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trancefreak

trancefreak

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I am looking for a little support as I've recently made the decision to stop smoking weed.
Ive been a daily smoker of pot since I was 18, I'm now 24. So its become a way of life as you can imagine.
But recently, as ive mentioned in other posts in CD, the paranoia and anxiety have been building.
Its definitely a psychological dependence, but ive got to stop before I fuck up my life completely.
I live in adelaide and there arent many drug rehab programs here and ive no family or friends who really get how hard this feels- in the past ive used that as an excuse to keep lighting the bong.. but i dont want to do that anymore.
People have said, "just stop cold turkey and not smoke weed" but its not that easy, coming from someone who has used pot to escape issues regularly for a long time.

Id love to hear from any other ex-pot smokers who have successfully kicked the habit. how did you do it? what did you do as a substitute? do you miss it?
Cheers :)
 
trancefreak said:
Id love to hear from any other ex-pot smokers who have successfully kicked the habit. how did you do it? what did you do as a substitute? do you miss it?
Cheers :)
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For me, I had to find something that made me feel like I was doing something/heading somewhere with my life before I had enough motivation to quit smoking pot (I really quit everything except alcohol-- I even stopped taking regular OTC medicine for allergies and headaches-- but weed was my biggest issue).

What's funny about that is I'm on probation, and a part of that probation was to complete a 3-month substance abuse class. I enrolled 4/21/08. Kept smoking until maybe late-May '09. I didn't stop smoking until I re-enrolled in school and figured out what I want to study and follow a career in. Before making that decision I kind of felt like my life was at a point where I was in a tunnel with no light showing before or behind me (no sense of where I started or where I was going), so it didn't matter what happened to me legally because I already felt imprisoned in a different sense... so I figured fuck it, why not keep smoking?

But yeah, a big key to me cutting bud out of my life was finding, not necessarily a purpose, but something to build towards and look forward to every day other than getting high.



I substituted exercise, new sober friends for old non-sober friends, aquaria/cichlid-breeding, and basically just maintaining sobriety for my weed habit. If it's as hard as it is for you as it was for me, just make staying sober your new addiction. No matter what kind of arguments you come up with to "take one hit off that J being passed around you," always remember that you're staying sober. I've found that if your heart's really set on changing your life then that little mantra is the most helpful thing you've got going for you, and if your heart's not into it then it was just a matter of time before you used again and you might as well not have wasted your time lying to yourself in the first place.




The hardest times after you quit smoking pot daily are the first 1-2 weeks after you stop, and when you hang around the friends and people that you used to consider smoking buddies. The first one can be hell on earth for someone not used to a sober life, but it only lasts a week and a few days and you should balance yourself back out.

The second will happen to you time-and-time-again unless you completely change your group of friends. If you put yourself in situations with them where you're around pot, it's going to be a lot more difficult to change your habits but it's still manageable.



It's mind-over-matter, brutha. Whenever you get the urge, just remind yourself that you're sober now. Not that you're trying to be sober, but that you are sober and indulging even a little bit can throw you right back to square 1. Good luck. :)


[Edit: By the way, I'm back to smoking again. I finished my classes July 28th and started smoking again like 2 days after. But that 3-month break felt like years to me.... It was a trip unto itself, and I amazed myself every day of it when I would have arguments with myself to try and rationalize smoking "just a little bit" and I actively chose not to. I feel like if I can cut something that was the focal point of my life out, even for a relatively short period of time, then anybody can. Like I said, it's just mind-over-matter.]
 
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I quit after daily smoking for a year. If you really want to, you can, just do something else like riding a bike or some shit every time you think "I really want a joint".
 
Hi TranceFreak, I have been using cannabis off and on since I was about 18, I'm 21 now. I have had to quit weed on various occasions, for varying lengths of time. The last time that I quit was about 2 weeks ago when I lost my job. I stopped smoking in order to be able to pass a pre-employment drug test. I also had to quit a year long poppy tea habit at the same time, and that made quitting weed even harder because I really wanted to smoke a little to calm the withdrawals.

Anyway, I have no intention of remaining 100% sober but the time spent off from weed seems pretty important if you have been smoking it for a while and I usually notice that I feel more alert and some of the "magic" returns to my life. I was getting occasional bouts of anxiety when I would smoke frequently. The way that I managed this was to reduce my intake drastically and take breaks from smoking weed. Sorry if you are 100% committed to quitting because then I may not be much help, but you might want to consider a "vacation" to see if the effects of the cannabis improve for you. If they don't, then it is probably a good idea to quit.

