[MEGA] Cannabis Quitting Thread aka I need a break

[Big)Sky]

You just have to simply occupy your time with other rewarding events. Hiking, working out, reading, working.

For me when i wanted to stop, every time i had nothing to do the first thing that came to mind was smoking. So when that thought came into my head i simply counteracted it with riding my bike, or reading a book.

 

[MissZee]

You just have to simply occupy your time with other rewarding events. Hiking, working out, reading, working.

For me when i wanted to stop, every time i had nothing to do the first thing that came to mind was smoking. So when that thought came into my head i simply counteracted it with riding my bike, or reading a book.

^^^
This.
Also, get rid of the bowl, delete all the dealer's numbers and cut all contact with fellow-smokers. If possible (like it was for me) move away from that area for a short time, preferably somewhere you don't know and would struggle to find weed.
And willpower, you'll need plenty of that.

 

[rollingstoned!]

Simple formula

want weed = pushups on the spot until you're till tired to want to smoke anymore

 

[DoctorBenway]

I would say I was addicted to weed and for several years until I got hooked heroin for a couple years. Now the stuff just makes me paranoid and I can't stand it. But yeah...I don't recommend getting hooked on H to end your addiction to ganja

 

[slimvictor]

Simple formula

want weed = pushups on the spot until you're till tired to want to smoke anymore

+1

I like this!
Turn it into something positive.
The exercise high might help as well.

 

[deez_nuggs]

of course the exercise helps..ive actually adopted that exact routine..push-ups when im coming down, run out, get anxious or depressed. gotta love those endogenous opioids

 

[Tiesto]

I was in a similar situation.

I had been smoking weed daily for almost 7 years. Every time I'd "try to quit" I'd last like 3 - 5 days max then go back to it.

But I recently just flat out stopped for almost a month. I just started smoking again yesterday.

I don't know how it really happened, but one day the urge never came, and it didn't come the day after either. I was able to just, stop. Now that I am smoking again, I find I have a lot more control over it. I smoke when I want to smoke, instead of "oh its been 2 hours since I last blazed, I better go smoke." I dunno if anyone gets that, but I'm sure some of you do.

Unless you're "truly ready" to quit, and that means resisting temptation it scrap resin and smoke roaches, then you'll have a harder time stopping.

It was if something in my brain just "clicked" and made me think, "hey, I don't need to be stoned ALL THE TIME now"

 

[goodone77]

G'day mate Iwas addicted to weed for 7 years or so, then I had apiss test with work, scared the hell out of me.........I was lucky enough to get a mates piss for the test but thats another story, Acouple of mates went camping and just drank beers around the camp fire and that got rid of wanting to smoke it to get high feeling whereas with me I used to kid my self I need it to sleep, when actually once I stopped I had better night sleeps because I became pysically more active durning the day and slept due to exhaustion.....

 

[Thomas29]

Someone slap this foo..... you do not need to quit smoking weeed kid.

 

[*Love*Lite*]

You in here 'cuz of marijuana?! Man, this is some BULLSHIT! Marijuana is not a drug. I used to suck dick for coke. Now that's an addiction, man. You ever suck some dick for marijuana?

But seriously... the best way to stop smoking or to quit anything really is to REALLY REALIZE the need to quit and then just quit... dont do it any more. But with weed.... man I dont know why you would want to quit.

 

[Pharcyde]

i always heard it was impossible to become addicted to cannabis
well fuck, i shouldnt of trusted wherever i heard such things
ive been smoking daily for about 5 years now
wheres my first step to sobriety??
ive been trying to quit sine my second year of smoking, the weeds just usch a good quality and price
dirt cheap, almost everyone i know smokes

wheres my first step, i always end up finding a roach or bowl to resin toke
i cant go one day without running into it
so do i have to find somehwere else for awhile?

This isn't the lounge.

