Recommendations on how to stop smoking marijuana and what symptoms to watch for

Hi thank u so much for your post, i really needed this this morning, i have wriitten a long post for u, but it went somewhere other than on the boards, i will write it again later for u if it dosent come up, i really really appricated your post more than u will no, love to u and your family..oxo

Hi there its day 4 for and i thank u again for your post to me, i really needed to wake up to this, as my day yesterday just keeped getting worst by the hour, i had missed myhusband so much and as soon as he arrived home, i became so cranky and upset with him, not even sure what he did wrong, went to bed early and didnt even say good night or give him a kiss, i felt so bad, but when we woke looked over and there he was smiling, saying good morning love, I understand now that i shouldnt beat myself up with things, but i just dont usually behave like that, i really started to make excuses to why i should start again, but of course i didnt. just to get your post this morning helped me more that u will ever no, i dont even no u , but read every word u said over and over again,thanku for your honesty, had really bad dreams last night and the sweats i have never sweated this much in my hole life.I was spending about $600 a month, and ok this with my self because we dont have kids but i new that the money would be better spent paying off the house or just to b put to our savings, The lies u tell yourself , to help make it sound better. I just wanted to thank u again , and wish u love and happness for u and your family. And im proud of u for the weeks that u have stayed off it, hoping to follow your lead, Please everyone keep posting u never no who u will help out there. peace b with u all. xox

Hi again,

Funny how things work.  I was just randomly looking for info on the Interweb and did a random search, wondering how others were dealing with this when I saw your post and decided to share part of my story.  I felt something in your post, you seemed so sad and frustrated, I just wanted to let you know that you were not alone and you are going to be okay. 

Now I want to thank you for your kind words, you have no idea how important it is to me to "hear" someone say thanks.  Lately it doesn't seem like I can say or do the right thing at home, lots of friction...

 

So Thank you!  I hope you have an awesome day today!

 

hey i hope your still doing good! I stopped updating because for me after day 4 the major symptoms were gone and i just get minor ones here and there. stuff like irritability, muscle twitches and anxiety. Overall i feel much better and can say i successfully quit . I love being able to dream again, never want to wake up becuase i love it hahah. keep pushing... you got this.

Good morning, day5, As soon as i woke this morning all i could think of was ,I hope u log in and gave me a reply, im not sure why it means so much to me, but it does, i live in a small country mining town, i dont have any support here, only my husband, and he is supportive but he gave up 3yrs ago and did it quite easy, his words not mine.I told him 30yrs i have been smoking, he had been smoking pot for15yrs, still a long time. I havent been able to make friends easily, because of smoking pot, just the lies u have to tell, i didnt feel i could be a good friend. It is remarkable that u were able to tell from an email that , thats i was feeling, u were so spot on,u single handedly got me through that day,u really did. Im sorry to hear that u r having friction at home, some times it is very easy to take our loved ones for granted,I could only imagine what a great mother and a wonderful parnter u are. I wish i could say some thing to help u out like u have done for me,Even though i dont no u personally, I do no one think for sure, u r a GREAT mother, to think of your kids first before the pot, trust me when i tell u that over my 30yrs of smoking pot i have seen so many mothers, doing this right in front of there kids,buying selling, bringing people into there homes that could really hurt there kids. I feel so strongly about this because when i was 23yrs old i had an eptopic pregnecy that blow both my tubs up, and am unable to have kids at all, my husbane at the time came from a big family, and left me within 6mths, after being high school sweet hearts, it was very hard for me as i lost both things that were so important to me, marriage and children. All so how hard it was for me to then start a fresh, every date started with i cant have children, It didnt get me far. but i did find someone in the end. Pot was always there for me when i was upset about this subject..So it means a lot to me when i see mothers doing the best for there children, they r the greatest gift. Please remember that your family love u so much, and could not go one day without there, u r the most important person in the home.Becuse without u it is just a house full of people. I feel like u r my friend already, please dont think im a storker,ha ha, All my love to u and your wonderful family, again u have help me, without even noing,THANK YOU SO MUCH. My prays r for u today oxo

Hi thank you for your post, it was great to hear you doing so well, it does give me hope, i was wondering if u minded saying how long u have done pot for, and what type of smoker u were. What has helped u fill in the time u spent doing pot. I dont have a job at the moment, so i have alot of spare time on my hands, which without children to look after, and nothing to replace it with, I went and brought canvas to start painting again,but dont really feel creative, exercising on treadmill 30min a day, and take my rotti for his morning and afternoon walk both an 1hr long, My husbane works in the mines, 12hr shifts, i dont have any support in the town im living in with my husband, i see your friendships have helped u alot, the only people i no r pot smokers, and my dealer, which of cource i dont want to be with them while im trying to give up. its been really hard for me, thats why im hooked on this web site, its the support i have been craving for, if u can think of anythink that u think mit help me i would really appricate it. Thank u again for your kind words, love and peace to u and your family oxo

Hi not a problem! I smoked pot for a year and it was usually around 4 times a day. potent stuff because i live in British Columbia and its almost impossible to get shitty weed haha. I do have a job at the moment so that helps a bit. I basically went back to doing all the stuff i did before i smoked pot. Mostly sports and hanging with friends.Like you said most of your friends were pot smokers and so were mine so i only have like 2 friends now but i told them my situation and they helped me through it which helped alot. Keep up the painting if you like it and if you can remember how you used to have fun before smoking then that will help alot. Sorry i wasnt much help as i dont really know your interests.

