Quitting drugs

[monsta_trippa]

Not quitting but big time cutting down..
For the last approx 6 months i've been doing prob an average of 2-4 pills a week. It stuffed up a lot of things in my life, turned me to doing a lot of speed (to combat the come downs) and cost me a lot of money.
Plus i lost sight of the big picture. I wasn't taking pills to have a good time, more just because it was the weekend and what else is there to do? No longer was just taking one or two pills enough, so i started double dropping and doing up to 4 a night to try and get the same buzz.
I guess it really hit home when i was pilling just to try and make myself feel better, like a pill would fix all the problems in my life. Big mistake. Only made things worse and made me feel worse.
I found myself introverted and would only go out and socialise while on drugs. I only realised that my use was probably too heavy when i started reading these forums. Where i found out that it actually takes two weeks to get back the lost seretonin. Some people were talking about once a month use as too heavy!
So i guess i just want to show that these forums really are used and are really useful. I've now cut back to maybe once every few weeks and am setting about getting my life back together and paying off the thousands of dollars of debt.
My only advice is to take some time away now and then, and look at what you're really doin. And keep checkin out the these forums cos they're damn useful....

 

[Shnouzerpuff]

Marijuana
- After becoming a massive pot head in the final year of school and year after I ended my journey in Amsterdam. After that I quit for 11 months. Smoked a little recreationally after that, then quit again for 10 months...now its approaching the time again when i decide to give it up entirely or have a couple of social spliffs over the Xmas Break.
I dont really know what Ill do yet, though I will probably stay away.
Alcohol
- No where near quitting with this but have severely cut down from getting utterly hammered twice a weekend to a more casual, relaxed level of social drinking once every week or fortnight.
Every other drug apart from E
- I have tried LSD, shrooms etc etc etc but now they hold no interest in me whatsoever..I keep E usage to about 3 times a year, and I figure that I have learnt all i can from the other drugs.
So yeh i guess im pretty clean cut nowadays....frightening.

 

[sonic_reality]

MARIJUANA
I started smoking it in Yr. 10, and by Yr. 11, I was smoking around 2 grams a day. I quit school half way through Yr. 11 because my motivation to get up and go just disappeared. I can easily admit that marijuana has made me unmotivated, self centred and not caring about anything but where my next cone comes from. I have tried to quit several times and the longest i have abstained is a measly 2 weeks. I have tried councelling, cold turkey and even hypnotism(yes, hypnotism)to curb my addiction, but nothing i do seems to work. I make the decision EVERYDAY to quit, but by the end of the day, i will be sitting at home with a bong in my hand. some people say that marijuana is not addictive, but once you start smoking 2 grams a day(i smoke a lot less than that now!), the addiction kicks in bigtime.
if anyone has any suggestions on how i can quit, i would really appreciate it. i really need to quit, because it is destroying my life.
[ 20 November 2002: Message edited by: sonic_reality ]

 

[Jouldah]

sonic, maybe you should start with easier goals, instead of completely quiting why dont you start with somehting a little easier, like restricting the way in which you smoke. A friend of mine's approach was to only smoke joints. When he was really lethargic he couldn't be bothered rolling up, and so he ended up smoking a shit load less. You'll probably go through a shitload more bud, and not even get half as ripped , but hey your trying to quit. anyways im a little off topic so i think il stop now

 

[gOOgster]

I havent made any decision to quite munching pills. I didnt even realise what i was eating could be considered to be excessive (Ive been averaging about 5-6 a weekend for the last 6 months) until i read this thread. makes ya wonder.
But im having too much fun to even dream of slowing down, so i aint gunna bother. i just hope i get out before its too late.

 

[BigTrancer]

I make the decision EVERYDAY to quit, but by the end of the day, i will be sitting at home with a bong in my hand. some people say that marijuana is not addictive, but once you start smoking 2 grams a day(i smoke a lot less than that now!), the addiction kicks in bigtime.
if anyone has any suggestions on how i can quit, i would really appreciate it. i really need to quit, because it is destroying my life.
Smash your bong, stop buying weed, and get a fucking hold of yourself if you think it's destroying your life so bad... Stop giving in to lack of self-discipline.
The 'measly' 2 weeks you talked about abstaining for is definitely the worst part, and it gets easier after the first 3 days. Once you get over the insomnia, night sweats and bizarre dreams, you won't even feel like smoking anything.
Get yourself into a night-time routine, say have a shower every night before you go to bed, maybe a warm drink, and convince your body/brain that these are its signals to shut down, rather than having a cone to make you go to sleep.
BigTrancer

 

[sonic_reality]

i have actually set a date now that i am going to quit on. On sunday, i am planning on having my last cone for a long time, and then throwing away my bong, conepiece, rolling machine and anything else that reminds me of weed, including the two weed posters on my wall.
nearly everything in my room reminds me of smoking cones, so i have a lot of stuff to chuck out.

