withdrawal from smoking weed

Weed is totally, utterly addictive and anyone saying otherwise is wrong!. I smoked every day for 15 years and finally stopped 2 weeks ago. I was a total wake and bake case. Since stopping I have had night sweats, nausea, insomnia, a hacking cough and mucus from every orifice. It is extremely unpleasant to go through and very, very, very hard. But, totally worth it. I have never had so much clarity in my life. I look forward to a happier and more energetic future. I NEVER thought I would or could stop and I have- I feel like there is hope. I am still going through terrible withdrawals, still sweating and currently feel like I have the worst flu ever, but I refuse to give up. Life is too short to be walking around in a daze. Or to be so stoned you can't leave the house. To everyone that wants to stop: break that cycle and keep going, it's so worth it.

weed is NOT addictive the effects r!!!

I quit smoking pot about 2 weeks ago and the first week I was the grumpiest jerk in the room. I was looking for any excuse to start smoking again. I would start fights with my wife and then blame it on the lack of pot and use that as an excuse to get some. I would eventually get over it and stick to my guns of quitting. My "dealer" is also a very good friend so I told him what I was doing and told him to cut me off regardless of how much I beg and/or plead. He has been absolutely wonderful helping me out. I have only called him twice and both times he told me to walk it off and get my head out of my butt.

Most of my withdrawal symptoms have been mental and usually brought on as an excuse to start smoking again but I do have one physical side effect and I don't know if anyone else suffers from it or if I should be concerned. I have been sweating A LOT. I even went Pedro and shaved my head bald because I heard about the heat from your body being released through your head. Even after shaving my head, if I don't have an A/C or fan blowing directly on me then I sweat like I just worked out for an hour or ran a mile. I'm sweating bullets as I type this post.

Has anyone else suffered from this withdrawal symptom or is it something all together different and not associated with me quitting pot?

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to share my story with you on my decision to quit pot.

I've been smoking marijuana for the past 19 years. Yikes! I've decided to quit the pot due to it's side effects. I'm feeling the motivational syndrome (don't feel like doing anything), depression, lack of confidence to drive, having excuses to not see friends or family on the weekends (weekends I binge smoke) and feeling like I'm directing my soul to hell. Also, my relationships are being affected.

I'm attending an Addiction Counselling Centre which is kinda helping me. My counsellor said that I need to quit b/4 going to a residential treatment centre (which can take up to 3 weeks). I thought, I'd better go to a Detox Centre first. I'm to stay there for 3-5 days.

I shared these ideas with my husband (who is also addicted to marijuana). People have been telling me that I would have a hard time quitting b/c my husband is an addict. When I told him that I could be away from him for 3-5 days, he said that he felt sad that I was going away. He then started telling me how the affects of his addiction is causing him to have no energy and mental alertness (he's starting to put in his mind that pot is not good for him). He's now planning to not smoke around me and to withdraw from the pot eventually. This is good news b/c he has always said that he would never quit pot b/c it served him well. God has been listening to my and my mother's prayers.

I've quit Paxil (used for depression), "cold turkey" in my past and know too well the withdrawals I was affected with. It almost sounds like the withdrawals of marijuana. I'm a little scared b/c I had negative spiritual experiences as well. I"m not saying that this happens to most people, however, I'm just explaining what happened to me. I went through anxieties, cold sweats, confusion and lack of sleep for 2 weeks. On one of the occations I felt a negative entity around me. I went to my mother's room and asked her to pray for me at my bedside. When she finished I asked her if she could sleep with me. Which was odd b/c I was in my 30's. She giggled and proceeded to lie with me. Then she heard the tapping of a spiritual entity on my bed post. It was as if it were saying to my mother "Leave the bed". Then she told me that she couldn't sleep with me b/c of what she felt. I said to her, "I knew there was something (evil) bothering me. It was as if the devil had a strong foothold on me.

Therefore, I"m a little nervous that this experience can happen again if I quit pot. However, at the same time I feel courageous and just want to nip this addiction by the bud. Today will be day 1 of being pot free. I've heard that others went through 30 days of withdrawal symptoms. I'm not sure if I should get natural remedies to help me with the suffering. But, when I really think of it, I'd rather suffer so that I may never return to smoking pot.

I've come to a point of my life that the pot doesn't work for me anymore. It makes me feel depressed (or course it does, it's a depressant), dirty, have racing thoughts, can't concentrate during a conversation, hopeless, panic attacks, hard to make decisions, makes me eat more, lazy etc. With all these symptoms, I continued to smoke. When I did smoke I would ask myself, "Why am I hurting myself"? Every day, for about 2 weeks, I prayed to God, Jesus, and Mother Mary to help me have the will to quit. For me to quit for 1 day was hard for me. Well the prayers worked b/c I don't have the will to smoke it anymore. When I think to myself, "What if I smoked once"? Immediately, my mind reminds me of the hardships I will face again. I consider this a miracle b/c weed corrupts the mind and I am only on day 2 (day 2 b/c I'm editing my note the next day) and shouldn't I be going through serious temptations for weed still? It is in my system. All I have to say is that prayers do work if you mean it from the heart.

