Nice. Sweating seemed to stop after 4 weeks im on day 29 hang in there folks!
This same things is happening to me now... I smoked everyday for the past 6-7 years...I would bearly remember my dreams when I smoke.. It's been a few days now since I quit and I already remembered a crazy dream and waking up with my clothes and bed sheets wet even tho my room is cool. It's so annoying and I'm hoping there is something I can do to help it
Ime just the same.smoked for 20 years every day but not heavy if u no what I mean.stoped mid January and the dreams are happening alot but the sweating at night I really need to go away.woke up 2 or 4 nights out of 10 soacked and freezing when I pull back the covers.man I hope this will pass soon.day time for me is ok.not looking back thank god ime no more a stoner.will frazel ya brain in the end.my short term memory was getting so bad from what I can remember lol.big improvement all round.never going back
M8 keep it up and don't look back.it will all pass
I quit mid Jan and not looking g back
20 years enough 4 me
Good luck bud
I quit mid Jan and not looking g back
20 years enough 4 me
Good luck bud
y'all sound like some first timers lol I noticed every time I stopped smoking weed I would start sweating really bad n as soon as I smoke it goes away within 2 to 3 minutes so now when I start to sweat I know it's time to smoke lol #DailySmoker
Don't I know the sweatiness .It is a good thing as the toxins are being released! This is day 6 for me and I am sleeping, less anxious, a bit less irritable but those damn sweaty palms are intense- sweaty all over really. I have mild gastric problems!
Hot baths, acupuncture , exercise, meditation, cranberry juice have become my life source this week. I have no cravings and am done!
Hot baths, acupuncture , exercise, meditation, cranberry juice have become my life source this week. I have no cravings and am done!
If you're still smoking, you're not detoxing, you're just sweaty.
I had back surgery that was supposed to help with pinched nerves. I have had sweaty scrotum that drives me crazy. After the surgery it is just as bad as ever. I don't know where to turn anymore. I visited a dermatologist that couldn't fix this and he sent me to a neurologist that ordered an MRI. He said it is "numbness". This is really crazy stuff.
I'm 2weeks today quitting. Finally can put my self to sleep but the feet sweating is the only thing that really annoys me. Last time I quit it last 3 weeks after 4-6 weeks all of the symptoms should have subsided or gone completly.
Saunas and regular exercise helps rid of the thc in fat tissue.
I run on treadmill for 25 mins and do some heavy weight training and it really does work
Saunas and regular exercise helps rid of the thc in fat tissue.
I run on treadmill for 25 mins and do some heavy weight training and it really does work
I am clean just short of a month after 16 years heavy smoking every single day. I came off it easy and so glad I did. I have white eyes again, my problem is sweating from my face for no reason. Just constant which hasn't happened before...just not a sweaty guy...until now. Well I tested myself for thc today and failed the test, after a month really? Well I will never look back. Good luck in your quest all! Much love, Michael
I have smoked weed 6 joints a day for 20yrs. I haven't smoked in the days. I'm dripping sweat when i wake up. Its hard to sleep more than four hrs at a time. I'm also so angry. I feel in a rage all the time which is one of the reasons I started when i was young. Does anyone know how long the sweating will last and when will I stop feeling the need that I have to smoke to cope?
Just read through all 8 pages, and I think I can give you some information that's perhaps a little more skeptically minded than the "sweat out the toxins" nonsense. This comes from firsthand experience, but also human biology and psych.
Anxiety, and Depression, and generally an "unstable mood" are something to be expected. Part of that might be withdrawal on a physical level, but I strongly suspect that a great deal of it is psychological. Your dopamine reward system doesn't get hijaacked by marijuana the same way that opiates do, but you've still spent 20 years living a certain way. When you were angry, you smoked and felt better. When you you were bored, same thing.
What you didn't do is all of the stuff that people who don't have a joint to reach for do to control and manage their moods and emotions. That may be a result of smoking for so long, it could be why you smoked for so long, it could be a combination of factors.
What you can do for anxiety is going to sound silly, boring, and unhelpful, but if you actually do it, it works. Deep breathing, 4 seconds in, 6 seconds out. Do that, and focus on something else, anything else during a really hard time. Count backward from 1000 by 7's, count prime numbers, remember the names of streets where you grew up, it doesn't matter. It needs to be something that takes focus to manage, but it needs to be simple and concrete.
Once your heart rate is down a bit, say out loud, "I'm quitting pot. This isn't happening because there's something terribly wrong with me, it's just because I'm quitting pot." Then do something else. Get up and go out and take a walk, sit down and play a game or watch some TV. Call a friend, cook a meal, take a bath, anything.
Frustratingly enough, you'll find that this is something you keep having to "rinse and repeat", but after a while you may also find that you have to do it less and less. To be clear, the exact formula of "breath and out loud" is less important than this:
Calm yourself
Focus yourself
Remind yourself of what's real and what's in your mind and body.
