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cire113

cire113

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Recently ive had to quit smoking because of this new job i got.... I havent smoked in 6 days and i hate life.... I hate everything... Im hopeless depressed ..... its terrible...


I have no motivation to do anything life seems bland .....

my family is wondering wtf is wrong with me.. they are all worried


I feel just as bad or worse psychologically when i had to quit opiates...

I dont know what to do with myself everyday
 
Do you work out, have any friends, hobbies/interests outside of work and smoking weed, girlfriend, ect?

Alot of the time people who feel shitty after quitting weed only feel that way because they didn't have much going on in life in the first place and smoking pot all day masked underlying problems.

Depression and boredom are very common for anyone who is forced to stop smoking suddenly after prolonged use, so I easily could be wrong.. But if you "dont know what to do with yourself everyday" after just 1 week without marijuana, I would say just quitting the ganja isn't your only problem and being forced to quit just made you realize that.
 
oh dont get me wrong i have PLENTY OF problems.... but im more worried about how dependent i have been on weed for anti depressant.....

I just moved to a new place ive got no friends, no gf, im also a musician but because of an injury i had to stop playing music around the same time i stopped smoking ... so its all hitting me at once...

If i could play music im sure it would be all good.... its like my lifeline
 
Oh I gotcha brother, thats a bummer to hear mate :\

Not sure what we can do for you here though.. I would agree it seems that you have become dependent on pot for an anti-depressant, and that combined with other negative life changes seems to have caused a little bit of a snow-ball effect on your depression. But the only thing that will help with the cannabis part of your problem is ceased used of marijuana for at least a few weeks (sadly its pretty much the same with all drugs ;))

I'll leave this open for a little while to give some others a chance to chime in with tips on dealing with depression after quitting marijuana. But after that you might want to try TSD (The Dark Side) for advice on your general depression, and healthy ways to deal with being without your passion in life and moving to a new place.

Good luck man :)
 
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It'll pass, I had the same for a while after quitting a heavy three year habit, it slowly diminished the longer I stayed sober. Since you're used to having that extra happiness kick with everything you do, its a bit of a shock to the system suddenly being without. Exercise and keeping busy will help the most.
 
If you smoked for a long time its normal to feel this way, some kind of withdrawal.

Hang in there, it will pass and you'll feel better. How soon depends on how heavy a smoker you were
 
i think you need to chill out and have a beer lol. sounds like psychological withdraw, happened to me when i stopped so suddenly a year back. within a couple weeks you wont even mind not smoking. or thats how it worked for me
 
those are normal withdrawal symptoms. it took me years to recover from long term heavy smoking. i would like to think that i would be mostly recovered now except for the fact that i got addicted to benzos about 2 years after quitting weed so now i have to go through the recovery process all over again for them.
 
My best advice is to join a gym and search for a job. Meeting a girl can also take your mind off of drugs completely. Keep yourself busy and avoid things you would usually do while stoned (like watching movies) for the first week. A gym membership and a physical goal can go a long way in occupying your spare time.
 
just give it a couple of weeks and ull feel good again..i just went trough the sae thing a couple of weeks ago..
had tos top because of personal reasons and i felt pretty shitty for the first couple of weeks felt like there is no point in life if i wasent smoking but i just felt it was my minds reaction to no having that great feeling that weed gives you..i smoke maybe once a week because i have ohter things going for me now but everytime i smoke now its even greater than before..so i recomend u give it a break and once u realize there is a whole world outthere when ur not high ull feel fine
 
chainer3k said:
My best advice is to join a gym and search for a job. Meeting a girl can also take your mind off of drugs completely. Keep yourself busy and avoid things you would usually do while stoned (like watching movies) for the first week. A gym membership and a physical goal can go a long way in occupying your spare time.
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I would also recommend joining a gym, it's a quick and easy way to occupy yourself and give you a sense of accomplishment. You'll feel a lot better about yourself after going to the gym and you'll even get a very mild opiate like high from all the endorphins. A girl is also nice, but that could be a little harder than joining a gym, if you know what I mean :\.
 
Weed makes you feel EXACTLY as you would feel if you had taken care of and settled every single issue of your life: relaxed, at peace, happy.

