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[MEGA] Cannabis Quitting Thread aka I need a break

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If you keep it to just two sessions (or even two days of smoking) I think any tolerance you do develop would be almost unnoticeable. Even if you smoke two days in a row I think the rest of the week would be plenty to keep everything in check. I mean, when you start out with a zero-to-no tolerance and you make a conscious effort of controlling your habit, on those days you smoke you won't need much to get stoned as fuck for the day-- and, as we all know, if you smoke infrequently and relatively small amounts, any tolerance is unlikely and slow to develop.

The main thing is just controlling yourself, though. In the beginning it'll probably be a bitch limiting a favorite habit/pastime but it'll become easier as it becomes the normal routine for you, just like most other things.
 
I was prescribed Vyvanse for a few years for ADD, I thought it made me more focused on the anxiety and what other feelings came up especially anger. I stopped taking it because of that and that it gave me the most annoying face spasms. I'd be talking to someone about something serious and my fuckin eye brow would begin twitching uncontrollably. I really hated it.

Never tried bud with it, but I imagine for others it might make the paranoia last longer.
 
I understand the social anxiety part - although it sucks, I find I can still manage to function normally with it.

Cannabis does have benefits for me which I think at the very least balance the +/- .. like computers for example. I find after some good dank I seem a lot more interested in my web development projects, I like to think of it as steroids for anything computer related. But that's just me, and I never used cannabis to get 'fucked up' or party ... just for introspection and learning.

And I also cannot use weed with stimulants, in fact the other night I did a g of decent blow and I smoked a bowl on the comedown of my homegrown and I almost forgot how to breathe lol .. it took about 15 minutes to convince myself I wasn't gonna die. The only other drug I like mixing it with is alcohol. Same with stimulants.
 
Perplexity said:
I understand the social anxiety part - although it sucks, I find I can still manage to function normally with it.

Cannabis does have benefits for me which I think at the very least balance the +/- .. like computers for example. I find after some good dank I seem a lot more interested in my web development projects, I like to think of it as steroids for anything computer related. But that's just me, and I never used cannabis to get 'fucked up' or party ... just for introspection and learning.

And I also cannot use weed with stimulants, in fact the other night I did a g of decent blow and I smoked a bowl on the comedown of my homegrown and I almost forgot how to breathe lol .. it took about 15 minutes to convince myself I wasn't gonna die. The only other drug I like mixing it with is alcohol. Same with stimulants.
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I'm glad you said that, I blame the A I got on my last C++ homework on weed =D,it seems that my thoughts become fleeting, and I can pick different solutions out of my head at will.
Unfortunately that is but one class I have to deal with, while the others promote discussions and running social experiments, so it looks like I'll be becoming a weekend smoker pretty soon. I'm just not as quick or confident as my peers, and one of my professors is a notorious intimidator (grade-A asshole, will let you know exactly what he thinks about you in front of the class, also best professor I've had in college hahaha) which, with a weed hangover, is asking for incredible panicking.

It's interesting to read your guys' reasons for cutting back. While survey data points out that most habitual smokers curtail use by the time they're 30, I think it begins around 20-21, a role shift in adult life. One said, "I just don't want to quit." (20 or 21 yrs old) That translates to me as "I just don't want to grow up", as in spend the majority of the day working and not being able to do what you want, when you want. Not saying that's bad, I thought the same thing about a year ago and have been sluggishly coming to terms with the fact that there are many years ahead for me, and I'm not always going to have the heatlhy(ish) body I have now, so I need to work and ensure that I will be in a situation where I can retire and smoke nugBlunts all fucking day, and laugh at all the youngsters as they get on the work train 8(
 
would this classify as an addiction?

hey guys i was just thinking about my weed use, and previously i would have said i was addicted to weed, but im not sure now.

so ive been smoking for about 6 months. i started off and on, and within a month i was smoking every day. i took my finals in school baked out of my mind (still aced them though...). i promised myself i wouldnt smoke at certain times in the beginning, but i eventually broke all my rules and started smoking every day, typically all day (but not always). i spent around $1000 in those 6 months on weed. i averaged about half a gram a day, some days more some less. during the summer, i ended up going on vacation to colorado. despite being in the open, and on vacation with family, i managed to smoke nearly every day. i made little makeshift pipes out of aluminum foil, packed the bud in, and sealed the bowl. then put the little aluminum pipe in my pocket and went outside, found a nearby hiking trail, hiked to a deserted area, went a decent ways off the trail, and smoked the whole bowl. then i would crumple up the foil into a tiny ball and chuck it as far as i could and walk back to the hotel, baked off my ass. i continued to smoke every day, until i ran out of money. then i ended up getting more money, and burned through that in a couple weeks. if i had bud, i smoked it. if i had money, i bought bud. then i ran out of money again, and quit for about a week. managed to get an eighth, finished it in 4 days. then i quit again, and havent smoked for nearly 2 weeks. any time i stopped, i had no withdrawal symptoms or anything, and no cravings. now basically i always think about bud, and wish i had it, but i dont. i view it very fondly, and i miss it a lot, but ive never felt the need to resort to theft, selling possessions, borrowing money, etc. however, if i have money, bud is the first thing i buy.

so, my question is, does this qualify as an addiction (psychological)?
 
gearfiend said:
i had no withdrawal symptoms or anything, and no cravings. now basically i always think about bud, and wish i had it, but i dont. i view it very fondly, and i miss it a lot, but ive never felt the need to resort to theft, selling possessions, borrowing money, etc. however, if i have money, bud is the first thing i buy.
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These things are not markers of addiction - that is to say, they often come with addiction with hard drugs, but not with addiction to less life-controlling things.

