Well, I noticed a few people mentioning there should be a thread on quitting, where people who have quit weed can offer advice on the safest, least painful methods of quitting gunja.
Now a lot of people (including myself) have 'quit' weed for various periods of time; for me- I've been smoking since I was 14 (I'm now 22), and daily for at least five of those years, the longest I've quit is for 8 months, but I've stopped for anything from two weeks to three months during that time period.. So my advice/suggestions are to be taken with a grain of salt, but because I still enjoy smoking, I know that having lengthy breaks is the best way to ensure I minise the negative effects of both the actual cannabis and the cannbis dependency. Some of the reasons I have quit:
- Feeling anxious/paranoid when not smoking
- Feeling anxiou/ paranoid WHEN smoking
- Bad effect on respiratory system
- Negative impact on short term memory
- Laziness
- Can't afford a drug habit (mainly when younger)
- Family worried about it
- Annoyed/frustrated at desire to smoke all the time
- Effects of weed become lessened due to tolerance
I have found weed both easy and difficult to give up- some of the troubles (withdrawal's if you like) that I've encountered are:
- Loss of appetite
- Insomnia
- Anxiety/nervousness/mild depression
- Sweating; hot/cold flushes
- Anger, irritable, snappy twmper
- Desire to smoke (not really a craving just a niggling want)
- Nausea, feeling vomity, constantly gagging
And there are more . . . .
Ways I've found to alleviate these symptons:
- Patience; they pass (for me) after about three-five days
- Some GP's recommend using Diazepam (valium) to help reduce anxiety when quitting (not advisable really).
- Eat healthy (force yourself to eat if neccesary, you will find healthier food easier to digest, so eat healthy!)
- Try to tire yourself out during the day, so you will sleep well at night. A lot of people find the insominia which can result from quittiing gunja the worst part, so being really tired can help you sleep.
- If you cannot be bothered exdercising or don't have time, try melatonin or speak to your GP about obtaing a mild sleeping aid.
- Breath deeply to avoid a fight or flight response from your nervous sytem.
- Have sweet drinks to rapidly replenish energy levels.
- You may sweat profusley at night, so ensure you are in comfortable clothing/attire when in bed. Even have a towel handy to clean the sweat of your self.
- Drink heaps of water, and avoid coffee- unless you are also addicted to that
, whereby it is not advisable to withdraw from the that at the same time
- Try to take up a relaxing hobby, like making music, reading to distract the mind
- Try meditation
- Most of all, WAIT IT OUT. All the symptoms that can manifest themselves when you quit dope are pretty mild really; this does not detract mush from the crappy feelings you may have to endure, but just remember it won't ever get too bad and will be over in several days.
Cannabis dependancy is very dose related; the obvious way to avoid all these potential problems is to not allow your smoking to get over the top. Try not to use so much tht your body becomes reliant on having a steady stream of THC entering it; whilst weed MAY not be physically addictive, in the traditional sense, it still carries with it many of the risks associated with addictive drugs. Try to have days when you don't smoke, or just time periods of the day where you won't smoke- for example, say that you won't have a smoke until 3 in the afternoon or something.
Anyway, I hope this is helpful in a way- any other contributions would make this a good resource for people wanting to quit, cut back or, that old sawhorse, take a break from our favorite weed. Peace out
Now a lot of people (including myself) have 'quit' weed for various periods of time; for me- I've been smoking since I was 14 (I'm now 22), and daily for at least five of those years, the longest I've quit is for 8 months, but I've stopped for anything from two weeks to three months during that time period.. So my advice/suggestions are to be taken with a grain of salt, but because I still enjoy smoking, I know that having lengthy breaks is the best way to ensure I minise the negative effects of both the actual cannabis and the cannbis dependency. Some of the reasons I have quit:
- Feeling anxious/paranoid when not smoking
- Feeling anxiou/ paranoid WHEN smoking
- Bad effect on respiratory system
- Negative impact on short term memory
- Laziness
- Can't afford a drug habit (mainly when younger)
- Family worried about it
- Annoyed/frustrated at desire to smoke all the time
- Effects of weed become lessened due to tolerance
I have found weed both easy and difficult to give up- some of the troubles (withdrawal's if you like) that I've encountered are:
- Loss of appetite
- Insomnia
- Anxiety/nervousness/mild depression
- Sweating; hot/cold flushes
- Anger, irritable, snappy twmper
- Desire to smoke (not really a craving just a niggling want)
- Nausea, feeling vomity, constantly gagging
And there are more . . . .
Ways I've found to alleviate these symptons:
- Patience; they pass (for me) after about three-five days
- Some GP's recommend using Diazepam (valium) to help reduce anxiety when quitting (not advisable really).
- Eat healthy (force yourself to eat if neccesary, you will find healthier food easier to digest, so eat healthy!)
- Try to tire yourself out during the day, so you will sleep well at night. A lot of people find the insominia which can result from quittiing gunja the worst part, so being really tired can help you sleep.
- If you cannot be bothered exdercising or don't have time, try melatonin or speak to your GP about obtaing a mild sleeping aid.
- Breath deeply to avoid a fight or flight response from your nervous sytem.
- Have sweet drinks to rapidly replenish energy levels.
- You may sweat profusley at night, so ensure you are in comfortable clothing/attire when in bed. Even have a towel handy to clean the sweat of your self.
- Drink heaps of water, and avoid coffee- unless you are also addicted to that
, whereby it is not advisable to withdraw from the that at the same time- Try to take up a relaxing hobby, like making music, reading to distract the mind
- Try meditation
- Most of all, WAIT IT OUT. All the symptoms that can manifest themselves when you quit dope are pretty mild really; this does not detract mush from the crappy feelings you may have to endure, but just remember it won't ever get too bad and will be over in several days.
Cannabis dependancy is very dose related; the obvious way to avoid all these potential problems is to not allow your smoking to get over the top. Try not to use so much tht your body becomes reliant on having a steady stream of THC entering it; whilst weed MAY not be physically addictive, in the traditional sense, it still carries with it many of the risks associated with addictive drugs. Try to have days when you don't smoke, or just time periods of the day where you won't smoke- for example, say that you won't have a smoke until 3 in the afternoon or something.
Anyway, I hope this is helpful in a way- any other contributions would make this a good resource for people wanting to quit, cut back or, that old sawhorse, take a break from our favorite weed. Peace out
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
)one night. Well actually it was when I had quite a bad breakdown(ended up confessing everything I did to my parents, told them I needed help, etc...). I was depressed, had anxiety, and just felt the world as "Blagh"(otherwise as nothing). I ended up going to the Doctor which he gave me a sample pack of "Zoloft". Now Im pretty sure it wasn't Zoloft which helped me in quitting, heck I think it didn't even do anything to me except giving me the side effectas of it(which were not pleasant).