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[MEGA] Cannabis Quitting Thread aka I need a break

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I'm not saying I can't, but there are withdrawal symptoms, and they sure as hell aren't pleasant. Anybody can quit any drug. Just because this one is easier doesn't make it any nicer...
 
Haven't smoked or used anything else (not prescribed) in over a year! I am on Sub though. I must say, it was not difficult for me to not smoke. I haven't really thought about it often at all. I will probably try it again sometime next year and see how I like it. I will never be a daily smoker or user of anything ever again.

I became way too dependent on the combination of Pot+a few beers, wasn't even enjoyable anymore.

Before I decided to go on my "sabbatical", I would regularly stop using pot for weeks at a time and didn't find it that hard. I have a friend of mine that really struggles when he doesn't smoke. Never understood that, but everyone is very different. He has used other drugs, but never really got too hooked on anything else. He probably drinks a bit too much, but its not like it was daily. I used to have to drink a few beers every damn day, no matter what.
 
Day 11 and a half.......had a dream last night that upset me. A few things happened also that upset and angered me, but I feel that this is just the peak of my mood swings. I'm giving it another week to be this bad, and hopefully after that things will calm down. I won't break this time under the pressure of depression.
 
I recently stopped smoking weed/hash after over 3 and a half years of constant smoking before that it was a weekend trate with my mates reasons to why i stopped are i bored myself of it, dont get me wrong i love a smoke but something that gets done every day constantly loses its appeal with me anyway, and the extreme prices that it has become of late where i live scotland you'd be paying ... for an 8th of good polly hash now its... and weed has gone up to ....a gram total joke in my opinion the odd time when i go a visit home a close mate i know grows the odd plant for personal use and i get it for pretty much buttons. I stil take the odd smoke after coming down on the weekends but dont currently ever buy it..




please don't post prices..
 
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It took me years to quit smoking weed despite trying many times. I was heavily into it - daily smoking of very strong weed and growing it etc so I had lots of super high-quality shit available 24/7. Everytime I tried to get off it I gave in and went back to it. So I know for a fact that for me at least, it was a addictive. I'm not saying physically but once it's such a regular and inherent part of your life and mind, moving away from it is as hard as breaking any other long-term, life-altering habit - which is to say pretty difficult for a lot of people. I think it depends on your mindset and how you use a drug as to how addictive you find it. At some point in my 30s I just sort of stopped and completely lost interest in it.

These days I can take it or leave it and most of time I leave it. Every now and again someone will give me like 1/2 gram and that would last me a couple of months.
 
Hate to be a thread kill... anybody can stop smoking any (dont care how strong) strain, unless maybe opium dipped
thai-stick, I'm not saying its all in your head...
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Yeah, it's just like crack or crystal meth, anyone can stop. "Opium-dipped thai stick" is a total myth as well, by the way.
 
This has been too long of a break from my love aka marijuana aka the best thing that civilization has ever come in contact with. We will meet again... Hopefully soon, maybe this break has lowered my tolerance *crosses fingers*
 
I remember when I forcefully had to quit from a pretty heavy pot habit (about an eighth a day) because I moved and didn't know anyone there. There were absolutely withdraw symptoms, not necessarily physical withdraw but withdraw nonetheless. I was irritable, unmotivated, and had an extremely hard time falling asleep for the first week or so. Not to mention the extreme boredom. After about a month, things didn't work out and I ended up moving back. And my god, when I smoked again, I got HIGH. I smoked a joint with two other people, half as big as joints I used to smoke to myself multiple times a day and I was wrecked. It was only then, that I realized how bad my old habit really was, so I vowed never to smoke that much again. And I haven't. I'm still an almost daily smoker but I can stretch an eighth around two weeks now give or take, depending on how stressed I am. And it's also not as bad now if I have to go without it for whatever reasons. So yes, breaks are a very good thing and I wish you all luck! :)
 
