It is now 13 days when I stopped. It is not first time I stopped. It is maybe tenth attempt. But now I think it is final. I have got few bags with me and my freezer is full of weed. I am 23 years old. I was smoking almost everyday from my 16. Last 4 years every day. At 2011 I was on coke too /one year everyday/ and on steroids from my 17 to my 21 (all-time on testosterone). I have many experiences with meth, extasy and LSD, but weed, coke and steroids were my love ones. Weed was my last real drug addiction. I am addicted to success and love, but I will never leave these addictions.
My life is not better without weed, it is just way. I want to be example for other people. And I do not want to die in early age. Maybe I will, but I want to be clean. Forever. Life is harder, but world around us will not be easier.
Good luck to everybody and I wish you only the best.
Hi,
I have been really stressing out about smoking. I really started to smoke everyday after the second year in to dating my last boyfriend..so my junior year in college. I used to hate how much he smoked and was offended by it. I didn't understand what a break it was from all he was going through at the time. Nor- did I understand addiction. When I starting dealing with my own problems- a bad break up, death, divorce, etc....I started smoking everyday. Now I smoke about 4-8 or 9 times a day. Usually joints shared or by myself. I function very well and like to clean and be social when I'm high- but I started to realize how much I'm not living or remembering, not to mention that ever since my junior year I have had severe stomach problems that have led to infections and upper endoscopies...no drinking, eating certain things...etc. I'm not quiet sure if the stomach problems are directly from smoking so much, but I do know that is when I started having my health issues.
I've been through a lot the last two years and every time I try to quit as of late I get terribly irritated, anxious, and am unable to sleep. Not to mention I become terribly insecure. The longest I went with out smoking was last summer for three weeks when I was in Europe...but the addication didn't go away...It's nice to know that other people have to same problem and if I understand correctly what you are saying..that the desire and addiction goes away eventually...because before I heard that I thought it would remain forever...
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I've tried quitting before, a few times and to no avail.I've been smoking everyday for about 6 years. This time I have gone to far, I realise that it is me that is addicted, and I can come of the stuff if I really put my mind to it. Over the past couple of days, things have fallen apart between me and my long term partner, thing is...I used it as an excuse to go get wrecked for a while. I lied, as you all probably have at some point, made my excuses and even blamed her a lot of the time.
I'm taking the first step now and asking for help, and I'm always a bit embarrassed, I don't have much family, since I left my girlfriend, all I really have is my mum. I never thought having started that I would choose weed over most things, and through the years I just made my excuses as to how everyone was just getting on my back about nothing, blah blah.
Today is day number 1, and to be honest, if I wasn't quitting I'd most likely be sitting here just fine, doing my work. I can tell today is going to be a LONNNNGGGGG day.
I hope she forgives me in the end.
Hello like a lot of people on this forum this is my first ever online post. im a 28yr old man and I've been smoking weed pretty much everbday since I was 15 from anywhere between 3 spiffs on a normal working day upto 10 spiffs on a saturday. i have realy wanted to give up for about 6mnths as I know I cannot keep spending all my spare time smoking weeD.Also I have a real passion/addiction for playing computer games while high which is not good for my 10yr relationship to the woman i intend to spend the rest of my life with. she has a good job and since we bought our first house 3 years ago she started smoking with me at the weekends which I now feel realy guilty about.
Anyway... over the last couple of month I've had a few attempts at goving up which have lasted between an hour lol upto 2days. i find when I'm not smoking I feel really bored and very prone to been miserable in the evenings as I wasn't smoking,playin ps3 etc I have done quite a lot of reading on this subject and tome to a conclusion and have decided how I am going to stop smoking for good.
Action plan!!!!!!!!!!
1) MAN UP and realise I'm only going to be miserable and bored for a couple of weeks whilst in withdrawral stage
2) ACCEPT that it is not having any positive effects on my life
3) EXERCISE more to keep myself busy and feel good
4) REFRANE fmuse puttin myself with people/places that are going to be smokiweeds
5) CONCENTRATE on the good things in my life like my mrs/job/footy teams is
THANKS FOR READING
" the harder you work the luckier you get "
hey guys, i just decided to google the topic of quitting weed. i landed on this page. Thank you for so many tips and experiences on the matter.
I'm 33 and been smoking since 14 so i consider it a long term addiction.
My childhood best friend is thankfully long distance and even til recently been my phone smoking buddy / call of duty smoking buddy. he has been very negative about my decision to quit and after i told him why im quitting he decided i was a retard!!! really, thats what he said. truly i think i hit a few areas he was not ready to admit to himself. apparently anxiety is my problem and im stupid to believe weed has played a part. maybe so but i feel now is the time to quit and i always feel more anxiety after smoking so i come to a decision based on how it makes me feel.
