withdrawal from smoking weed

I have also just begun the long journey to quiting smoking pot, after a long time use getting up to morning, noon and night bowls. I felt that my anxiety was getting out of control and I had lost all ambition, my mind was constantly in a fog and I lost my significant other because of the drug use.. so I am now 36 days clean.

And yes, the withdrawl is VERY REAL... and if it weren ot for the fact that I know my mind has cleared a little and that these symptoms will hopefully getbetter and I will be a new person, I would go back in a heartbeat as the effects are almost ruining me.

I have anxiety, chest pain, depression, I shake all the time. My heart feels like it is bursting sometimes, I cannot sleep and I am tired all the time. My hair is falling out, and my dreams are terrifying. My stomach often cramps, and I have a hard time eating. I gained 10 pounds, I am on antidepressants and Lorazepan, and am now undergoing psychiatric treatment. I am on a medical leave form work because I am unable to focus or stop shaking... and this has been going on now for 5 WEEKS. It is slowly getting better, good days and bad days, but for note, dependingon your body type and the levels of fat in your body, your activity level and your nutritional intake, it can take up to 6 months for all of the drug to be released from your body, and therefore can take that long to be rid of the side effects.

I also thought this must be something beyond withdrawl, as I also thought Marijuana was not such an addicting drug.. but I have done alot of research now that speaks to the contrary. My doctor also said that, much like people all have different emotional reactions, they can also have different withdrawal symptoms. Anyone with a predisposition to anxiety, for example, can have it be extremely hightened during the withdrawal period.

Please, for those people out there who did not experience withdrawal, do not discredit other people for their symptoms. The physical manifestations are very real, and very painful.

I agree with Phd. The biggest problem in stopping smoking was, for me, breaking the daily procedure of preparing to smoke. It had been an integral part of my life for several years. However, once I moved out of school and my daily schedule changed, my perceived need for pot changed as well.



While I was in school, I was smoking daily almost every night of the semester. When I came home for breaks, etc, I never had a problem with physical withdrawals. I was probably more anxious and irritable for a week or so, but those symptoms quickly went away.



I will still occasionally smoke at parties, for example, if it is offered to me. Other than an occasional toke here and there, however, I never smoke. Smoking only in social situations, such as parties, makes the risk of addiction much less serious. It is when smoking becomes part of your daily schedule that the problem comes.



In conclusion, while I was smoking every day I could not conceieve of the day when I would graduate from school and have to quit. Once I am there, however, it is not so bad. For those of you who want to stop smoking, try exercise. Get out and run a few laps at night, instead of toking up. You will get a natural "high" afterward; a natural feeling of well being, and you will probably sleep better at night now that you are not smoking pot.

It is VERY addictive! i am addicted, and when i got caught, i had to stop for a while, and i had nervousness, diharreha, and bursts of anger for no reason. the second i smoked a bowl, all of these symptoms stopped.

I am not a weed smoker, but I live with one! My partner is fine all of the time he has weed, but as soon as it runs out he is a different person. He becomes irritable, argumentative and depressive and suffers with sleep deprivation. It is not a pretty sight. If this isn't addiction, I don't know what is.

i have smoked every day multiple times for baout 3 years. occasionally if i dont have any herb and i dont hang out with my friends, i just wont smoke. sometimes i dont even realize i havent smoked until night or even the next day. it is not physically addicting, although there are those times when i get off work and i NEED to smoke a bowl.

ok, i haven't been smoking for long, a few years, but over those years i've had times when i didn't smoke for weeks, well, i was trying to get a job, and times when i would do nothing but smoke, it depended on how much i had, lol, but anyway, i never noticed any effects but the ones that one experiences while smoking, there are no withdrawal symptoms, if you feel something after not smoking for any time, its in ure head, people are psychologically affected by everything they do, those psychological effects are all based on ure personality, if you have an addictive personality by nature, like me, only not for pot strangly, then it seems more difficult to quit any habit, i find it impossible to stop biting my nails, i find it impossible to stop doing little things i've done all my life, why? cause i'm used to them, when u get used to something psychologically, an addiction occurs, it is nowhere near physical in that respect, yes, alot of things are physically addictive, but for those things that arent, we believe that we still need them, but its all in our heads, the easiest, or should i say the hardest, thing to do is tell ureself u don't need it, now i'm not saying that this is true for all addictions, i'm just saying that marijuana is a psychological addiction, one thinks they need to do it, just as they think they need to bite their nails, or just as they think they need to watch tv every day, or like they think they need to act a certain way, and if this makes sense to any of you, i praise you, cause ure one of the very few that can understand me, lol, so, in conclusion, stop bitching and start thinking, we cannot solve your problems, we can only help u to figure out how to solve them, and you need to figure out what your problems are to begin with, not what happens because of your problems, look at ureself and find out who you are.

