Trying to stop smoking pot but........I CAN"T SLEEP!

All of you guys are just lazy stoners if you were a productive stoner like me and keep yourself busy everyday you'll be cool I bet if you come back from 9hr construction shift you'll ass will sleep fast with or with out weed

Marijuana "withdraws"......LOL!  I have experience with the sleeping problem when quiting but you guys are bitching like your comming off heroine! 

I have completed a whole month without smoking I went to the loss of appetite but I got it back, and other different stages, night swets went away after 2 weeks. my big problem is I cannot sleep even with medication I only sleep about two hours I don't know what to do. I'm working out like crazy trying to make my buddy tire on my body and mind are so tired but I cannot get a good night of sleep, any suggestions?

I have gone through this a few times. Last time it toik y weeks before i could sleep properly

Going through this shiz as well. At the start weed was perfect. I was a kid who loved being lazy and eating food perfecr cause that's all you wanna do with weed. Well I started cause I needed to cope with a breakup. And now it's been nearly 3 years (with some breaks in between) and its inspired me to do more with my life because I feel sorta empty when I'm sober. I've lost a ton of weight. I'm currently an aspiring pro athlete and I have an incredibly open mind which I give weed a solid amount of credit for. I just loved smoking and reflecting on life or sh*t I did and I'd try to become a better person while I was high. Ironic huh. But now I'm stopped no all together. But sleep is such a struggle and I have no idea what to do. It's night 4 of no sleep and just tossing and turning. This sucks. Pills are not an option. And I already excercise a ridiculous amount. I do drink coffee but idk if I'm ready to give that up yet. Any suggestions?

I've been there too many times to count. As strange as it sounds, when trying to sleep (no matter the circumstance) I tru to visualize myself in a "happy place". By happy place I mean somewhere that you could never physically go to in real life. For me this place is in outer space or on a desert mountain. I like to imagine that I am the only person that can access this place. First begin by imagining a general setting of your happy place, then slowly start filling in the details. Imagine it down to every nitty gritty detail that you can. Eventually this "happy place" relaxes me so much and uding my brains energy of imagining the details of the place sappes all of my energy that I just pass out. I often have trouble sleeping and as I am constantly applying to jobs that drug test this is a common reason for my difficulty sleeping. This is just what I found works for me and the last time I tried explaining this to someone they looked at me like I was crazy so I'm not sure if this will work for anyone else but good luck to anyone with a similar problem because I know it can be tough and everyone is likely tp have their own remedy. Like I said I have a lot of trouble for many different reasons and this is my trick so hopefully it will work for someone else.

Depends on who you are but for me it always sucks really really bad the first few nights. Next couple are okay, and after about a week it's all good when it comes to sleep. But think about it, you smoke 8 joints a day and then quit all at once so of course you won't be able to reach the normality of your sleep for quite some time. It could honestly take you about 6 to 8 weeks to get back to normal, but seriously 8 f*****g joints a day to nothing ain't a good idea. Smoke 1 a day for a bit til you think you can give that 1 up.

i didn't smoke weed for three days and this is after 8 years of every night smoking of one joint.Now i can't sleep very well,my body is shaking for this three nights when i'm going to sleep,my mind is going everywhere thinking of everything,i lost my apetite.I really don't know what to do because i want to stop smoking marijuana.Please somebody tell me what to do,how to stop smoking.

Well this just made me more pissed off. I searched hoping for people to say a few days at most, but weeks! I can't take that! I'm already so snappy with everyone, anymore and I think I'll have to explode! Smoked an eigth a day for 14 years tho so ive only got myself to blame. Unlike others have said I actually don't want to smoke it, maybe coz ive tried so many times before and failed. But sh*t id love to sleep

Hey, I'm typing this up because I cant sleep for obvious reasons. For anybody it helps: I'm going to post here again in awhile and see what progress I've made. I'm a 23 y/o college student who smokes about an OZ every month. I consider myself moderately intelligent and am aware marijuana has no physiologically addictive elements; but I realize I have an addictive personality. Runs in the family. (I see a few posters guffawing at our claims of addiction. Addiction isn't as black and white as those people make it out to be) I'm not the type of person who addresses their faults publicly; but the posts on this forum have helped me a bit and if my situation connects with anyone, maybe I can help them too.

I started seriously smoking (daily/several times a week) in the latter half of 2012. I've been smoking multiple bowls a day for at least the last 2 years....it's hard to remember how long. I cant f*****g believe its 2015. My friends are wrapping up college this spring, I'm drowning just trying to get to my three classes (dropped out of 3 already). At this rate: I'm graduating by 2017 at best. It doesn't bug me that my friends are getting started with their lives and are "leaving me behind". I'm frustrated that I cant accomplish any of the goals i set for myself. I've become a class-A couch melter. Exclusively hanging out with my buds (get it?), mary J, netflix, and many many video games. (Awhile ago I basically starved myself for a month so I could afford a expensive-high end "gaming pc" and marijuana at the same time. One or two top ramen packs a day. I lost 40 lbs in that month and the next. How f*****g crazy is that? I'm 6'1 so 40 lbs is pretty noticable, especially when you were fit BEFORE the weight loss)

