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[MEGA] Cannabis Quitting Thread aka I need a break

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Wow you've definitely done a lot more smoking than I have I just started last summer. I'll test out a break, I feel like I'm wasting my money being that I aim to get really high not just relaxed.
 
Yeah I've been at it for 8 years, 5 of them spent in a perpetual haze. I was spending hundreds of dollars a month and looking back, I wasn't even that high. It took years to develop but it definately turned into an addiction. A break is always good after smoking hard for a while, what's best though is learning to keep your use at a rate that is much less frequent than once a day. Smoking this much pot has had a far worse effect on my life than binge drinking, stints with cocaine and mdma, repeatedly taking mushrooms and acid (totally worth it). People treat it like it isn't even a drug, but I find it to be the most personality-changing drug of all, and the only one I have ever got addicted to.
 
I'm gonna merge this into the break thread...normally I would just close it and link it there, but I think there is some good dialogue in here that shouldn't get lost.
 
Hi everyone.

I am currently on day 2 of a 1 month tolerance break. Feel really weird, loads of energy (almost manic), my heart is going really fast also and I keep going hot then really cold. I just cant get my brain to slow down it is racing, song lyrics looping in my head it is driving me nuts.

I am not really complaining, it is actually quite interesting to see my body's reaction. I feel like a completely different person today my social anxiety has just about vanished, I can now walk along a street without thinking that everyone is at their windows watching the way I walk and all that stupid shit haha.

Just wanted to share my experience so far, anyone else on a break at the minute?
 
Danny Weed said:
Hi everyone.

I am currently on day 2 of a 1 month tolerance break. Feel really weird, loads of energy (almost manic), my heart is going really fast also and I keep going hot then really cold. I just cant get my brain to slow down it is racing, song lyrics looping in my head it is driving me nuts.

I am not really complaining, it is actually quite interesting to see my body's reaction. I feel like a completely different person today my social anxiety has just about vanished, I can now walk along a street without thinking that everyone is at their windows watching the way I walk and all that stupid shit haha.

Just wanted to share my experience so far, anyone else on a break at the minute?
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Turn that energy into something productive such as weight lifting or endurance training. That will definitely help with the break. But I just finished mine. Twas good, especially when I got a vape on the last day :3
 
Yeah I am doing loads of walking and stuff, it does help a lot :)

Congratulations on your break and the vape :)
 
Day 1 almost over, quite hard to not smoke even though I'm not that heavy of a smoker.

Hopefully posting here will help with not smoking.

I still have 3-4 grams that I have to get rid of and since my friends are away getting more weed will be harder so I should be able to get a nice break.
 
hi guys.

Just recently after my exams and after a trip out to Amsterdam, I have been unable to stop thinking about or smoking cannabis. I have smoked every single day since the 23rd June. On weekends pretty much all day i've been blazing. I really can't break the habit, it's not doing anything bad to my social life or work life I just really enjoy it.

I have also started shottin it in order to save a bit of money. like i buy a half ounce of punk cheap and shot most of it in 3 days, but give myself a decent amount to smoke. So its not costing me anything either, but my behaviour is changing.

I no longer enjoy going to the gym as I used to and I am struggling to read my books. I have also lost all interest in my current gf who i love and is sexy as fuck, and now only think about other girls (obviously this may not be related to weed but may have something to do with it).

My question is, is there some way of maintaining a habit and still being fully functional?Is there some kind of miracle drug I can use to keep things on the straight and narrow whilst getting high all the time?? or do I have to give it a rest?
 
I used to smoke 2-3 blunts per day 4-6 days per week of the high grade shit for years. Then started gradually slowing down starting in March. June I cut back dramatically. July 4th was the last time I smoked and it was just a few hits off a blunt. I quit for a few reasons. One was because I took a civil service exam and pretty soon they will be getting to my list number for the job. Also have other job oppurtunities that require a drug test that I know I can beat just by using others urine but thats besides the point. Another reason is because I was tired of the high, not being "on", On point or whatever. I am less passive and a little more aggressive when it comes to going after things like finishing projects or reaching goals and more focused. I am not quitting forever as it is still nice to smoke once in a while, but sometimes it just makes me think way too much or over anaylize things that dont need to be.. Hell I have a 4 foot OG Kush plant growing right now on my fire escape that I started in April lol and no doubt I will smoke some of her when the buds are ready in October.
 
ive been smoking for nearly 10 years, a good 4 of those almost daily. i dont like the person i become when im stoned. im alright when im sober but when im stoned im just incredibly dull and boring to be around. the thing i realized is that i smoke so much that most people only experience me when im stoned. i feel like there is so much more potential when it comes to interacting with others and weed is just holding me back. problem with quitting is that my roommates and all of my friends love smoking weed. im surrounded by weed all the time and it fits well all the activities i partake in. my plan this time around is to not avoid weed, but not confront it by going to places where i know people will be smoking weed. i hope that the satisfaction of having a clear mind will motivate me in quitting weed for good.

so here goes my 100th attempt to quit weed. ill let you all know how things are going. this is also to motivate me. quite selfish i guess.
 