I hope you have suceeded, could you please list your withdrawals and how long they lasted? My quit day is soon approaching.Thanks

Thanks, its funny but after 30yrs,its hard to remember what i liked doing, before spending all my spare time smoking ,and looking for it took alot of time, i wont miss the waiting and waiting for it to come into town.Sports was never my thing, i love shopping but do most of this online, as i live in a small country town. But the reason behind the painting idea,is i was good at it at boarding school, and remember enjoying alot, but have brought all new painting stuff 2 days ago, but still i just cant get myself interested in it, Maybe when i feel alittle better from the withdrawals, But im so proud i been off it now 5 days, which is amazing to me. So thank u again for your time and i wish u all the best.I will keep posting my journey, as it has helped me so much. oxo

It is different for different people, I am well over 50, smoked regular (daily, all day) for 35 years- I quit and it was only 2-3 days of missing it, reading a lot, a couple nights of tossing & turning- then after the 3rd day I did not miss it, but I still thought about it, then at about 5-6 days I did not miss it at all, and by the 8th day I began wondering why the hell I was smoking that c**p! Within 10 days I not only did not miss it, I was seriously confused as to what the hell I was liking about it! To all those heavy pot-heads- it is MUCH easier than you think and once you are away you too will look back and say "What the hell did I see in that c**p?" Your financial situation will automatically get better (I was spending between 700-900 dollars every month on Pot)- now I spend exactly zero dollars on drugs! and really, life is much much better- just a short while of some MINOR discomfort has led to some amazing transformations in my life, all because I stopped smoking weed! It's excellent out here in sober land for sure!

It's great to read all these stories to help you through. A little background on my usage. I have been smoking for 25 yrs, started at 15 and let's say the last 5 years have been chronic. I mean I have been stoned nearly all day everyday, morning noon and night. Quiting has been tough and yes there are the physical withdrwawals, I have experienced mood swings (but who doesn't, smokers or non smokers), night sweats, holy #%$# are there night sweats lol. I have made my mind up to quit so I know I will. I was a cigarette smoker and tried quitting many times, but it wasn't until I had a new mindset to quit that I was able to, and so far the same with pot. Except for one damn thing. CAFFEINE. I had stopped drinking coffee about a week before quitting smoking, unrelated, I just didn't want coffee any more. So, when I quit the weed I wasn't drinking coffee. One day I decided a nice caffeine buzz would be cool, get wired and have some energy!!! I didn't want to smoke when drinking coffee, it wasn't until the next day. I woke up and all I wanted to do was get high, I hadn't had these feelings since quitting until I had caffeine.

I woke up with such a need to get high, my head was pounding, I could even feel it in my teeth (?!!?!!??) and this was the feeling I always had when wanting to get high. The feeling that I needed to self medicate myself. I couldn't figure out why, until I remembered the caffeine! That was the worst day I can remember in a long time. The day after that it subsided, but still had the craving, and two days after I was fine. I guess two wrongs do make a right. The the caffeine would get me up and the pot would balance me out.

I don't preach, who knows what works for everyone all I can do is share my experience. The caffeine made want to get high again, so all I can say is, avoid the CAFFEINE, after all it is a drug too.

If I can just give you one tidbit, if you drink coffee, stop before quitting pot, because if you quit pot and drink caffeine you will feel like you need something to bring you down, and that's the maryjane!

 

So good luck to all of you, peace be with you and stay off the caffeine to help you out!

 

Kenny f*****g Powers

Well I have discovered this site and have been reading replies for hours now. Figured I should just join since obviously I am here for a reason. I am a 34 yo female who has been a chronic smoker since I was 15. My father was the first to get me high, my friends and family do not condone it, rather we all believe it should be legalized for various economic and financial purposes. That does not mean it is a good thing though, I mean, how many people kill people from drunk driving and alcohol is legal? Point therein. It IS an addiction, one that can control a person's life, and everyone reacts differently from its effects. 