Re-focus elsewhere.
Don't obsess.
You're not going to think your way through this; only time is going to make you feel better.
BUT... there is also a physical element, which you may have felt in hot flashes, total loss of appetite, and even early on some bad reactions to food. This has been studied well, but it's important to remember that we naturally produce cannabinoids as signaling molecules. It would be odd if flooding ourselves with external sources of them for decades didn't have some kind of effect.
The other thing is that cannabis can screw with your hormones a bit, through estrogen pathways. I would not be shocked if that's the cause of the hot and cold flashes, and night sweats. On the upside, all of us former stoners have the benefit of a brief insight into the lives of women going through menopause.
TL:DR Suggestions:
Don't worry that you can't do any of the following well or easily at first, it's not a contest or a race:
Try to sleep. As much as you can at night.
Drink plenty of water.
Exercise. When you wake up at night and feel like screaming, exercise. When you feel so bored you want to off yourself. Exercise. Don't go crazy with it, just 5 minutes can be enough.
Change your surroundings sometimes. Go out for a walk. Sit outside of where you work or just sit around other people in a public place.
Remind yourself when you need to, that time is going to cure you of all of these problems, all you really need to do is keep it up, right now. Don't worry about the future of these issues, focus on today.
Don't starve yourself, even if you can't imagine eating anything. Just gag down some peanut butter on a cracker if you have to, and take a vitamin, but EAT.
Remember that some of what you're feeling is actually what the pot was hiding all along, and that it's only practice and time that will improve those issues.
Anxiety, and Depression, and generally an "unstable mood" are something to be expected. Part of that might be withdrawal on a physical level, but I strongly suspect that a great deal of it is psychological. Your dopamine reward system doesn't get hijaacked by marijuana the same way that opiates do, but you've still spent 20 years living a certain way. When you were angry, you smoked and felt better. When you you were bored, same thing.
What you didn't do is all of the stuff that people who don't have a joint to reach for do to control and manage their moods and emotions. That may be a result of smoking for so long, it could be why you smoked for so long, it could be a combination of factors.
What you can do for anxiety is going to sound silly, boring, and unhelpful, but if you actually do it, it works. Deep breathing, 4 seconds in, 6 seconds out. Do that, and focus on something else, anything else during a really hard time. Count backward from 1000 by 7's, count prime numbers, remember the names of streets where you grew up, it doesn't matter. It needs to be something that takes focus to manage, but it needs to be simple and concrete.
Once your heart rate is down a bit, say out loud, "I'm quitting pot. This isn't happening because there's something terribly wrong with me, it's just because I'm quitting pot." Then do something else. Get up and go out and take a walk, sit down and play a game or watch some TV. Call a friend, cook a meal, take a bath, anything.
Frustratingly enough, you'll find that this is something you keep having to "rinse and repeat", but after a while you may also find that you have to do it less and less. To be clear, the exact formula of "breath and out loud" is less important than this:
Calm yourself
Focus yourself
Remind yourself of what's real and what's in your mind and body.
Re-focus elsewhere.
Don't obsess.
You're not going to think your way through this; only time is going to make you feel better.
BUT... there is also a physical element, which you may have felt in hot flashes, total loss of appetite, and even early on some bad reactions to food. This has been studied well, but it's important to remember that we naturally produce cannabinoids as signaling molecules. It would be odd if flooding ourselves with external sources of them for decades didn't have some kind of effect.
The other thing is that cannabis can screw with your hormones a bit, through estrogen pathways. I would not be shocked if that's the cause of the hot and cold flashes, and night sweats. On the upside, all of us former stoners have the benefit of a brief insight into the lives of women going through menopause.
TL:DR Suggestions:
Don't worry that you can't do any of the following well or easily at first, it's not a contest or a race:
Try to sleep. As much as you can at night.
Drink plenty of water.
Exercise. When you wake up at night and feel like screaming, exercise. When you feel so bored you want to off yourself. Exercise. Don't go crazy with it, just 5 minutes can be enough.
Change your surroundings sometimes. Go out for a walk. Sit outside of where you work or just sit around other people in a public place.
Remind yourself when you need to, that time is going to cure you of all of these problems, all you really need to do is keep it up, right now. Don't worry about the future of these issues, focus on today.
Don't starve yourself, even if you can't imagine eating anything. Just gag down some peanut butter on a cracker if you have to, and take a vitamin, but EAT.
Remember that some of what you're feeling is actually what the pot was hiding all along, and that it's only practice and time that will improve those issues.
That is probably the most excellent explanation of what happens when you quit smoking. Ty
It's my pleasure, I hope it helps.
Thanks for this info. I forgot about anxiety after 6 weeks clean from pot and tried DMT for the first time. I dont recommend halucigens while quitting pot and going through anxiety. Very intense, scary experience...