Thing is, the issues ARE STILL THERE. What you need to do now is address these issues, work at things. Now every fiber of your being is saying "but why? If I just toke a bit, I'll feel better and it won't be as much work". Well you just have to not listen to that impulse and TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS.

After you start doing this, you will gradually feel better about your life and yourself and for once, that "feeling good" will not be based on the illusion of weed but on the reality of acomplishment. That's a good path.

And I'm with levictus, fitness is a good thing to do for yourself and it does feel great.
 
I felt/still feel the same way. When I'd have weed it'd be fuckin' magical, everything felt so nice, I was so happy and relaxed and cheerful, even, dare I say it, *friendly*. Then when I'd run out I'd feel absolutely awful, just totally hopeless.

You probably have depression, though maybe not I don't know you, just going by what little you've told us. If you do, you should really try to get off the weed and talk to your doctor. Weed seems to help depression a lot in the short-term but can make it much worse in the long-term (quite possibly due to [reversible] changes to the structure of the hippocampus).
 
You must develop coping mechanisms whenever you have the urge to smoke weed again. Then, you have to develop and strengthen your will to quit. You now know that your addiction to marijuana is not chemical but psychological. So this would all go down to your willpower. It doesn’t mean that you have weak willpower when you have the urge to smoke, but rather you have to fight that urge.

Psychological addiction can be very difficult to break free from especially if you’ve had it for years. But it is possible for you to break free, even if at first it seems hopeless. Take little steps at a time and take it one day at a time. Seek support from people you know like friends and family.

And stay away from people who have been smoking weed. Choose to take another path, a better one. Choose to live a life of health and wellness and freedom. In the end you will realize that you’ve made the right decision.
 
I've been on the fence about this for some time now, and I definitely understand where you are coming from. Marijuana, like any psychoactive substance, is about putting your brain in a different mind set. Whether its to just relax, or trip out, or to make what might be boring fun, or to just be more social...whatever.

At some point, you realize you don't need the drug to have the same fun. You don't need to get stoned to enjoy music....you enjoy it already. You don't need to take molly to enjoy a concert...you're already having a blast! I can definitely understand this point of view.

For me, smoking is a very social habit. And it is exactly that for me....a habit. There are times when I really do ENJOY getting stoned....but I'd say 90% of the time I smoke when me friends smoke, because it is a past time that we share.

But looking back on it, the times when I had the most "fun" getting stoned was the first year I did it back in high school. That was back when weed was new and fresh experience. Now it more or less just mellows me out. Which isn't a bad thing...but it definitely isn't a a necessary part of my lifestyle.

I've pretty much given up buying, and smoke mainly when my friends offer it to me. Not to be a mooch...I always am very polite and thankful when offered.

But good luck in your journey....I'm sure the green herb will make a come back for you. It is, in all honesty, a quality Earthy creation.
 
Not sure if your getting Insomnia but this is another problem when going of the Mary J - you could take up reading more and also excercise in the afternoon or evenging - I guess just try and not use any "crutches" and make a game plan ....
 
This worked for me:
Make some Tom & Jerry strawberry flavour hash-cakes, make sure you put a good 1/4 in, after all you are making 12 cup-cakes. Bake & allow to cool. Eat 5 of them one after another! Get very dizzy and dis-orientated. Puke violently non-stop for about an hour until all the muscles in your neck and torso are throbbing with pain due to the wretching. Then pass out. When you wake up the following day you may still feel nauseous, just sip some water and slowly eat an orange.

Hey presto, I now no longer want to go near Marijuana of any description! I even gave my last 1/2 oz to my Dad!
 
buzzmarlie said:
This worked for me:
Make some Tom & Jerry strawberry flavour hash-cakes, make sure you put a good 1/4 in, after all you are making 12 cup-cakes. Bake & allow to cool. Eat 5 of them one after another! Get very dizzy and dis-orientated. Puke violently non-stop for about an hour until all the muscles in your neck and torso are throbbing with pain due to the wretching. Then pass out. When you wake up the following day you may still feel nauseous, just sip some water and slowly eat an orange.

Hey presto, I now no longer want to go near Marijuana of any description! I even gave my last 1/2 oz to my Dad!
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That's freakin' funny man =D =D =D
 
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