Ways of quitting cannabis

[sera20]

Hi there. My name is Sally, and I am a researcher at the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre (NCPIC). The centre is currently conducting an online survey looking at the demographics and strategies of people who are able to quit using cannabis compared with those who want to quit, but are struggling to do so. From this, we hope to be able to develop treatments that employ the most effective strategies and are more strongly oriented toward people who find it the most difficult to quit. If anyone can assist with this research, it would be greatly appreciated. We are looking for people who smoked cannabis regularly (more than once a week) for at least a year, but haven't used any cannabis in the last year OR people who currently smoke cannabis more than once a week and have made at least one unsuccessful attempt to quit. If you live in Australia, we will send you a $20 gift voucher as compensation for your time. If you are 18 or older and have access to the Internet, please contact Sally or Desiree on [email protected]

Thanks very much for taking the time to read this message.

Best wishes,
Sally

 

[The Winner!!]

I know this isn't going to sound mature, but Cannabis prevention? Fuck you.

I usually smoke weed daily, and I havn't smoked weed for over a week now as a tolerance break and I have not had any struggles, so as far as I'm concerned there is no addiction but a lifestyle in which I have no problem with. If anyone does need to quit and wishes to quit, the one and only strategy- Will power...

I see it's an information centre so if you want some information about weed I could help you.

If you don't have false propaganda and real, informative information it's most likely anything but cannabis prevention, may I ask. Why do you feel the need to prevent cannabis use if you don't even have information about it?

 

[expothead]

Don't take this personally, but is it any wonder we're sceptical when your organisation has the word Prevention and Information in its title? Perhaps you should be called the National Cannabis Prevention and Biased Information Centre. I, and many others here, despise government funded research that has an agenda.

And bribing us with $20?? You will get better information simply by UTFSE.

Oh, and go and rent Reefer Madness - it's a wealth of misinformation that would be right up your alley.

 

[tylerwashere]

20$ what do you have to do? do you get herbs?

 

[BiG StroOnZ]

You know how I quit Sally? I stopped smoking.

Cannabis is non-addictive...

 

[sunshine swimmer]

I really do think that there are better things a government could spend their money on than " cannabis prevention and information", alcoholics are more of a risk then weed smokers, do more research and prevention for that please, you dont see any chilled out weed smokers starting fights and being a violent baffoon at clubs/partys do you? that would be a big fat NO so dont waste your time with this bullshit research and your shitty $20, go prevent real problems like WAR and POVERTY. not to mention that marijuana is not actually addictive...maybe if you didnt have misinformation you would know that....it is the lifestyle/habbits a person forms, not the drug itself

 

[Omish4lyfe]

Whoa you guys are being way to hostile i believe shes asking "ways of quitting cannabis" I know it's not addictive from personal experience and light research but some people have addictive personalities it's like eating fast food or drinking they don't make me crave it but why stop haha. But i know friends who have trouble trying to quit smoking weed but MOST of those are cig smokers so if you want to quit smoking weed cigs might be affecting that, however if you don't and can't quit i would suggest getting a life well seriously most of the time i blaze im bored or stressed out because of other issues so try to find something to do with your spare time and if its because it makes you happy then fix it or get something else to help.

 

[BiG StroOnZ]

^No were not, Cannabis is not addictive. If you have problems quitting Cannabis then that's your own personal mentality and has nothing to do with the Cannabis itself.

Quitting Cannabis is not like quitting Benzos or Opiates. There's no withdrawal what-so-ever and anything that you experience that may feel like w/d is mental.

 

[Omish4lyfe]

^No were not, Cannabis is not addictive. If you have problems quitting Cannabis then that's your own personal mentality and has nothing to do with the Cannabis itself.

Quitting Cannabis is not like quitting Benzos or Opiates. There's no withdrawal what-so-ever and anything that you experience that may feel like w/d is mental.

Well i guess your right but thats what i was trying to say


"if you have problems quitting Cannabis then that's your own personal mentality and has nothing to do with the Cannabis itself."

 

[LivingInTheMoment]

^No were not, Cannabis is not addictive. If you have problems quitting Cannabis then that's your own personal mentality and has nothing to do with the Cannabis itself.

Quitting Cannabis is not like quitting Benzos or Opiates. There's no withdrawal what-so-ever and anything that you experience that may feel like w/d is mental.

that was well said and intelligent, and no attacks!

 

[expothead]

Here Sally, read this article and have a long hard think about the nature of your job:

Why I Give My 9-year-old Pot

 

[Pretty_Diamonds]

Idk guys. My bf has been trying to quit bud for a few months now and it's hard. He's like dying all the time. Craving it like mad.

 

[sunshine swimmer]

i put his "craving" and "dying" down to him having smoking habbits, i have them too and find it hard to stop sometimes, its just a matter of breaking the routine of smoking, distracting yourself. You dont get physically sick when you stop smoking weed, nor do you have "withdrawl", what you do get is bored, because in those times when you used to normally smoke up, you are not sure what to do, but if you keep yourself busy for a while, it goes away.

