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How are you when your not high?

When I'm not high I feel clear headed. But I do get bored very easily. Sometimes I think about weed constantly when I don't have it. But right now I have some and haven't smoked all day yet (its about 5 30 pm here), compared to smoking like 7 bowls a day.
 
I can go as long as i want without smoking..... I haven't smoked in a week and a half (was a daily smoker for atleast 4 months, and atleast 3 times a week for a few years) and my bud is literally in the drawer next to me. I feel like always being high not only makes regular life seem boring, it makes being high feel boring too.
 
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I only crave it when I'm at home and have nothing better to do. If my routine is broken up for some reason, like because I'm traveling, I don't miss smoking at all.
 
chupanibre said:
I feel like I can see all the bullshit in the world when I'm high and tend to get less social but I'm totally okay with it. When I'm not high I desire to be more social and stop looking at all the negative aspects of society which can be enjoyable at times, but then I'll catch myself being a total fake ass one day trying to fit in and realize it's time to get high again to aid in putting shit back in perspective.

But at this point I'm only smoking once or twice a week or so and I think it's a good balance of being able to put up with all the bullshit in the world but yet still see it and keep certain things in mind.
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So true.
Well, like everybody else basically, when I'm not high, I want to be.
I'm trying to cut down on smoking just for tolerance, money matters.
So I'll usually have my first smoke o' the day pretty late into the day. Maybe around 4 or 5, and go from there.
It's the days that I get up at 10 or 11 and smoke throughout the day that fuck me over.
By 6 or 7, you feel lazy and that weed nap comin' on...not like I don't mind too much ;)
 
If I don't smoke some bud I'll shrivel up and die like a beautiful flower without water.
 
irritated...difficult

therefore thinking about getting high

but im really good at conserving stuff
 
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When I'm not high I'm depressed (like I mean I have depression but not life effecting only some days). I also have anxiety but I feel that when I'm not on drugs I'm not taking my prescription pills. Like I mean I believe I have an undiagnosed disorder or something of some sort so when I'm high I'm actually normal. Yet pretty much I'm the same person as when I'm high or sober. It's just if I'm high I'm kind of like go with the flow and a lot more talkative. When I'm sober I get mad more easily at things but I keep it bottled up but when I'm high I dont give a fuck.
 
Weed is strictly recreational for me. I only smoke at night. During the few times of the month that I do smoke some green, I usually hang out with some friends or smoke outside and then watch TV and unwind. I CANNOT function normally under the influence. I get way too paranoid and I can't think clearly. This is what separates weed from addictive drugs. Having been an opiate addict for almost a decade (and currently on Suboxone maintenance), I can surely tell the difference between weed and addiction. I think and crave opiates all day, everyday. Weed? I'll pick it up once in a while and put it right back down. It's always "nice" to have, but I don't NEED it.
 
It's tough for me to go from multiple sessions a day to being dry (or just deciding to take a break to reset tolerance/save money/etc.). I need entertaining distractions to keep me from sitting around wishing I could get high. If I have weed available to me but for whatever reason want to abstain from smoking it, it's really hard to muster up the willpower. I usually try to do something fun and social; sitting alone and bored in my room makes the cravings almost unbearable, but if I'm out having a good time I can forget about it.

I have really bad insomnia all the time, but it's definitely much worse without weed. It's not uncommon for me to miss a night of sleep either right away when stopping or after a day or two, just because I'm too wired to sleep. I have trouble eating on a regular schedule, too; I'll forget about food unless there's something really fucking delicious around, and I won't realize I'm hungry until my blood sugar is off and I start feeling shitty and cranky. Come to think of it, this probably contributes a lot to how bad my other symptoms are.

I was diagnosed ADHD as a child. I don't think I ever took any medication for it, and while I was a slacker and had trouble focusing in school, I did well enough to graduate and go to a good college. I started smoking weed around senior year of HS, and I think it reallllly helped my ADD-like symptoms going into college. I still had 'senioritis' and it got me in tought spots here and there, but when I had a paper to write or studying to do and my brain wanted to procrastinate, I could smoke up and force myself to focus. I definitely feel more ADD-ish when I cut myself off from ganja. I become hyperactive, with shallow attention jumping from activity to activity and topic to topic. It's really hard to focus deeply on one activity, task, train of thought, etc. I probably need to talk to someone about getting a script rather than self-medicating with pot, but that's a topic for another time and place.

