dont be so hard on yourself. its hard to go cold turkey. if you falter once or two along the way its ok, eventually you will achieve your goal.
I was clean off skunk for four days then lapsed abit today with a couple of smokes though it was shade leaf/outer leaves. nowhere near as strong but stopped me killing anyone! i have smoked pot for 22 years but for the last 15 i have been a daily toker of skunk from morning until night. i haven't really experienced much in the way of physical withdrawal as yet, its very early days and my first voluntary attempt to give up. i found this thread a few days ago and have been reading it avidly, a few stories a night to keep me sane. there are others out there like me!! although alot of you are american or canadian, i think....i am in the UK, no free weed here, its so expensive its barely affordable unless you grow your own (which I have at times), cheaper to be a smackhead (sad but true). its hard when others you know are smoking around you....i have tried not to hang around them but we are all good mates, the smokers and the nonsmokers, i would have to give them all up! i am not ready for that. I did go to a Marijuana Anonymous meeting last night, it was small but helpful in its own way although getting home was hard as i seemed to keep cycling through clouds of weed....i was an inch away from knocking on doors and scoring some. i am also joining a cannabis recovery group hopefully next week. i need the support and don't want to lean too much on my friends, those that do smoke pot think i smoke too much and all my non smoker friends have been on my case to cut down/give up for a long time. i shall post again with my experiences and any recommendations i may stumble upon... i do hope others will do so too.
are you still clean? be interested to know as its been a month now..............
This forum has worked for me. I quit cold turky and going strong with no sign of looking back.
I have seen a few posts saying that the original poster has never posted since. I dont feel like posting here anymore, coz ive quit. Time to move on.
It can be done. Just separate what the brain wants from what the heart wants.
i made it 4 days then relapsed watchin football start again monday.
until the next football match. weak. don't you feel ashamed that you have no will power?
How is that comment helpful? don't you feel ashamed that you have no will power for supporting people through these challenging times? Thought you'd quit this post anyway? Definitely time for you to move on!
Relapses are common philly, don't quit on quitting. Don't quit on yourself. The feeling of failure can be used to motivate yourself to kick this (beautifully) dirty habit. Keep your mind&body busy! Replace the times you got high with things you've been putting off. Clear out the garden. Tidy your room. Redecorate your house. Become a rock star (maybe not).
It will get easier, but you have to work at it!
Peace and positivity! G.W x
thank you for your kind words. trying to stay as busy as possible
just like to say i found this forum about 2 months ago and followed some of the advice given i have been smoking weed since i was 18 just a few at the weekend with mates, i am now 41 but 17 years ago suffered an accident at work which led to epilepsy resulting of my break up with a partner at the time, leading to a nervous breakdown - bad times-at that point in my life weed helped me forget but this meant i had to smoke more upon meeting my wife 10yrs ago i managed to cut down to more or less the same amount smoked at 18. however with a recent relapse of my epilepsy 2 years ago and loosing my job.
i found myself smoking heavy again, from morning till bedtime 99% of the time alone and 50% of the time hiding it from my wife. 75% of the time i would smoke it and not enjoy it also feeling the WHY am i doing this, i dont want too..!
upon searching the internet and coming across these thread i gained a little hope..so i cut down from 8-10 joints a day to 5 day; 2 months ago; cutting that down to 2 of an evening. i discovered vaping (e-cig) around the same time as this forum and did a little research into e-juice. making a very weak e-joint juice using leaf it taste more but has little to no high; i made the juice very very weak. (youtube/google THC vape)
I am currently on day 7 and with the help of my vape have not craved and haven't felt high for days however i am going thru many side effects of quitting getting high.
anxiety, irritable, insomnia, no motivation are my main withdraw effects.
I have alot of headaches in the last 2 days which doesnt help with the irritability. visiting this forum once a day has helped me; Knowing that i'm not alone does help, i feel more confident about being successful in my quest to quit weed this time (yes i've tried many time in the past 4 years) using all of the above.
Positive effects i have noticed in the last 3 days i dont seem to be paranoid and haven't had negative thoughts about all sorts of things from my wife having affairs to having cancer and dying. This has made me a better person in 3 days than i've been in 4 years i've never made it past 3 days before.
I'm not saying its easy its not but the results in the last few days have given me more hope to;
NOT QUIT ON QUITTING.
THERE IS NO FAILURE ONLY FEEDBACK.
hi, I can so relate to Quantum as I have been smoking pot for 30 years now. It was my best friend for a long time, now it has turned on me and ruining my life. I loved it so much but now I am getting health problems and need to stop.
Hi,I am also in the UK. A daily smoker for 22 years, would love to hear if the cannabis recovery group helped?
I've been reading this all day, trying to stay motivated, its been 4 days since i quit. I was smoking about 3 bowls a day every day during the week, and up to 8 bowls a day on the weekends for the last 4 years. Its great to see peoples posts on here, and its awesome to see that this post has stayed alive since 2009... I can honestly say this is the only chemical addiction I've ever dealt with, i don't drink, i don't smoke cigarettes, but pot was always friendly and fun to me. Recently i started having some social problems, in other words I have been having a hard time meeting new people. The reason? Because I sit with my 2 or 3 friends every night after work smoking weed and just killing time. Now i know there are people out there who say, weed is a social drug, but its not so true as you start to get older... most of my friends who used to smoke, no longer smoke, and they were never as big into it as I was anyway.