It's no longer a struggle for me to stay off it because I've realized just how SHIT the stuff is. It is incredulous how I stayed high on this garbage for years and years even though it makes me dull, boring, severely depressed, anxious, antisocial... like basically suicidal. I would prefer ANYTHING to the socially isolated misery of dope addiction... I feel I would be MUCH better off even with an opiate or stimulant addiction. Not long term wise, or withdrawal wise... the dope doesn't have long term effects, but smoking compulsively temporarily sucks the life out of me to near E-tard levels. Obviously, this drug can be extremely addictive for some... why else would I smoke an eighth a day from morning til night, despite how obviously completely detrimental the shit is to my sober mind? All I can say is FUCK smoking weed. I would never say that about any of the other more powerful drugs I have used because nothing has sucked me in and chewed me up like this, and when I first started blazing, I didn't even think it was a possibility to smoke so much of the shit because it used to get me so stoned.
 
How long of a tolerance break should i take

So i started smoking everyday probably 7 months ago just different kinds of weed, until i tried this kind of spice that got me so much higher and it was without the jw8-0h or whatever that shit was needless to say in the beginning of my "addiction" i would stay higher than a kite for an hour before it would slowly start wearing off. Fast forward 7 months later alot has happened in life such with blah blah ups and downs, right now it's been 24 hours since i have smoked any. Currently and for the past 4 months now, i've never been higher than longer than 15 minutes and it's usually only 5 lol, when i'm at my apartment most of the time not at work or in public, i smoke a bowl every ten minutes which is ridiculous.

I've bought a few different strains of weed, to see if its any better than the spice i smoke, and i realized that weed actually hurts my chest more, and gives me this heaviness thats lasts in the head for hours after my high is over with spice i return to baseline after a few hours, and 5 minutes after i get high i can already feel the lightness come over me, even though those 5 minutes are a good high its just too damn short. So i'm guessing i am probably a heavy smoker? Surprisingly i've never ever gone on one tolerance break despite of all that i've been smoking i'm surprised i still look, function alot better than alot of potheads i know, i did go on a 24 hour break last week, but it didn't make much of a noticable difference, do you think 48 will be good? opinions? the only negative symptoms at this point is just boredom and mild migraine, yesterday was nausea mild body aches.
 
Those spice blends ALL contain JWH-whatever's, or some analog so closely related that they might as well be the same. All indole cannabinoids with very short durations, sprayed onto whatever smokable herb the producer could get for cheapest.
The short duration is a real pain, and is the main reason I stopped experimenting with synthetics - they just go by too quick, so you have to smoke constantly.

It is possible to raise your tolerance much higher with the synthetic cannabinoids, as they're much stronger agonists (all the cannabinoids are partial agonists, but most of the synthetics are much closer to full agonists than THC), and aren't mixed in with a bunch of partial agonists and weak antagonists like in natural cannabis. Those factors combine to put a ceiling on how high you can get (and hence, how fast you can built tolerance and how high you can feasibly get your tolerance).


So anyway - 24-48 hours is not going to do the trick. I'd say a week or more. I'd also recommend you go back to natural weed, instead of the spice. It seems like people have trouble smoking synthetics at a stable level over time (and the spice could well be worse for you physically, depending on whether the herbs they used for that batch had nasty combustion products or nor), while people can smoke pot for years and not have trouble with escalating tolerance. I'd say once you've been free of spice for a week or so, try going back to weed. You may find the heaviness less pronounced when you don't have to smoke as much of it, because your tolerance is more reasonable.
 
yeah i like your post, it seems initially everyone thought spice and various kinds of synthetics are weak, but their are some that are very stronger, my friend said she never got that high on weed from the kind of spice i smoke, needless to say i don't really get high on weed because of my tolerance from spice, but if its a real good kind than yeah but it's been awhile. I think your right, i'm going to extend is one more day to 72 hours because this is my first time and i don't want to drive myself insane, i have real bad insomnia, sweasts, and body weakness i hate it and extreme lack of appetite, jesus now i'm thinking of if i didnt take this tiny tolerance break, we just add more shit to our system without even realizing.
 
Interesting that you're getting physical w/d effects - you really were smoking too much spice. But - you're not alone; I've heard other reports of really heavy abusers of synthetic cannabinoids experiencing w/d effects similar to (but more mild than) opiate w/d, which is at least vaguely consistent with your described symptoms.
 
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