Can you drop it without it making any difference in your life? Would it bother you to not smoke again? Even these are not clear questions to get a clear answer - for instance, I haven't smoked in many months, and I was an everyday smoker - 1,000 in 6 months...? Yicks, I'd do that in about 3 weeks to a month. So you see, clearly this is something that we cannot analyse for you exactly. When I quit, I had almost zero trouble, besides coping with the fact that, when it really came to it, I was smoking my last blunt. It was a bitter sweet moment but I had told myself that was it for a while, and that's all it came down to. It was much easier to quit for me then opiates.

Lets look at the meaning of the word:

noun
the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes trauma.
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I think the mega quitting thread can give you some great insight into this not so simple answer.
 
RobotRipping:
well, spending all my money isnt really a negative aspect in my mind. i had the money, i wasnt saving for anything in particular, i didnt blow my savings, that was just the money i had to spend on random shit i felt like (eating out, video games, etc). so if the thing i wanted most was weed, i dont consider the money as wasted, no more than if i had spent it going to the movies or buying video games. it gave me countless hours of enjoyment which would have been obtained from some other source regardless. so i dont really see that as a negative thing.

so technically, i was/am not addicted, as i havent smoked in two weeks, there was no 'trauma' from quitting, and it never really produced negative effects in my life. and it may also be worth noting that my lungs seem to have sustained no damage whatsoever from the smoking, despite spending a full 6 months smoking weed and occasionally cigarettes (they arent addictive at all for me). I never had coughing, wheezing, a decrease in lung capacity, or anything. i mostly smoked out of bowls and a few mcgivered bongs made from various household items.
i did however notice that for the short time i smoked out of aluminum foil, my lung capacity seemed to decrease rather drastically, although when i was smoking with the foil, i was at an average elevation of 9000-12000 feet, so that may have been a factor. however, nearly immediately after i stopped smoking out of the aluminum, the symptoms previously mentioned disappeared.

anyway, thanks for the input guys
 
Tolerance Break

I'm on day 1 of my week long tolerance break. I already did everything I needed to do for the day and now I'm bored as hell. Books: read. Homework: done. Video games: beaten. I've been chain vaping from my e-cig like crazy all day. If anything ends my break prematurely it's going to be boredom. What do you like to do when you t-break to keep your mind off of bud?
 
a great way to take your mind off is exercise. start a routine and follow it. another alternative would be finding a hobby or learning a new skill. or you could write. i do that when im bored sometimes. and naturally, the mother of all time consumption: A JOB. any old place will do, it will give you something to do and keep your mind off bud for the time being. so just some suggestions from my experience.
 
Its tough as hell I recently quit for 5 months and Ive been smoking every day all day for the majority of 10 years. Just got to be strong. Cause damn is it worth it when you finally fire up some chronic Feels like your a kid again smoking for the first time. Valium and xanax are great since they give you a high similar to Marijuana. Also if you can get ahold of some Jwh 073 or jwh 210 or Jwh 081 Jwh 018 those are the canaboids that are very similar to pot. I usually smoke it like a snowcap by dipping the cig in a the bag of jwh and toking it. Its no subsitute but thats what I did to quit for a while
 
rc_headache28 said:
Its tough as hell I recently quit for 5 months and Ive been smoking every day all day for the majority of 10 years. Just got to be strong. Cause damn is it worth it when you finally fire up some chronic Feels like your a kid again smoking for the first time. Valium and xanax are great since they give you a high similar to Marijuana. Also if you can get ahold of some Jwh 073 or jwh 210 or Jwh 081 Jwh 018 those are the canaboids that are very similar to pot. I usually smoke it like a snowcap by dipping the cig in a the bag of jwh and toking it. Its no subsitute but thats what I did to quit for a while
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JWH is not quitting and it definitely NOT going to help lower your tolerence. When I was on JWH I could not get high from weed and I mean at all. I felt like such a drug addict my friends would be like "I'm so high" and I would lie and say I was because I didn't want them to feel like the blunt was wasted.

Get a hobby there are plenty of them find one that suits you. Do not smoke synthetics they will not help you here.
 
slimvictor said:
Exercise is key.
Meditate?
Learn a new language?
A new instrument?

You may also want to look into taking some 5-HTP. I find that it helps with the cravings.
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I have been wanting to get better at playing bass lately...

I've been trying to keep myself occupied and so far its working. My house is cleanest its been in 3 years. (I started smoking daily about 3 years ago. Correlation? Probably.)

I had a couple of really bad experiences with synthetic cannabinoids last summer and I never want to use them again. I've never been more afraid that I was about to die or get brain damage as I was then.
 
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