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[MEGA] Cannabis Quitting Thread aka I need a break

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I had smoked weed constantly for the past two years, multiple times a day, skipping a day here and there. I decided to quit in january only making it a couple weeks before smoking again. That turned into smoking like I used to so last month and this month I was able to cut back again alot. Ive smoked maybe four times in the last month, each time becoming less (fun?) Appealing.
Pot never effected me, until this year which is why ive decided to quit. I was socially awkward and kind of forgetting who I was in a way. I have bipolar and adhd, which was sort of half the reason I would smoke, to self medicate. But now even though I would love to pack a bowl I feel that weed makes me depressed more so than I should be, although I have been alot, but lifes hard. I dont feel witty, sharp, funny and my brain is going to mush without continuing my education where learing was easy, now its troublesome, and I know your ability to learn while high and retain information is nearly impossible.
I plan on being sober for three months, I have my whole life to smoke, I just need clear my head and get on some proper medication for my mental issues before I resume my smoking. I know alot of you out there are having similar struggles, and there own, staying strong.
 
Im on my second day and it is hard as fuck. My entire lifestyle revolved around being high for the past few months.. music, friends, the final paper for my english class is even about weed LOL

Finding it very hard to not go out, buy a gram, and smoke that bitch right to my fucking dome. Seems like every time I look at something it just triggers a fat joint rotating around my brain. =/

Im also extremely agitated when someone asks me a question, almost like i want to punch them in the face for no reason
 
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Hi, I will make a welcome post next, but this topic was timely. Got sober 25 years ago at 19; pot my was drug of choice.

2 years ago, got cancer, had to do a year of chemotherapy and invited pot back into my life for medicinal purposes. Chemo sucks and pot help make it tolerable. Probably the only euphoria I got to feel for that year, helped the appetite, the mood, and helped distract me and get me into watching movies so I could forget how sick I was for a while. I completely support its medical use with chemo patients and chronic illnesses.

Post cancer treatment, I did not stop smoking weed. I have neck problems that produce muscle problems and a suffer from a low level of anxiety. Over the last 6 months, weed has increasingly exacerbated/caused some anxiety and muscle pain negating the opiates / muscles relaxers I am on. It went paradoxical for me. I am not sure what changed.

Needless to say, that is disappointing. I like weed, but if it is going to cause more pain as a side effect, I am going to stop for awhile. Consequently, smoking up my good shit and been giving away the swag as tips to the maid. I cannot quit if I have it. In the last 2 years or so, I probably have not only smoked 5 days or so during that time. My quit date is set for 4/20 of course.

Reading my own post here convinces me I pretty much picked up where I left off 25 years earlier with he only difference is that I had no tolerance for a good while. The high end weed is definitely better and more readily available now!

Good luck to to others who are quitting or taking a break. I will let you know how it goes.

Thanks for all who have given advice in this thread and the staff for letting threads be bumped. Some information is timeless. :)
 
Did you tried it? Some people (including me) don't have insomnia at all and they have regular dreams (although intense and vivid) instead of nightmares.
Problem is that you don't get that much of a rest during this sleep and it can accumulate over the week. Best solution for this is probably to smoke before going to sleep every 2 or 3 day and gradually lower the dosage.
 
^^Yeah, occasionally when i run out because im skint and i dont have for the whole day, then i get insomnia and nightmares.^^
 
This dude in my english class hates me because I'm a fucking asshole cause I start withdrawing in my last class of the day from weed. I start sweating, getting restless, and EASILY annoyed. I've been such a dick to him but I can't help it. He's annoying but not so annoying that I wouldn't be able to deal with it otherwise.
 
I'm quitting cannabis permanently. I have chosen to do this do to the amount and severity of side-effects I experience. I become anti-social/find myself having nothing to say to the point of being unable to communicate with anyone including my friends, girlfriend, and family. I become lazy and listless. I experience derealization and loss of emotional affect. I am completely unable to remember my dreams. However, this is after long-term daily smoking, and the symptoms linger for weeks. I have never stopped long enough to see these symptoms disappear entirely.
So far in my quitting, I have experienced increased socialization, I am beginning to remember my dreams. I am looking forward to life being real again and just being the person I used to be, if that can even happen.
 
