how long do marijuana withdrawal symptoms last

I've been a heavy smoker for the past 3 years, I started smoke weed, because it was an alternative to the mass loads of painkillers I was taking. I broke my back in 3 places. I just recently quit cold turkey about a week or so ago and am experiencing some worrisome symptoms. Beside the typical sleeplessness, my BP has risen, I had my first full blown panic attack and ended up in an ER at 3:00am. My anxiety lvl is through the roof. I'm telling you, chronic heavy use of cannabis has some consequences when u quit. It's no fun boys and girls. Don't listen to the stoners that say cannabis is harmless. The physiological mechanisms that THC effects are mostly cardiovascular. Once inhaled it drops ur BP, so your heart increases it's rate to try and make up for the fall in BP. No one has died from overdosing on cannabis, but they have died from a heart attack from uncontrolled tacycardia(rapid heartbeat) my panic attack was brought on because I was stressed out and, after not smoking for 4 days, decided to take a hit or two from a pipe. My Pulse shot through the roof to 191bpm. That's not good. Couldnt calm myself down, and thought I was going to die. Thank goodness I have a strong ticker. Anyone else this bad?

I smoked pot  for 20 years and quit smoking for 2 years now with no withdrawal symptoms at all. If you want to quit I suggest you keep busy and try to keep your mind off of it. I must say I have to laugh at some of these posts because I really think some of these stories must be flat out fabricated.

no physical withdrawals people, the problems you were masking with THC are just coming to the surface all at once. time and patience will bring things back to normal, stop acting like it's heroin. i've smoked longer than a lot of you have been alive, and i have had to quit multiple times, you just need a strong mind. weak minded people get to believing this is physical withdrawal, and they feel physical pain.  the problem is with their heads.

So you smoked a lot of c**p weed and felt no withdrawal, or you never tried to stop for 6 months. heroin withdrawal goes to the roof in 72hs. THC withdrawal peaks in 3 or 4 weeks and goes on in waves for months.
If you smoke a lot since i was born you lived all your life in a fog.

weed is to strong up here in Bud Country

 

smoking reefer gives my mind a drift

 

So i think the message i will leave you all with is: Weed can help you or hurt you; just like anything else. Too much of anything is bad.

 

Sitting at home baked out of your tree laying on the couch gets boring after awhile; get out there and see the world you pale faced baggy eyed video game playing stoners. There's a whole world out there. And a whole universe if you can build a spaceship, or steal a UFO from some aliens.

 

I don't need weed to be happy, but if theres some around for a reasonable price, I don't see why i shouldn't smoke a bit...

Hi All, i've been smoking weed everyday for the past 30yr's and have recently decided to give it away. i dont think for a second it will be a walk in the park but to all the people who are going thru actual vomiting and gagging and other really harsh symptoms, i think you may have other problems there. If it was hydro you were smoking maybe you need to look at how it was being grown and what was being sprayed on it or fed to it. I still have the craving to smoke, but looking at my 3yr old gives me the strength to put those to bed.  i know everyone is different and will react in different ways but all i can say is keep busy, keep your mind active and you will come out the other side a better person. stay strong and best of luck to you all..

My name is Nichole. I am newly 17 years young & I have been smoking pot since I was 14-15 years young.

Never the type that smoked day to day all day long. But throughout the years it became more and more. I've smoked spice or what some people refer to as legal weed 2-3 times in my life. Now everyday everything feels fake. It feels like it isn't real. It feels painful and it feels like it isn't going to go away. The longest I quit for was 3 months, and I started up again because my counler told me she didn't think that's why I had depression and she thinks that I have just been through a lot in my life.

When my mom went back to jail I started smoking heavy to get my mind off things and to pass the time. I was having nightmares everynight and decided that I needed to quit smoking. It has been a little over a week now that I have quit and I'm just trying to get myself to go back to normal like I use to be and become "nichole again."

Sometimes I have panic attacks in my head. Sometimes I can't control my emotions/irritability. & I want to cry all the time.

