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[MEGA] Cannabis Quitting Thread aka I need a break

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I'm currently on a break from smoking 3+ blunts a day. Ive been smoking regularly for about 15 years. Ive been on breaks the longest being about 6 months. Ive quit for legal purposes and self improvement purposes. Right now it's more of a mental test to see how long I can go. So far it's been about 10 days and things are going fine. Ive already endured some stressful situations that couldve easily caused me to fall off but Ive remained, so far. If I come across some good e, which i havent in about 4 years, I will def smoke then but otherwise I feel great and would like to see how far I can go.
Good luck to anyone on a similar path.
 
I've smoked for over 40 years and I had to take a 2 week break to pass a drug screen when I was on pain management. I didn't have any problems. Maybe it depends on what your reasons are for quitting as to how successful you'll be.. If I had failed the drug screen, I would've been kicked to the curb with a 300mg a day oxycodone tolerance. That was a pretty good incentive to get through it..

I used to go to great lengths to smoke weed but I just don't have the same cravings anymore... oh well..
 
^ wow 40 years! your a good example that rvrn if you smoke weed for a long time doesn't mean you'll have a terrible life =D

Yeah I think it depends on the person or reasons that can make quiting hard. I've taken breaks that have ranged from weeks to months with ease although I havn't been smoking nearly as long as most people here so maybe that factors in as well
 
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Something I have realized at this point is that occasional smoking is absolutely out of the question - I just wake up a different person and begin fiending no matter what my stance is on the issue before blazing. Past fuckups with girls make me want to smoke the fuck out of dope, but it's not even that good of an escape and I wind up a burnout after chasing the high. And the problems themselves stem from smoking dope chronically, and being plagued by paranoia, but dope somehow always manages to ease the pain...

It's probably going to be a long journey overcoming that breakup but the dope might hold you back. It's easy to get lost in memories when you're stoned and personally I tend to dwell in regret a lot more and wind up depressed as fuck. You seem to be doing well for the first few days - I myself become a monster for at least a couple days - glazed over eyes, pretty much dead inside... snapping at people who try and interrupt my miserable inner world without even realizing what I'm doing. You'd seriously think I was hooked on hard drugs the way it fucks me, but my habit was severe and went on for far too long. You will recover fully shortly and then comes the much longer issue of getting over the desire to get high once you're feeling good and you know how fun it would be (but also the viscious cycle it always initiates).

I'm taking LSD once a month as well, it's great during this time to have a nice trip to look forward to after being straight in the head for a good while.
 
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How different is it, to trip without pot?
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I don't know,...I've never tried to trip without pot. there's the tripping, ... usually with some bros. somebody gets the idea to go driving around or head down to the park. everybody is laughing about some stupid shit.. the music is playing. somebody whips out a joint or bowl...everybody gathers around it for a hit. one dude starts coughing so hard he spills his beer... just normal stuff..
 
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Oh yeah, girls always manage their way to fuck you up

This saturday I'm going to take some acid without any dope for the very first time. I always thought the trip gets stronger when you have a joint.. isn't it?

How different is it, to trip without pot?
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IMO lsd is too strong to mix with anything. there's no point to waste ur tree if the trip is at all decent. I cant see weed intensifying something that strong. i dont even like to smoke when Im on that britney. my hearts already racing and weed aint that strong. Id say save ur weed for the come down.
 
This summer I was blazing chronically, so I wasn't even noticing any drastic changes in myself when I would get high. I was just living in a perpetual haze from morning til night, and whenever I dropped acid in that perpetual haze I would totally not smoke any weed for a while (sometimes up to a week), and it actually really made me dislike how smoking weed affected me and sparked a strong desire to quit which had been laying dormant inside my doped out self for a long time, arising once in a while and resulting in nothing more than 2 week breaks. The LSD provided moments of clarity in my burnt out life.

If I don't smoke for a little while and I get stoned, it's a totally different and awesome mildly psychedelic high which I think would synergize really well with LSD and potentiate it but acid is so fucking strong to begin with, and due to the fact that weed can sometimes induce paranoia and anxiety in me I would be reluctant to try the combination. If your trip is going well and you want to get higher, then I don't see any harm in smoking a joint. In my case since smoking weed has had such a negative impact on my life I would be completely aware of that on acid and I think it could possibly result in a freakout. I fully expand my lungs when breathing on acid and I bet I could take massive tokes though. I know that when I used to do this on mushrooms back when I wasn't such a fiend and actually got stoned, it would really kick the trip up a notch and would be a great activity to partake in if I couldn't figure out what to do with myself.
 
