Loading...
I started smoking it a few months after I find out about a few skeletons in the family closet. I confided in a friend and he introduced me to a member of his family and I was hooked instantly. I had all these problems eating away at my self esteem, destroying me from the inside.
I smoked some weed and all those bad feelings, all those demons, left me for a while. It gave me the opportunity to live my life not looking back and thinking "why this" and "how could someone do that". It freed my mind and enabled me to look forwards instead of always looking back.
I smoked weed all though my GCSE's at school and passed them all except one. One that I fell asleep in due to being over-donfident and only answering a few questions. This was the first time I questioned weed.
I have worked most of my life, I have been to work on building sites while high, I have worked in a call centre high, I have worked in sewers and on a high rise block of flats - while high.
I have never done wrong while working in the call centre while high, I felt it made me more relaxed and able to deal with irate customers.
I have never had an accident while working outdoors while high. Working in the sewers, I didn't feel claustraphobic. And working on the high rise I didn't get paranoid about the height.
I have always had a close group of friends whom I have smoked with since I started, and I have always found it easy to talk to new people and to chat up girls. Again I felt that weed was letting me not think that these people were ever going to hurt me like my family did. I felt weed was enabling me to trust people.
Whereas when I couldn't get any weed, when I was straight headed, I felt I read into people too much. I would go over everything someone says again and again, finding hidden meanings and messages. Finding things that made it appear that they only ever did anything to hurt me. I hated not smoking.
Then I got to a stage in my life where everything came crashing down. And it was all because of weed.
Now I wont go so far as to say "weed made me do it". Nothing in life has ever made me do something that I personally did not want to do.
It isn't in my nature as I hope it isn't in anyones. Life is your own to live.
But what I will say is that I had it all. The job, the family (I had my girl and a son), the house (rented, but still "mine") and the dog.
I worked, came home, smoked weed, played with our son, bathed him n put him to bed, smoked more weed, ate something, smoked more weed, then went to bed. To do it all again. And again.
Then I found I was coming home, playing with and putting our son to bed, and then switching off.
I used to turn on the computer, smoke more and more weed, and go to bed too late. I smoked before work and my job suffered. I smoked more at home and my family suffered. But the more I smoked the more "happy" I felt inside.
False happiness, because as I said earlier, weed made me forget about my problems.
While I was smoking I didn't care about anything anymore. When I wasn't smoking I realised I had so many problems and went and smoked some more.
Weed then changed for me. It stopped masking my fears, it stopped making me relaxed in peoples company and I started to distrust everyone.
I lost everything. I lost my girl and my son. I lost my job and my place. I started living on friends sofas.
Now Ive moved out of the area. I'm still not working, finding a job is hard these days, especially when you have been out of work for a while. But I have the right mentality. I'm registered with a few employment agencies, and on a load of websites. I see an advisor in the job centre weekly, even though I should only go every 2 weeks. I go to job fairs when I hear about them. And I have applied for university. And I still smoke weed.
I will stop one day, I will have to. But I don't think it will ever be a quit for good.
I could be 90 and if I feel like smoking it, I will.
But now weed has changed again.
I smoke it for the enjoyment of it. I don't smoke every day. Like I used to.
I can smoke it now and it will give me the urge to look for jobs. Or to clean my flat. Or the fish tank.
I suppose I have just written this to get it written down somewhere where others can read it and judge weed on my experience with it.
Or just so I can judge weed myself for what I have been through with it.
My conclusion is that weed isn't good or bad. Remember, a car can be a deadly weapon in the hands of the wrong person.
It all depends on who you are and what you are going through in your life. Sometimes it can be the worst thing you have ever got yourself into. And others it can enhance an experience, and emotion, a thousand-fold. Making some things truly unforgettable.
Loading...
Dude, who's your hookup for this? It sounds awesome - no wonder you were high for 18 years - if I could feel like this I'd be high all the time too!
Loading...
heather3007 wrote:
Try Chantix, it works!My boyfriend stopped smoking pot for 8 months and just today he did it again. He says its so hard to stop... What can he do to stop? Is there a plan or something helpful for him to live by? I told him it wasn't hard to stop its a mental thing but he can't quit... what does he do?
I took chantix to quit smoking cigarettes. I'm 32 now I smoked cigarettes since I was 8 I took chantix and quit after only 2 weeks of taking the pills. I have now quit smoking cigarettes for 2 and a half years, and don't plan on ever picking up the habit ever again.