If anyone needs someone to talk to i will be here, feel free to contact me!

We can work through this together. xo

I just want it to end.

The only thing that keeps me quitting is "a few hours of fun isn't worth a life full of pain."

 

 

dont worry im feeling the same way just stay away from other addictions like sleeping pills

I smoked for 10 years and stopped no withdrawal. You might have a psychological dependence. For me stopping grass was easy. Stopping tobacco? THAT was not so easy!

How long since you stopped....wait 3 months....if no withdrawals that means you smoked low grade weed for 10 years. Consider yourself lucky.

I smoked everyday for 11 years on chronic bud we get here in Australia. I gave up a year ago and still have trouble sleeping. Some nights I don't sleep at all, usually sleeping 4-5 hours after lying awake for about the same. I use valarien root and camomile teas but they don't really work, just make me slightly drowsy. My body was so used to the sleeping side effects of weed that I can't naturally sleep anymore no matter how clean I live or what I attempt (exercise, meditation).

I used weed to mask the fact I was totally unhappy with myself and not able to get help or talk about my pain, due to the stigma associated with gender dysphoria in a masculine crazed society.

 It is a great natural herb and I can't speak highly enough of it. My addictive personality and my anxiety, depression and gender issues are to blame for my problems. Anyone blaming weed for their problems should reflect on WHY they smoked so much dope.

Marijuana should be legalised the world over and replace alcohol as the socially accepted drug. Why is a peaceful drug illegal and an aggresive depressive drug legal? Unbelievable. Nobody here would have problems socialising (maybe besides me) if weed was sold and smoked in a bar like atmosphere.

Good luck to everyone out there trying to quit and sleep. Just letting you know what you might be in for, hopefully not, but this my reality.

Rant Over!

You're just lucky. I've maintained a healthy diet and exercise about 4 days a week. I'm not overweight. I meditate. I take good care of myself. My only bad habit was weed. Been smoking it heavily for a very long time. I'm on day 7 of not touching it and I can assure you that the withdrawal symptoms are very real. Honestly, I kind of don't appreciate your comment inferring that no one can get addicted to it. That's just straight up ignorant. It's definitely a physical addiction as magnesium levels get depleted over the years , not to mention hormones get thrown out-of-whack. Then again, you've only been smoking 5 years. When you've been doing it heavily for over a decade you might discover the truth. The thing about it is that it creeps up on you. When I was 5 years into heavy smoking I had the same opinion as you. In fact, didn't know anyone could ever go through withdrawal. Now I know better. Believe me, it's no joke.

Honestly folks (and I wrote my first entry a year and 1/2 ago), quitting pot is pretty much impossible. I've given up on myself. I've tried so many times before and I always pick up again. We all know people who do it. We all enjoying doing it. Sex feels better when we're stoned, and the list goes on. So just try not to smoke your brains out, or get caught by the cops, and you should be OK, but if you're smoking tobacco, you definitely need to quite.

I'm afraid most posts here are missing the point. There is no "withdrawal" from weed in the same way there is with other drugs. It is ALL in your head. The nausea, anxiety, sleeplessness, ALL just in your head. You are in full control. You are HABITUATED but NOT ADDICTED. it's very important you understand this as then it will be very easy to quit. You're just so used to not being sober, that when you are sober, your brain is so shocked that it puts you in a state of high alert. This is why you are anxious and don't sleep. However you can completely bypass this by overcoming it with your conscious thoughts. If you really wanted to stop, you would have already. I smoked an eighth 3.5 grams a day for about 10 years. Stopped outright and I promise you, I had no withdrawal symptoms. None. Zero. It's because I wanted to get myself better. Trust me man, it really is all in your head.

You had no withdrawals because the marijuana you used to smoke is not high grade. 3,5g a day for 10 years? If you were smoking high grade man you would feel like you gonna die when quit.
This thought of: "it´s all in your head" is BS".