I been smoking a quarter a week or so for about 3 years and been smoking steadily for 5 or 6. I'm 23 and in pretty bad shape but I'm not overweight. I tried to quit a month ago and tried to detox to get a job. I would run real hard and end up feeling like such sh*t I'd have to lie down for an hour or two. I was constantly overreacting and this one time I got very drunk to the point where I dont remember it but basically I was a stumbling drunken as****e. I even yelled at the bartender that she charged me too much LOL. I was tired of the lack of sleep and headaches and all that sh*t. I was tired of it so I went and got another bag. I think I lasted 5 days.
My brother was about to leave for about a year and I was supposed to go party in the city with him at a friends apt but I started playing video games with some buddies online. Right before the game was about to start he said, yo I'm going right now. I had just smoked and I just looked at him like, dude I just started a game I'm high as balls wtf? why didnt you tell me sooner. I said some dumb sh*t like, I'll meet you there then? Needless to say I just played games that night and didnt care, I was selfishly, and stupidly mad at him for not reminding me it was gonna be 7pm. I'm a pothead remember bro?!? After a week or so he was gone and I was left wondering why I didnt go, it was his last weekend.
So I decided to quit again after 2 weeks of being in da fog, this time I did things very differently. Instead of detox I decided to just keep eating my normal semi-healthy diet and start walking on the treadmill while reading a good science fiction book. When I started to get the headache I would take tylenol. When I had no appetite and my stomach was all messed up, *GINGER TEA*. I encourage you to make your own ginger tea the store bought stuff doesn't work as good. I limited my alcohol to a glass of scotch or so a night, I thought it might help with the headache but it doesn't. Around day 2 I craved weed so bad I scrounged up some shake and got kinda high I must admit, but I didnt enjoy it. I wanted it to stop so I could focus. I bought a pack of cigs, I am by no means a regular smoker but I have been having about 1 a day.
I am on day 5 again, day 4 felt way worse than today. Yesterday, around 8:45 PM I felt like my heart was gonna explode out of my body, my heart rate was insane. I had been re reading the tao te ching every night, which if you dont know is an ancient text on....well just read it. I dont think even a sage could calm his mind after being addicted to something, at this point its all your body. This girl gave me gaba once to help with my anxiety (I've always had anxiety, and when it gets really bad all I need is a joint and I'm good. I'd also like to say now, while we are in parenthesis: that when I feel no anxiety and I smoke I get anxiety sometimes, interesting, no?) I took the gaba pill and started just walking and reading my book, i think I did some pushups before. Before I knew it I had walked for 30 minutes and I was starting to feel better, so I started running and ended up going outside and running everywhere f*cking doing cartwheels and sh*t. I felt amazing. At about 12AM I started to get a headache, so what did I do? I got wasted off scotch and read some technical books, f*cked around on the internet till I was ready for sleep. (I dont really remember going to sleep I got so drunk)
When I woke up I felt like total ass, so I drank 2 glasses of water. It wasn't just a hangover I had to sit down and put my head in my elbows for about 15 minutes. I would also like to mention that after waking up I lay naked in bed absorbing sun rays through the window. I went and got some pizza and a gatoraid and after doing some work here I am writing this. I dont really feel like I need ginger anymore and while I have a mild headache I dont think I will take tylenol. The point I am trying to prove with all this is that you cant just cold turkey and expect your body to be ok with that. Maybe I'm doing better now cause I tried to quit 3 weeks ago for a few days but bought a bag and tried to smoke as little as possible. Maybe its because every time I feel something negative emotion or physical sh*t I attempt to counteract it asap. Maybe its the f*cking gaba! I read a lot of these and the girl with the gaba-esque pill seemed to be doing a lot better than most of them. So thats my story so far, I'm gonna cruise with this for at least 3 months before I go back to school in sept. Then I will decide if I want to get some pot and only smoke on sundays or something, or when I get real bad anxiety. I hope you who are quitting or have tried to can get something out of this and join me in realtime. Anyway, here is an excerpt from the Tao Te Ching, S. Mitchell a (modernized) translation from Chinese
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html
TL;DR drink lots of water, sip homemade ginger tea for the tummy, take tylenol for the headache, take an herbal supplement like gaba for the anxiety combined with working out whenever you feel it (Dont start a new pharmaceutical drug). Read a book to get your mind off things.
Hi all, i havent read every reply to the first one on this topic but it seems like im going to have to become a member of this website :).
Well heres my story.....
I haven't yet stopped smoking, as we speak im toking a nice blunt with blue berry + Exedous cheese mixed in. Nice smoke lol.