Wilshire14 said:
I'm quitting cannabis permanently. I have chosen to do this do to the amount and severity of side-effects I experience. I become anti-social/find myself having nothing to say to the point of being unable to communicate with anyone including my friends, girlfriend, and family. I become lazy and listless. I experience derealization and loss of emotional affect. I am completely unable to remember my dreams. However, this is after long-term daily smoking, and the symptoms linger for weeks. I have never stopped long enough to see these symptoms disappear entirely.
So far in my quitting, I have experienced increased socialization, I am beginning to remember my dreams. I am looking forward to life being real again and just being the person I used to be, if that can even happen.
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good luck to you man, I hope everything works out.
 
Wilshire14 said:
I'm quitting cannabis permanently. I have chosen to do this do to the amount and severity of side-effects I experience. I become anti-social/find myself having nothing to say to the point of being unable to communicate with anyone including my friends, girlfriend, and family. I become lazy and listless. I experience derealization and loss of emotional affect. I am completely unable to remember my dreams. However, this is after long-term daily smoking, and the symptoms linger for weeks. I have never stopped long enough to see these symptoms disappear entirely.
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this is so me. having nothing to say is just the worst, especially when it happens with friends, family and gf. often times theres also a lot of meta conversation going on in my head, overanalyzing and overthinking everything.

on top of that i just lack drive to go out in the evening if it isnt pot related. go out to the club, get drunk, socialize? i try, but i usually dont commit because theres pot waiting for me at home. however when i got out at night and get stoned i just sit there, not saying a word for hours. so the only win is sitting at home and smoking pot, growing more and more dull.

ive been without pot for three days now and i dont feel any different than usual. ive gone for as long as three weeks and still felt no difference. this kills my motivation and soon enough i spark up again.
 
iskalla said:
this is so me. having nothing to say is just the worst, especially when it happens with friends, family and gf. often times theres also a lot of meta conversation going on in my head, overanalyzing and overthinking everything.

on top of that i just lack drive to go out in the evening if it isnt pot related. go out to the club, get drunk, socialize? i try, but i usually dont commit because theres pot waiting for me at home. however when i got out at night and get stoned i just sit there, not saying a word for hours. so the only win is sitting at home and smoking pot, growing more and more dull.

ive been without pot for three days now and i dont feel any different than usual. ive gone for as long as three weeks and still felt no difference. this kills my motivation and soon enough i spark up again.
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I speak from my own experience when I tell you that quiting weed won't make much difference on its own.
It is the lifestyle that you need to change in order to fell deferentially. I know exactly what you mean when you talk about "meta conversation", "silence", etc.
When I quit weed it just puts me in """real""" world. So if you (like myself) basically lost social life you gonna need to focus on building new one.
Although to be honest pot did not make me lost social life - I just couldn't lie anymore to myself that I have a good friends or try to convince myself how awesome that friday night was.

From this POV pot made me realize many things and I'm just looking forward to a new life at collage. And this time I'll hopefully stay true to myself.
 
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my lifestyle isnt that bad. i have friends who want to do stuff with me, its just that often im not motivated because i can stay at home and just smoke pot. i notice that whenever i dont have pot lying around, i try to find other stuff to do so i wont be bored.

5 years ago, when i was 20, i quit pot for three months. lots of people commented on how i changed, that i seemed more lively, energetic, witty and outgoing.

so as you can see, i am positive that my life would change for the better if i just quit weed. and yet i still cant bring myself to do it. i suck.
 
iskalla, do you/did you use weed for reasons other than simply recreational fun only (i.e. self-medication)? And I have to point out the observation that you appear to be pretty burnt out. Maybe just trying to take a temporary break can change your outlook in the long-term. I would take baby steps if you don't think you can do that.

If you're dead-set on your conviction that you can't quit, you can always remind yourself the vast majority of people tend to "grow out" of excessive chronic use with age (usually the 30s) anyway. Maybe one day you'll reach a point where you're comfortable on your decision to quit, but I recommend not looking too far in the future due to the definite inclusion of subjective bias. It's not hopeless (though that's something I always scoffed at when I was horribly addicted to tons of drugs).
 
I was recently arrested and held in prison for 13 days because police believed my residence was filled with cocaine and firearms (all because ONE PERSON I KNOW happened to do that shit[and he ratted out my house because his sentence could be lessened])

It was like something out of the show cops. At 4:30 in the morning, half asleep i hear lots of banging and running around. Then i hear somebody running up the stairs and beyond my door i hear a BOOM! and then someone yell 'POLICE SEARCH WARRANT!' and then all of a sudden BOOM! my door gets kicked in and he puts his gun right to my head and yanks me out of my bed, wearing nothing but gotch.

he says you're being detained while we execute a search warrant for cocaine and guns. There was NEVER any cocaine or guns in my house at all. not even once. I didn't allow that shit because i wanted my home to be my safe haven; it was my sanctuary. The one place i didn't have to feel paranoid about smoking pot. Unfortunately because someone wanted to lessen their sentence they gave up my address. I don't even sell pot (i used to months ago) and they caught me with two ounces of weed.