I have a good job, kids, a home and a wife - he has just been evicted, unemployed, on antidepresents (apparently playing gears of war till 5am is down to depression lol) and sadly only sees his daughter two days a week. looks like he is not the best source for advice.
my wife is dreading the mood swings as iv been here before and sadly thinks i should just carry on smoking (thanks) so im quitting on my own for myself.
im feeling the weight of it now, i really want to smash c**p up and shout at someone. i snapped at a co worker yesterday which was uncalled for, he was playing music on his phone repeatedly, i expressed it was irritating me and he thought it funny to continue with intent, he soon changed his tune literally after i ripped on him lol.
anyway, i plan to make good changes now. no weed is just the start.
good luck fellow quitters :-)
i hope this helps.
Hi this is the only post I found relating to smoking weed My partner of 26 years as smoke it daily for over 20 years we go on holiday and he does cold turkey,this last holiday was a nightmare to which I said I can't do this no more so now it has been 21 days no weed and I am at breaking point I have took him to doctors,drug councillors he is on diazepam 2mg he only takes one every other day to help him sleep he is not eating properly and has lost weight. I try doing healthy meals and change of meals but nothing is good enough he is getting worse moods screaming abuse at me blaming me for everything i am scared he is going to hurt me (in the past he was violent towards me ) I am going to see a drug councillor tomorrow for advice I don't know what else to do part of me wants to run any advice is great fully received thanks
Thank you for the post as it gives me strength and courage to let go of this "time-eating" habit. I would lie if i say that it didn't bring me joy but when I started to overuse ( as it usually goes ) my life literally got stuck... I want to give support to those who are still smoking daily and to those who want to quit, it is a matter of personal choice and experience... Peace and Love and respect to everyone !
Hey, Hey I am a newbie and I must admit this seems a bit silly to me but I am desperate and looking for whatever support and/or help that I can get! :)
I have an extremely addictive personality and marijuana has become my latest enemy that I can't quit. I am a recovered Eating Disorder person, ha ha not sure how to word that. I use to drink until I blacked out, did cocaine for about a year and popped whatever pills that were offered to me. I have a son now and since I was pregnant have stopped all of the above, except I will occasionally drink and well I am a pot head! This has not been good for me for a number of reasons. My husband also smokes, more than me. I do not, can not smoke at work and I am fine with that. But as soon as it gets close to time to leave work smoking is ALL I can think about. I am not like my husband when I smoke though. He gets stuff done, does not binge eat, can go in public. I on the other hand, who happens to be a very social person by nature, get paranoid everyone will know I am high, don't want to do ANYTHING, I melt into the couch and all I can think about is stuffing large quantities of food down my throat as fast as possible leading me to need to smoke more so that I do not think about what I just did. I can't get up in the morning easily AT ALL. I wake up hating myself, tired as sh*t, feeling bloated and just gross yet I go home after work and do it all over again. I know I am different bc I have the eating disorder history and I think the pot is helping bring it back into my life, but I keep thinking other pot heads have to be the best help for trying to stop with the best suggestions.
Here are more problems, my husband has no plans of quitting so it will be in the house. And my pot head friends I have tried talking to only try to think of ways that I can continue to smoke when I know I have tried EVERYTHING and in order to keep sane and not fall off the deep end into a depression I HAVE GOT TO STOP. I quit once for 2 weeks and started back then recently quit for a week, smoked past Saturday at a party and have been smoking everyday since. When I had quit just for the week I felt so much better. I was still very, very, very, tired and moody but I could get up in the morning and I could work out which is very important to me to keep my sanity also I could eat healthy, I just was starting to feel so much better so why am I so addicted!
If anyone has a similar situation, even if it is just that a spouse is not quitting but you want to please share. I need help, support, something!
Sorry my message is everywhere, I am at work and keep getting interrupted!
hello it is really hard quitting weed, when people just say its only in your head but the truth is you go to so many lengths to get this bad substance i smoked that much i blacked out and collapsed on the floor right in front of my mum which that is quite weird to me because there's no cases where theirs no actual people that has done that i been smoking it from morning till night. once i came of it for 3 weeks and i was getting bad nightmares thinking really bad thoughts going into one and lashing out on my friends and loved ones and to tell you the truth it had changed me as a person a really horrible one. i get paranoid all the time even when i haven't smoked it i think the people around me are saying bad things about me all the time which is not right. i know i got a eating disorder because my weigh is 7 stone all the time and i cant eat the way i can eat is when i smoked. i feel depressed all the time and worthless! i tried getting the help but its not working out for me am wasting money on it when i can get better and useful things with the money and my image is getting poor my coordination is getting slow! and i just can be bothered to socilise with people like talking! am becoming a cabbage and i dont like it lol its is really hard to quit because i rely on that drug so much!