Anyway, i am stopping monday. I have been smoking Green for 7 years since i was 14. I hung about with older people than me which got me smoking it. Unlike many of my current friends when they started smoking it they were a bit older than me and didnt put alot of green in a joint/blunt/pipe. When i was taught i was told to cover all the backy with the green, once done you put another layer of green on top and a thin layer of backy once again. usually 0.6 - 0.8 of a gram in a joint. now i put usually the same in a join still but i dont really smoke joints anymore its just blunts for me. i smoke 4 blunts a day which is over a gram in each a day. well i say i smoke that much now i only smoke 2 blunts a day. One on a morning and one about a hour before i go to bed.
Well this is really hard. Im moody all the time, have the shakes all the time, shouting at family members and friends so now im trying to isolate my self until i have stopped smoking fully. another thing is since i cut down i have been gettting this big stabbing pain in the left side of my chest just below my nipple ..... any idea what this could be? feels like a heart attack lol. is their anything u can let me know to help me get through this coz monday is the big day to go COLD TURKEY....
Hey everyone, I don't normally post online either but I'll cut to the chase. I'm a 24 year old college student in my senior year 2 months from graduating. I smoked weed EVERY SINGLE DAY for about 3 & 1/2 years. Before I stopped I was literally smoking 1.4+ a day easily.
I had a girlfriend of 5 years and when I moved away to college she did not want a long distance relationship and we broke up. This was the girl of my dreams and I was so devastated....ever since the day I left I was almost in a 24/7 high to deal with the stress.
I got over my girlfriend eventually... but I was smoking to relieve the anxiety of college life.
I completely used the bud as a tool to get me through the day....stress about classes, burn. Stress about girls, burn. Can't fall asleep, burn. Bored as hell, burn. I failed a drug test using Q-Carbo (I did stop 2 days prior to the actual test) and it really hit home. I knew I had to stop.
It's been 2 weeks today and I can tell you that I was a living WRECK the first 5-6 days. I was literally breaking down in tears, having a negative attitude about every situation I was in, having massive anxiety and overall just questioning my mental stability.
Now I'm on the 14th day and I CANNOT EVEN TELL I STOPPED SMOKING. I feel nothing, I feel completely 100% normal, I wake up happy, I'm energetic and motivated.
For all of you trying to stop, UNDERSTAND THAT THE ANXIETY YOU HAVE (even while smoking and getting high) IS FROM THE WEED.
I feel great now, zero anxiety and everything is looking up. Please understand that quitting smoking is 100% a mental battle, just KNOW THAT IT WILL PASS WITH TIME.
Well this is the end of week one . for the last 7 days I smoked 2 joints a day, in place of 10-12 a day..i will continue for two more weeks doing the same, then go down to one a day for 3 weeks. And then after that maybe one every other day …already my body is getting use to having less THC in it per day.. I get anxious some time and sometimes feels,like my stomach is upset, but goes away after a bit..
Well I am hoping to stay on track so far so good and so far not too bad..feels good actually not to be wasted all day and night…best of luck to everyone trying…
jim
did you manage to quit? im on day 5
Hi! Today is my first day quitting weed and i have to say im a little nervous because last time i quit i hated the withdrawal symptoms alot. Wish i never went back :( so far today (day 1) i have lost almost all my appetite and i have eaten very little. its about dinner time and im starting to get a headache type feeling like my brain is throbbing its wierd but happened last time i quit as well. Hope i get some sleep tonight. Anyway i thought i would post because its nice to relate my troubles and know that im not the only one. good luck to all and if i dont f**k this up ill try and do a update tomorrow!
Day 2 : Feeling a little worse then day 1. Had a shitty sleep and woke up early. I find going for walks helps take my mind off it so thats what ive been doing once a day. A little appetite improvement but not much. Also trying to hang with friends as much as possible to see if that helps. Keep at it yall!
First time I smoked was at a camping trip in the 8th grade. I started smoking "regularly" in college as it was free (figure it out) and there was no one to tell me not to.. I rationalised the whole undiagnosed ADD, self medication thing and as many other excuses as we all have come up with. So basically I smoked every day before work, most days at lunch and then sneak in a quick one before I had to cook dinner for the family and then copious amounts of bong hits from my sons bedtime until i passed out. I am now 34 years old and its time. I tried a few times to quit but there was no reason so I always failed. So last St Pattys day i drank myself stupid and probably smoked 2 packs of cigs and god knows how much diesel.. Next morning i woke up and decided I was done with the cigarettes, and started smoking more weed than ever. I am switching jobs and will have another whiz quiz im sure so I decided to stock up, pack all the goods away and go cold turkey until i had gone one year. Holy hell this is hard. Quitting cigarettes was so much easier and then i realised it was becasue i wanted to quit smoking cigarettes. So i am working on a way to want to quit smoking pot, and reading these posts is a great help!
No to make light of our problems, and yes it is a problem; but who the F is going to clean our house now? That was the one of the best parts of smoking for me, getting a sweet buzz on and cleaning or dealing wiht whatever craptastic thing i had to do to some loud reggae..
