withdrawal from smoking weed

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who ever on this site says weed aint addictive is talkin stupid cos they havent been addicted 2 it so they cant say it. i have been addicted 2 it for 12 years and my body needs it every day i dont smoke joints just bongs and if i dont have a bong i will be swetin and i wudnt be able 2 sleep so its faie 2 say cannibis is defently addictive!!

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i have smoked weed for 7 years,i want to quit but i wont smoke for 2 hours and i get very hostile,i cant sleep or eat,i feel like im going to throw up if i dont smoke,it sounds sad and pathetic but its true what should i do? i have all the innitiative to quit but it just doesnt work

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I have smoked for a while and will quit for a year or so, then smoke constantly for a few months and quit again. I have never felt any withdrawal symptoms. If you want to quit then just quit. It’s not addictive at all. Just learn a little self control, which you probably don’t have.

Little Welsh Girl · Newbie Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 2

Over the last few months I have had big problems and decided to quit smoking blow to try to save money. Suddenly I started having really scary panic attaacks and thought i was dying. I went to the doctors thinking it was stress and they put me on anti-depressants which really do help. I was so worked up, I was thinking maybe if things carry on like this, I'm better off out of the pisture. After reading advice on panic attacks, I decided to look for withdrawral symptoms of quitting cannabis. Surprise, surprise, everything on the page was what I have been experiencing. Although I've smoked for 9 years, I was so shocked at the problems I have had lately. My husband made me a spliff and within minutes my stomach started to loosen up and I was smiling again. I kept having little shaky moments but took a chance on another puff and the feeling went. Within 2 days of starting again I'm back to normal. If I hadn't read your article I think I would still been cowering in a corner thinking the world's caving in and wondering if I'd ever leave the house again. Thank you for your advice, I will cut down, but not completely, this is so much better than permanently crying with complete fear, and stomach pains, no food for 2 days, forcing myself to drink water, waking up every hour of the night feeling wide awake, etc. Thank you

Little Welsh Girl · Newbie Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 2

Over the last few months I have had big problems and decided to quit smoking blow to try to save money. Suddenly I started having really scary panic attaacks and thought i was dying. I went to the doctors thinking it was stress and they put me on anti-depressants which really do help. I was so worked up, I was thinking maybe if things carry on like this, I'm better off out of the pisture. After reading advice on panic attacks, I decided to look for withdrawral symptoms of quitting cannabis. Surprise, surprise, everything on the page was what I have been experiencing. Although I've smoked for 9 years, I was so shocked at the problems I have had lately. My husband made me a spliff and within minutes my stomach started to loosen up and I was smiling again. I kept having little shaky moments but took a chance on another puff and the feeling went. Within 2 days of starting again I'm back to normal. If I hadn't read your article I think I would still been cowering in a corner thinking the world's caving in and wondering if I'd ever leave the house again. Thank you for your advice, I will cut down, but not completely, this is so much better than permanently crying with complete fear, and stomach pains, no food for 2 days, forcing myself to drink water, waking up every hour of the night feeling wide awake, etc. Thank you Very Happy

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I recently tried to give up smoking cannabis due to personnal problems, but after about 2 weeks, i started to have really bad panic attacks and thought I was losing my mind. I went to the doctors and she gave me anit-depressants but they didn't work. I thought about different reasons for the attacks and took a chance of looking on the net to see if there are withdrawral symptoms and surprise, surprise, discovered that quitting spliffs was making me a nervous wreck. I hadn't eaten for 2 days and was forcing water down, I was cowering in corners and couldn't stand in shop cues. My husband made me a spliff and within minutes the tight knots in my stomach completely loosened. What a relief. I have smoked for 9 years and new it was addictive, but didn't realise what hell it would cause to quit. I just want people to know that PANIC ATTACKS can be caused by quitting and my suggestion is to sit back and enjoy rather that believe your better off out of the picture, that's what I felt for 5 days and it was pure hell. Hubby, skin up.

PHDinTHC · Newbie Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

As my handle implies, I am quite knowledgeable with regards to nearly every aspect of marijuana, both smoking and expertly cultivating it.

That said, I have smoked it every day for both medicinal and recreational purposes for over 25 years. I smoked roughly a quarter a day.

Six days ago, I stopped completely. I did not taper off slowly, I just quit because I wanted to. Obviously, I was concerned over possible withdrawal symptoms. Here's what to expect:

I experienced mild restlessness and irritability the first day after I quit.

