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[MEGA] Cannabis Quitting Thread aka I need a break

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Ive always done weights at the gym. a fast metabolism will help u eat, sleep and relax. try some form of meditation... yoga..
 
hey everyone, its me for the 1000ths time, trying to quit weed. i have already cut down on it in the past months. i think i havent bought weed for 3 or 4 months. yet theres still plenty of opportunies for me to smoke due to the crowds i hang out with.

had another bad experience yesterday. im on vaccation, havent smoked for at least two weeks and was actually pretty happy about it. i was invited to a party and i knew there would be some great bud and i was really excited to smoke. i drank four beers, had a good time, i was socializing with everyone and having fun. i was even making conversation with a girl (no intentions, i have a gf; its just good for the ego). so then i go out to smoke up. i took a few big hits of the blunt and the quality of the weed just blew my away. i felt dizzy, i was coughing and i knew i just made a mistake.

on my way back to the party i had already lost it. i felt detached from the whole situation, feelings of extreme depersonalisation swept over me. i didnt feel like myself anymore. people were talking to me and i could barely put together what they were saying. my answers were incoherent, akward bullshit topped off with a stupid laugh. gone was my wit and ability to make conversation. i didnt even look at the girl i was previously talking to for the rest of the night. i just sat on the couch, hoping noone would talk to me and thus diverting attention towards me and my pathetic state. i really hated myself in that situation. i was having so much fun before i smoked and now i was just this silent, akward, weird guy sitting on the couch unable to talk to anyone without crapping my pants.

it was a situation were i swore again, like i have many times, to stay away from weed in the future. weed may work out for some people but it certainly doesnt for me. the problem is that i always come back to it. i might not be a daily smoker but its still a habit and one i have maintained for almost 8 years. even these overwhelmingly negative experiences arent enough to put me off the drug.

smoking weed occasionally doesnt work. i have to quit completely for at least two years. im starting right now. ill let you know how it goes. no more pot for two years, here it goes. next joint i smoke, if i ever decide to smoke again will be on september 11th 2012. next opporunity i have to smoke pot i will say "no thanks, i dont smoke". and its going to feel great. and im going to have a much better time than if i did smoke pot. i will make new friends who dont smoke pot, i will spend more time with the people i care about, i will do better in university, i will discover new hobbies, travel, etc etc. pot is no longer going to stand in my way of happiness, its just myself now. i can do it. i have to do it. 8 years is already too long.




heres a potential recap of what could have happened last night if i hadnt smoked that blunt:

arrive at party
drink some beers
talk to people
have a good time
DONT SMOKE A BLUNT
drink some more
joke around
show the group some cool (drinking) games i know (didnt have the balls to bust them out)
have a good old drunken conversation with someone
make a good impression on people
make friends
feel good about myself



heres what happned:

arrive at party
drink some beers
talk to people
have a good time
SMOKE A BLUNT
feel miserable
feel detached
feel paranoid to talk to anyone
leave a bad impression
dont make friends
feel shitty about myself
write retarded rant on internet forum


people say i have my life together. i have a supportive family, a loving girlfriend, a fullfilling hobby and a promising carreer ahead of me. the only thing bothering me about myself is my addiction to pot and the way it subtely but surely affects my life. its time to quit for good.
 
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hi all iv been reading all the good advise in this tread the past two days iv been smoking for ten years plus,but have desided its time i stop problly not for good but at least 3/4 months .today is the day wish me luck
 
JWH, anyone know what the official results are, ive heard speculation that it may be toxic or cancerous.
 
I've been trying to quit since I first started smoking the ganja back in highschool, sad to say I haven't been able to successfully do so, then again I haven't been giving it my full effort, it's just too much fire here in California.
 
[there's no tl;dr, sorry :(]

So I'm ~36 hours into cold turkey sobriety.

Was smoking .5g-3g a day for God knows how long, taking 50-100mg diphenhydramine before bed every night for about 7 weeks, and drinking between half of 1-3 40oz's of random cheap beers (not malt liquor) a day since mid-summer. I've done this cold turkey quit before with much success. This time, however, I think I managed to just freak myself out.

Here's the situation: I'm laying in bed, stone-cold sober, listening to a hypnotherapy track to help induce sleep and controlling my breath for 10 second inhales and 10 second exhales. This sleep exercise is not new to me, it's just not as effective as drugs. Anyways..

After about 10 minutes of this I started having closed-eye visuals. Nothing detailed, but nothing I can ignore either. It's like a wave of light collapsing inwards on itself from all angles... kind of like the opposite motion of the ripple-effect a rock thrown into a body of water would create, but with non-existent light. It has nothing to do with a dream-like state either, because I'm now wide awake and every time I close my eyes I see the "reversed ripple of light."