Hoping everyone who wants to quit have strength. Be gentle with yourselves...don't beat yourselves up!

I will post my withdrawal experiences soon. Maybe after a week I will let you know what symptoms I'm experiencing.

Peace!

Maybe this can help. Go to an Addiction Counselling Centre in your area. Then, take it from there. You can also borrow/buy a book on marijuana. You must want to quit for yourself, not for your parents. Throw your drug dealer's phone # out the window. If you're religious, focus on the fact that you may not know how long you will live. With this in mind, Concentrate on if you will enter into paradise sober.

One thing that a pysciatrist suggested for me to use to help me sleep is, believe or not, Gravol. It has a seditive effect. I hope it works for you

It's not gonna kill you, and I don't think I've ever heard of a marijuana addict robbing anyone to get weed, but for us heavy chronic smokers, physical marijuana withdrawal is real. Believe me, I have been there before and am there right now. The night sweats are very real, as are the anxiety and depressed mood. I am a 52-yo professional who smoked daily for fifteen years after college, then stopped for more than ten years. A few years ago, I sampled the newer high=potency bud and loved it. So much that I soon was smoking every day again, for the past five years. I still enjoy it, but I play music and it starting to get in the way of my singing. So I am stopping.

My best suggestions? 1) be thankful it's just weed--other drugs including tobacco are much harder on the body and much much harder to quit. 2) I know that doesn't seem true right now while you are depressed; for the first week, nothing will be much fun, but do it anyway--especially exercise like running, walking, and yoga. A daily sauna at my health club seems to help a bit as well. 3) take a good multivitamin. and supplements like l-theranine and extra B vitamins. 4) hang in there for that first week or two, and your head will clear, and your body will feel better. I am just five days in and am amazed at how much freer my breathing feels. My body feels lighter too, without that heavy lethargy pot imposes after its delightlful buzz. Just have faith that your body is healing the damage we have done, and like, when you're sick, you have to feel a little worse for a time to get better.

I still love weed in the same way I love my ex-wife and mother of my beautiful children. But just because I love it doesn't mean we can live together in a healthy way on a daily basis!

Im 17 years old and i currently have pneumonia. i have smoked weed for about a year and a half and picked up ciggs about 9 months ago. i also had asthma since i was born. as i said im sick nd its the worst pain ever. i trid to smoke a cigg nd it was freakin bad. my friends have been smokin for years and there fine i dont understand why for me i have to quit this only a year in/
its probly for the best anyways but you neer want pneumonia so if you can quit.

Hey guys .... i'm 19 and i had been smoking cigarettes since i was 15 ..... i quit cigarettes and started with weed. I have been smoking 8-10 joints a day for the last two years quite regularly ... my parents kept bugging me about the harmful effects and sh*t ... my dad had been doing a lot of pot when he was my age ... i don't know about how regular he was when he started but as a kid i remember he smoked 2 maximum 3 joints a day until he finally quit 5 yrs ago ..... he's also been smoking 40 cigarettes a day for the last 30 yrs ..... and he is absent minded even now ..... its not the long term memory problem. its just absent mindedness . and its kind of permanent ..... Over time .... i gave it a thought .... i made up my mind and i quit 2 days ago ..... and haven't slept or eaten ever since .... i'm not sweating but yes the anxiety is keeping my eyes open even though i can feel my brain needs sleep ..... guys .... its not difficult if you have the will power .... i'm not getting the craving for weed but my concentration has gone for a walk ..... and i feel like throwing up wen i try eating ..... and when i lie down to sleep .... the anxiety doesn't let me sleep .....

Hell, I am a nurse and I am having trouble kicking legal prescription Effexor. Give me herb any day

Weed isn't physically addictive but the mental addiction is a b***h if you've smoked for a long time. I gave up 2 weeks ago after 15 years of smoking heavily everyday. I gave up cigarettes a year ago so it's not tobacco withdrawal I'm experiencing (we usually roll with tobacco in Uk), but I'm definitely going through withdrawal of some sort. It's not so much that I'm craving like one would with tobacco, it's more that I'm used to the ritual of getting home from work and rolling a joint...or 7! Now that I don't have that I don't really know what to do with myself or how to relax without it. My advice to anyone going through similar stuff is to make sure you go to bed tired, physically tired, i.e do some exercise. Make sure you eat properly and keep your vitamin and mineral levels high (there is a definite imbalance in my brain from being perma-stoned for so long so I feel it's important to eat healthily) and stay positive. I'm already feeling the benefits to my motivation level and although I'm still having days where I'm pretty depressed about it, it's the right thing for me to do for my own good and for those around me who had to deal with my pot induced moodyness.

