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[MEGA] Cannabis Quitting Thread aka I need a break

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when i would try and give up i would wake up in the middle of the night sweating like crazy, like my pillow would he alot heavier than the other one it was so wet, all my friends did it and i couldnt get away from it. but then i found out the secret for giving up...........take a mini holiday, somewhere where you dont know anybody , pot smoking friends, dealers ect, even if you have to go to your grandmothers house for a week. just knowing you couldnt get any even if you wanted to helps heaps, have a few beers , after a few days the sweating stops and after a week you are able to finally say no!.
 
^That withdrawal effect isn't strange at all, it's strange that you've never felt it. Pretty standard effect from stopping smoking. Though i've never had it as intense as that dude was describing it.

deez_nuggs said:
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
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i like the exogenous opiates better!
 
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How much does heavy smoking have on your mental state? (depression, etc?)

Smoking about a half oz a week, how much of an effect, if any would that have on someone's mental state? (Of high grade) Not sure if I'm going crazy here with life stuff but I feel like I'm in a rut, and I'm not sure if it's real or if it's just this stuff making me nuts, long time toker though

Also, what exactly does a panic attack feel like? Is it just feeling dark and gloomy while high for no particular reason (yes this happens to), or more like breathing issues and actual physical problems (this doesn't happen to me luckily)

I'm in my mid 20's btw, and been smoking for almost a decade now (most of that was in college and rarely in high school), but HEAVY maybe the last 3-4 years?
 
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If you have to ask if you need a break, the answer is usually yes. You won't go totally nuts but smoking a half oz a week is certainly enough to make you feel kinda "meh" and in a rut, especially if you've been smoking for a while. Try smoking less often and going and trying something novel to occupy your mind.
 
sekio said:
If you have to ask if you need a break, the answer is usually yes. You won't go totally nuts but smoking a half oz a week is certainly enough to make you feel kinda "meh" and in a rut, especially if you've been smoking for a while. Try smoking less often and going and trying something novel to occupy your mind.
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Also the only way I smoke is waterfalls :\ Originally did waterfalls b/c it was so much cheaper smoking a waterfall and getting blasted than smoking j's all day. For a while this method allowed me to smoke every day without ever using that much weed b/c waterfalls are so efficient (much more than vapes IMO).

However, eventually all this did was give me an unreasonably high tolerance where I could literally sit there and smoke 10 waterfalls of chronic in a row and barely feel anything. Back in undergrad, only 1 waterfall would give me pixel vision and really fade me. I'm at the point where I smoke 4 waterfalls each time (people that aren't used to waterfalls get slammed from 1), and it barely lasts 45 minutes. And this is also high grade scientific looking stuff
 
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I've definitely gone through phases of comparable smoking. I agree that it definitely can put you in a rut. Days blending together, that sort of thing. Just personal, but not feeling "sharp" bothers me. Something little like walking downstairs and forgetting why I walked there, that sorta thing.

Basically, we smoke weed because it is enjoyable. If it ceases to become enjoyable, then it is time to cut it off.

And panic attacks take different forms. They can last from 15 seconds to an hour. There are literally two dozen symptoms, ranging from tunnel vision to feeling like you are choking. Having four of them usually qualifies as an attack.
 
A panic attack is definatly more than "feeling gloomy", I had a panic attack the first time I smoked and it consisted of my heart racing and my body shaking I was just FREAKING OUT because I was just too high.

Anyway, you should take a break or at least slowly cut down your intake till it's only once a day or once a week or something
 
slimvictor said:
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.
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Cannabis affects me much more strongly than most, and the withdrawals I experience when quitting weed make it damned near impossible to quit. Nightsweats, insomnia, constant fatigue, mood swings, depression, irritability, impaired sexual function. And it doesn't stop. I've done 2 months without and still not back to my old self, don't know if i ever will be.

Interestingly I get no withdrawals from smoking cigarettes. I've quit "successfully" (for many months before I start again when fucked up) and with the right attitude I find it doesnt affect me at all, I just start feeling healthier after about a week.

I've done 2 months cold turkey off both, and its much much harder living without weed than without cigs. I've quit each independently in the past so am very familiar with how my body reacts to withdrawal from each substance.

I was never really addicted to cigarettes though... not in the same way I was addicted to weed. Smoking was just a habit for me, weed was a necessary escape from reality. I've never been writhing in agony wanting to kill myself while craving a cigarette...
 
ive written here so many times trying quit weed. my dismay for smoking weed always builds up slowly until it gets to a point where want to stop. i will then stop smoking for a week or so until i think "hey, youre not much different, weed aint that bad" and then i start smoking again, full force. i am 25 and i think i will only quit weed when i move together with a girl who doesnt smoke. right now, living with my stoner roommate, its just impossible.

btw, i quit cigarettes three years ago and never looked back. weed...no way.
 
how long should tolerance breaks be?

i try to take like a week and a half to two weeks off between each time i smoke. mostly for tolerance but also because i rarely get to get weed anymore due to no money. its been 5 days since the last time i smoked and im craving haha. is 5 days good enough to where my tolerance should be quite lower?
 
I'd say 5 days is good. Waiting longer could help though. But, I get high as a kite if I haven't smoked for even a measly 2 days.
 
ive got a really high tolerance, take breaks every couple of months for as long as i can mostly for my head than for my tolerance. every time i start to smoke after a break it only takes a couple of days for my tolerance to be back to what it was before.

in answer to your question - not long enough.

tolerance is a bitch!
 
well i dont smoke often. i smoked two weeks ago then smoked 5 days later. ive never waitied that less amount of time to smoke again. i always wait about two weeks. ive never been one of those "smoke everyday" people. so i dont think ive really given my tolerance much of a chance to get really high.
 
24 hours makes a world of a difference. A week does about double that. A month does about double a week.

YYMV - I smoke cannabis 3 days out of 30. The break in-between is nice (although forced upon me) for my tolerance, but after a day or so of solid smoking, my tolerance jumps back up to what it was when I was smoking daily for years.
 
How would you stop smoking

I've been smoking weed almost everyday since I was in high school. I'm in college now and the only semester I haven't blazed everyday was when I was living abroad in Italy and good bud was hard to come by (everyone smokes hash there).

I noticed that was my best semester in college ever. I'm not saying that smoking weed makes you stupid, but it definitely makes me feel lazy. I'm interested to know if anyone else feels the same way and what you've done to counteract it.

As a result, I'm trying to stop smoking, at least on the weekdays. Although this is almost impossible seeing as I'm in college, my best friends all smoke or deal, and I have a 2 foot roor bong, two vaporizers, and a ton of rollies. I'm basically saturated with all this marijuana paraphernalia/lifestyle that every time I try to quit smoking, it's almost impossible.

Thoughts?
 
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