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[MEGA] Cannabis Addiction & Withdrawal

I believe I am. It's the addictive personality finding something to latch onto. Something does not have to be a drug or cause a withdrawal to be addictive. For example, the addict group with the highest suicide rate is gambling addicts. Gambling addiction is a very real and treated phenomenon. Video games can also be addictive, as some online gamers play for days on end without leaving the house. I smoke plenty all day all night, and before I got into drinking and other drugs, I craved pot quite a bit.

However, I really think you have to drink a lot or do a lot of opiates or hard drugs to fully appreciate a proper craving, where it feels like your sanity is slipping away. Pot is also very satisfying. I can have 3 puffs of a joint and be good, whereas being the borderline alcoholic that I am if I have 3 drinks I'll want more and feel irritated if I don't get it.

I have an addictive personality, and so use pot to get me to my happy content place mostly. If you take it away, I lose my mechanism for unwinding and chilling out and therefore am irritable. But with weed, I know it's all in my head. If I've been bingeing on booze for a week, I wake up feeling like shit, and I can feel my body and mind craving booze, no matter the hour. I get stoned constantly, but spending a day not smoking is simple if I'm busy, as long as I know i'll get to blaze a fatty that night.

I think the main thing to keep in mind, is that an addict can latch on to anything, so yes, you an be addicted to weed. But this is not the same kind of addiction as hard drugs, where there are actual cravings brought about by depleted brain chemistry. Therefore I believe weed is as addictive as any other activity which is enjoyable. Like someone addicted to taking a hot bath.
 
Or maybe the guys quitting weed at the moment and suffering from these symptoms, typed into google quitting weed sweating, and this thread came up! Ya bunch of pricks!

And for what it's worth, yes quitting weed makes you sweat bad. I just carry some anti perspirant and spray every hour. Doesn't solve it, but it helps. When quitting weed I get the usual symptoms, sweating, insomnia, lack of appetite, and a reduction in libido. I find promethazine (available OTC in the uk) helps with the insomnia, and just put up with the rest. It disappears after a while
 
double ewe said:
of course you can. the physical component isn't nearly as severe as with drugs like benzos or opioids, but there are a lot of habitual smokers who have difficulty reducing their use even when it is obviously causing negative consequences in their lives. frankly, i think the impression that marijuana is harmless makes the psychological component of addiction that much stronger.
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BAM!, exactly. I've had the WORST times trying to quit.
 
dan88 said:
Or maybe the guys quitting weed at the moment and suffering from these symptoms, typed into google quitting weed sweating, and this thread came up! Ya bunch of pricks!
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Doubtful as he's dispensing inflammatory advice instead of asking a question, you dumb mother fucker.
 
merging with our addiction mega thread.

Edit: On second thought I am simply going to refer you to our addiction mega thread and close this one.....This thread predates the current one and I dont want to mess with that.

REEDIT: I realized the addiction thread is actually dated three years earlier...just stoned and only looked at the month/day.

Anyways...on with the merge.....
 
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I am on day 2 of cannabis cessation and I am feeling very anxious and uncomfortable.
I have been daily toking for about 3 months.
The main source of discomfort is a very physical feeling of restlessness coming from my chest along with shortness of breath and panicking.
I have a bit of momentum now and hope I am feeling normal soon.
 
It's really a shame that weed is so addictive

I started smoking weed again after many years off. I used to be madly addicted to weed and my whole live revolved around smoking it.

I started again, thinking i was older and more mature and to some degree thats true. But here I am a few months later stuck in the pattern of blazing every day again. Weed is just so insanely addictive. Its more addictive than crack to me. After smoking crack for a couple of days, I get really tired of it and dont want to smoke crack again for a while. In fact, I havent wanted to smoke crack in several months. But weed, I always want to smoke.

So I guess I should quit? but man its so hard. I have some really high quality bud calling to me right now. I think I am just going to take one hit.
 
You're more likely addicted to that fucked up headspace I've seen you trash talk against in the past ;)

But that's okay, from 2004 to 2007 I didn't really know why I was smoking weed. Also, it is so unpredictable how I'll react. When I lived with my dad who's house is in the middle of nowhere in the canadian wilderness it would feel a lot better than here in the city.
 
I gotta say that weed is probably one of the most powerful intoxicants with the least addictive potential. Usually when people are addicted to weed, they are more usually addicted to being intoxicated in general. I've had a lot of problems with addictions to coke and opiates, and with weed I'm comfortable that I can stop when I want to and not over spend.

Weed is pretty amazing, the addiction profile is ridiculously low for something that gets you so fucked up.
 
Weed has never been addictive for me, but it's usually been easy to fall into the habit of blazing everyday. I don't get cravings for it, there's just nothing to do where I live so when I get bored/lonely/sad/anxious/depressed/manic/restless etc. it's nice just get lean. I also don't drink so when I socialise I'll usually get high unless I've got some GHB.

Try setting a limit of once or twice a week and sticking to it. Or just try taking a few days off smoking weed every time you smoke for a few days in a row.

Or just 420blaze erryday fgt
 
I hear you OP. After having been addicted to everything under the sun, weed is the drug that has still stuck with me to this day. I guess it's because it's such an easy drug to be addicted to. With all those other addictions you have to really work for it, stimulants are just exhausting in general (physically and mentally) while opiates and gabaergics constantly requires you to get more else you will suffer horrible withdrawal. Weed on the other hand, is easy to incorporate in to every-day life.
 
bennyZA said:
I gotta say that weed is probably one of the most powerful intoxicants with the least addictive potential. Usually when people are addicted to weed, they are more usually addicted to being intoxicated in general.
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This, I would put all my money into it and booze, having a job, student grants and loans and...being a middleman for L helped me having always a lot more cash than the usual 18-24 person back then heh. But please, anyone, never continue toking when the intoxication doesn't feel good anymore, it's easy to stop yes, but if your friends put some kind of unwanted pressure on you by smoking up when you're around and not understand your need to quit toking errday and you don't want to man up in front of them....it used to even be a reason to laugh at someone in my small circle of druggies if one was unwilling to take the last tokes of a joint...funny when young and dumb but it gets old, to me anyway, when you're in your mid 20's. I stopped smoking everyday when I was 27 or so, by then I was much more interested in making my own freebase cocaine and smoke that, lasted 6 months, had to sell a subaru impreza wrx 2005 just to buy ounce of coke to turn myself with ammonia...and yeah...that only lasted 6 months. It is a lot easier to start hating yourself from this kind of shit than weed.
 
trying to stay sober now, which is really tough when it's all around you. i realized that stress is what causes the everyday cravings for it. the problem is managing stress is really difficult when you always feel overwhelmed by life. for all its conveniences, modern living is eating us alive.
 
something you can aim to do if your a cannabis addict /regular smoker

is try to have at least a half productive day then smoke of an evening time.
Ive been trying it, and in the day its a bit odd i dont know what to do usually but like today, walked the dog for miles. archery also helps take my mind off toking during the day
 
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