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[MEGA] Cannabis Quitting Thread aka I need a break

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wickywacky said:
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.
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i can related to this some what. i'm currently toying with the idea of taking a break, although i honestly cant bring myself to do it yet. how i believe i relate to you is i fell in love with a different kind of dance, a finger dance haha, im talking about gloving. i've been doing lightshows and finger dance(digits, liquid, tutting etc.) for over a year now and its gotten to the point where i cant get stoned without gloving haha. this isnt to say i dont glove while not stoned... i guess im just high most of the day so the majority of my really solid practice comes when im stoned.

well any way before i start to ramble, i've been smoking weed since i was 14 and im 19 now. only for the past 2ish years has my usage been daily like it is now, which i really consider to be a little out of hand. im hoping that over winter break from college the change of scenery will make breaking the habit thats so ingrained into my daily life a little bit easier.

@wickywacky have you caved yet or are you still fighting the good fight? haha
 
Well I didn't "cave" exactly but I ended my break after a week as a test to see how much my tolerance went down. It was good, but not as good as I want it to be. Less tolerance but my addictive tendency (start smoking a lot as soon as I have one bowl) was still there and the tolerance was still moderate. Awhile ago I took a break that removed my addictive tendency for like a month at least AND most of my tolerance (the high would last for hours and I found it easy to only smoke once in the day) and I want to get back to that place again. I did a full body cleanse (a juice fast, herbs etc) during that time and I believe that had something to do with it.

So I'm starting over with a new approach. I need to re-train my brain and break these habitual patterns. A week off living life as usual isn't enough to fix the habit or the tolerance.

Experiment two begins today! :)
 
how long would you say the high lasted you? after a week break i'd think that it would put at least a semi solid dent in your tolerance. one of the biggest reasons i think i need a break is because i miss getting high for hours(off only a bowl or two), like you stated above.
 
It lasted maybe two or three hours... not all night like it did in the past after even longer breaks and doing cleansing (not sure if it has an effect on tolerance per say or if it's just the effects of fasting in itself--but after my two week juice fast I got higher than I've EVER been).

Now I'm off it again, and going to test the effects of a similar length break after only smoking 2-3 times, verses every day for a long time.

lol I love doing scientific experiments on myself, it's fun. :)
 
Damn I'm on Day 4 of my long term break, and I have a little bowl available which I wanna HIT SO BAD!! What's bothering me is the sleeping issue, and the fact that I promised to a few that I'll stay strong and show em how its done haha :)

This is so hard, Kratom helps A LOT, but I ran out and currently awaiting it in the mail, I'm thinking of taking more phenibut or a Zyprexa pill though to help me out tonight...

Props to those who have sustained longer than a month! I took a little break for myself not too long ago but it lasted only a few weeks... I dunno, I love weed so much, but it's currently ruining my health (and my teeth) and it's killing my social skills a bit too, when I'm high I like to be with just a few friends or other smokers, and not interact with others (nor can I game girls!) ...

Would it be wrong to hit this bowl and continue going clean from here lol... ?
 
How is it ruining your teeth? Do you smoke or vaporize? Vaporizing is the way to go, healthwise.

It's so odd how people have sleep problems... I feel like marijuana keeps me awake at night and whenever I don't smoke I crash out by twelve or one *when I'm usually up typing away at my computer til at least three or four AM when I'm stoned*
It hasn't been a problem for me to sleep and I had beautiful dreams once again last night. Seriously, mind blowing... I think taking these breaks would be worth it for the dreams alone.

It's not "wrong" to hit the bowl, but I think it'd be more worth it to save it for later and continue your break.
 
I started my break yesterday, everything is fine today, I had a good night of sleep. I'm not telling myself i'm not ever gonna smoke again, i'm gonna have a break for as long as I can I guess ! :p

For those who really find sleeping an issue when they go on a break, my trick is to stay up pretty late like 3 or 4 am, often insomnia will keep me up to this time, then wake up around 9 or 10 am in the morning, that way i'll be even more tired when going to sleep the following night.

Also I didn't find it too hard yet to take a break as I watched 2 documentaries of people addicted to heroin and methamphetamine before going to sleep... made me realize how easy weed is to quit compared to some hard drugs, you should always keep that in mind!
 
im quitting weed again for the millionth time. ive been smoking for around 8 years and the past 3 of them have been nearly daily. i guess its been hard for me because ive never hit rock bottom. except the weed thing i really have my life together, higher education, good at my job, great hobbies, amazing girlfriend and everything. but right when i get home from work i roll a spliff and tune out for the rest of the evening. and whenever im at a party im huge bore cause im always stoned. anyways, i dont like it and im quitting.

im on day 4 so far but thats nothing special for me. i have no withdrawl symptons except maybe a subpar mood in the evenings. i know it will start getting hard on week two when i realize that things arent really so different without weed. thats when i need to pull myself together and stay strong. whats also going to be weird is that nearly all my friends are stoners. i will need to stop hanging out with them, which will be extremely difficult.

right now im going strong and i feel good about my decision, ill keep you updated. oh btw, since i dont want to quit weed all together i decided to allow one exception: edibles. ill never smoke anything ever again, but a nice hash hot chocolate every once in a while is allowed.
 
