I've found the same thing exactly with the caffeine
My gosh, I came here convinced i had a problem with weed. but then i read all these comments on how some people smoke 4 BLUNTS A DAY? ===> 4 BLUNTS?! Ok now to me. I smoke weed everyday. Bowls come about 4-8 hours apart. I think marijuana becomes a problem ONLY once you begin ABUSING it. OK? for me a joint a day is a waste. bc when you smoke joints 65% of the smoke is escaping through the paper. I believe the WAY you smoke weed dictates whether you are an addict or not. A person can smoke little bowls throughout the day without smoking more than what would be in ONE blunt or joint.
Some people here smoke WAY too much havent they ever heard that it is possible to smoke yourself sober?
What I've learned to do is this: Savour the feeling that one hit of weed gives you from a good bong.
Instead of drowning yourself in green by smoking 1 blunt every 4 hours thats just TOO MUCH
I can smoke 1 blunt and i swear to you i WILL NOT WANT to smoke for another week. simply bc 1 blunt for me will just mash me up.
But when you smoke yourself numb then it becomes a problem because then you no longer notice a difference in the state of your mind.
Try it. Stop for a week or 2 then go back and hit a bowl and see how much it affects you. If it doesnt then you know you've smoked too much in the past. and now your tolerance is like a brick wall and the little hit like a plant growing through the cracks. (or at least trying to) The key to smokin marijuana without addiction is to control your tolerance the less tolerance you have the more the effects show.
BUT!!! smoke too much and your tolerance becomes too thick. And the process continues. as you will need more and more to get yourself to that level.
Hi everyone. Just as many people before I started smoking when I was about 17.
In the beginning it had some reason because I felt that I had to smoke since I just lost my mother in a car accident and my aunt of cancer.
It was such a relief and fun then.
Since we all know that doesn't last it simply became an addiction, one that I needed on a daily basis.
I have been smoking for about twelve years now and I'm totally sick of it.
You have such a hate love relationship with the weed it is actually very frustrating.
Paranoia, anxiety, sweating, unstable thoughts and a racing heart is something we all have from time to time and I got used to it.
But now I met this girl, found an amazing job and I'm just afraid I will lose these things if I continue to smoke.
It really scares me thinking about quitting but for me cold turkey is the only way to go.
I'm not a rations kind of guy and if I see a 100 grams bag of weed while I decided to cut down we'll see how long the bag stays intact.
I think there is no point in fooling yourself.
I'm now down to two miniature sized joints that I will probably smoke today and I'm not going to order a new bag.
This will be the hardest part I guess.
But reading all these posts here does give you courage and I would like to say thanks to everyone about that.
I'm glad I found this website.
Hi, I am very sorry to hear of your lost, but very happy to hear we all have helped make your mind up about quitting. I am 4 weeks and 1 day into giving up, after 30yrs of smoking, ( you can read my story in the posts), Don't think for a min that this will be easy, I struggle everyday, when ever something went wrong or something happened that I didn't like, I would turn to my old friend pot, it was always there for me. In that 30yrs it was my best friend . I decided to stop because I hated the hold it had on me, 30yrs is a long time, oh the money, if I had all that money now god what a shopping spree. But look I understand about u not wanting to lose the girl u love, and a great job u love. that is a very good start to have a goal which in hard times you can reach out and touch. I really do wish u the best, but I feel in my heart u r going to do this PLEASE don't waste a moment more, at lease not 15yrs more, I will keep u in my prays and the best of luck.
" Thank You " I'm going to be a success !
My story is similar to many, I´m 40, started when I was 16, the first hit I took and became immediately addicted, can recall the next morning I was already craving for a joint. The first few years were so much fun and I loved the way It made me see things. I pretty much dumped my life long pals for a new group of stoner druggie friends. Big mistake. Deep down I always felt a sense of betreyal and not belonging to these new people. My non stoner friends became "winners" in life, even the "dummest" ones in class, but the stoners most became mediocre with some very few exceptions, who ended up being rich executives in big companies, but lonely antisocial, greedy, presumtuous, divorced, and addicted, the sory of the "successful" stoner.............
Weed has given me much and taken away much, like many it´s a love hate relationship, I can recall some great moments in nature where weed did its job tremendously.
I am addicted because I like it too much, I and that´s the main reason I wanna quit also, If not when am I gonna stop, be a stoner for life? One thing I am starting to get tired of is the brick feeling in my head, some of the hydro sh*t leaves me with a strange feeling, eventhough the taste is great. Some say we might be weak of whatever, ok I´m weak and whats the problem with that? now eveyone is strong in this world or what? gimme a break!. But the mental addiction to kind bud can be one of the toughest because It simply doesn´t kill unlike any other drug out there whose negative effects are clearly visible, with weed one never reaches rock bottom, if weed was deadly i´d be buried already, that´s the level of compulsion I have, like an alcoholic but with weed.
Another hard thing is support groups cause if there´s not a MA around you, and have to go to say AA or NA, there´s always a feeling of not belonging, eveyone speaks of death, jail, institutions, horrible stories, i wont debate the level of addiction and how it can literally kill me in life making me numb and careless or whatever, but it´s just different with weed. My enemy can be disguised as a beautiful green spirit whose smoke connects me with god, and it really makes me feel that way If I want to, and that is so disturbing, so confusing. It can make me feel bliss or make me feel like a zombie with zero connection to the higher one. Now If I think for a moment on that, overall I feel more constantly connected when I´m sober, but with weed it´s only that first hit after abstaining for some days and after that, it´s just mud. So In this important matter, I´d rather go with constant connection rather than one super exhalted one, which eventually is being produced artificially by a plants smoke.