I can tell you... THIS IS NOT EASY... i have felt "sick" since quitting, and I haven't been able to sleep or eat. I literally had to force myself to eat yesterday after not eating for almost 48 hours, not because I'm poor (clearly I smoke a sh*t load of weed=$$$) and don't have food... my fridge is full... but i just cant eat! I know this will go away though... that's what I keep telling myself, and trust me I have had moments even about an hour ago where I had my phone in my hand ready to dial for my dealer... but every time I do. I take a deep breath, I put my phone away, and I immediately either find something interesting to read, or something with lots of action to watch (sports, video games, action movies, w/e!) that seems to be helping me get through... I also picked up a new game, counterstrike:GO (fun game btw) and I have started to exercise every day. The best I have felt so far is after I exercise, just pushups and sit ups, very easy for everyone to do until you get tired! Don't worry about doing 100 or 500 push ups/ sit ups just go till you get tired, that is enough.
also Slowly quitting did not work for me... I tried, but it simply makes me bipolar in the sense that when im not high i wanted to smoke, when i got high i wish i hadn't. and that feeling of "my bag of weed is getting empty" is possibly one of the worst feelings, as im sure you all can relate. But if you don't have a bag of weed at all that won't be an issue.
I will save this post and update my status in a few weeks... Best of luck to you all, its hard but possible! just stay focused. talk to your friends about quitting and if they won't support you, then guess what... they are not your friends. Just try not to ONLY talk about it, i did that for my first 2 days and my friend was like, dude i get it its hard haha... but he still listens to me even today I talked about how I'm doing etc. with him and he gave me more confidence to quit.
Yeah what i said was harsh and shouldn't have said it.
i had to get to a point where i felt so sh*t about myself, ashamed if you will, to really make the final ultimate move and quit.
I said it only as motivation, even if only to prove me wrong... at the end of the day it is what ever means necessary to help somebody quit..... even if it earns me a bad wrap
I'm 27, been a heavy smoker for almost 11 years now... Have a decent full time job (no drug tests means i've no worries) but I still live at home, my mum has accepted my habit now mostly because i've held down my job, pay good rent and the Internet... It's cool but it means I can toke all night and not have to worry about it... One after the other...
My main goal is to get my own place but all my spare cash goes on smoke... All I do is stay in and baked, hardly go outside other than work... Smoking, however good, has became like a self imposed prison, draining all my funds... I spend almost £5000 a year on smoke (It's expensive but real nice), I'm not trying to sound like a big cheese or anything it kind of disgusts me a bit, but i don't really drink and I'm not sure i can handle the drag of life without being a little high... I don't want to start drinking more because that'll just be a substitute rather than a solution...
I could've have a mortgage and be doing something positive with my life but all I do is smoke... It seems crazy that I'm fully aware of this but I can't seem to stop... I decided my last bag would be the start of Jan. and i've only left for a few tomorrow and I'm kind of freaking out... I have to make a decision and stick to it, I'm worried i can't though... I'm almost scared to see what I'm like without it, what everything else is like?
Reading some of the comments has made me hopeful that I might be able to brake the cycle... I don't get paranoid or anything i just need to save some money for the important things in life... I split with my GF of 3 years almost 6 years ago and i've not had a serious relationship since, just some random meaningless encounters... I don't even know how to interact with 'non-stoners' much, all i do is speak sh*t and play Ps3 with my stoner mates... I'm not really sure how to engage 1-on-1 with people anymore, but i want that connection you get from a gf... Not to sound all soppy and sh*t but smoking weed has prevented me from so much when i sit and think about it...
I read what i've written and it seems mad why i smoke as much as i do, and a little sad... I just love being high, but i guess i've got to 'grow up' and stop enjoying myself all the time at some point... It's gonna be a hard!!
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I've read the main post and comments a few times but never joined... This for me seems like the next real step in stopping, committing in writing and hearing other people committed to stopping is really good positive vibe for me and what I'm trying to do...Thanks everyone and the best of luck to all who try and kick the habit cause i've not even really stopped yet and I'm already feeling a little anxious... I'll update on how I'm getting on in a few weeks...
Good Luck, SteA.Mce- it will be hard at first, but I've heard it gets easier. I'm on Day Three after a long term, daily habit and have tried to withdraw, many times before, with little success!
I had a similar-ish story with living with my mother for well in to my late twenties; however, after I moved out the first time, I had to return two years later and the dope kept me sane in that period of time!
I sometimes think about the waste of money, especially when after a period of five months of non-smoking, I paid for a holiday for me and my son. However, I capped how much I spent on it over six years ago and haven't gone beyond £20 a week for years. Like yourself, I don't drink so always justified it as 'My Treat Money'...and I never missed my treat! I also went through the justifications of "If I was going out every week, I'd spend more than twenty quid"...there's always a justification!
My wake-up call has been my health and quitting my job. While quitting my job and the dope habit is unrelated, like yourself, I'm not a very sociable person and for the past eight years, my life has consisted of 'getting stoned & getting stuck in to my study/work'. I have neglected my social life and love life and think it's time I got back out there.
However, my health is starting to suffer- my sleep patterns are fecked, my appertite and diet is worse than ever and I never have any healthy energy.
My lifestyle is going through some changes at the moment & I'm really hoping that they facilitate the changes I want.
Good luck in your journey & know you're not going through it alone. You'll have some really sh*t days in the first couple of weeks, but it does improve. Just don't break in the first 2- 7days...that's usually when I do! lol