Marijuana Withdrawals, Quitting Smoking

You don't know much considering your saying your a Doctor. Try smoking for 20 years then attempting to quit.
Also your post makes little sense. You say you can't go cold turkey without side effects, then say you can..

Look if you wanna quite, your in for about 4 days of grumpiness and not wanting to eat. Some weird and wonderful dreams and sweating. I quit once and this is what happened, After that I felt fine.

hiya ive been clean of weed now for 5 days i was smocking it for 6 years am founding it hard to eat properly and having bad diarea and sickness anyone have any tips how i could get my tummy feeling much better as thats my main problem x

Ive been a heavy pot smoker for about 2 full years now, and only really started in the first place to battle depression, anxiety and trouble with sleep due to a destructive relationship. I am now 13 days off it and tonight have been hit with the worst depression... ugh it just sucks ass big time, I am aware that weed is not addictive but the ruined sleep patterns, crazy ass moods swings and random anger/rages does make me kinda question that. I feel im getting slammed with the anxiety,depression,anger and insomnia the most. I want to light up a billie so bad and just smile again. I found myself loosing soooo much time when i was sober, i would walk around the house aimlessly and walk into a room and just stand there like a freak and drift off into space  and notice that half an hour had just gone. I knew i had to give it up, also i got pretty hardcore into the synthetic stuff and boy did that mess me up, does any one have any good info on synthetic weed and the effects of quitting? 

I have been smoking daily for 14 yrs and quit last October, cold turkey for 4 mos, i could not sh*t on my own for a whole month after i quit!!! Could not sleep for a week, it was HELL but i got thru it and then started smoking again...now i want to quit but think im gonna wean self off, cold turkey was shocking to my body and mind and i dont think i can do it again

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Dr. Danco wrote:

I am a heavy smoker. I've only been smoking pot excessively for about a year now, but it has now gotten to the point where I am physically dependent on it. I am afraid to quit just yet because I am a college student and I think if I were to quit I would be sick for some time and I would fall behind in school and work. When I don't have marijuana for even ONE day I experience insomnia, extreme nausea, loss of apetite, hot flashes, extreme anxiety, and an overall bad mood. I'm downright unpleasant to be around when I'm not high, but when I am high the symptoms disappear almost immediatly. Anyone have any suggestions. Smoking less and less and eventually none: is that a good way to do it?

There is no such thing as physical dependence on cannabis.
Any symptoms you find are psychological, you think, hey I have been using this drug heavily for a long time now, I can't just go cold turkey without side-effects. Well thats the thing with weed, you can.

The guy that wrote this is wrong.

i think he is wrong toooc urrently quitting and am going thru hell and i know its not mental

People who say marijuana is not addictive have never been addicted to marijuana. I am. I know. I did the ultimate research into this topic. I got myself addicted thru a decade plus of heavy daily use. What was thier research method which brought them to the firm conclusion that marijuana is not addictive? Mice? Math equations?

While I appreciate that we dont want to promote propaganda, it is very true that there are physical withdrawals from the use of marijuana. Perhaps the symptoms are less strong depending on the amount of time one used the drug. But the honest truth is that each persons body chemistry will have a different reaction to the use (or non-use) of the drug. :D

well today is my first day of quitting marijuana 

thanks to all those who has shared their stories and encouraged people to get out of it.....

I started to loose moral values of life....  i was stoned ... i want to be a normal person ....

thanks guys.... will update my status after a week .....

I was smoking pot from past 5 to 6 months ..... i used to have 6 to 8 joints per day.....

I was happy when i am doing it .... i was a traveler... i used to go to places alone and i used to enjoy it....

I started being nervous first day itself.....after reading the thread i thought its better if i could share my thoughts .....

from last night i dint smoke and its been 12hrs .......

hope i find it easy getting out of it......

I just have one doubt. Will i be the same person after quitting marijuana?? will i be able to travel like that again.? will i be happy ever after this....??? please can any one let me know....