Good luck in whatever you decide!

*Edit* - I think that the hardest part is finding activities to keep you from feeling bored and wanting to smoke/ do drugs. These last 2 weeks when I simultaneously quit weed and poppy tea have been the most boring (not to mention stressful while I was frantically searching for a new job). It wasn't necessarily because of withdrawals from either of them, they were over with pretty soon. The hard part was filling that gaping hole left when there is nothing much to look forward to in the day. You have got to find something that you are passionate about, or multiple hobbies to keep you busy.
 
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Ive been smoking daily for 5 years. There was a good time where id go through 3 Oz in 2 weeks. The last year or 2 10g a week has been my sweet spot. The last 3 weeks i cut that down to 1/8 a week. Its 100x easier than i ever expected. I guess im just getting bored of it. I dont get bunk shtuff its just that tolerance for me seems to be such a huge thing compared to anyone ive met or heard of. I might aswell smoke wood almost(not really), and im going to give up smoking all together and just cook myshit so i can actually take in enough cannabinoids at once to feelem for more than 5mins. If anyone asked me what being high on weed was like all id be able to say is "it kills my stress and relaxes me" but im not high...after 5mins.

So i guess my point is if ya got a reason its a cakewalk but if your just quitting for the sake of quitting then your gonna have to fight yourself not the weed.
 
i smoked every day for years and i quit for a month now its been easy cuz i quit smoking 4 probation
 
Good advice all around. One thing I would say is watch the crowd you run with, they will have a big influence on you.
 
thats true damien. if i ever decide to quit smoking weed it would be hard cus Everysingle one of my friends smoke. and its not like i can just drop my boys. but it would take alot of selfdicipline and im sure i can do it, i have cut down to smoking like 2-3 times a week and it seems to have helped out alot. i have much more energy,hardly any depression/anxiety, and i just feel better all around. smoking everyday just becomes a bad habit and after a while gets tiring and very expensive! idk how some of my friends do it.
 
Find friends who don't like to smoke herb and it will make the quitting a lot easier
 
Its all in your head....

You might lose a bit of weight, try to eat healthy, until you get into the habit of not having the munchies your probably not going to be as hungry or eat as regularly....

It does sort of become a habit, you just get so used to smoking every day that when you just stop your like "what do i do now?".....

Find some things to keep yourself occupied, read books, play video games, work out, go for a walk or a drive, see a movie, go to an amusement park.....

Pot gets expensive, find other things to do with your time.... Try not to be around people while they are smoking weed, or baked. Find new friends until you get out of the habit enough to just pass on a bowl.


On another note, i suggest you not ever get into any of the far more addictive narcotics, if you think quitting weed is hard, heroin/oxy withdrawal would probably make you want to kill yourself.

Im trying to quit smoking cigarettes with the nicotine patch, its been about 4 or 5 days since i smoked weed going from an everyday smoker to none...
 
I always suffer really bad irritability, but you will feel so much better after a few days. but beware of the 2nd week blues....the first week is cool, because living without the weed is like a new high, so fresh and clear. but after the first week, you're like....well, what's next? I want something more...just find a new hobby, as it were.
 
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I always suffer really bad irritability, but you will feel so much better after a few days. but beware of the 2nd week blues....the first week is cool, because living without the weed is like a new high, so fresh and clear. but after the first week, you're like....well, what's next? I want something more...just find a new hobby, as it were.
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It's different for me, I find the first few days are a bitch and then it gets better and better.

There's ups and downs but once you get over it then it is awesome.
 
Every so often I decide to stop smoking for a while. It's hard because there is a certain amount of psychological addiction to combat but I'm fairly good at not buying any. It's something I still really enjoy though, which isn't helpful.
If you're determined you'll be able to kick the habit, good luck.
 
Pretty easy to quit if you find another activity to occupy your time. First week is the hardest.
 
yeah it is all pretty much self determination you have to want to quit for it to be easy. i stopped smoking cigarettes after 4 years of smoking cold turkey but weed is much harder because i really dont want to stop i can barely go a day without weed lately.
 
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its mind over matter, anyone can quit anything, especially summin like weed that is not ACTUALLY addictive
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I have to disagree.

You can be very much addicted to anything psychologically.....

Many heroin addicts love the simple act of prep work before injecting, they miss the needle as much as the heroin....

Anything you enjoy can become addictive, jogging, riding a bike, certain foods, sex, and even weed; as well as the act of packing a bowl or rolling a joint....
 
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