That being said, I've been smoking pot for the last 3 years again. I've smoked pot periodically throughout my life but before this 3 yr stint I quit for 10+ years. Now I don't think it will be hard to quit as I don't think the effects are addictive, just the habit itself.
I go all day without smoking while at work. But when I get home or before I go to sleep, I like to smoke.
Im attempting to quit smoking pot now, I started 4 days ago, I havent officialy gone a whole day without smoking but Im smoking much less and I hope by the end of the next week when I run out of pot I will be done completely. Anyone have any ideas or selfhelp books I can read to help the process I would be more then happy to check them out.
Loading...
I've smoked weed for 9 years now. And have done it at least once almost everyday. I've stopped for a few days or a week here and there (usually because i had to, going on a business trip or out of town). I smoked all through college and i can tell you it did affect my grades. I had other friends who smoked and it didnt affact their grades as much but i know it affected mine. Part of my problem is I hate my job and after i get out of work the first thing i want to do is get high. The problem with weed is that you can function, at least mostly, while under its effects. So its not like when you're addicted to alcohol and you cant function most of the time. It can be alot harder to identify that its affecting your life.
I've stopped smoking weed for 2 weeks now. You can definately tell the difference in your thought process. You think much clearer. Its nice to drive down the road and not worry everytime you see a cop. I do find it hard to sleep, and i do have nightmares sometimes. I also get irratable. I think alot of this comes from the fact i have to actually deal with things that bother me. When you cant just smoke and let it fade to the back of your mind then you actually have to deal with your problems. That's the real root of the problem when trying to quit weed. Everybody doesnt face reality the same way. Some people need a kick in the ass. Some need to be left alone.
In the end your boyfriend needs to find his person reasons to quit and find his own way to fight his personal demons.
Now that i've stopped i feel so much more alert. Solutions to problems come much more quickly. I've noticed that when other people get high its almost like they arent themselves anymore. I also dont feel nearly as lazy as i used to. I actually fix things around my house and feel good about it. Personally what is helping me is not hanging around people who do it. I still see some of those guys every once and a while, sometimes i feel like i need to test myself to see if it was around if i could resist. But i also feel that is a little dangerious and if they caught me when i was stressed that i would go back to it. I also have a girlfriend i love and she doesnt like weed. So i try to think of smoking weed as cheating on her. I'm not saying that if your boyfriend continues to that you should tell him its like cheating on you. I'm just trying to say what i thought helped me get at least this far. Like i said everybody is different and no one way will help everybody. You have to first realize you have a problem and then find the motivation you need to fix it, whatever that might be.
Loading...
Loading...
The question to ask yourself is - Has he really been pot-free for 8 months or did he just happen to get sloppy and get caught? Or if he has been pot-free for 8 months, can he handle an occasional smoke without letting it become a major part of his life again?
Don't pay any attention to someone who replies to your questions with "final" statements such as "there is nothing you can do." That kind of talk is speculative and opinion. They don't know you.
Loading...
I'm a 25 y/o software engineer and I've been smoking weed pretty consistently for about 5 years now. It started when I was 18 and I smoked for the first time. I used to be SOOOO against it... I said all the normal stuff... "I don't need weed to get high... I get high on life, riding my BMX bike, snowboarding, etc..."
When I did finally try it, it started out like everyone else. I got giggly and everything was funny and all that. Then I started going to my buddy's house every weekend and we'd chill and play cards and video games and smoke a blunt. It was really fun and cool and all that and it was like once a week.
Then I started smoking it a few times a week when I'd go out for blunt rides with my buddy or when I'd go to the movies.
THen I moved away for college and it was the first time I lived in my own apartment with nobody telling me what to do or parents watching me or anything. So, I started smoking basically everyday. I'd smoke when I got home from class, and I'd smoke in the morning and pretty much all day if I had no class.
I found that smoking enhanced my guitar playing... I felt like I was better, and that I could come up with more interesting music. I don't think that smoking helped my programming ability at all... it hurt my memory and I always felt like I was relearning sh*t.