The second day all I noticed was that, since I had been a heavy, daily smoker for many years, I instinctively found myself reaching for my pipe or bong. I did not take a hit, I just set them back down and went on with my day. My body didn't 'need' it, I was just used to the ritual of smoking all of the time, so I just boxed up my smoking devices and put them where I didn't see them all the time.

The third day on up till now, I've had no 'cravings' and only noticed that I have more 'mental' energy, but my body seems to want to sleep more than I used to. This is most likely due to the fact that cannabis (THC)stays in a person's fat cells for some time after ceasing to use it, especially in one who was a heavy smoker like me. My sleep is now much more restful, even though I have for years insisted, with others that pot made sleep better. Cannabis makes you lazy and you lose motivation to do pretty much anything. I am looking to find a new pain management program now, so I take Ibuprofen (Advil) and while it's not nearly as effective as smoking pot, my mind is MUCH clearer and I feel like I've just woke up from a 25 year long cloud. My brother came over this morning and lit one up in my living room and offered me a toke. I politely declined with no problem, although I'd be lying if I told you I didn't think twice before saying 'no'. That made me feel very good about myself.

I am still of the mindset that it is a personal choice, not one to be mandated by any government.

If you want to smoke it, go ahead. If you want to stop smoking it, go ahead and try it, see how you feel after thirty days or so. If you're considering trying it for the first time, simply remember that you will be introducing your brain to something that may or may not cause you problems you didn't have before. If you have an addictive personality like myself, leave it alone and you may just get 25 years of pot-free life, where you can do little things like, well remember stuff... If you can toke recreationally with no probs, more power to you.

Will I smoke again in the future...? I don't know, but it's my choice.

I will say, in closing, that while many pro-cannabis people deny that marijuana is a gateway drug, ask any heroin, cocaine, or other hard drug addict if they started out their addictions by first sticking a needle into their veins. They didn't. They tried pot first 99% of the time.

Conversely, marijuana beats alcohol any day. I've yet to hear of someone smoking a joint and then going out to find a fight. They usually hunt down a couch instead.

Best of luck to all, and if you pray, pray to God as you know Him/Her. If you don't pray, well don't, but I'd highly recommend you try it at least once (praying). It's been proven to be beneficial even if you don't believe there is a God.

You can tell everyone you heard all of this from one of the biggest ex-pothead/grower that ever lived on this green (lol) earth.

Peace.

-PHDinTHC-

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everybody is different and u can't really tell the symptoms. the worst u can get is never stopping because u wont be able to hang around everyone u smoked wit because the only thing u had in common was blazing. its just a bad habit, its an excuse like every other drug to get away from the situations in your life. it stinks, its costly, and it makes u stupid as ****. i've been smoking for 10 years every night and now i stopped. it just makes sense to quit. because after awhile, u are nothing without weed.

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Obviously, the more you smoke the more you will withdrawal.

My LEVELS: I am part of a new work-from-home culture in the corporate world so I had free reign on how much I could smoke. I would wake up at 10am and start my day off with a big fat bowl, lunch time comes around and it would be a smoked lunch, then I would actually eat food for dinner then go back to smoking right up until the time I went to bed.

My WITHDRAWALS: I was smoking so much that I actually began having withdrawal symtoms before I stopped smoking, I could no longer keep the levels high enough to sustain a normal feeling which is what prompted me to quit, among other personal things.

I probably shouldn't have quit cold-turkey at those levels, but I did. Here are my symptoms as the body begins to SLOOOWLY break down the THC that is located in every single tissue in my body (marijuana does not discriminate like other drugs).

Nervousness: A feeling that my nervous system is going haywire, sudden muscle spasms, mild halloucanations.
Anxiety: Shaking always, sitting-still feels bad.
Loss of Appitite: The first few days all I could eat was SOUP, also accompanied by stomach pains, but these are few and usually exacerbated with acidic drinks like POP.
Heart: Palpatations, feels slightly erratic.
Lungs & Trachea: Of course, these hurt. I am hacking up thick black pieces of what could only be described as resin.
Brain: Groggy, cannot concentrate but so far no headaches.

I implore people who say there are no withdrawals symptoms or say that it is in their heads to try smoking like me for a good while. Just because YOU don't have them doesn't mean they do not exist.

-M C

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Marijuan can be very addictive and create many difficult withdrawl symptoms or it could be non addictive and have no withdrawl symtoms it all depends on the person. So it is not fair for anyone to say yay or nay.

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