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De-stressing without a smoke?

^ You just pegged my college lifestyle when it's crunch time... which is only a total of about 4 months per year, but hey, I agree! Thank goodness for summer.
 
When I'm really irritated, either due to being too bored, too sober, or something else entirely, I find reading a book helps me a lot. Kind of takes you out if the world for a while, but lets you drop back in whenever you like - unlike cannabis.
 
^ I'm liking this idea, i've got a big old pile of books i've yet to read. Only managed to work through the drug related ones (lol) might get to work.
 
Hope it helps! It's simple, but effective, especially I find with the more fantasy kind of books. Anything you can get really lost in anyway.
 
Has anyone quit only to start back up again? Why? What made you want to go back?

Has anyone taken a break with the intention of going back, and ended up staying sober?

Im having this deliema myself right now, and MJ is the only thing that really helped with stress..
 
Venrak said:
^ Shit , that disturbed me.

I find, for my self at least, that most things I've learned to do on one state of consciousness are often difficult to perform while in another.
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I find that I am the opposite. I actually gave a speech about driving high and its not as bad as everyone blows it up to be. I find that I can perform proficiently in different states on conscious (diff pills, weed, booze, trippy shit). I think its just cause Ive learned to function fucked up. Obviously if your blackout drunk or you took that extra hit of acid is different.

But to the OP, Ive been down this road. Its all about wasting time. Start playing video games. I have been getting into drinking games (not always drinking) such as cornhole, washers, pool, pong etc. I have always been a fan on recreational games as they are competitive and take various levels of skill.

Start playing poker online or something?

GeeMeeUpp said:
When I'm really irritated, either due to being too bored, too sober, or something else entirely, I find reading a book helps me a lot. Kind of takes you out if the world for a while, but lets you drop back in whenever you like - unlike cannabis.
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One of the only things that keep me sane is music. When my mind starts going down hill, I just blare it out with loud music. Get a descent system and you will know what I mean. I actually was reading the newspaper bored as work today and they said that listening to music helps destress you after work instead of going home all raged or something.

Get into pirating also? (Torrents-music movies porn games books etc)
 
blazelate said:
Has anyone quit only to start back up again? Why? What made you want to go back?
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One day I stopped for several months for many reasons. I finished the last month and a half of school sober. And the whole summer. My break was very pleasant. I played guitar for hours on end (try this!). I never thought I could have fun without weed or at least some kind of drug. I was wrong. One day my girlfriend broke up withme. I decided to check my stash box. I found plenty of stems with bits of weed still on it. I was amazed at my self for letting that weed sit there that long! 4 months old and it was probably 4 months old when I bought it! Of course that was when my break ended...:)
 
SehrBuenoKnop said:
One of the only things that keep me sane is music. When my mind starts going down hill, I just blare it out with loud music. Get a descent system and you will know what I mean. I actually was reading the newspaper bored as work today and they said that listening to music helps destress you after work instead of going home all raged or something.
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I would totally agree with this. However for me, only certain kinds will calm me down, or cheer me up. If I've got some proper angry metal on, that doesn't really help, but some Jimmy Eat World (or the like) usually does the job. I once managed to stop a bad HBWR trip with it (by making it better, not ending it)!
 
GeeMeeUpp said:
I would totally agree with this. However for me, only certain kinds will calm me down, or cheer me up. If I've got some proper angry metal on, that doesn't really help, but some Jimmy Eat World (or the like) usually does the job. I once managed to stop a bad HBWR trip with it (by making it better, not ending it)!
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Whats HBWR? After Watching the Men Who Stare at Goats, I dont think I can have a bad trip after listening to Boston - Its More Than a Feeling.

But the right music is key. Like when I listen to electronic/hardcore/dance/jumpstyle it just puts me in a good mood just from the fast paced music. Other times I like to chill out and listen to some Red Hot Chili Peps. Or some metal like you said when Im in an "intense" mood.
 