I might do at most 2 weeks sober, suffering all the withdrawal symptoms we know, with the temper of a lion, cave in, smoke some, feel the bliss and connection, greatfulness to be alive, but then end up wake and baking the next day.
So my conclusion is that were dealing with a cunning enemy, after all this time and so many similar stories, clearly weed is not good for us who are chronics, yeah we love it, can make us feel great, but it´s taken its toll in life and as long as I don´t have a clear vision on how it´s my enemy, I´ll be wasting my time trying to quit. If one is to stop this, we cannot hold reserves on how we might smoke sometime if the future once we have our sh*t resolved, I still have trouble seeing it as my enemy, which it is, but damn, it´s hard.
I will soon stop, I dont know when, but at least I found this blog that is a god sent.
Congratulations to all who have the courage of accepting their problem and dealing with it. fight!
Mr. Mokolua8-|
....this, I've decided will be my AA daily meeting on my road to recovery,,,
39 years old Male here.
I'd like to quit. I've smoked daily (3 joints a day) since I was 20 or so. But throughout that time I've had the best life. I've climbed my career ladder well, been in loads of bands and written albums, been a top skateboarder and a great tennis player, finally settled down at 34 and had a Son. I am still very active physically and musically. Everything in my life has been great, no panic attacks or depression like other poor souls on here but as I grow older I worry about the health implications.
I want to see my Son grow into a man, this is the most important thing in my life now. But still each day I smoke. My wife doesn't mind so much but I know she'd like me to have it under control.
I am battered right now, as usual. I must quit soon but I just don't know when I'm going to make that first step.
hi my name is nilu my cousin brother using cannabis he is 19 years old.. how to stop him.. how can i help him.. please...
Thank you:)
WOW! How insightful, thanks for sharing your knowledge on quitting! I am serious too myself about quitting weed...but it seems like it doesn't want to let me go :( I'm even stoned right now! I have been smoking it for some time now myself, 15 years I think now, and that is everyday as well its a bit of an effort, but I just can't seem to get enough of it. It seems to make me who I am. When I was young, I never wanted to try drugs EVER!!! It still happened, so lets look at the situation at hand here shall we. No offence, If we take a look at today's society, Its everywhere. And you are right about it being a childish thing to smoke weed. However, there is real corruption going on in the world as we know it. That is how I became to smoke weed in the first place. One of the worst kinds of corruption would defiantly have to be peer pressure. Like I said, I never wanted to try them, but it still happened anyway. Did I have a choice? Of coarse I did, to smoke weed or get bashed and called a p***y in school for the rest of my learning days :( witch could and can also lead to certain death. All that, still happens to this present day in schools all over the globe. This world longs for love, that's all my stoner ass has to say :D PEACE!!!!
i'm having terrible insomnia and irritability, little jittery i have to quit so i can get a real job, a welding career in fact, i'm excellent
stick, MIG, and acetylene-o2 fabricator but i can't apply if i smoke and its in my system. i'm 19 and now have family man
responsibility. quitting is hard and i feel like its killing me; though it's important for my new family...i will use your regiment,
Quantum, thank you for the insight and tips, ways to alleviate the pains, God help me, and thank you Quantum. -Kailo Reese /
Portland, OR, US.
Thanks Boilercard for the words of courage.
It has been 5 days now since I last smoked weed.
Day 4 was pretty hard for me since I was home alone but still I didn't allow it to best me.
I feel much clearer now and doing my job just got a lot easier.
In a couple of weeks I'm going to start on my new job which I really want
and I'm happier now to know that I'm probably going to do it better.
I can only imagine how hard it must be when you smoke for 30 years and decide to quit.
It really takes courage and it has lifted my heart.
I do smoke cigarettes (like 5 a day) and it helps to alleviate the need. (I don't recommend anyone picking up smoking cigs though)
But now I know I will persevere in my quest to stop and very soon I'll say goodbye to the cigarettes too.
I'm reading a lot of posts often to keep my courage up and it acts as some sort of a therapy as well.
I hope that many more people will allow themselves to be free in their head and going after the things they much desired.
To everyone that wants to quit, it's not impossible if you put your mind to it and allow family and friends to help.
ps. (sorry if I got a little too emotional in my post but it really feels good to share this)
tomorrow will be day 6 of not smoking for me. i cant sleep worth a c**p. pretty bad headaches. toss and turn in bed, covers on..covers
off.. i have been fighting with myself to quit for a few years, to no avail.. First smoked at 15 and havent missed a day since I was 18. I
do not know what it is like to not be high, and that is pretty sad.. withdrawal is real and I am very glad i found these chat rooms to see
that others are going through the same things that I am. I am/was a heavy user, smoking premium grade since around 1998. my life
revolves around weed, and that too is sad. I feel more committed to quitting now than ever.. I dont like the anxiety, social withdrawal,
health paranoia that have become a routine part of my life. thanks to all for your thoughts and motivating words of encouragement.
tonight, reading these forums has empowered me even more. -Ryan from GA