Basically, I'm a little bit of a mess when I cut off the multiple-times-a-day smoking cold turkey. I expect to be more or less useless due to ADD and insomnia for a couple days, then at somewhat diminished capacity and more irritable mood from then until I start smoking again. I think this is less a matter of weed producing withdrawal effects, though, and more a matter of things I've been self-medicating with weed that once again rear their ugly heads when I take away the THC. I've had and overcome hardcore physical withdrawals - nicotine, benzos and cocaine - and the 'withdrawals' I get from weed are very different and less severe, but in some ways harder to deal with as well. With those other chemicals, breaking the addiction felt like being sick for a while - my body was being an asshole, but my mental state didn't really change much aside from being in a grumpy mood due to the physical symptoms. With weed, the withdrawal has never left me curled over a toilet bowl or aching in every muscle, but the psychological effects add up to make me feel very much not myself. When I was kicking my physical addictions, I could focus just fine on things I normally enjoy, like TV shows and video games; it was just about overcoming the physical sensations of suckery. With weed, the symptoms are more minor but they are much harder to ignore or suppress.
 
I'm pretty happy sober as far as mood goes. I think about different things high though in a different way though which makes it fun. I can usually focus on one task better too.
 
I haven't smoked in about 5 weeks because I am on a break, and I think about and crave it constantly.
My friend said I would stop wanting it so bad over time, but that's not the case.
 
honestly all jokes aside ... i can hold off smoking all day but i NEED that shit to eat dinner and sleep .. i dont even do it to get high per say anymore but it really opens up my apatite and it lets me sleep well.

it actually feels good to not smoke during the day and be on point but at night when the day is done i shall smoke, cook up a nice dinner, and K/O.

solistus said:
It's tough for me to go from multiple sessions a day to being dry (or just deciding to take a break to reset tolerance/save money/etc.). I need entertaining distractions to keep me from sitting around wishing I could get high. If I have weed available to me but for whatever reason want to abstain from smoking it, it's really hard to muster up the willpower. I usually try to do something fun and social; sitting alone and bored in my room makes the cravings almost unbearable, but if I'm out having a good time I can forget about it.

I have really bad insomnia all the time, but it's definitely much worse without weed. It's not uncommon for me to miss a night of sleep either right away when stopping or after a day or two, just because I'm too wired to sleep. I have trouble eating on a regular schedule, too; I'll forget about food unless there's something really fucking delicious around, and I won't realize I'm hungry until my blood sugar is off and I start feeling shitty and cranky. Come to think of it, this probably contributes a lot to how bad my other symptoms are.

I was diagnosed ADHD as a child. I don't think I ever took any medication for it, and while I was a slacker and had trouble focusing in school, I did well enough to graduate and go to a good college. I started smoking weed around senior year of HS, and I think it reallllly helped my ADD-like symptoms going into college. I still had 'senioritis' and it got me in tought spots here and there, but when I had a paper to write or studying to do and my brain wanted to procrastinate, I could smoke up and force myself to focus. I definitely feel more ADD-ish when I cut myself off from ganja. I become hyperactive, with shallow attention jumping from activity to activity and topic to topic. It's really hard to focus deeply on one activity, task, train of thought, etc. I probably need to talk to someone about getting a script rather than self-medicating with pot, but that's a topic for another time and place.

Basically, I'm a little bit of a mess when I cut off the multiple-times-a-day smoking cold turkey. I expect to be more or less useless due to ADD and insomnia for a couple days, then at somewhat diminished capacity and more irritable mood from then until I start smoking again. I think this is less a matter of weed producing withdrawal effects, though, and more a matter of things I've been self-medicating with weed that once again rear their ugly heads when I take away the THC. I've had and overcome hardcore physical withdrawals - nicotine, benzos and cocaine - and the 'withdrawals' I get from weed are very different and less severe, but in some ways harder to deal with as well. With those other chemicals, breaking the addiction felt like being sick for a while - my body was being an asshole, but my mental state didn't really change much aside from being in a grumpy mood due to the physical symptoms. With weed, the withdrawal has never left me curled over a toilet bowl or aching in every muscle, but the psychological effects add up to make me feel very much not myself. When I was kicking my physical addictions, I could focus just fine on things I normally enjoy, like TV shows and video games; it was just about overcoming the physical sensations of suckery. With weed, the symptoms are more minor but they are much harder to ignore or suppress.
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hey if smoking makes you better by all mean go ahead , you shouldnt have to explain your reason it just is. better high then restless and moody .. hey some ppl need prescription for all these symptoms you've just described but if smoking a simple plant can help you subside all of these thing , better then taking a million pills ehh :)
 
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I don't smoke regularly anyway but on the rare occasion that I smoke for a few days straight and then stop, for a couple of days I find myself really wanting to get high, but then after that I pretty much forget about it.

To those who said they get anxious/depressed without weed, were you anxious/depressed before you started smoking or did it only happen once you started smoking and then stopped?
 
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