Alright this is all retarded. Its in your head.... IF YOU ARE SMOKING GOOD WEED YOU SHOULD NOT BE SICK AT ALL, infact. There are numerous amounts of studies and clinics that offer good tree. If you are grabbin from a dealer and the weed smells like a chinamans basement, it is because it is. You should stop smoking this bud right away. Weed with high levels of THC will not do the body any harm.... Bud under 8-12% THC is weed that you should not be smoking. Someone in your area is making a lot of money and fast. Weed that clinics, and most medical studies go by is 23-28% THC. 28% THC herb is the most illegal and can not even been found around north america. The chances that you are actually smoking weed from these studies is very low.... You have to think of it. THC is not a harmful chemical, it grows naturally and has many benifits to the body. The thing is tho when your smoking this "CHINA" Bud tree. It takes 3 months from the point you start to finish. Allowing massive yeilds of shitty weed that grows quick. I.E there is an elder who has brought it into your neibourhood and unlikley for you, supplying the worst tree because he pays litteraly nothing for the clones and gets a massive yeild. (yeild for pubs is the amount of bud you acutally get after properly croping). Weed that is wet and full of leaves is f*****g sh*t, do not smoke this bud... You should be smoking weed that takes 9-12 months to grow and crop and DRY OUT. If you have wet weed it is because they picked the crops to early and are doing it to make a massive amount of flip money ontop of their already, outstanding amount of profit. You need to start going around and smelling weed. The best way to separate good weed from bad weed is basically, smell and how it breaks up...... for noobs basically when you are going to grab or what ever make sure that you get weed that has a smell too it. You will eventually grow accustom to the smell of good weed and bad weed. If you buy weed that is wet... DRY IT OUT. It makes perfect sense, when you light that spliff or take a bong there is a lot of water vapour going into your lungs which really builds up on the sides making you cough like cigarettes. ONLY SMOKE DANK BUD. f**k THA CHINA, PAY MORE FOR UR HEALTH.

the only real difference i notice when i'm not smoking weed is that i do have trouble sleeping. i will fall asleep eventualy but i feel like i roll around in my bed waaay longer than i do on a day that i toked up. but not smoking isn't hard at all. it just takes willpower.

im in to day 2 of quitting weed, after smokin very good grade for 3 years on a daily basis. i quit becoz i was gettin lazy, i was paranoid wen i was high and i was highly addicted and hadnt slept weed free for 3 years, i quit coz it was all getting to much. and now im in to day two of no smoking im having major withdraw symtomns. i cant sleep for starters, i keep getting theese thoughts in my head, nothing in particualr jus my mind racing, especially when i try to lay down and sleep. im feeelijng highly paranoid at some points and the mood swings are incredible, i woke up this morning feeling the best i felt in a long time( first nights sleep without a join) but after an hour or so i felt like sh*t again. poeple say that all theese side effects are because i want to smoke again, but i really dont want to smoke, i feel lost and i dont want to socialise. some one help

No physical symptoms, I think not.
I have/had been a daily pot smoker for 20+ years, and gave up approximately 4 years ago.
I had terrible night sweats, was extremely irritable and moody, but more worryingly had severe headaches at the rear base of my head, which in the end actually caused a Sub Arachnoid Hemorrhage (Brain Bleed in other words), and I spent 2 weeks in Hospital, 3 days of that in intensive care. I continued to have these headaches for the next six to eight weeks after, until I relented and did what my brain was constantly telling me to do, smoke it again, and yes the headaches miraculously disappeared.
This is definitely not the right way to go, but demonstrated to me that the headaches were connected to my pot use, and that it was going to take a lot of courage and will power to give it up again, knowing that I might have another brain bleed, and possibly put my life in jeopardy.
I told Doctors about my long term use, but they just fobbed me off, as if it wasn't an issue, including a neurologist, the were more interested in the fact that I had used "Ice" (Meth) twice previously in the preceding year.
This was the most frustrating part, that no one would listen to me when I told them that I believed the bleed was caused by giving up pot. They just seemed to laugh it off. It was extremely frustrating, I was crying out for help, but their ignorance was the most upsetting part.
It has taken me 4 years to finally have the courage to give it up again, and yes, the headaches are back, but this time I will ride out the storm and hope that I don't experience the same thing again.
I consider myself an intelligent person, but don't ever underestimate the power of the brain, even as I sit here 1 week after quitting again, all my thoughts are related to pot, and wanting to take the easy way out of my pain.
All I can say is, I won't be tempted to go back to it, even though my brain is doing everything in it's power to make me feel as though I need it.
So to the ignoramus who thinks there are no withdrawal symptoms, beware, there are, and they can be devastating, I know all too well.