HBWR is Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds. They're LSA containing seeds, legally available in many countries. There's most probably a thread on here if you don't know about them. If it's just me using ambiguous acronyms I apologise.
 
like most people said just get a hobbie and force yourself to be completely aware of your surroundings. When you're high its like that level of conciousness is in your fucking face but when sober you have to look for it. dunno if that makes sense, but its all about finding things you enjoy and taking pride in the things you accomplish. I personally only experience 'withdrawl' from hemp when I have nothing to do and nowhere to be. So I garden, I have pets that need attention, friends who rely on me, whatever. I am a firm believer that what we call cannibus withdrawl is purely psycological, the result of our experiencing something in a certain way and liking it and not getting the same level of enjoyment when experienced in another way. Someone mentioned they like watching tv while stoned but when not its just boring. Maybe thats not your or weeds fault, but the fact that tv just sucks anyway, but you can find something worthwhile in it when stoned because you can look at it in a different way than the creator (or maybe the same way?)

Well, just my 2c but I gotta add, the more you think about how much better life was when you were stoned the harder its going to be for you to realize just how great life is no matter what.
 
^It's not so much a case of how great life is when stoned, it's more, life sucks to the point that being stoned and gouching out in front of the xbox all day is the best thing you've got planned.

Don't worry though guys, i'm working on it.
 
I know what your sayin bro, but what I am saying is basically stop and smell the roses. They smell good stoned or not stoned.

And reprioritize. If you are unhappy with your life either change it or reasses your goals. Maybe if you really think about it you want something totally different than what you thought orginially.
 
^ It's been a rough couple weeks, failed my course at college and broke up with the woman put a lot of strain on me.

But, shit i'm only 19 and I realise now is the time for change, i've got the rest of my life to enjoy the high from weed, why not enjoy my youth first.

Cheers for all the helpful words bros, means a lot. :)
 
I will be joining this group as the money for weed has run out.
Honestly I'm nervous.
I quit taking a lot of the meds I needed cause weed helped more...
 
Newbierock said:
But, shit i'm only 19 and I realise now is the time for change, i've got the rest of my life to enjoy the high from weed, why not enjoy my youth first.
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Don't beat yourself up in the process. Just stay focused. I wouldn't try to totally quit weed but just to find some way to moderate. I am going to give some controversial advice. Avoid whatever hobbies you do stoned (maybe video games?)... Try new hobbies such as paintball or something else exciting.
 
I'm not planning on quitting entirely, but I need some time off to start with. Anxiety has been creeping into my highs and sometimes if I decide the days a write off and smoke in the morning, it gets to the point of not answering the phone in the evening.

My big game plan is a few weeks away at least, and then just do it with friends instead of every night. Man I should stop spamming this forum =/
 
hah yeah bro I quit bl cold turkey when I took a break from drugs, recently came back and now I only smoke weed and ocasionally (like twice a year maybe) take shrooms or lucy.

I agree with the new hobbies... Like I have my weed hobbies and my regular hobbies. I play video games stoned but cant for the life of me enjoy them sober. I love working in the yard but fuck me silly if I am picking up a shovel or hedge clippers baked. I like to cook stoned but not sober; actually its kinda funny, I eat way healthier when I smoke cause I get enjoyment out of fixing a nutritious meal, but I'll just eat crap when I'm not. I read all the time but even that varies, like I have my stoned books and my not stoned books. I'll do my math sober but when its time to write a paper I'll blaze up.

Weed shouldnt work against your life it would work into it. It should be a positive source of enjoyment and relaxation, not a negative source of anxiety and apathy. I agree with you on taking a break, even for a couple weeks or whatever.

I do that whole 'if I smoke in the morning by the evening I wont even pick up the phone' bit also, but like I think its cool. I mean is it cause you are too anxious to answer it or you just dont want to? I like sometimes disappearing for a day. For the record cell phones cause cancer and can fuck up fetuses haha
 
^ hah them cell phones are pretty deadly! And to answer your last question, it's almost as if i'm afraid to answer. It's a mixture of not wanting to and anxiety getting in the way. Like if I answer the phone i'll be forced out into some rubbish situation I can't get away from...Idk.

First time i've ever really talked about this to an actual peson..
 
I totally get that, I just never associated it with any sort of anxiety.. Like dude if I am smoking some heavy fuckin indica my tollerance for other people's bs stories and shit is nill. So in that respect, yea... maybe the first time I smoke that day I can deal but by the end of the night I'm like dude just shut the fuck up no one cares that your penis breaks left...
 
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