withdrawal from smoking weed

Is weed physically addictive? My friend says that she does not to stop using weed sudden, because of bad symptoms of withdrawal. Are they really that bad? How bad can these symptoms be? Would it be noticeable all day long, at school, at home? How complicated it can be for person to get off of weed?

Weed is not physically addictive and there should not be symptoms of withdrawal. You should talk about that to your friend. It is just a habit, even less addictive that smoking cigarettes. There can not be that noticeable symptoms. One can be nervous, can sweat more, but only because of nervousness, not because his body needs weed. That’s nonsense by which persons are used to delay getting off the weed.

lulie wrote:

Weed is not physically addictive and there should not be symptoms of withdrawal. You should talk about that to your friend. It is just a habit, even less addictive that smoking cigarettes. There can not be that noticeable symptoms. One can be nervous, can sweat more, but only because of nervousness, not because his body needs weed. That’s nonsense by which persons are used to delay getting off the weed.

your a fool to say its not physically addictive the pot of these days is engineered for one thing potency and yield why do u think people breed different strains, weed to day is not the hippee crap people smoked in the 60's, panic attacks are not physical? suddenly stopping creates a chemical imbalance in the brain which causes the panic attack; the panic attack is definatley physical.

yea i agree with you it is phsically addictive

i think that you should do what u want...smoking pot is awesome...

it ent phsically addictive i smoked it since i was bout 12 n i quit it straight away wen i found out i was pregnant n i didnt have any withdrawals it all in ur head if anything its better now im not smokin cuz i ent paranoid all da time now!

i have smoked weed for 12 years and i have tryed to stop but i cnt and i need 2 stop smoking fags can any 1 tell me the best ways 2 stop?

I don't know whether pot is physically addictive or not. However, after I smoked it all day, every day for several years, when I quit I definately experienced some symptoms that I believe were related. First off, a persistent depression that took awhile to shake, and I also had really vivid, overwhelming dreams. Some were good and some were not so good. You should be able to function, just think of the benefits and get lots of sleep, exercise, eat healthy and that seems to help shake the depression.

I don't think marijuana is addictive in the way it is often suggested to be. I read an interesting article in New Scientist some time ago. Scientists had shown in rats (I believe) that in some ways marijuana (in very, very high doses) was addictive to the rodents. However they found little evidence of withdrawal symptoms in the test candidates. The suggestion was that the withdrawal period was relatively long and low impact (perhaps due to the relatively slow breakdown and excretion of THC and related compounds from the body)

Marijuana does apparently suppress REM sleep somewhat and therefore usually leaves heavy smokers with less dreaming when they sleep. Sleeplessness and / or nightmares are common with people giving up marijuana.

I personally don't think depression is likely to be caused by marijuana so much as modified or suppressed. While becoming clean of the substance I think a period of metabolic and psychological adjustment is likely.

It has to be said that in Europe a majority of marijuana users smoke it with tobacco. It should be considered that if giving up smoking 'joints' made with tobacco a withdrawal from the tobacco will also be experienced (unless the user continues to smoke tobacco alone).

HELLO TO MY FELLOW SMOKERS ....I HAVE STARTED AND STOPPED OVER YEARS, I DIDN'T EXPERIENCE ANY WITHDRAWLS JUST SWEATING. LIKE IT WAS SAID, IT IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD AND YOU ARE YOUR BIGGEST ENEMY., SO YOU ARE FIGHTING AGAINST YOURSELF.

GOOD LUCK!