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[MEGA] Cannabis Quitting Thread aka I need a break

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Very true ^^^ don't encourage him to smoke more if he's experiencing anxiety/panic attacks because it will just make it worse. I know this from personal experience.
 
It is what it is man. Just look at the bright side, you'll be saving money, your health and you might just find some new activities to enjoy. Bud isn't going anywhere any time soon so just take a break and try it again when you're ready.
 
I quit from smoking everyday for years ~ a month ago. Didn't have any chance to smoke but still wanted to. After 2 weeks I spent 10 days on a meditation retreat learning to meditate and realising that I didn't need weed as much as I thought I did. It really helped me and I met someone else there who was quitting from a much worse habit than myself and they also found it really useful. If you want to quit but feel like you can't, I'd really recommend taking a course in vipassana meditation (http://www.dhamma.org/). It's not religious and it's free (yes free!) for 10 days of food and accomodation. If you find it useful you can make a donation to help others but there's absolutely no pressure to do so. Hope no one considers this spamming, just feel compelled to try and help. http://www.vridhamma.org/Vipassana-Meditation-and-Drug-Addiction.aspx Here's a specific link about vipassana and drug addiction which you might find interesting.

Since doing it, the world seems really fresh and it's like seeing things for the first time again.
 
Just take a break. Remember all tho harmless its still pretty powerful . Mj is the only thing that gives me paranoia (sometimes) matter fact me and my bf burned some new bud we got yesterday and I got freaking paranoid lol I just laugh it off and ignore it. I always say drugs are mental so just put your mind in a good place. Also I find there are two types of potheads the actives and inactive, some ppl get stoned and cant move from the couch(inactive). THERE IS NOTHING I CANT DO HIGH. I like to smoke and work, cook when stoned, read an article when high. I can socialize fine . Get out there and do things when stoned its better then staying home staring at the tv (sad and boring) next time you smoke you should plan something out, ,, say go to the mall look around grab sum food and ENJOY YOUR HIGH. don't waste it. Being locked up in the house high creeps me out
 
Monkeybizness said:
Just take a break. Remember all tho harmless its still pretty powerful . Mj is the only thing that gives me paranoia (sometimes) matter fact me and my bf burned some new bud we got yesterday and I got freaking paranoid lol I just laugh it off and ignore it. I always say drugs are mental so just put your mind in a good place. Also I find there are two types of potheads the actives and inactive, some ppl get stoned and cant move from the couch(inactive). THERE IS NOTHING I CANT DO HIGH. I like to smoke and work, cook when stoned, read an article when high. I can socialize fine . Get out there and do things when stoned its better then staying home staring at the tv (sad and boring) next time you smoke you should plan something out, ,, say go to the mall look around grab sum food and ENJOY YOUR HIGH. don't waste it. Being locked up in the house high creeps me out
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100% agreed.
 
Thanks for the replies guys, and thanks for all the advice too!

I suppose the best thing I can do is take a break then. I do hope I can get over the anxiety someday, but I guess it's really not the end of the world if I can't! :D

Time to find other ways to occupy my time for a while, and I'll try again with the old girl sometime in the future.

Much appreciated.
 
ParalyticSHOCK said:
Thanks for the replies guys, and thanks for all the advice too!

I suppose the best thing I can do is take a break then. I do hope I can get over the anxiety someday, but I guess it's really not the end of the world if I can't! :D

Time to find other ways to occupy my time for a while, and I'll try again with the old girl sometime in the future.

Much appreciated.
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This is a good idea. Glad you came to this conclusion.

Merging with Quitting thread.
 
I quit!

I smoked once yesterday...

and thats it...its over

at least until after new years...ill reevaluate then, but its just not worth it....

Hopefully i make it through the WD ok, they tend to hit me pretty hard...cigs are no problem for me...but weed is a whole different story...fuck psychology
 
Serious said:
So I've been weed free for exactly a month already, I feel great. My head is clear and my thinking is much better.

I am going to copy/paste the primary reason of why I quit (posted this on GrassCity). I just wanted to know if you guys experienced the same thing I did... I don't know why this happened and really would like to find out why.


Here it is:

When I first started smoking, It was an amazing experience. Not just the body high, but the head high as well. I would get the frame vision thing and I would be in deep thought, about life and stuff like that. I could think clearer and with more reason. Music sounded AMAZING, and I enjoyed EVERYTHING about smoking weed. At first I would smoke only once a week and just a few hits would be enough... Gradually, I started smoking almost every day, and the high became different. The body high was still there, but the head high completely changed. The more I smoked, the more stupid I felt when I smoked. I had a hard time concentrating, was not creative anymore and couldn't think like I used to back when I blazed only occasionally. Music didn't sound as good as it used to, but still better than sober. It just seems as if all the magic with weed has been lost for me. I do enjoy the body high very much, but I just can't stand feeling stupid and slow for hours. I wish I could get that feeling back again.

Anyone else experience this as well?
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It's been well over a month already.

^^ I still want to find out why this started happening though... :(
I have tried a one month tbreak, and another 3 month break with no success...
 
