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Quitting Weed

^ Good job. I'm on day 2 now (Can't remember the last time I had a break...lol).

Smoking multiple times a day is definitely not manageable for me IMO. The side effects pile up and tolerance becomes so high that you need a bong just to 'even yourself out' (But that doesn't stop the burn out later on). All good fun though...When you don't have to do anything.

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Still hanging for a smoke though.
 
I've smoked weed since I was 13 and I am now 20. Before it was only an occasional thing and I would only do it if ALL my friends were involved or if somone offered. Now, these past two years I've been an everyday toker and probably saw myself smoking for more years to come. Weed has never interefered with my personal life (I have a 3.0+ GPA at a University and I workout 4-6 times a week) and I smoked more for the reason that it made me feel realxed rather than a way to get "messed" up.

It wasnt until last week that I started to feel that smoking just wasn't the same and its something that I dont want to be doing the rest of my life. When I smoke the high feeling is definetly dulled out and once I'm off the peak of the high I just become really tired. I've had a good run smoking weed and I think its time to move on.
 
I have no advice to offer for quitting pot, for I can't seem to do it either, and I've been smoking for quite a while, daily for about 5 years straight (I'm 22). However, I just wanted to give ya some props for quitting cigs, I've been smoking for 7 years and have failed quitting twice already but planning to try again. Smoking after studying doesn't seem all too bad, honestly. If you could keep it down to only a reward when you have a big test or something like that, perhaps that's a way to cut your usage but still be able to enjoy it occasionally and not have it be a "quitting forever" thing? As I said, no advice from experience because I can't seem to do it myself, but that sounds like it might help out with your personality. Best of luck!
 
Day five off weed. Smoked a few stems because I was fiending for a buzz, but it really did nothing so...doesn't count? I dunno. I just really kinda wanna get a sack. The insomnia I had before I started smoking is still there. And believe it or not, I have just a foggy of a head while sober, just in a different way. Those are two of the biggest reasons I became an everyday toker and it's looking like I really don't need to quit, I just need to give myself a good kick in the ass and not be lazy. I don't know when I'm actually going to get a bag, but it'll probably be soon, and if it just makes me lazy and tired, I'm going to take another break and maybe consider cutting WAY back. But as of now...back to sobriety...I'm thinking weed really is the best medicine for me. I was bored, depressed, and lazy before weed. With the bud, I only get one out of three, and laziness can be overcome by willpower.

Also I've had two alcoholic beverages in the past 5 days, but that's about the extent of my drug use. Had some valerian root and a few herbs the first day just to get through it, but since then it hasn't been too bad. I don't CRAVE the weed too much at this point, I just crave sleep and weed is the only thing that really fixes my insomnia without leaving me hungover in the morning. Benadryl makes me a zombie the next morning, same with valerian root if I take enough to put me out. I've tried all sorts of herbs and OTCs and such, none work. Opiates knock my ass out, but that's really not an option right now. I have too much good in my life to throw it out the door for an opiate addiction.

Any advice Bluelight? Should I just give in and buy a bag and be happy and sleep well? Or should I try to tough it out and last a little longer without it? The only reason I quit was to support my girlfriend who has to quit for school. Well that and I don't exactly have a lot of cash, so it was convenient.
 
I want to as well. I cannot afford it anymore and I feel like I'm slipping into bad patterns. I am hoping on a few jobs to call me back, as I pretty much had to walk off my job at the end of July, for sanity's sake. So I found a lot more time on my hands, after I had cleaned up a lot... I feel like I'm right back where I started, coughing up a lung and craving all the time because i've become so damn used to being high. I realized I dipped into the wrong bin for cash and I'm out money for bills so I'm feeling pretty fucking stupid. Life has kinda kicked my butt recently so I need some inspiration to keep the days bright.

Don't wanna 'need' anything in this world. Only leads to trouble. .
 
alot of people smoke and smoke more and more till they reach omega point where they look bad and reflect on there actions and say they want to quit il tell you what that was me and i couldnt quit only beacuse of other circumstances one been im not 18 yet and cannot legally be perscribed sleeping pills :( in 2 months il be 18 and i shall try then hopefully with sleeping pills i can sleep so atfer about 2-3 weeks on that all the thc should be outta my system and i will be able to sleep with out meds or weed and the withdrawlals should have passed :) good luck my friend its mind over matter but i cannot stay up all night sweating and getting hot and cold flushes its like hell
 
The insomnia doesn't last that long imo. I found that folding to the joneses and smoking resin just hurt the healing process so avoid that. My advice is avoid caffeine before bed and sleep in the same bed at the same time consistantly every night (if you can help it) until it passes. Took me about 4 days which sounds MUCH better than 3 weeks!

AND I was able to do this without having to get drunk or otherwise substitute something for weed.
 
teenmachine said:
im not 18 yet and cannot legally be perscribed sleeping pills :( in 2 months il be 18
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I've been prescribed three different non-benzodiazapine hypnotic sleeping pills from age 16 to 17 (In America). "Because I don't have sleeping pills" is not a valid reason to not be able to quit consuming cannabis, it sounds more like a half-assed excuse. You will probably just end up noticing how good some sleeping pills feel and just get wasted on those.
 