 

[bornofemmure]

you're first step to sobriety is self-control. Guess what will happen if you stop cold turkey? probably nothing. You just need to realize you don't need it and you won't

 

[Paulycodone]

The good thing about marijuana is that even after heavy use for a long time the withdrawal is not too bad, and even though tolerance does develop it always "works". I have a prescription for medical marijuana here in california, I wouldn't say I'm addicted to it, but I definitely would be a less happy person were it not available lol. Sometimes its the only thing that helps me relax and sleep, moreso than an opiate/benzo cocktail

 

[socalthizzn]

i always heard it was impossible to become addicted to cannabis
well fuck, i shouldnt of trusted wherever i heard such things
ive been smoking daily for about 5 years now
wheres my first step to sobriety??
ive been trying to quit sine my second year of smoking, the weeds just usch a good quality and price
dirt cheap, almost everyone i know smokes

wheres my first step, i always end up finding a roach or bowl to resin toke
i cant go one day without running into it
so do i have to find somehwere else for awhile?

ive been quitting smoking weed for 10 years now, cigarettes too, ive gotten nowhere with either. try to quit one at a time still never make any progress. it always ends up in this same cycle of "i smoke too much, it really is bad for me i want to quit" which never happens i just cut back drastically on both wich lasts for a few weeks until before i know it im back to smoking like a damn chimeny. me and my friends have all been seeking sobriety from marijuana for well over a half decade to even a deade with no progress. the fucking mistery continues. but bottom line IMO and IME marijuana is as addicting tobacco, down to the point withdrawl symptoms feel the same from both substances.
i truely believe anyone who believes its all in someones head and marijuana is not addicting is in very deep denial of reality.

 

[Crack4Lyfe]

At least its not heroin.

 

[socalthizzn]

You in here 'cuz of marijuana?! Man, this is some BULLSHIT! Marijuana is not a drug. I used to suck dick for coke. Now that's an addiction, man. You ever suck some dick for marijuana?

But seriously... the best way to stop smoking or to quit anything really is to REALLY REALIZE the need to quit and then just quit... dont do it any more. But with weed.... man I dont know why you would want to quit.

i want to quit smoking weed. very badly for my respiratory and over all health. its all i want every night wen i fall asleep and its what i think about all day, but i cant stop picking up the bong. ive realized my need to quit and i want it BAD but i cant because of a very strong and over powering mental/undescribable addiction to marijuana. so i cant believe what you say is true, especially wen followed by "man i dont know why you would want to quit" that leads me to believe your deep in denial about your own marijuana addiction or its potential for addiction. or that you havnt been using long enough to notice marijuanas potential for addiction.

 

[slimvictor]

Socialthizzen: Cannabis may seem as addictive as tobacco to you, with the withdrawal symptoms the same, but other people generally would not agree with this.
Could it be because you are addicted to both, and have been for a decade?

Quitting cannabis is MUCH easier than quitting tobacco.
The withdrawal symptoms are no fun, but they are much lighter than those that arise from tobacco withdrawal.

Willpower is what it takes.

 

[soldadoblanco19]

Love roasting keif topped blunts'fellow daily toker here .
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[socalthizzn]

Socialthizzen: Cannabis may seem as addictive as tobacco to you, with the withdrawal symptoms the same, but other people generally would not agree with this.
Could it be because you are addicted to both, and have been for a decade?

Quitting cannabis is MUCH easier than quitting tobacco.
The withdrawal symptoms are no fun, but they are much lighter than those that arise from tobacco withdrawal.

Willpower is what it takes.

i cant believe that. and no i dont believe tobacco addiction is making it harder for me to quit, i spend my hourse aside from working with the same 4 people who are rediculously heavy pot smokers like myself who strongly desire to quit and have tried multiple times like myself with 0 progress except for entering the same cycle of cutting back --> smoking the same amounts as wen they decided to cut back.


are you speaking on this from experience? have you quit smoking weed for a period of time and then picked it back up and basing your information off of that or are you someone who smoked heavy amounts of marijuana for long periods of time then decided for health/ other reasons you wanted to quit forever and was successfull? if you are someone who stopped smoking weed by choice for a period of time and then picked it up again by "choice" then i dont think you are a good candidate to speak on such subjects.

 

[Paulycodone]

Well I've been on benzos (xanax/klonopin) for 9 years, and my body has to have it or else I have convulsions and mega panic. So I'll be taking klonopin for the rest of my life. I'm also on heavy painkillers and when I try to quit I have really nasty withdrawal, sweating and shivering and puking lol. As far as the marijuana goes, at least the withdrawal is pretty tolerable compared to other substances. I've had some of the edibles, they work alright and last longer, but its a different feeling and takes more. There's a place nearby that has brownies with 6 grams of cannabis in them, but they're 40$ each, they have cheaper ones with less, all kinds of different foods. Also my medical marijuana doctor talked to me about different types of vaporizers which will make it a lot less harmful on my lungs and make the marijuana last longer.