P.S. WEED IF *** GREAT!

Allright I've read enough of these ppl's ridiculous replys its time for my own, I cant resist starting with the person who compared humans smoking/quitting weed to rats. i mean @.@ r u insane we r nothing alike were completely different spefcies we will obviously not react the same way as rats would. The next fact is weed is NOT only physically addictive but also mentally addictive to some. What you ppl dont understand is we are all different every one of us is different in some way shape or form so we will all have different reactions to weed and different symptoms when trying to quit. Me personally when i quit for a few days i dream alot more and have a much more resless sleep i also tend to get really hot and sweat just a little. Where as some ppl will have no symptoms when quitting. Youll all just have to test it out if u are trying to quit and decide what is better for you quitting or does weed actually make u happier and a more efficient person. YOU be the judge.

This depends, some people will experience withdrawals some people will not. IT IS NOT IN PEOPLE'S HEAD, it's a fact that it can be physically addictive to some people, like myself. Depression, lack of sleep, lost of appetite, anxiety attacks, headaches, stomach aches....Some people can stop cold turkey some just cannot.



Telling people that it is in their head is quite infantile, because how do you know this? You're a psychic? Pain and discomfort cannot be discussed because it cannot be measured, same with this.

hell yeah I agree with you smoking pot is awsome

Well I have read what everyone has said, and it has been helpful. I do now understand why I have been so hot and sweating when I am normally cold. The thing I don't know how to fix is my inability to sleep when I am not smoking. Granted I have only quit for 24 hours, but the not sleeping is driving me crazy. I may as well be smoking crack. :O

If anyone has any ideas on how to sleep or how long this will last, I would greatly appreciate. It is 1:30 in the morning, and I have been laying there for 5 hours unable to sleep.

I too agree that smoking weed is AWESOME, but when you live in a small town like I do you can't find many people that you can trust to get it from. Quite frankly I am only quitting because I am sick of dealing with people trying to get some. It is too stressful and it makes me TOO ANGRY.

Maybe I should say screw it and get BLAZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

%-) I have been smoking almost everyday for the past four years. Things are not going to good right now bc my job dosent pay good and my parents are *** for my to get a job to get more money for college. The thing is that i spend a lot of monet on weed and i dont know how to stop. And my parents want me to get a job that drugz test you and i am so clueless on how i am supposed to do this

ya then you quit and start coughing that's real pleasant when trying to get your lungs to be better

i've smoked since i was 18 too, 10 years later, my lungs haven't handled it the best

for those that can afford it, I'd recommend drop a $1000, take you and your honey somewhere nice like the Caribbean and the warm sun will make you forget you ever wanted smoething like the dro

of course, it's a lot harder to quit when you have an o stashed away

Until 4 months ago I had been smoking weed everday, just about all day, for 6 years. I transferred colleges and realized that none of my friends smoked. Although I went about my daily life, going to class, working out, working, etc. I had to be high no matter what I did. Then I slowly realized I wasn't smoking as much because I wasn't surrounded by people always wanting to sit around and smoke blunts all day and night. I didn't smoke for three days because I had completely lost my voice one saturday night. The day I got my voice back I packed up a bong and smoked it in my room all by myself for about two hours. I stood up to make a snack and the last thing i remember is taking a bite of a strawberry and my vision turning black. Next thing, I wake up with my four roommates surrounding me on the floor talking about calling an ambulence. I don't know what the f**k happened, but it freaked me out. After that I decided do this detox system I had heard about, famously known as the Master Cleanser. It seriously has worked wonders. I don't even want to smoke now. I feel completely healthy and free. I love smoking grass, it's just not something I do anymore. I feel completely alive and rejuvinated. If you are trying to quit. Give the Master cleanse a shot. It takes some will power, but the results are worth it.

I believe there are no real withdrawel symptoms, it all depends on the person. I have been bunnin weed for long now and i did find when you quit you do feel slightly depressed, probably due to the fact i find smoking weed socialable, theres nothing better than sitting down after a hard days work with a few mates and get kained off the head...love it. To be honest tho when i did quit i felt much more awake, its easier to get up in the mornings and you are generally on the ball more, your diet improves and so does your general lifestyle, however smoking weed in small amounts is the dogs bolloks and as long as you proportion life its all good! So carry on sparking boys and girls!

Love From

MessHeadz xXx

pot gives you panic attacks