Update on my quitting status. I quit quitting, but I've only smoked twice in the past week or so, both times over 2 days ago, and one time was a single hit. I've been craving some, but not like the cravings I had the first few days where I just spent the whole day fiending. Now I really just want it so I can sleep well at night. And maybe to balance out my mood a bit, as I take things way to seriously sober and get upset far too easily. But mostly I just want some for sleep, as nothing else I've ever taken to get to sleep has left me feeling normal the next morning.
 
I honestly can't imagine it being hard for someone to quit smoking weed. I'd say it would be hard if, like the OP, you couldn't get away from it. I mean, perhaps one should take a hiking trip or something just to separate from it. Doing some nice hard work makes you tired enough to go to sleep, believe me. I am on a "break" for lack of a better word, because I had been smoking since I was 15 and was a daily smoker. Sure, I craved it every once in a while but never NEEDED anything, really.

But then again, I was in a situation where it was inconvenient at best to smoke, but it's not like it wasn't available. Now I have a roommate who smokes constantly and I'm going to be a graduate student, so I'm really psyched that my tolerance will be down.
 
iskalla said:
i am 23 years old and i have smoked weed since i was 16 years old. i started as a weekend smoker and told myself it would always stay this way but my parents were really the only thing that stopped me from smoking every day. i moved out a year ago and live together with a friend who is also quite fond of the green. together we have been smoking about 1-5 joints a day whenever we have weed. there will sometimes be breaks of about a week but when weed is availiable we will smoke it daily.

i smoke weed after i get my work done, most of the time anyways. after smoking up we usually play computer, sometimes we go longboarding. lately i have noticed that we sometimes just smoke and then go to our own rooms and chill by ourselves. weed has become the main focus, we dont just do it to make playing computer and longboarding more fun, we do it because we want to be high for the sole reason of being high. and this is where i draw the line. this is where addiction starts for me. i am no longer choosing to smoke weed to make stuff more fun, instead i "need" to smoke it. this is not what it should be like. this is an addiction and thats not what i want.

when i quit smoking cigarettes a year ago, i didnt really find it that difficult. but weed is different, weed is something i really love. when i say to myself that i will quit smoking weed i feel myself asking in the back of my mind "really? forever? but its so fun!". when i quit smoking i was thinking "oh its going to be so awesome to be a non-smoker". it was something to look forward to.

i want to quit smoking weed on the one hand, but on the other hand i dont. i can manage my life with weed, im doing ok. i still have friends, hobbies and i do ok at university. weed helps me relax and unwind and it gives me something to look forward to on a busy day.

i know it is critical to be fully convinced of quitting, otherwise it will not work. i tried to quit smoking cigarettes countless times without really wanting to and failed. the one time i was convinced by the idea of never smoking a cigarette again it worked and quitting was easy. i want to quit weed but i am not convinced by the idea of taking weed out of my life. even as im typing this right now, i am having doubts. and with that attitude it will only be too long before i will be at my dealers house picking up some weed to reward myself for studying.

oh and by the way, for me its not the first few days/weeks that are tough, im just through a 3 week break from smoking due to a vacation. its the long run thats difficult for me. not smoking for a month is hard but doable, as long i as i know that i can reward myself with weed afterwards.
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Get real...nobody quits!
 
I've tried quitting a few times. The longest was 2 weeks. A hard 2 weeks. My kids suffered the most as i was always biting their heads off for shit.
So I quit quitting. Now i take a slow boat to china once a day only. And weed is too cheap in cape town to worry about cost.
 
For those getting bad insmonia, try a sedating antihstamine for a few nights, like dipenhydramine or doxylamine (be warned as high doses wll cause anticholinergic delerium). Have a search for OTC antihistamines that sedate; they are realtively safe when used sparingly, no addiction issues per se...Just gotta make sure you don't take too much, or react badly to anticholnergics; the CNS effects can be annoying (mainly rapd heart beat/palpitations) but that is from to high of dose.
 
Most weed-heads don't know shit about how to live a balanced life. I'm just now coming to terms with my own lack of balance and working to remedy it.

You know how you smoke a lot of weed because you just LOVE to smoke a lot of weed? Well you need to have multiple activities in your life that you feel that way about. You need hobbies that you do because you LOVE to do them, you need employment that you do because you LOVE to do it, you need exercise that you do because you LOVE to do it, etc.
 
Quiting?
If you really want to quit, make it un-available to yourself.
(i.e. delete dealers from phone book, if you have a med card.. get really high and stash it in a place that you would never look, break your piece, etc. etc.)
Cause since cannabis is only emotionally addictive, theres nothing physically binding you to the drug.... which would make it so if you cant get any, you get over it.

This worked for me when i quit for alittle while.
The first smoke-out after 2 months of nothing is the best. ;)

Insomnia?
This natural vitamin call melatonin helps insomnia by releasing sleep hormones in your brain or something like that

Every night i take it i fall asleep within 5 minutes and on some nights without it, it would take up to 2 or 3 hours for me to drift off

They sell it at any store like rite aid or walgreens, its 9$ for a bottle of 60 5mg pills
.. oh and you cannot get high off these, there vitamins.
 
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