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Serious said:
It's been well over a month already.

^^ I still want to find out why this started happening though... :(
I have tried a one month tbreak, and another 3 month break with no success...
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The magic wont come back.

If anything, you will get anxiety and paranoia increasing in frequency when you smoke...

I'd say savor the fact that you now have money and time to devote to other pursuits...

As for the cause, Have you mixed weed with any psychedelics or other drugs?
 
Nope, never. I have never done any other psychedelics...

My drug list.

1. Weed
2. Alcohol
3. Cigs (I quit a year and a half ago)
4. Oxycontin (only did it about 15 times or so, and I quit that too recently)

Oh and I've tried Kpins and Lorazepam once...

That's it.
 
stonerish said:
The magic wont come back.

If anything, you will get anxiety and paranoia increasing in frequency when you smoke...

I'd say savor the fact that you now have money and time to devote to other pursuits...

As for the cause, Have you mixed weed with any psychedelics or other drugs?
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BTW, have you experienced something similar like this?
 
Serious said:
BTW, have you experienced something similar like this?
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Yes. Although my mixing it with psychs didn't help I'm sure...

Weed at first was a mind opening 'trip' easily comparable to low-moderate dose psychedelics...

now, its one of two things...

either a slightly pleasant buzz/numb feeling

or a psychotic and paranoid adventure...(especially with low tolerance)

I honestly don't know why I havnt really quit yet...I lasted 6 days...and here i am back at square one...although i seem to have cut back to only vaping once at night...

But weed is nowhere near as nice as it once was...its a detriment now

Hopefully come Thanksgiving, ill be starting a 6 week break...
 
PoOkIeHeAd said:
its hopeless so just move on is the best advice i can offer. i am familiar with this and in all cases one was never able to "enjoy" the high again after the corner was crossed. strangely there is no going back even after years have gone by. so yeah it is what it is. dont get the idea of taking benzos to counter anxiety just to smoke as that is just a real slippery slope.

ooooooh the humanity, i mean anxiety.... to hell w/ it
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I wouldn't say that in all cases, after you go around the corner with marijuana, you cannot get pleasure from it some time down the road.

I for one am an example of an exception if this even tends to be true. Back a few years ago, whenever I smoked I would get paranoid and would "trip out", but in a panicked way (sometimes actually getting real panic attacks). I came back to the ganja soul after a couple years and an opioid addiction, and found it felt GREAT again. Great.

I'd say take a long break. Remember the effects of marijuana are fairly complex. It can be stimulating or have a more depressant effect, and it can feel different the very next day. It has so many active chemicals in it and they are all working in tandem to produce the "high". It is not like oxycodone in the sense that it doesn't produce a uniform experience no matter when you take it.

All this isn't even taking into account one's psychological makeup and health, which I think play a HUGE role in whether or not marijuana works out for someone. I was in a bad place when marijuana stopped working for me, and now, I'm in a much better place and have rediscovered it. :)
 
Tolerance and my many attempts at taking a break/quitting

So I've been trying to take a break from weed for what seems like forever
(The longest I've gone is maybe 3 weeks before blazing) the only problem is, as soon as I toke up again, my tolerance goes right back to where I was. I get high a fews times, then the fun stops. I weigh around a lean 124lbs, and somehow I need like 3 grams to get high.
Whenever I get the urge to blaze, I take 500mg of niacin and the sensation it puts thru my system seems to be keeping me from blazing.
The problem though is the dreams I keep having,
They're mostly dreams about drugs I haven't done in years, and ones I've never tried. These dreams really piss me off, I've been trying so hard to just take a break from blazing and now I'm having dreams about smoking opium and dmt? Never have I experienced either of these drugs, so how am I experiencing such awesomely mindfucking dreams? And to top it all off, the dream I had last night was the one to piss me off the most, I won weed and pure mdma on the price is right :p
Ain't that some shit, waking up like that....shit sucks. My brain has drug envy
Any tips to make the dreams go away?
 
Ninjetic said:
The problem though is the dreams I keep having,
Any tips to make the dreams go away?
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yeah the dreaming thing happens to alot of people when quitting pot (myself included). as for making it go away idk if there is anything out there that might help; for me it just took time, if you stay away from weed long enough, eventually the constant vivid dreaming stops.

So I've been trying to take a break from weed for what seems like forever
(The longest I've gone is maybe 3 weeks before blazing) the only problem is, as soon as I toke up again, my tolerance goes right back to where I was. I get high a fews times, then the fun stops. I weigh around a lean 124lbs, and somehow I need like 3 grams to get high.
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you will have to take a much bigger break if you want to knock down your tolerance enough to not have it shoot back up after a few blazing seshs (start thinking in the range of at least 3-4 months).

I won weed and pure mdma on the price is right :p
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haha awesome
 
Yea I know how you feel, sometimes it takes awhile for your tolerance to drop. You just have to stick it out and go for more time. The dreams never happened for me, but in the first few days sleeping and eating patterns are thrown off a bit.

-djstrip
 
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