My thought on smoking (while on acid) is "why bother". You're going to be high, and having a good time regardless: If you make it through that night without smoking, then you'll be on day 6! So much of it's mental, it will be way harder to throw away six days off weed than one. Frankly I'm jealous, getting some acid and going to a rave without smoking weed could really help imprint some positive motivation...

Last night was night three for me, sleeping good, having awesome dreams, and waking up way more motivated. This is the one time I'm glad I have no social life anymore, It's a fuck of a lot harder not to indulge when you're around friends who are blazing. Congrats on day 4....
 
I was slammin brews for a little while until the habit was broken. Drink like hell sir, it is difficult for open minded psychedelic drug users to become attached to alcohol, which offers nothing in terms of personal growth. Take advantage of anything that can help you break out of the cycle. After a month of not blazing I totally feel like I'm over being a dope fiend. This crazy dude came up to my cottage (I'm a post-university forest dweller) yesterday with the best mushrooms I've ever had. The trip totally brought me down to Earth and this particular time I learned a lot about Dharma - how the presence of other life forms totally affects our energies - universal connectivity man. I was totally in touch with the energy of other people and the universe haha not to sound cliche, but I would totally recommend that everyone eat shrooms. The drug is totally on par with acid for me, I learned SO much last night hahaha, I will never be the same after that but it certainly wasn't the first time. I've only been doing acid for a while and I really needed this mushroom trip to bring me back down to Earth, the acid was sending me too far out. It all makes sense now. Man, I felt like I saw God last night, I was downright fucked hehehe. This wonderful journey of self discovery that psychedelics have initiated is just adding so much colour to my life.

It's normal for psychedelic drugs to make one more inclinded towards exploring themselves instead of just focussing on interacting with the common man - the common man is a very simple creature. He likes booze, money, control over others, and pussy and pretty much everything he does is central to attracting these things towards him. Like, 99% of people are this way. Honestly, how ignorant these robots are, with all the constant warfare and all. The ego is pretty boring and simple, and the dharma of another ego can have a negative effect on you. Surround youself with semi-enlightened beings and rejoice in the pleasure of being alive. Fuck... I sound like a damn hippie.

Oh, and I smoked a joint with the dude while wigging out, but I really don't give a fuck, because if I was still addicted to smoking pot I would have noticed the energy of it while tripping. I noticed no attachment, but what I did notice is how my friend was concerned about smoking the roach til the end, not wasting a morcel, and rolling pinners to keep the high going. Typical doper antics - I know what it's like to be a doper and whereas I used to see my own faults in my fiending friends, this feeling has been replaced by pity. And it helped me get through the whole wigout haha - well it was just something to do, I was zooming so hard I didn't even notice any high at all from the pot (after a month break), the trip was gnarly. I was worried way too much about resisting dope forever - now I know I just need to chill the fuck out about it and if I want to smoke once in a blue moon I will do so. The dope isn't worth getting all worked up about. For now, I'm a free spirit!
 
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my break is still going on, on tuesday, it will be 3 weeks :)

sometimes i craved a little bit for weed, especially the last days, but i think it was due to stress and stuff. was a bit hard, when people smoked next to me, but i kept myself together with thinking something like "what would taking that joint really change". the only answer i found to it was "nothing".
only thing is i drank a little bit more alcohol than usual, but as i hardly ever drink and mostly only one beer or something, i'm not really concerned.

i will end the break in like ten days and already made plans for a nice muffin time with nice people. after that i will see how to proceed from there. i definetly gained some positve insights out of this break already. i know i don't need weed to function, i'm more open in social situations, and i have hope, that i can keep the smoking at a moderate level in the future. being high all the time now seems somehow ridiculous to me.

greets :)

@ rave_itsrealfun

sounds like an awesome trip. i hope to get my hands on some mushrooms too in the next few months. these were the first psychedelic i took, but they didn't reveal their full power to me (i think because i was too young (younger than now^^) and simply not ready). also my trips on acid and 2c-e gave me some insight, but not really what i am looking for right now...
 