Iskalla, good on you for not giving up after 100 tries, I'm on my 101st now I think:). I'm 4 full days in this time, and got myself a seroquel prescription just to help me sleep at night. It's hard when all your friends are smoking all the time, If they're good buddies though they should understand your desire and help you a bit. I can watch people smoke with out craving most of the time, but it's when they offer it, and then say, 'Oh yeah, I forgot you were quitting' that I really want it. I'm similiar in that everyone knows me when I'm stoned, they're not used to the louder, more brash, possibly more of an asshole me, one of my biggest fears is that after a while we won't relate to each other, and then I'll be sober, and have no one to hang out with, which will make me want to get high even more, UGH!
Don't feel selfish, we're all here to support each other, I've noticed the people who are successful at quitting on this forum post about their struggle quite a bit, People have been pretty supportive on here, and for me it's motivating to even have people in the online world know how it's going, I don't want to keep coming back here after failing and starting again and again, but it beats telling people in the real world that you've fallen off the wagon.
Be strong, remember if you can hang out with people smoking, and not partake, you've definitely won a huge battle...Good luck...
 
what up CD, been smoking for about 3 years or so, damn near all day everyday since the first puff. Think its about time for a break, just puffing on the last of a fat sack. i've been wanting to cut back for a while now but when i don't smoke now i get pretty bad anxiety and my mind is stuck on finding the quickest way to get stoned. however, I'll be applying for a new job hopefully in the next month or two, or just as soon as i can pass a drug test. i'm the type that smokes first thing when i wake up and last thing before i go to bed as well as any chance i get in between. anyone have any suggestions as to how to manage my anxiety without getting completely ripped? i used to play a lot of music but i find it hard to concentrate on playing without being somewhat high. i know its possible, i used to do it all the time, but it feels like i lost the spark that kept me focused. i want to get this back. i'm tired of feeling like i'm being held back by weed.
 
Hey Mafioso, I know it's different for everyone but I used to think I got anxiety from pot as well, until I took a break for a few days. The next time I smoked I realized just how little control I had over my stoned thoughts, and also how irrational my thoughts can become baked. My brain and thoughts definitely spiral out of control when stoned, but it wasn't until I was able to get really fried (from taking even a few days off) that I could notice it; I was just so used to it when smoking all day. I've been off pot for eight days now (the longest in six years at least), and can honestly say, I have less anxiety and when I do get unpleasant thoughts (depressive, anxious, worse sometimes) I'm able to catch them faster, and question them far more effectively.
I feel you on the guitar, what helped me there was to learn new songs that are way above my ability level, it takes so much concentration I forget everything else. This thread has been really helpful for me in quitting pot, hope I can help someone else...
 
powdakilla, i think i know what you are talking about. i definitely feel more mentally in control when i'm sober, which is why i know i need to quit. its the social aspect the keeps me puffin tho.. to be honest its all my friends and i do anymore. but thats cool that you play guitar too what style do you play? i've been wanting to learn some of andy mckee's work like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSnWhsmlGec.

so are you trying to quit or just take a break killa? you feel like you have more positive energy when you dont smoke?
 
Saying goodbye to Cannabis as an every day drug.

I have recently decided to take hiatus from my two year near every day consumption of cannabis. This has absolutely nothing to do with lack of motivation or otherwise spirit dampening effects that cannabis supposedly has. I am strange, you see no matter what the strain my high is never crippling. It gives me motivation and focus, boosts my energy and makes me chatty. I love cannabis, at one point or another I can say it has saved me from my extreme ups and downs.. In general it has made me a happier, calmer and more productive individual. Right now however I have not the proper time to alot her. Between fucking my gf (which will probably be my only momentary reprise from aforementioned hiatus as my girl LOVES to smoke before and after we bone) and working two jobs I just never seem to be able to taste my high like I used to. When I was just growing dope and working for a Medicinal Marijuana Collective I had all the time in the world to appreciate the finer points of music and conversation under the influence of exotic high grade.. Now, since I must return to my daily grind so quickly after smoking more often than not, it seems my buzz fades into the background perhaps only dilating time slightly and boosting my mood but I never quite get where I used to. So for now I am taking an extended tolerance break and holiday from the added bustle that is trying to get high between responsibilities. May our time apart make our time together more splendid my old lover <3

Q_M
 
you're going to feel STRANGE haha. good lucky the first week or two is tough (see: boring) but it's definitely worth the break. you'll be high as balls in no time
 
Ive been trying to quit too but... that shit just does not work out. Seems like I cant go a day without trying to get a dime fronted or scraping my pipes till their clean as the day I bought them...

I remember when I used to get high.... now smoking weed is like being sober
 
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