Update on my tolerance trials... lol

I'm finding that in order to keep tolerance the same, I have to have as many days off as I do on. But for every day I smoke in a row my tolerance still seems to go up...

So I can smoke one day. Then have one day off. And it stays the same.

But if I smoke two days I need two days off or it goes up.

Of course, none of this seems to erase the tolerance I had from smoking every day for months and months and months...

I think to completely rid myself of that I'm going to need a long time off. Maybe months, I don't know. I do know that the time I did a two week fast I seemed to have no tolerance at all for at least a couple weeks after. So perhaps deep cleansing the body (emotionally or physically, there was a lot of emotional release I went through during that time) has some effect on it too. Or, it does rather, I'm just not sure exactly how.

I feel really proud of how I've been doing with it though. Equal time sober as stoned... it's a really good way to measure and keep things in moderation.
 
11 days!!! Have had trouble sleeping/eating nothing major but i definately have more natural energy!!! :)
 
also 11 days here. not a single puff. feeling good, high inhibtions to smoke. im still in contact with weed everyday and i could smoke it right now if i wanted to. going on vaccation tomorrow, things will get even easier there.
 
I haven't smoked any real amount of weed for about six days the first two days of my break I managed to round up a real skinny pinner worth of weed each day, then it was just stems and seeds. At first I was pretty bummed out, but honestly now I'm feeling good and i'm thinking I'm gunna extend my break past this weeks pay check.

I honestly was just spending way too much between the herb and cigarettes without realizing it. I was trying to go into business at first, but it just wound up with me smoking almost an ounce a week to myself, and barely offsetting how much I was smoking. I'm pretty stoked to think about when I do wind up getting some smoke, Not having a tolerance is going to be pretty awesome since it was taking me pretty much a blunt of good regs to get really blazed, I think once you hit that point it's pointless to keep smoking without a break, Weed just becomes a money pit if you like to be high whenever you can be, like I do, I would smoke a joint before work and take my dugout with me. Thinking about it with a clear head it was just stupid how much i was smoking IMO.

I think when I do go back to it I'm gunna try to keep it down to a couple times a week instead of everyday, I feel like I was letting weed be the center of my life instead of using it to enhance my life and relax from time to time.

Sorry if I rambled I just felt like throwing that out.
 
What happened when you quit smoking? Was it worth it? Did you relapse?

I've been pondering whether or not I want to quit smoking. It doesn't affect me quite so negatively, but I feel like the benefits are decreasing. The high isn't what it used to be (my tolerance is through the roof) and my days and weeks fly by me.

When you quit smoking, was it worth it? Did you stick to it?

Maybe you relapsed and realized you did actually enjoy it?

I'll only know by giving it up but I'm just curious to see what Bluelight has to say.
 
I have quit cannabis up to a week at the longest but its just no good everything becomes serious I become emotional and way to depressed id perfer being in a constant daze 24/7 im atleast happier that way and alot more enjoyable to be around. Last time I was actually off cannabis I had a conversation with myself saying I would never want to go through that ever again even if I gotta pay good money to stay stoned all the time in the end its overall worth it for me imo
 
I've been smoking weed since 2006 but I started smoking daily in September 2010. Only once did I go more than 3 days without some bud, and it was for 8 days... I have finally decided to lay down the pipe. The ganja has never failed to bring me good times, and I will never forget the memories I've made. I've made a lot of good friends and weed has opened my life to new perspectives. I love smoking weed but it's just time for me to move on. Going through a zip a month is draining my wallet. I'm sick of hiding from the law, hiding from my parents, worrying about when I'm gonna smoke next, finding bud for friends, and being stoned all the damn time. Not to mention, weed just isn't the same anymore since I started using MDMA. Getting stoned makes me feel paranoid and anxious now, and it's just not worth it. Maybe when I get my own place someday I'll invite weed back into my life, but for now I just need a good, long break. Thanks for the wonderful times, Mary Jane, we will meet again...
 
a full month without any weed. my desire to smoke is at an all time low, im really happy with quitting and smoking now would make me feel like a loser.

im noticing an improvement of my cognitive functions. im better at forming sentences, im losing the nervous swallows and im not fucking up words as much. other than that i havent noticed any big changes. i guess it will still take a while till the weed is really out of my system.

anyways, i never thought it would be possible for me to quit but its happening. activities i thought were impossible to enjoy without weed like videogames and movies have become even more enjoyable sober. when i come home from work i dont want a joint. these are things that i could just not picture when i was smoking regularly.
 
Constantly Stoned

Should I be worried if I've got to the point that being sober feels weird? And being stoned feels normal?
 
most stoners have been through this at some point, and can tell you that it's a really boring way to spend your time and money.
 
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