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Do you or anyone you know seem heavily addicted to Marijuana?

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- Best ways to take your mind off weed when stopping.
- Methods to flush out/refresh your system (eg. exercise, plenty of fruit, etc.)
- Effects you get when stopping (dreams, laziness, etc.)
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I find it helps to keep your mind busy with some high-concentration activities like reading or revisiting that game you could never beat. Exercise helps a lot, especially on the first day or two when you want to be dog-tired by the end of your day so you can get some decent sleep instead of tossing and turning all night. IME the major negative effect of taking time off is being more vulnerable to random depressing thoughts, keeping your mind busy and being socially active goes a long way toward fighting that.
 
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God help you guys if you ever tried anything that is actually physically addictive, 1 weeks worth of meh sleep is what you get and thats about it. insomnia over and its barely insomnia mostly vivid dreams
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Sorry I'm not cool enough to have a heroin addiction........

It may be weed but I personally find weed to be more addicting than meth, but that is just me ymmv naturally, but don't hate.
 
Amen to that. We all have our own issues here on BL and I'm getting pretty damn tired of people who think they are the baddest bad boy at the ripe old age of 20 because they beat x,y,z addictions while living on the streets and blah blah blah. I don't care, a hard life is never a license to make other people feel like shit while they're trying to deal with their own demons. Peace, love and unity can only come with respect.
 
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I have bad pot panic at times unless im under an opiate or benzo... I have smoked for like 6 years almost everynight.. I find it difficult to stop even though i really want to be free.. I just love the insight and thoughts one can get.. Anyone else have trouble stopping or believe it is addictive? I have tried for years to quit but keep putting it off somehow. Longest i have ever been of was exactly 1 month and then fell back in.. Pot makes me do all the "bad" things i would never do normally...
 
^ Yea, you're just asking us about personal decision quandaries and psychological (more than physiological...at least in my opinion) concerns on your part related to your use of weed. It's hard to give advice there since weed taken alone is RELATIVELY harmless. I mean, shit, just think about how much shittier your addiction would be if you were drinking a quart of hard liquor every night instead of toking up on weed?

That being said, I think every pothead goes through these issues...either smoke and deal with life or stop smoking and deal with life, because life is going to happen regardless. Unless you're dead, which I sort of doubt...

You at least have to be more specific...what are these 'bad' things that you do on pot? Get the munchies and eat a lot of food? I'm being facetious, but I'm just saying...

The occasional 4-5 month break always does wonders by the way. Whenever I start smoking again after a long break, I'll go to the movies with my friends and have an absolutely phenomenal time (it can be any activity, I'm just saying)...amazing how time makes such a difference in something like toking up, but it really works. Or...just toke up every other week or so. That method is very effective, you just need to be able to keep a tight control on your use of weed, since you'll be more tempted to do it again during the week. Complete stoppage of using weed might be recommended by this point, though...just come back to it when you're ready. Or save up your money and fuck it...
 
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IME insightful thoughts and other positive things i like about weed basically stop happening when i smoke weed daily and it pretty much just turns into a sedative/intoxicant for me

you have to start dislike being numbed by weed to want to stop smoking and see what a less hazy and more clear head has to offer you, its all down to you and your ability to be in control of your own actions
 
Tonight will be it for me.. By bad things i mean it leads me to other drugs.. I know most dont agree with the gateway drug thing.. But for me it seems i lose all the care and i seek out more.. I eat terrible when i smoke, i only eat fast food after i smoke, its the only time it tastes good to me. I have been clean for exactly 1 month out of the six years ive smoked and i felt great but for some funny reason i decided to smoke just a little hit to celebrate my sobriety and bam rite back into my everynight habit within a week.. Pot is great if you use it in moderation but that is the tricky part. Do not use pot to escape life. My life is great anyway and i still find a reason to smoke to escape..
 
It gets old sometimes. The other day I was taking tokes and watching Workaholics. Adam Devine said "Yah I basically need weed for like...everything in my life." I wish that wasn't the case. I'm actually making sure I have a nug leftover for when I fill out my the rest of my FAFSA cause that shits a pain. I can't even fill out a form without weed. Kinda sad. Oh well time to work 5 hours then rush home and get loaded all over again. Later.
 
I vaped a half ounce of chronic in two weeks, but then after a three day break (no withdrawal symptoms ever mind you) a small snap got me smashed. Cannabis tolerance seems to fall off extremely rapidly. Nothing like any other drug to be certain.
 
I just vaped a small elbow in my extreme q & am pretty damm smashed after a 6 week break. Might have a nice bong hit in a minute to get proper blazed.
 
So I lasted 3 months.

I smoked again, my heart rate got completely fucking insanely out of control and I swear it was going to be my dying day.

I took so long a break that I forgot how it destroys me like that now.