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I'm starting to wonder if I need a weed break. I know I'll have a job that did NOT drug test (company doesn't believe in it, and yes I'm in the US!) and hope I'll be going back for a doctorate degree at some point after that. I've been smoking almost 9 years daily with few breaks, the longest only about a month, and very infrequent too. Now I'm getting amazing NYC quality weed and I'm not getting as high as I expected, even just smoking at night and not during the day or before work anymore. This job, even though it's shitty enough that like the others I've had smoking before work may help, I'm training myself to only do it at night to unwind. Financially weed isn't a huge burden at the moment either, and I love weed. I just wonder, if I'm already 24, how much clarity and development I may have actually missed out on.
 
Well, I've pretty much been stoned more often than not since I was 15. 15-20 is a really critical time period for development and growth, and I wonder if the effects of constantly having my thought pattern and perception altered to some degree may have changed things. I have borderline personality disorder and I'm pretty open about it on BL because I have nowhere else to share it has a MAJOR impact on my life. The signs were there long before weed, but I will always wonder if marijuana contributed.

That's why I think that. Partially for scientific reasons of any substance altering use on the brain during critical growth years, and partly just out of emotional, mental, and almost spiritual curiosity.
 
It's true we are all constantly changing so much - I don't even know who or what I am anymore. I embrace change - everything happens exactly as it should in order for me to progress further spiritually, the way I see things. When I burn daily I get really confused and lost about the whole thing, but when I smoke occasionally the effect is mainly great. It's really fun to smoke with homies, but it's not fun to choose to burn all day by yourself - it's pretty fucking depressing in my experience. However, being a burnout is still a learning experience I'm happy to have gone through. To acheive the highest positive/negative ratio one shouldn't do it daily.

When I blazed the other day on shrooms, the thought of being high all the time hit me as pretty insane behaviour, whereas a month ago it was just the norm. A strong psychedelic trip never fails to remind me that it's all about laying back and not worrying about shit and having fun and cracking jokes and smiling, but still making something of yourself. I tend to forget this over time, so I need to trip balls once a month to keep myself sane at this point. Like, really trip my nuts off - if you arn't freaking out about how out-of-this-world-fucked you are, then you arn't taking a high enough dose. There are plenty of weak drugs going around these days. I went through so many batches of acid I thought were the real deal until by sheer luck I came across some stuff where 1 hit would annihilate me. The rest of the blotter was hardly worth my time (and cash). I would go to raves on it and have a great time, but with real legit acid, I would never trust myself being anywhere but out in the woods - I just turn into a hallucinating lunatic, and I would rather not be coming to extremely profound realizations about God and life around a bunch of typical ravers out for a great time. The best way to go about things is to grow your own mush. Ever since my experience with that, my thinking has been radically different, with the +/- ratio being infinite.
 
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purple_cloud said:
I have borderline personality disorder and I'm pretty open about it on BL because I have nowhere else to share it has a MAJOR impact on my life. The signs were there long before weed, but I will always wonder if marijuana contributed.
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and it could be the apposite..If you hadn't started using pot, it might've been much worse for you...
 
If you don't drink so much booze you probably won't need love so much. That's how it is with me anyway - I'll be fine until I get wasted and then I will become lonely. Not to mention that shit will totally fuck up your studies, because it will pretty much make you retarded as I discovered. And drinking like that will seriously ruin your body long term. But it's sooo hard to avoid in university. That's how it is with the ego though... however much you have, it's never enough when you run out. Which is why I had to destroy my attachment to pot. And yeah, too much hanging out will leave you influenced by other peoples energies, and people tend to be fairly simple minded. Nothin wrong with being alone - we're actually never alone, we just seem to be... we're always connected. Just consider yourself lucky to have had those girls and to be around them - I'm living up at a cottage and haven't so much as spoken to a chick in like 3 months. Imagine how you might feel in that situation - if you have enough reasons to wake up in the morning, it shouldn't be too bad. My attachment to them isn't strong at all these days... it's a pretty simple pleasure, we are young and have plenty of time to fall in love.

Sounds to me like you get laid more than enough and you are being very selfish. The only sex I've had in the past year is with a 54 year old distant relative, and I am everything a girl could want - a chilled out, jacked, athletic and very smart engineer. This is the clearly the result of me being a miserable, burnt out dope fiend however so I blame myself. I cannot even get through to you how much I have suffered over this shit in the past, as a weak minded drug addict, and to hear you complaining when you literally just went through a breakup is absurd and also very weak. So chill out man. Be grateful to be alive, and not to have been born in Libya, Syria or Somalia, where people are murdered over nothing. Just to be university students will the opportunity to learn and grow, and with the sort-of-freedom to experiment with mind expanding drugs is a wonderful gift.
 