I'm not exaggerating by any stretch: I have literally declined HUNDREDS of social invitations to family events/profession events/parties/hang outs/etc. I have MAYBE gone out once every 2 weeks for the past half a year, only when I'm feeling particularly lonely, and usually not to anything too big. (Although admittedly I remember always being a bit anxious around big social events before i stated smoking; but at least back then I'd make face and start having fun) You get the point, I have kept appearances to a bare minimum. That being said, I've always been good with people. I'm a good listener and can be a smooth talker, I'm almost too socially adept. I liken myself to a Game of Thrones character when I'm sober, in the sense that I'm good at figuring out the needs of people and telling them what they want to hear. One of the things I enjoyed about smoking was I didn't care about trying to make the people around me happy all the time. I would become insular and forget about world problems. I have stopped caring about almost everyone. I still have managed to keep some good friends, we go all the way back to elementary school; but they are all heavy stoners and one of them is my supplier. So i need to figure out how I'm going to have a social life when all of my friends are associated with ganja. That's something I'm admittedly anxious about figuring out. No game plan for that yet...

My diet is horrendous, I eat exclusively take out, and have been for almost all of these 2 years. I hate that about myself, and munchies aren't doing me any favors. This low nutrition diet definitely contributes to my depression and energy levels. Oddly enough I've stayed fit through all of this, at one point I was half-jokingly; but half-ready to write a book about the McDonalds 6-pack diet. LOL. I want to tackle this head on and start cooking natural ingredients in my home. I'll probably save 1k-2k a year and feel better. I've noticed my energy levels spike whenever I have gone over to my folk's for dinner x)

The last girlfriend I've had was before I started smoking heavily. My first and only true love. We ended up splitting amicably due to both of us dropping out of college and needing to go back to our respective homes. We thought we would keep the flame alive in the meantime....lol. So around 2012?? I think one of the many catalysts towards the habit was to fill that void left by her.  I also experienced an "identity crisis" of sorts when I started balding at that time as well, at 21. ( I know, I know, first world problems. I considered myself pretty damn handsome at the time and was an aspiring entertainer) I was growing up and when i looked in the mirror, I slowly ceased to recognize myself. (For any dudes who are going through balding who are waaaaaaay too young: Seems to fall in spurts. My advice it to rock it till it looks bad then chop it down. You can get away with minor-moderate balding for years with the right hairstyles. Don't overcompensate and grow super long hair, trust me) Also at the time, I was trying to cope with an existential crisis, the meaning of life type of sh*t. (What am I doing, where am i heading, is this all a lucky accident or do we have a purpose) A mid-mid life crisis.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that you can't let weed be a substitute to your problems. You need to confront your sh*t head on. Smoking has just become an excuse for me to hide from my issues. I get that some people function fine, and are productive while high. I'm not wired like that, and if you're reading this: chances are you might not be too. So this is me going for it, I'll let you folks know how it's going in a few weeks. Good luck to all of you, with whatever your goal may be. Stay strong. The clock has literally and figuratively ticked well past 4:20 (unfortunately, A.M., because I CANT SLEEP) as I've typed this. Time to try this sober thing.

Yeh it sure is hard I decided 1 day all of a sudden to quit smoking due to random memory loss forgetting simple things brain feels sluggish you know the feeling? ...pain. I smoke at least 5 grams a day i have to smoke a spliff as soon as i wake up and always blues k to help me function simple no weeD means no eat or sleep. i did this and it works for me. . quit Monday to Friday to begin with and share a joint with your friends or whatever on the weekends as long your not smoking it by yourself and it slowly becomes a social thing again and its a big boost threw the week because you look forward to doing somethin. might not work for everybody but I'm ill disciplined and found it impossible to quit straight away. Respect, peace and love people

Avid smoker here of 10 years. Im in my late 20s now and this is my 2nd week off the buds. I quit randomly because of multiple events that occurred all at once (anxiety,stomach flu,loss of a family member), none of which were related, they just all happened to occur all at once and the last thing I was thinking about was during that time was smoking. So I was clean and just sort of stayed that way. Lucky me right? Well, then came the not being able to sleep and super vivid dreams. I mean, I feel tired in my eyes and body, but at the same time I feel wide awake, it's weird. Like a new drug or something lol As far as the dreams go, seems like every night I have a wild dream, whether I'm running from something or argueing in a room full of people I hate. Wish they were dreams where I'm superman or something cool, but eh whatever. I've been taking a benzo to help me crash at night but sometimes even that doesn't work, and when it does I get maybe 4 hours of sleep in. It's tiring, literally. So yea, your not alone. It's rough to change our body and minds routine over night, but time will heal. I hope

The OP isnt lazy, they are TRYING to sleep. If anything, that's anti lazy. And why would you encourage smoking if they are trying to stop? Sounds like your just showing off. That, or in the wrong forum.

Legalise weed, if that happens it would be a loy cheaper so we'd be able to afford it, get better quality and smoke a big fat joint before bed. However it is a mental thing, havent smoked in a few days and only got to sleep last night. I find shutting your eyes and thinking about something else helps, you daydream for a while and then slip into a sleep. Obviously its next to impossible to not think about it but thats the annoying thing, its not even our bodies that crave it but our minds, just try sort your head out and you should be fine.

It normally only lasts about 3 nights, try smoking a cigarette it takes your mind of it and keeps you calm :)