I won't be smoking again. I do a lot of mushrooms and acid now, which does not affect me anything remotely like that
 
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About to start up a much needed tolerance break. Wish me luck my life sucks with out weed. :(

The temptation usually gets me early on. If I could just make it to like day 3 without token.

All for a new job I'm sick of workin minimum wage. Maybe ill be able to actually get blazed after. I'm sure its for the better.
 
I have smoked cannabis for many multi-month daily streaks, going over 10 years with only about 3 max spend not on the substance, due to heroin addiction financial problems. Quitting marijuana can I guess produce some negative effects, but I feel they are all easily combated, and I ultimately think it's relatively easy (Discounting legit medical users).

After at least 1.3 years of smoking wax, eating edibles, and then smoking 1-2 grams of top shelf flowers all in the span of a day quitting was pretty simple. Lack of appetite (causes nutrition problems when indulged), boredom and trouble sleeping. None above the level I would consider moderate.

For trouble sleeping and mild depression you could try exercise to rebuild endorphins while hopefully wearing you out. Sleeping pills work amazing if you are capable of not abusing them. If you want something a little more mild Valerian Root and Melatonin, along with Diphenhydramine.

Appetite stimulation is the hardest symptom to combat--as no greater appetite enhancer than cannabis has ever existed, coming up with solutions was tough. In the past Ginger Beer (non alcoholic, the real stuff made with actual ginger, real Ginger Ale seems to be interchangeable) has worked wonders. Coca-Cola also frequently seems to help. Plus when not interested in food but forced with the necessity of eating my best bet was to order/prepare a dish I love, a dish I could eat anytime.

And keep in mind these symptoms tend to be extremely manageable and don't last longer than a month or so, and whenever you're feeling shitty because you can't smoke that bowl (and I appreciate how shitty that situation is) compare yourself to someone giving up a crack or meth addiction, or better yet an Alcohol, Benzo, Heroin or Oxy addiction, and worse some combination of speedball, where you're getting into that ever so dangerous poly-addiction zone.

Yes giving up weed is unpleasant, but I'm going to keep smoking, vaping, or eating weed until quitting is imposed upon me by some external force (Job, Govt, etc). And should the day come that I have to put down the nugs I'll feel sad, but I'll know they're still there waiting for me; growing ever more potent. All that rambling to say I'm certainly not afraid of any "weed withdrawals". Maybe it's possible if the person experiencing the "withdrawals" was smoking an avg of an 8th a day, along with edibles, and had never tried or experienced stimulants, opiates, benzos, etc
 
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I am going on 6 weeks at this point, and I'm really fiending for a hit. It's all I can think about at times. I had a miserable withdrawal but I'm recovering nicely. Now that I'm feeling pretty decent, I just want to get high again. My goal is to stay off it as long as possible, because I would like to go back to the days where I could get high without craving it after. That way I won't end up a habitual user again. I smoke weed to get high, and also because it is meditation for me, and I do not have a medicinal use for it but it is much better to smoke weed moderately for these purposes instead of all day long. With habitual use I lose the euphoric and meditative aspects of the high, and also get horrible withdrawal symptoms. I just know if I smoked any time soon it would too early to accomplish this, and I would like to stay sober for at least a year to make up for my history of excessive consumption. I love pot though and it is rediculously tough to stay away from it. I have never made it this far before, and I only hope that I don't cave as the temptation is something fierce.
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Keep going man, don't give in. Don't smoke. Remember how destructive it is for you. btw, how are you feeling?
 
Thanks man I'm at day 42 today, and at this point I have good days and bad days. I'm still getting panic attacks, but I've got some medication for when that happens and it isn't every day anymore. So I am no longer suffering much and I am no longer worried about having done permanent damage to myself, I think that this recovery process is going to last at least 3 - 4 months however. I've been having such bad anxiety that it has been manifesting physically, so for a while I was worried I had actually done some damage but I've recognized it's just slowly diminishing anxiety now.

I certainly don't hate on the weed, like I do on the alcohol when I think of my history with it. It helped open up my mind before the dependency and all, which I probably could have avoided if I had been more aware of the possibilities. In hindsight I overdid it like crazy this year, with the dabbing and bong rips. I like to think that I'd be able to enjoy a little weed 2 years down the road, because I find the meditative aspect to be valuable when it's used maybe once in 2 weeks, but perhaps I'd be better off sticking to the mushrooms. They never did me any harm.
 
At least you're having some good days along with the bad. With every substance, coming off a "bender" (for lack of a better word) takes some time, a lot more time than most people expect. As I'm sure you know, the good days are going to start outnumbering the bad days more and more. I definitely wouldn't focus on if you've done any permanent brain damage, you cannot accurately judge that, and dwelling on it will only make your anxiety worse. Who knows what will be going on 2 years from now, but I would recommend focusing on making it to day 43, then 44.

You sound good man.
 
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