 

[Smurf]

Dude, if you REALLY want to change, then you need to change your mindset in order for any change to stick.
Firstly work out all the things that have gone wrong in your life because of pot, then associate MASSIVE PAIN to NOT making the change.
Unfortunately willpower isnt going to be enough. You have to change your belief systems to such extent that continuing taking it is NOT AN OPTION!
Since people do more to avoid pain than to obtain pleasure, you really need to get down and dirty on yourself, to such an extent that to even looking at another bong makes you sick.
I know it sounds impossible, but once you come out the other side, its such a relief, you wonder what all the fuss was about
Good Luck

 

[Tabernacle]

Something that could help in getting over the insomnia, which IHMO is the worst part of quitting weed. I found when i quit i was so set in my routine that bongs were actually required to sleep. However if you wake up really early, do a hard days work, some exercise (may i suggest you begin a martial art to take your mind off smoking and it also gives you an outlet for frustration) have a beer or two and then sleeping will be easy (have a shower before bed to alievate those night sweats). Also exercise is also great for boosting appetite which over the first 3 days will almost evapourate. Marijuana is highly psychologically reinforcing, not so much physically addictive. I wasn't happy with the pattern of use i degenerated to, so i quit for several months and changed my pattern of use. I still smoke i've just trainined my brain to tell me that i don't need marijuana, never again will i smoke a Q in a week. Hope it goes well, remember you've summoned the motivation to quit just keep it going and you'll be fine!

 

[d e v i a n t]

nicotene.. its teh devul, i tell everyone who i know that does it that its the devul.. thou i do have spin now and than with my cones..
alcohol.. i loose myself in it, im no longer who i want to be and i have trouble saying no to things, so i decided not to do it (havnt touched it for a year pritty much exactly) thou i would do it in controled circumstanses.. never at a tenny party again thou
and ive already decided im going to quit all drugs after ive tried them all .. never done pills/trips more than 1-2 times a month so if i stay like i am i should be fine

 

[beatGirl]

Pot: used to smoke everyday, fell in to that motivation-less cycle of being constantly wasted, disliked what i'd become, stopped smoking it, started again and flipped out! any cones ive had after that break have freaked me out, so it was easy not to go back to it. Haven't had a cone in 2 years and dont miss it at all.
Acid: had a very very very bad trip, where i sat huddled in the corner of my room for 12 hours alone thinking i was dying, but too scared to go to a hospital as i was convinced they'd commit me! had horrible visuals, and rushes, and swore if i got through it alive i'd never touch a trip again and i haven't. That was about 2 years ago aswell.
Pills: go through stages of quitting to lower tolerance, and regain emotional stability, but always seem to start taking them again . . . last experience with pills i had 4 blue domes (due to high tolerance) and just felt so drained afterwards, realised it wasn't fun anymore and my head needed a break. Haven't had one in 7 months now (the longest ive ever gone has been 3 months), so im doing well. I miss them though, but im amazed at how much better my memory and basic intellectual abilities are since i stopped doing it all the time. I doubt i've quit for good though.
Speed/Meth: never quit . . . haven't really had a reason to i guess . . .
[ 23 November 2002: Message edited by: beatGirl ]

 

[Tiny_Object]

Crystal Meth..
I Was taking about a gram a day for about 8 months after a bad run of depression got me kinda addicted.
I Decided to stop due to the effects that taking it at that level for that long was having on the relationships that i had. From All reports i was completely arrogant and agressive and everyone was scared of me exploding at them.
I was quite successful in regards to quiting... that perticular drug... but i did it by switching to another and have been smoking pot ever since. Not at the same levels, as i binge on it ever say 2 weeks, but it still isn't the best.
anyway