Take myself for example. I am what my friends and family refer to as a 'productive pothead'. I do not hide my lifestyle from anyone, including my place of employment. I do not smoke before or during work, in fact if I have to work I do not smoke at all when I wake up, I wait until after. I do an amazing job at work, the best in my job, am always responsible for training of new employees, the one everyone goes to because I always have the answer. I clean my house (husband calls it the 420 Cleaning Company), pay all my bills, take care of my husband and animals, shop, ride horses, hike, bike, walk/jog, talk to everyone I meet in my life. I do all of this all the while taking one-hitters throughout the day of some of the best chronic around. I am not one of those sink into the couch smokers who don't answer their phones and never get out of pj's. I don't have kids but my friends around me do and I make it a point to be at all the park play dates, birthday parties, parades etc... I do all of this high. Every bit of it. I can't leave the house without a hitter with me. I don't want to leave the house without it...

...Therein lies my dilemma. I have an IQ of 156, graduated at the top of my class (oh so many years ago), and feel as though I have lived an awesome life. It has been great, but has always depended on one thing. Chronic. I always think of myself as a strong-willed independent individual, but how can I be if I can't function through life without that one hit. I have to depend on one thing in my life that is only controlling me because I let it. Chronic. I never wanted to be controlled by something but I am. I am dependent and hooked and can't even see a life without it. I am at a point in my life though that I don't want it anymore. I don't want to NEED something that really does nothing for me anymore. A previous poster hit the nail on the head with the statement that they can work all day and not think about smoking one time, yet as soon as they walk in the door it's like BAM!!! (for me) where's my bag. I think about it more than my husband, my family, my animals. I would rather spend the $ on a bag for myself than anything else. Everything thing else seems materialistic to my addiction. That is how I know I have a problem.

I don't know how to just quit. I cannot taper I know this. I am surrounded by a lot of people like myself, and the scariest part is having to let go of a lot of people who love me for me, at least for some time. I can not do this if I am still surrounded by it. I need to rethink my whole outlook on life before I can even consider putting down the hitter. This will be the hardest thing I will ever do in my life. That is the sad part, the hardest points of my life should not be 'drug related'. It makes me feel weak and small inside. I hate this feeling but smoking somehow gets rid of it. I know makes no sense to the non-smoker but I know that every one of you who read this knows exactly how I feel. 

My husband supports me 100%. He is not a smoker and it is ok for me to be who I am whenever I want. I also know that he wishes I did not smoke, because there is really no purpose for it anymore. Why should I? Then again why should I not? This is the constant struggle in my mind every night before I go to bed. Just to think about it a bit more I smoke a bit more. This cycle has got to stop yet I am so scared of failure, that I will just allow it to over take me. I use the excuse all the time that I love this way of life, but deep down inside I know that it is just a mental hold that THC has over my mind and body. I just don't know any other way of life, yet the only way to do new things is let the old out and embrace the new. I sure as hell would have a lot more money I guarantee this. I don't know what will come out of this but damn it sure felt good to get it out. 

I have been reading all of your posts for hours now...and I'm sober. I want to get high more than anything. But I was recently charged with possesion of marijuana and drug paraphenelia. I'm a 16 year old kid and $800 in fines is alot more than just a pimple on my ass. I have been smoking HEAVILY for 3 years. I smoked all day and everyday. Before school, sometimes during school, after school, before work, after work, before bed, middle of the night. The bottom line is that I need to quit smoking. Today is my second day being sober and it sucks. I have a girlfriend that keeps me busy but she too is a smoker so it's going to be tough. My attitude towards school hasn't changed at all. I still have no motivation to do anything school related. I have a job and I work almost every day. I don't have a problem with working hard at work. I'm laying in bed right now sweating my ass off. My appetite has changed dramaticly. I'm easily annoyed and I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT GETTING HIGH. I have seen alot of people quit so I know there is hope!

Hi there, I've been smoking HEAVILY for about 4 years now. I'm 20 now. My smoking has basically been an all out bongfest for the last few years with a group of 4 friends. We smoke everyday and every night without fail. Basically over the last year, weed has been making me feel extremely sh*t in general. If i don't have any, it becomes my mission to get it and without it i get crazy butterflies in my chest, like i'm really nervous or something. I've been feeling really unmotivated and lazy up until a few days ago when I decided to turn my life around. This is my first day without weed and to be honest its pretty screwed. I've had headaches all day and just 10 minutes ago i spewed from the withdrawals (anyone who says they are not real for bud, is wrong.) I can't eat anything without feeling extremely nauseous as I chew and I've been trying to sleep for hours.All I can say is I am extremely happy that I have made this decision, because if my body is having these reactions to NOT having weed it means i never should have had it in the first place. Thank you to all the people who have posted because you've made me realise I have a lot more to offer to this world.

thank you so much for your wise words, your conviction and your bravery. This is day one for me and i'm so thankful for this article. Appreciate the candor sir stay strong an stick to your guns!!