 

ive been smoking pot every day 2 or 3 times since i was 13 im 48 now, i quit cold turkey 3 weeks ago dream alot, feeling tired, i play drums in band and thats a challenge rite now but im confidant it will get better, i love how it makes me feel but i know my lungs love not doing it if nothing else heath reasons,

I have smoked weed for 18 years...it was the first thing I did when I woke up....and I smoked roughly six to eight times a day. I quit two weeks ago. I lost my appetite completely and couldn't sleep. I quit because I lost my job and need to be able to pass a drug test. I sleep for about 2 hours at time and wake up. After two weeks my appetite has now come back...with a vengeance. I ate a box of Pasta Roni, a T-Bone steak, a bowl of veggies, some cottage cheese, drank a huge protein shake and was still hungry. I can't eat enough to fill me up. I go to the gym daily and that is probably the most enjoyment I find all day. I get cold so I put on a sweatshirt....five minutes later I am sweating so I take it off....a minute later I am freezing. I have quit once before and didn't have these symptoms but I have a hard time looking in the mirror denying it now. Sad part is this....the one thing I really enjoyed was smoking weed. It mellowed me out and wiped my anxiety away with one bong hit. Without weed I don't look forward to my day and people absolutely piss me off.

I really relate to the feeling of waking up each day not looking forward to your day. I have been a daily smoker for almost 14 years, and I quit this summer because i hate my job and want to find a new one. I went through all the physical symptoms (mood swings, horrific vivid nightmares, anger, depression, listlessness) and made it through, and about a month in, I started to feel much better, calmer, and much less anxious. I'd been telling myself the pot was helping my anxiety, but in reality I think it was making it worse, and I was much less calm when dealing with problems. I got overconfident, started smoking again "just a little" 5 weeks ago, and was quickly back to where I was again. I'm now on day 5 of re-quitting and I'm feeling really depressed and listless again. I reached out to some friends who are in recovery themselves for various things (alcohol, prescription meds, and another friend who quit smoking pot) and all of them said the same thing: you won't feel truly better until a few months have passed, but the feeling of flatness and disinterest and boredom may last much much longer and than I need to start finding things to occupy myself with. While that was sort of depressing to hear, I guess I can't expect to feel ok and right again after smoking for so long. I don't even really feel like I know what feeling "nomal" feels like any more, since I've been smoking for so long.
I'm glad there are forums like this out there, does anyone else feel like people don't take you seriously when you say you're addicted to smoking pot? I don't even mention it because I feel like people think I'm being dramatic and think I should just stop and quit whining.

threres an extremely Pressure filled point where you will fight with your body mind..its like a wall that if you get over you will feel better..hot flushes are common..angry dude is also normal..if you can keep busy doing hobbies you like..more than smoking...Cleaning was a good 1 for me..its necessary and time consuming..

I have been addicted to

smoking ciggs for for 7 years

smoking weed for a year

and have been hooked on anything possible from xanax to dexies, which is why i started smoking it, to sleep when not even xanax helped

 

 

BUT I too used to think marijuana had no withdrawal but it is harder than cigarettes because of the reality you make for yourself, It took me 3months to stop smoking ciggs and ive been trying to quit weed for 6 months which is pathetic 

 

HOWEVER to all of you sh*theads who think someone would just make up withdrawing you all suck, it says marijuana doesnt have withdrawl but its usually spun with tobacco so its half and half, and ive seen first-hand withdrawal to many MANY MANY people who have now successfully stop, we need to remember its like going in for cosmetic surgery, once your in that chain there is no going back, but I know i will look and smell and feel as good as cosmetic surgery feels. HEADS UP SMOKERS, its like death,its going to happen, dont fight and give up to giving up!

 

I agree that if you love the herb then respect it and only use in moderation after you have accomplished more in life. You could save money and actually get somewhere and the herb could enhance your vision and not hinder it in the way that it would if you smoked daily and lets be honest daily herb smoking is for teenagers and those who are new to it. Anyone who has smoked for a long time should be able to just cut back or quit if they really want to!

this describes my issues almost exactly. i have not had panic attacks while smoking but my lungs are telling me to quit. I'm 47 - been a daily smoker since college. - After my lungs started to feel "hot" at night I started to vape and took the vaped weed into ethanol (when you drink it you get really stoned and sleep great). But like you, when i went on a 2 week vacation w/o weed i slept only 1 hour/night. I tried to quit in the past (about 12 years ago) for 6 months i had a hard time sleeping but all the other side effects wore off. I'm in the process of cutting back to zero right now - nights are getting sleepless and dreams are hell. so my question is this - what's the best solution to the long term insomnia?