Anyway, 15 year daily all day smoker, second day of cold turkey and dinner is staying down, head doesnt hurt, irish temper is flaring regularly but i warned my wife so we are coping. Dont lose faith, you are strong enough to do this! Im going to have a glass of wine and hope the Walking Dead doesnt suck sober..
Day 3: Apparently day 3 is supposed to be the worst and it sure was. Work helped take my mind off of it a bit. I noticed i feel the worse at night and in the mornings. I think thats because my mind is left wandering without a task at hand. Anyways, appetite is slowly improving which is good. went to the sauna and sweated like a gallon so hopefully that speed up the process.
Day 4: Been drinking lots of liquids, mainly cranberry juice to flush my system. I think now that i made it past day three, things slowly start to improve. feels like a 5% increase which doesnt seem like much but its a long process. Hot showers have been aiding the lung cleaning process as i spit up tiny particles of ash every day. Keep at it everyone and just remember to feel better you have to go through a bit of pain first. no pain no gain. cheers to all!
thanx , i will start soon
Hi there, yours story is alot like mine in some ways, I am 47yr female, and have been smoking since i was 17, i"d say in the last 20yrs i have smoked an ounce in 2 to 3 weeks, i dont have children, and have used that as an excuse for yrs, i have had back surgery 12yrs ago and have used pot to help with pain, and depression. I think now that it has probely made it worst. I have just got married again on the 14 feb, my husband stopped about 3yrs ago for employment reasons, he just stopped, not saying there were no problems, it took a while, but he has never looked back. He never in the last 3yrs tried to stop me, he has always supported me. Now that we r married i said to my self this was the last bag i was going to buy, that was 2 days ago,. It is so hard for me as i have been doing this for so long. but 48hrs down and i cant sleep, sweating at odd times, i feel really hungry or i think its just that im board, i feel like i have so much more time on my hands, and dont no what to do with this. I need a job to take up some time in the day. I have found reading the other posts very helpful, this is the first time i have ever responded to anything on the net.I really need alot of support on this and am hoping to keep talking on this post, please please keep writing your thoughts, as i need this post to read and insiprer me daily. Thank u so much.
Hi there, yours story is alot like mine in some ways, I am 47yr female, and have been smoking since i was 17, i"d say in the last 20yrs i have smoked an ounce in 2 to 3 weeks, i dont have children, and have used that as an excuse for yrs, i have had back surgery 12yrs ago and have used pot to help with pain, and depression. I think now that it has probely made it worst. I have just got married again on the 14 feb, my husband stopped about 3yrs ago for employment reasons, he just stopped, not saying there were no problems, it took a while, but he has never looked back. He never in the last 3yrs tried to stop me, he has always supported me. Now that we r married i said to my self this was the last bag i was going to buy, that was 2 days ago,. It is so hard for me as i have been doing this for so long. but 48hrs down and i cant sleep, sweating at odd times, i feel really hungry or i think its just that im board, i feel like i have so much more time on my hands, and dont no what to do with this. I need a job to take up some time in the day. I have found reading the other posts very helpful, this is the first time i have ever responded to anything on the net.I really need alot of support on this and am hoping to keep talking on this post, please please keep writing your thoughts, as i need this post to read and insiprer me daily. Thank u so much.
Hi clatsyuk, U r 3days ahead of me, it has help me reading all the posts. and hope everyone keeps on doingthis through out there journey. As soon as i wake im on here reading, after reading your post i got up and pulled the bong to bits and put it out with the rubbish. Thank u so much.
Hey, you're doing great. I decided to quit a few weeks ago. We had to go out of town and there was not going to be anyway for me to smoke and still keep it hidden from my kids. Maybe that made it easier, but it's still hard. I had very vivid dreams of looking for weed, bizzare dreams about life and issues, I had the sweats for a few nights and of course it was difficult to eat, since my body was so used to eating when I was stoned. It's been about four weeks now, and I struggle each and every day. I started doing Yoga before I quit, which helped some, and I have kept up with the yoga as way to replace the urge to get buzzed. I used to go stoned, thinking it was okay, but it was not. It just made it harder to get centered. I have always been a chronic smoker. I build up a tolerance very fast and I can smoke all day long. In the old days it was Hash, now it it was really good pot, but in the end it makes no difference, I had to keep smoking more and more to even feel a little buzz, and it was costing me $400 a month, which we don't have to waste on dope. Do I miss it? Yes I do. Did I mention that my connection works with me... If I ever want to indulge, it's as easy as 1,2,3... I'm doing my best for right now not too. I take it one day at a time, sometimes one hour at a time. If one day I fail all together, so be it, I just start again and don't smoke the next day. I'm not encouraging anyone to fall off the wagon. I'm just saying be kind to yourself if you do have a toke, enjoy it, and then move on. There is no need to dwell on a setback or fall deeper into a hole. We're human and flawed and perfect as we are. Each of us is different and each of us is special, what works for you may not work for someone else. Keep up the good work everybody, and love yourself for doing your best each day.