Now i have to attend drug addiction councelling for 6 weeks, as well as i have 18 conditions including an early curfew. i was evicted from my residence and forced to move back in with my parents. I have a probation officer and everything and this was my FIRST OFFENSE EVER. I never had any priors or a criminal record before this and now all because i smoke(d) alot of pot my life is all fucked up now. I have to take monthly piss tests as well.

it costs 60,000 dollars in canadian tax payers dollars to keep just one criminal in prison per year and i was in there for two weeks. why the fuck is my government wasting tax payers money, and putting stoners in overcrowded prisons? (seriously over-crowded, and by that - i mean LITERALLY 200% overflowed)

and i live in fucking canada for christ sake! Now i'm up against traffiking charges and weapons charges (because they found and unloaded bb gun stashed away in my closet[can you fucking believe that?])
it's like these cops think i run around nickel and diming with a fucking bb gun. The whole time i was in jail all i could think about was how fucking retarded it was that i was put in jail for 2 weeks simply because i'm a pot head. Such bullshit.
 
Not that long ago, I took a 2 week break and it was great when I smoked again and I got a lot more self control after that, thing is I wanted the break so it wasn't hard I didn't even think about it much, but I remember back when I tried to quit because its illegal, or to save money or some other reason that really didn't justify quitting inside my head, it was hardddd.

isKalla - I know what you're saying, you can quit or take a break but you need to really want to do it, if improving your lifestyle is your motivation then instead on focusing on the absence of weed, put your focus in your improvement and feel proud of yourself, good luck.
 
Made it for 3 days then discovered my dugout was not so empty as I had thought. Got stoned as shit on some good dro because I damn sure was not going to throw it away. It's empty now. :)

That was 5 days ago. Doin okay, but I have been a "little irritable". LOL
 
Seeking Advice on how to quit/escape my pattern of abuse.

Hi,

I have been smoking marijuana since I was 16 years old. I am now 30.

I have been in love with Mary Jane for a very long time, I love it, and arguing that it is a better alternative to alcohol is something I will sing until the day I die, etc etc.. you get the point, I am a pot head.

But as with all drugs, they can be abused, and I have been stuck in a pattern of abuse for the last 10 years or so. While I acknowledge that if I abused alcohol like I have marijuana, I would be in a much worse place, but that does not mean that long term marijuana abuse is not without its ill effects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amotivational_syndrome

Since I have been aware of the above term, I have seen it among my long term smoking friends more and more. I think it's a real danger. It is kind of how I feel.

I am European and smoke joints with tobacco and do not smoke cigarettes. This may be part of my problem, but basically I am toking in the mornings before I go to work, popping home at lunch to have another, and then arriving home and having another 2 or 3 before I hit the sack.

This is really starting to have a negative impact on my life, and although I am intelligent enough to recognise that, I seem to lack the common sense required in order to break the pattern.

The hardest part is just trying to care. I am really setup pretty good in my life atm, I have a great job and a career, a lovely place to live, good friends... but I do not have any motivation at all, none. I am supposed to be doing Cisco training for work and am basically pissing the opportunity up the wall, as well as under performing in my job role since a recent promotion. Im in the perfect place right now to lose it all.

Although I am aware of all these negative impacts and shit, I just can't fucking break it. It's got me by the balls.

Ultimately I would love to be able to continue my marijuana use, in a more sensible way, and not in the anti social abusive way I currently do, but I am not sure if I am capable of such a thing, I think I will always fall into this abusive cycle.

If anyone has any tips on stuff that has worked for them, they would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
 
if you want to go cold turkey and quit...

the easiest way that i could recommend is that you check out 'binaural beat generators'

these programs/apps will play two different tones in each ear (using headphones) and they will put you through different brainwave cycles - more information on this technology can be found at wiki ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats )

there are different frequencies available that will tune your brainwave through different phases... i would recommend the alpha+gamma waves for your situation :) they are very effective for me when i'm craving the good stuff.

try it and let me know how it goes for you.
 
Thanks for the response, thats very interesting!

Do you happen to know of any good presets I can find? playing around with Gnaural...

Thanks a lot :)
 
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