stops even when I'm already high all I want to do is smoke more pot. I am attempting to change my entire lifestyle to become a much healthier man. It will be one of the toughest things to accomplish in my whole life.

When I stop smoking, even for just a few hours, torture and agony ensue. The depression, restlessness, and burnout that hits me is completely debilitating, and I often consider ending my life. I become a hateful monster, whereas normally I'm just a chill stoner. Screaming fits and outbursts are typical, as well as insomnia, sweating buckets, puking up any food I eat, and I am no longer comfortable in my own skin. I don't feel normal for about a month, and I don't think the cravings for more and more dope ever really go away completely. I've quit for 3 months before and I know all this shit eventually subsides. I am in fact a sane person, with a severe drug addiction is all.
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Damn dude, I feel bad for you...seriously. I've pretty much toked daily for 43 yrs...but I've gone a few days without even feeling like hittin' the bong & have had 0 side-effects. I eat well...sleep just fine...but I don't wake & bake. I save my weed for 8-9 p.m. & only need a few hits for maximum altitude.
I dunno...I guess we all have different metabolisms & the same way I can't drink booze anymore (it was sort of a hobby for 25+ yrs) would be the parallel to the way you can't toke anymore. I got to the point with alcohol where my hangovers were lasting longer than my booze buzz...so I quit. That & cigs...both history.
 
This is really unfortunate. My withdrawal has turned out to be way worse than I thought it would be. I have beaten my way through cannabis withdrawal once previously, and it was 10 days or so of torture. After that, I thought never again would I ever put myself through that. I stayed clean for a short period of time, feeling great, before relapsing into heavy use. Now here I am, and I've been using so much pot lately that I have never had withdrawal this bad in my life.

I wasn't expecting this at all. It is so bad that I am finding myself having to taper off, because otherwise there is too much of a shock to my system and I am borderline psychotic. It totally makes sense though, because I have been using 3.5 grams a day for 6 months non stop. I had great disregard for the law of drug abuse, and lately I have realized that I quite simply smoked myself retarded again.

My symptoms include the following:

Depression; anxiety; really bad fatigue; irritability; moodiness; regrettable anger outbursts; gastrointestinal discomfort; total lack of appetite; insomnia; panic attacks

Surprisingly, there is a distinct lack of cravings. I am sick of weed, because I know that I smoked myself retarded again and that sucks.

I also get fucked up vivid nightmares. The dreaming process seems to be particularly healing however.

Upon the vaporization of dank sativa dope, cessation of all symptoms occurs after a couple minutes, and I am able to smile.

I am anti life, depressed as fuck, and there is only so much I can take of this sobriety crap. I know darn well, that I am just lowering my tolerance so that I can get more stoned. Resistance is futile, because as I wake up from my stoned slumber, I come to the understanding that I am a timid, introverted, ugly loser who everyone hates especially girls who I am invisible to - I'm so far gone from reality compared to my fellow humans that I am a misfit - with enough intelligence that I have a whole lot of potential but I end up being useless. I hate work especially. I am unwilling to throw my life away for bread and butter from an evil corporation that I think would be better off non-existant, and I am a big under performer. People just seem like robots to me, and few people speak from their hearts these days it seems. My fellow humans don't really do anything for me apart from influencing me to use hard drugs and alcohol due to my timidness and psychological problems, so I tend to keep to myself. I don't have much of a purpose to stick around this desolate wasteland of mine, except to smoke a lot of weed. Dope is one thing, that I certainly keep in touch with. But I do have a girlfriend who loves me and thank God for that, because I am not good at taking care of myself. I have a big problem with life, and until I resolve that problem I won't be able to stop smoking weed. I don't think I can ever change without quitting weed though, so I am what is known as an addict.
 
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RUN RUN RUN!!!!!!!!!! Don't think about it just do it!!! Exercise has been shown numerous times to alleviate most if not all of the symptoms that you listed.

I went through a similar thing as well, it was all fine until I started being dissociated with my sense of time, which happened later than I expected thus creating a sense of shock. My manager at work came across some "Mountain Wizard" and it was too beautiful to pass up, school's over and I thought what the hell. The first time I smoked it was with him and it was a full blown trip, a little too overwhelming for not smoking for 2-3 weeks, then I quickly fell back into the slump. Maybe 2-3 nights it was awesome, and then one day I waked and baked and blablabla...... but I'm out now and visiting my parents for 4 days so I can't smoke, which leads to another tip- if you really want to not smoke at all, then find situations where you feel that you can't. Hit up some old friends you know don't smoke and start hanging out with them, visit parents/kids, etc...

and watch this video every time you feel you might fail your goal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ixRqOauq4 (every time!!)
 
Sorry to hear that rave..... hmu if you ever want to talk about it.

I have made it through the worst of the withdraws and don't even think about it anymore. Its really nice actually, I thought life would be kinda boring without pot but I feel fantastic.

Im seeing a beautiful new girl, going into my last semester at university, going on a sick vacation soon, about to spend the holidays with my family, got a promotion at work where ill be doing something I enjoy rather than something I hate.... things are looking up.

If anyone reading this ever wants to talk about quitting pot feel free to PM me. I was an everyday user for 7 years a month ago and now im on the road to sobriety and never looking back. The first few weeks really are the hard part and after that it gets much easier. To me the trick was to be motivated to quit and to STAY BUSY, do not give yourself lazy time where you dont have anything to do, that is the time where the temptation creeps in and it becomes really easy to relapse.

Good luck everyone. I more than likely wont be posting in this thread anymore.

Heres a song that helped me quit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsMEogvaNi0
 
How is everyone doing staying sober? I ran out of weed today so im quitting, not for that reason but it was just good timing.
 
Taking a break for at least a month, reason is I just want a break-clear mind.....need to get shit together to be independent and have a good job/trade. been about 3 days with no ganja I think?....been having the craziest dreams lol. then if I do blaze again after a month break I know It will be soooo much more crazier high off of one hit. I'll see what happens I guess.
 
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