HEy guys im just a guest and noticed this topic on this paticular topic. All I have to say is watch pineapple express after a month break from pot. Makes you feel better that you'r smokin again
In my 20's I had three friends who smoked weed with me like all day long. I eventually got tired of it and didn't smoke anymore, but they had trouble quitting. He had to sign up for MA meetings every week... If it helps, there's this site that talks about a guide for quitting pot.
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it seems to go into some really interesting studies and facts about marijuana.
Hallo everyone, first off I 'd like to thank each and everyone of you that posted here, this topic is a godsent as someone already suggested. I started reading about ten days ago and I've gathered much strength within the last week. I'm on day 5 weedless and I have turned down a few chances to smoke on day 2 and day 4. Today another friend invited me to smoke with him, I gotta say, he intrigued me A LOT, but I'm still here going strong! THANK YOU SO MUCH, like many I thought I was the only one having the symptoms of withdrawal. I f'in love weed or so I thought, but I can't handle the paranoia and homesickness and panic attacks and feeling worthless most of the time even though I have a really nice job which I enjoy most of the time and pays me in times that most of the people in my surroundings don't have one... I used to be a fun person, not much of a ladys guy (shy) and weed has made me even shier. BTW I'm 33 and smoking half of my life, the last 8-10 years being a heavy user of 4-8 spliffs a day, more on the weekends as I would wake and bake. Before I quit I couldn't look people in the eye, my parents and sister and especially non-stoner friends, oh well and some of my stoner friends as well who are in better terms with the DRUG (cause THAT is what it is). Now I already got a couple of nights out with friends gettin social bit by bit every day. I wake up more energised and happier that I'm one day further from the weeds and not thinking about my stash or lack of. Hooray! My sleep has gone a bit disturbed though, I sleep lightly now and open my eyes earlier than the alarm rings but I am more Awake and jump out of bed in an instant. I have tried many times to quit, this time being the easiest so far partly THANKS TO YOU WHO POSTED HERE and partly I think due to caffeine abstinence and the use of valerian root. I also found that nocotine patches help ease the restlesness. I Thank you from the bottom of my heart, I get emotional as I write this... I also experienced depression, anxiety, mood swings, racing heart, bad thoughts etc when on or around the herb and I also feel very lonely and dissapointed with myself for not being what I REALLY CAN BE without it. My story could be anyone's here and anyone's story could be mine. I relate to the 98% of the posts, I found myself yelling at the computer screen "Yeah baby, you're so f'in on spot here!!I'm not alone" and such. What drives me to do it is mostly boredom as I have the rest of the day free after work, that is after lunch. I KNOW that it brought me depression and a tendency to get stuck on things that bother me so I don't really have a reason to do it. I lost potential gf's and oportunities to meet new people and relate to them and now I WANT IT BACK! I recently told my parents about my habit trying to justify my use as a help to get me through the boredom of life in the country, I live in a small town where there not much to do especially in winter and autumn. I really need a person of my own to love and be loved back. weed has replaced that for many years and it is a DEAD END. I don't wanna be a burnout anymore with noone but MJ to live with. I also grew my own a couple of times, it was a hell of an experience watching it grow in my closet ,that beautiful green DEVIL. Thank you, thank you people for sharing, I have tears in my eyes right now but they are of joy and relief... Please continue posting, I would like to hear updates of people who quit. I'm going out now to meet a friend, a former heavy stoner who couldn't work without getting baked early in the morning and who succesfully quit 4 or so years ago after having law and psychological issues. He is now a different person. I will be back with my updates! keep up the good work people, we can do it!!! F' Yeah!
I have been smooking pot daily 3-4 times a day. I am 87 days clean, and yet I still feel the jitters and obsessive thoughts that I need to go out and use again. I fight with this addiction on a daily basis, I don't know how much longer I can hold on my doctor will not prescribe Valuim or anything like this. I feel like I' m on the verge of a nerveous breakdown, should I go back to using or what? I need an answer, please help!
don't do it buddy,you have got further than many do.You must have made the decision to stop for good reason.Surely negatives outweigh positives.I've found exercise good release and keeping busy seeing friends and family.respect for getting to 87 days.be strong,it's just your mind playing you.