The light's intense but not painful. It keeps my mind stimulated enough to deny any possibility of sleep.

Has anyone else ever had this happen in response to a several-substance-cold-turkey quit? If possible, how do you stop it from happening? I haven't ever experienced this before whilst sober and it's kind of 'noiding me out... I honestly think it might be diphenhydramine withdrawal, but as I don't know much about that sleep-aid's addiction potential I really have no clue.

Any input's appreciated. Sleeping's my favorite part of the day and it seems like my body was made not to be able to naturally get any. :\
 
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Everything pot

Hi guys, ive made a thread not for sympathy but for 100% help. Anyway I have being addicted
To pot for about 8 years I havnt gone a day without a bong, simply I
Want to give up this habbit very badly.

I have lost my friends my family and myself, I would say im a heavy smoker
Going through a half bag in 4 days I wouldnt call economical smoking. This is
Were my problem is, Ill say I want to quit and will for half a day
Than I will get home and all I think about is pot, not bills, friends and family but dropping everything for a hit of pot

Has anyone else felt the same? and how did u treat the habbit
 
Not quite 8 years, 5 yeas of daily toking for me. And I know what you mean about saying you'll quit in the morning then smoking up when you get home. =/

But the truth is man, theres no special instant fix. You just gotta not hit the bong for a while y'kow? once you've gone 2-3 days it's the easiest thing in the world. The only real negative effects are the lack of appetite/sleep which compared to what you could be going through is nothing.
 
cold turkey quit basiclly all drugs.
ive been sober 8 days from everything exceeept

2 days ago (sat night) i had plans to go to a rave and roll/do some kind of drug

couldnt even find the rave.. so was basiclly still sober.
smoked some legal herb the whole night, then in the morning i smoked 2 bowls of some real good middies.
i was sooo ripped from that shit but yeah im sober again and still count myself clean

weed im definitely quitting for myself and other reasons (probation, piss tests, parents)

im still gonna drink every now in then and maybe do some stimulants (adderall ritalin etc)

but definitely the longer you go the easier it gets. hope to stay sober at least 6 months without hardly smoking (like maybe doing some drug on the weekend once a week, and thats it)
 
just wanted to say i pretty much completely recovered from cannabis

a few years ago i quit a heavy daily marijuana habit that had been ongoing for years. afterward, i suffered from a number of residual affects including postural orthostatic hypotenstion (extreme racing heart whenever i went from sitting to standing, lying down to sitting or even just taking a deep breath sometimes), stomach problems, anxiety, paranoia, panic attacks, heavy cough and phlegm and a constant "burnt out" dull feeling in my mind like i was still stoned. these effects persisted to one degree or another for quite some time and i remember posting a lot about them and how i believed the damage was permanent.

anyway, i just wanted to let everyone know that i have essentially completely recovered aside from some minor things like my lungs still not 100% as healthy as they were beforehand. but i guess that's to be expected, especially when you consider my gravity bong binges that went on for many months.

unfortunately, all is not well at the moment because i got addicted to benzodiazepines and am currently dealing with the withdrawal from those. but i did want to give an update on the cannabis situation.
 
I remember seeing your posts awhile back, and appreciating the more cautious perspective on cannabis that you offered. It is often treated like food or water -- but it should not be.

Glad to see that you're on the road to good health! :)
 
a few years ago i quit a heavy daily marijuana habit that had been ongoing for years. afterward, i suffered from a number of residual affects including postural orthostatic hypotenstion (extreme racing heart whenever i went from sitting to standing, lying down to sitting or even just taking a deep breath sometimes), stomach problems, anxiety, paranoia, panic attacks, heavy cough and phlegm and a constant "burnt out" dull feeling in my mind like i was still stoned. these effects persisted to one degree or another for quite some time and i remember posting a lot about them and how i believed the damage was permanent.

anyway, i just wanted to let everyone know that i have essentially completely recovered aside from some minor things like my lungs still not 100% as healthy as they were beforehand. but i guess that's to be expected, especially when you consider my gravity bong binges that went on for many months.

unfortunately, all is not well at the moment because i got addicted to benzodiazepines and am currently dealing with the withdrawal from those. but i did want to give an update on the cannabis situation.

I feel for you dude the withdrawal from benzos is FUCKED!
 
merged with Quitting thread as it fits the theme there, as well as being inspirational for other fellow BLers looking to get clean.
 
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