Fast forward to when I got out of college... I got my first post-college job in 2007 and since then my life has pretty much been the same loop... I come home from work and I immediately want to smoke. I smoke, play my guitar, eat, smoke again, get the munchies and eat a BUNCH of horrible food (cereal, chips, bagels, cookies, etc..) and then smoke some more until I pretty much pass out late at night.
After the first few years of smoking, it somehow changed. I feel like I can't really go in public or talk on the phone to my family and friends when I'm high. It makes me avoid responsibilities. I still hold a job and make good money and that's how I convince myself it's not a real problem, but I feel like it kiils my ability to learn and be productive. I'd like to start a software company and I can't go out and find people to work with, and it makes it harder to sit down and just work.
Now it feels almost cruel... when I'm not high, I just FEEL so strongly like there is something missing that I really want. Then, once I get high, I feel so bad about it. I find that it makes me think about crappy stuff like eventually having to die and sh*t like that. I always regret smoking and tell myself I don't want to do it anymore. Then, I come down and I feel it again! I want to smoke again even though I KNOW how it will make me feel... it seems like the FEELING (emotion) of wanting to smoke is more powerful than the knowledge that it's bad...
That's what makes it so hard for me... I'm trying to quit now for the third or fourth time... I've tried before for a month or two, then I always convince myself I can just do it SOMETIMES. Then I ALWAYS get back into the same pattern eventually.
I'm currently in the battle to quit. I want to smoke right now. I feel like everything is almost boring or uninteresting. I think the key is that everyone is different. For me, it's really hard to stop smoking weed. It's hard to be honest with myself about the negative consequences. It's hard to ignore my rational and logical arguments that I make with myself about how it's not REALLY affecting me negatively and that it must be some other aspect of my personality that's at fault.
But some people are not like this. Some people it's not an issue at all and they could just stop. So, have some compassion for people that say it's hard to quit, and know that it may very well be hard for them even if it was easy for someone else.
Loading...
Loading...
Loading...
when i smoke
weed grown with chemicals i feel sick and groggy the next day like many
of you have described i find when i smoke bush weed "good quality weed
grown under the sun organically (no chemical fertilizers) it is much
much easier to quit and you don't feel like sh*t the next day i
literal;y jump out of bed in the morning. hydro weed i believe is bad
for you and shouldn't be grown or sold should be illegal i think its
more addictive then outdoor weed and you will do your self a favor to
quit smoking hydro and only move to a nice bush satavia strain
Loading...
Loading...
Guest wrote:
The reality is that nothing will replace the euphoria that pot gives you..You have to find a secondary passion..Secondly,if you have smoked for awhile,your withdrawls will include:anger,irritable,restless,sleepless,vivid nightmares,and headaches...Not sleeping is the worst..The only remedy that works for me is valium to sleep and exersize..Other than that it will take at least a month to exit your body...This is frustrating because there are a lot of cokeheads at work,yet that leaves the body in a couple of days...Grin and bear it..Forums also help,cause you are not alone in your struggle to be free...
I've smoked every single day, more than once a day for around a year or so, and just recently (1 month ago) I decided to prove whether or not the "withdrawal symptoms" that you and the government sponsored agencies claim you go through when you stop smoking marijuana. I would like to inform you and anyone who believes your claims that I have yet to go through ANY of the "withdrawal symptoms" that you claim I should be going through. I still hang out with my buddies who all smoke weed right in front of me, and I have no problem telling them that I don't wish to smoke. Even with the smoke floating around the room, I feel absolutely no "craving" for marijuana. What I have noticed however, is that I am much more alert, my thoughts are easier to hold on to, I do not lose my train of thought, I don't wake up feeling groggy and tired, I do not feel tired all the time, and I no longer suffer from cotton-mouth. Are these things as serious as your claims? Hell no. Will I return to smoking marijuana? Hell no. I hate it's effects much more than the effects of alcohol. A joint once a day, no. A joint once a week on the weekends, no.
I find this hilarious. Everyday more than once a day you take a puff of a joint? GTFO LIGHTWEIGHT! I smoke grams of the sh*t every day mate through a BONG. The reason you don't experience any withdrawal symptoms is because you are a lightweight and don't smoke enough to experience them. The withdrawals are real mother f****r, do you think we are all making this sh*t up? Maybe we are double agents working for the government....or maybe we are just hardcore pot heads who want to move forward and get rid of something that is hindering us in life?...no it could'nt be that, could it?
Loading...
Loading...