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[MEGA] Cannabis Quitting Thread aka I need a break

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Going to try a week, managed 3 days last week. A week and then stick to social smoking (weekends.) I think the appeal of making boring shit great is why cannabis is so addictive for me, so i'm gona give up smoking so fucking much at home.
 
Its been about 2 months with no ganja! I haven't had a break like this for yearrrrs....haha....reason for my break was for a good job opportunity, and I got it! gonna be making bank! I do miss it, ain't gonna lie, but hopefully sometime in the future I will be blazing that sticky icky again....one day! hope everyone else is doing good.
 
Well I quit as long as I know whats up with the drug testing and all so yea, I probably won't be blazing for a long time until I know whats going on cause the last thing I want to do is fuck up. haha.
 
Hey ya'll.... I found this thread doing a search on google for taking a break from cannabis. Thought I'd join to get in on the discussion.

I think I'm kind of unique with marijuana... it really doesn't demotivate me or anything. I'm a very passionate, energetic person, possibly too much so sometimes (lol) so if it hinders me it really isn't noticeable. My main reasons for needing a break are 1) addiction building up and 2) tolerance building up. Those things obviously go hand in hand.

No matter how much I know that marijuana is best in moderation, I find that if I use it long enough the addiction creeps in and I end up smoking all day every day. That's when I know I need a nice long break and then usually after that I go back to being able to moderate usage (a couple times a week maybe) for a little while, then my usage ramps up again, and the cycle repeats. It's okay really, as long as I do the tolerance breaks for a long enough amount of time.

Another way I feel I am the opposite of a lot of you guys is that I have found I can't take a break if I don't have cannabis. For reasons other than literally not being able to get it of course. It took me a long time to figure this out. For years it was the same pattern. I'd tell myself, "I'm stopping once this bag is done", then I'd empty the bag and immediately go into a panic. My thought process was, what if I need it medicinally? (and that's not just addiction talking, I do have health problems and need it for pain management sometimes). So because of that panic from not having it as medicine I'd justify getting some more, and then immediately I'd rationalize that I should have a few bowls to try out the new strain I got, and then the addiction would continue from there...

What I leaned was I need to have weed in my house in order to take a break. It's weird I know, but as long as I know it's there, tucked away in a drawer waiting for next month, or next summer or whatever--I can go without it. After a few days I usually forget it's even there, and the addiction stops and then weeks/months later I'll randomly have a thought that it'd be nice to start getting high again. And then I will.

This works for me... I totally get why it doesn't work for a lot of people but we all have to find our own process with it. One reason it works for me is I actually don't have a lot of stoner friends, I only know a few people who smoke and as of now only have one hookup, so if they are dry I can't get shit. That brings me to that panic place of wondering if I'll have a hookup at all in a few weeks/months. I can see how this wouldn't be the same for people who have a lot of different hookups and can pretty much always guarantee they can get some.

But being unable to get it when you actually want/need it SUCKS--so I always, always save some.

After reading through this thread I feel really blessed. I've gone through years of all day every day smoking and not had a single one of the withdrawal symptoms. Zero. It's always a little rough to get through the urges to smoke in the first day but after that I wake up feeling great and the urges vanish. It's not very physically addictive for me I guess, for whatever reason. Thank God!

Oh and the dream thing-- I still dream when I'm stoned. Quite vividly. But when I quit... my god... vivid isn't even the word for the dreams I have. I find it strange people complain about the dreams because mine are completely amazing. Beautiful, colorful, psychedelic, spiritual dreams. A lot of lucid dreaming too... in fact the dreams are one of my favorite things about taking a break.

My biggest struggle is exercise. It's hard for me, because you know how people always say to avoid the activities you always did while stoned? Well I am not someone to sit around while stoned, my biggest stoned activity is also my biggest passion: dance. I'm a hula hooper, it's my world. But unfortunately I got into it while high and usually my ritual is to have a nice vape and then do an hour or more hoop/dance session. Exercise is so tied to the feeling of being high for me that I really, really struggle to get off my ass and do it sober. Marijuana makes my body so fluid and relaxed and dancing just comes so naturally to me that when I do it sober I feel so... tight, and clumsy... and just awkward. :( And I never feel like I'm good when I'm sober (even though I have all the same skills, I just am not relaxed enough to let them flow as well).

Anyways, sorry for the long ramble. I'm on day 2 sober after 5-6 months of heavy usage every day. I've managed to do one sober dance session so far and although it wasn't anywhere near as fun as hooping high, I still worked up a sweat and got some nice natural euphoria going. I'm going to try for another session right now.

I'd like to be on a break for at least two weeks but possibly a month... we'll see.

~wicky
 
Back again... I accomplished my sober dance/workout. It was easier than yesterday. I think I just need to forget what it's like high and sort of start over, and then I'll be good. :)
 
Been smoking cannabis for over 42 years now.
I dont smoke ciggs but now i have copd pretty bad.
Im a medical user in Canada, signed for 5gms per day.
Its very tough for me to smoke a joint these days.
White Russian
Strawberry Diesel
OG Kush
Blueberry93
And i vape too!
Edibles are saving me.
 
End of day 3 here... tonight was the first night I struggled a bit. I think the first couple days are easy because it's like "yay, something different! I'm sober!" but then reality sets in and I realize how much I miss it. Or rather, I feel a little depressed and know that a hit would bring me right back up again. But I am mostly depressed for other reasons that are just easier to avoid while high, and I know that in order to keep getting that high I have to lower my tolerance. So I will keep on truckin.
 
Fuuuccckkk i should take a break too....damn....i haven't taken a break in like two years :(
 
Okay I guess I am the only one. Ha.

I think it's been a week so far. Most of the thought and craving to smoke is gone now. Although I did buy a fresh bag the other day, it's sitting in a jar in my closet with all the others and waiting for whenever I decide to smoke again. :)
 
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