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day number 6 for me.

the past two days have been ok (when i have things to do) but when im left with nothing to do i feel like complete shit! after months of being stoned more or less every day i decided that i needed a break because of tolerance issues, not that i felt "not right in the head". i dont have a date that i wish to stay sober to but a friends harvest will be ready in a couple weeks so it would be good if i could stay off it untill then. i doubt i can though :(
 
Yeah man it's called loneliness... having a girl around for company totally cures it and it's amazing. And yeah nice girls to chill with are a dime a dozen, the sex is secondary I agree, but in the end it can just become another form of attachment, like smoking weed can become. In order to have true inner peace, you have to be able to be happy without any of these things at all. You're never alone man, with or without a chick, you're always flowing in sync with the rest of the universe. There will always be another girl in the future. It has taken me loads of suffering, many mistakes, a horrible weed habit, countless mushroom and acid and mdma trips, and tons of studying shit like theoretical physics and eastern mysticism to realize this.

Life shouldn't be boring without weed, booze, a girl and friends - you gotta have personal interests to keep you going. I read the news and enlightening books incessantly, I'm learning German, I still study engineering even though I'm done school, I practice yoga daily for hours, I go on long cycling adventures, canoe around fishing, and trip balls whenever I feel like it's time... you get the point, there's never a dull moment in my life, and I interact with friends once every 2 or 3 weeks when they come visit. I'm just cherishing this "alone time" before I find work involving nuclear energy or solar cells... might be a while. Then, I will have girls and money and friends around and party a bit. Since you create your own reality with your mind, it is whatever you choose it to be.
 
Sounds like you have a lot to live for. You haven't been off the pot long so keep at it... the pot was totally making me real lost and confused. I would be exercising and learning all day like I am presently, but I could never be sure of myself, and I wasn't enjoying my life as much as I should have been. I saw everything too abstactly and I had lost touch with the universal love. Getting off it has been a huge step forward, albeit, it's a tough rabbit hole to climb out of once you're in too deep.
 
for myself, i'm very simple compared to most. i'm far out, but i'm also down to earth. enjoying life for me is being a free spirit. if you don't wake up excited with a smile on your face, then something is wrong. i love to laugh, i can be pretty fucking funny a lot of the time, and i never hide shit from myself. enjoying life for me is totally spontaneity too - that's when things really shine for me. like when i randomly convinced 3 of my university friends at the campus bar at midnight on a typical wednesday to skip 2 days of class, drive 24 hours down to florida, from canada, and party it up for the american spring break there. smokin bowls the whole time, driving for as long as we were there... just an epic journey. or just spontaneously hitting up a girl somewhere random, not anywhere near a bar or social scenario... i much prefer it that way.

two things i require are daily exercise, and the ability to cook all my own healthy meals. i tend to prefer the wilderness over city life. sure i'm an engineer, but i think a lot of the crazy technology we have developed is not necessary at all, and is just there so people can make money. but i think science and the environment are really important, and a smart man needs to make something of himself. so i want to work developing clean energy maybe or something cool like a space telescope. i'd really enjoy that. fuck consumerism. it's all about remaining healthy and active, accepting where i am here and now, staying true to myself and having fun. i don't like pushy or judgemental people, sure, there are plenty of people i hang around and interact with, but i have few friends relative to most people. i'm very affected by peoples vibes. i realize that it is a rare person who is capable of understanding me, and i tend to really love those who do. and that's enough for me. and i still show compassion to those who don't because it feels great to do good for others. i love to teach people cool stuff and help them on their way to thinking outside the box. i love partying hard and going out on the town meeting people, but do so infrequently because happiness requires health, so i often take things as far as they can go when i do party (i'm a wildman on mdma). so i just rave out once in a while and get it out of my system then. i love trippy electronic music, the orb has gotta be my favourite. i'm pretty countercultural and i'm cool with not being a part of the whole society thing all the time, because they go around bombing shit and stuff and not everyone is happy so something is wrong there. i feel like i exist outside it all sometimes.

you almost just have to force yourself to start being happy all the time.
 
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