 

[swilow]

Wow. You guys are really being pricks here, besides a few levelheaded types. This is simply a gentle request for information, and TheWinners first post is a fuck you? Why be so hostile? BLUELIGHT IS ABOUT HARM PREVENTION YOU IDIOTS!!! There is very little difference between an organisation that looks into harm prevention and a website. And if you don't think cannabis CAN be harmful and hard to quit, then your wrong. It is known to have addictive qualities for SOME people and known to cause harm to SOME people. Its a drug; every drug has positive and negative effects. As to adiciton; do some reseacrh and you'll find that cannabis withdrawal is considered to be real and is indeed in the DSM IV.

As to it being about your personality; okay- so everyone who has trouble quitting pot, as I have at times, has something wrong with them? How incredibly open-minded and caring your all being.Truth is- a lot of people find weed hard to quit; most don't. Its naive to thnk its utterly benign....

Its pretty ironic that a bunch of potheads are so aggressive. Or maybe just ignorant. The latter makes more sense. Do some reading.

 

[swilow]

Here Sally, read this article and have a long hard think about the nature of your job:

Why I Give My 9-year-old Pot

Well, thats not exactly a typical situation now is it? I mean- the article talks about a nine year old autistic child. What the fuck does that have to do with cannabis- its an exceptional and very different situation to most of us smokers here.

8)

 

[BiG StroOnZ]

^maybe because we're not as gullible as you.

As soon as I see "National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre" I think that should set an alarm off in your head, as it does with us.

There's a difference between harm reduction and propaganda.

DSM IV

 

[ItchyRichy]

i was on probation and i had no probably quitting bud. i just stopped smoking it. now if only i could say the same for nicotine...

 

[swilow]

^maybe because we're not as gullible as you.

As soon as I see "National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre" I think that should set an alarm off in your head, as it does with us.

There's a difference between harm reduction and propaganda.

DSM IV

Well said, with emoticons and all. Shows how well you express individuality. Anyway, is there need for personal abuse? If so, why?

Think about it- what is cannabis prevention- do you think its a group trying to prevent the actual plant, Cannabis, from growing? Or trying to gather knowledge to prevent people smoking it? Or trying to gather knowledge to reduce the harm after people have smoked it and are trying to quit?

I WAS wrong re: DSM IV reference, but I am aware it will be included in the Vth volume. My mistake- can your stock-standard use of emoticons include some forgiveness for me? Or maybe you can look it up on Wiki and do your copy/paste trick as usual.....

I just think such hostility is unwarranted. Though, in a sense, it shows me how certain individual BLers truly are. There are no enemies, just people with differring opinions.

Well done for making at least a small subsection of Bluelight appear to be filled with stupid-heads. CLAPCLAP.

See there are an undeniable proportion of people who do experiecen weed withdrawal. I support any efforts to confront this situation. Or, at least, I don't support effortts to negate it.

 

[BiG StroOnZ]

Think about it- what is cannabis prevention-Or trying to gather knowledge to prevent people smoking it?

This what it appears to be, the quitting part is just obviously another thing they do.

DSM IV reference

You weren't wrong, I just don't believe or agree with half of the stuff in the DSM because I believe that out of all the people who are diagnosed with anything in that book that about 15% of those people actually have what they're being diagnosed with. That's my opinion though.

Or maybe you can look it up on Wiki and do your copy/paste trick as usual.....

I'm anti-wiki, I never use it as a source. So I don't know where you got that idea from or what you're even trying to imply...

Well done for making at least a small subsection of Bluelight appear to be filled with stupid-heads

Why are we as you call it, "stupid-heads?"

Do you know what every single rehab and psychologist or psychiatrist or any related institution that is anti-drug thinks about every single person on this website or the website itself? They think we're all addicts with a disease. They don't care about our information, or all the data available that completely counters and disproves everything they stand for. If you tried to go onto one of their websites or into one of their institutes to refute what they readily preach and teach; you would be shunned away without a doubt. Someone who asks how you quit smoking "Cannabis" doesn't deserve the slightest inch of respect. That's like letting a Neo-Nazi into a synagogue preaching that the Holocaust was a lie and never happened...8)

If she went into the OD section and asked, how do people deal with Benzo Withdrawal or how do Opiate users cope with Withdrawal. I would have no problem, but asking Cannabis smokers how they quit smoking is just ridiculous IMO. So don't take it personally, as you can see there's many others who feel the same way.

 

[expothead]

yes, my last post about the autistic child was stretching it and may even have been off-topic. however the general gist of what i'm trying to say is that research should be going into how this valuable resource can be used responsibly.

when an organisation starts off with an agenda (and that seems to be preventing the use of cannabis at all costs) you can't help but be cynical. all it will do is polarise groups of people as demonstrated by the heated replies.