Sort of Quitting For the First Time Posted: 07-01-07 20:13pm
hi
ive been smoking weed for 10 years now and
im dabbling with quitting. wait, maybe
not so much quitting as decreasing the
amount i smoke. i guess ideally it would
only be once a week oppose to the 3-4
times a day it is now.
im ready to do this, sort of. i say sort
of because i still really like being high.
i just know that at this point in my life
its become a hindrance.
my biggest problem right now is the
boredom. this weekend i went without and
i was sooooooooooooo bored. i tried to
fill my time but all i could think about
was how much More fun things would be if i
were stoned.
i know i can do this. but with pot i
already have an active and full life.
without pot, well its not so easy for me
to substitute the cravings with other
constructive things. learning a new hobby
or making new friends, or even doing
something altruistic still does nothing
for my racing brain that wants some drugs
to slow things down and turn everything
into a blissful fuzziness.
i cant be the only one who found
"substitution of habits" an unreasonable
answer to this relentless boredom.
thanks for helping me out with this.
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young Girl
Especially EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 13932 Location: everythings better in, texas USA
Posted: 07-01-07 20:18pm
well all i can say is that you need to
find something in your life to substitue
pot for...like a girlfreind/boyfreind
maybe?
my boyfreind was the same way when i fist
met him. 10 cigarellos a day it took to
get him high.,..
now...he barely does it
not because i made him quit...but because
hes got stuff to do (well i live with him)
and a kid on the way in 5 months
im not saying if you go have a baby youll
slow down on pot lol
but what im trying to say is maybe if you
have a job...or something to do...youll
appretiate life more when your not stoned
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betafishblue
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 4 Location: montreal
If Only Life Were So Easy..... Posted: 07-01-07 20:28pm
woahhh, quick response. thank you.
i have a boyfriend and he does not want to
be the substitute. he feels that
substituting drugs with him is not solving
the problem. plus one should want the
boyfriend, not need the boyfriend.
the problem is there is no substitute for
me. i have a decent job, and a very busy
social life. filled with many time
consuming activities. in fact upon
meeting me most people are shocked to
discover im a chronic pot head. so i
occupy my time well to begin with, but
there are still those moments, cleaning
house, biking around or even just before
bed, where i want, need and have to have a
joint. it seems to make things easier to
deal with.
so unfortunately as well meaning as your
advice is, it doesnt help me.
thanks anyways though.
the_girlfreind
wrote:
well all i can say is that
you need to find something in your life to
substitue pot for...like a
girlfreind/boyfreind maybe?
my boyfreind was the same way when i fist
met him. 10 cigarellos a day it took to
get him high.,..
now...he barely does it
not because i made him quit...but because
hes got stuff to do (well i live with him)
and a kid on the way in 5 months
im not saying if you go have a baby youll
slow down on pot lol
but what im trying to say is maybe if you
have a job...or something to do...youll
appretiate life more when your not
stoned
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young Girl
Especially EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 13932 Location: everythings better in, texas USA
Posted: 07-01-07 20:31pm
well then it doesnt sound like your a pot
head! i thought u menat you smoke all the
time!
a joint or two a day is ok but being
stoned all day isnt good
sorry i couldnt help much :/ lol
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betafishblue
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 4 Location: montreal
to Quantify... Posted: 07-01-07 20:58pm
i disagree
i would say im chronic because i smoke
every morning before work and as soon as i
get home from work. then ill be smoking
for the rest of the night till i go to
sleep. on weekends its non stop. also
depending on my job ive been known to
smoke during work (smoke break) or during
my lunch break.
its chronic because i need it. especially
when i wake up and before bed. i need it
to entertain my brain and it allows me to
deal with stuff i have problems handling.
but i know im also using it as an excuse
for when i screw up or to hide from things
i dont want to deal with. in the long
run, thats not okay.
so im cutting back. but how to deal with
the boredom? go to a show. sure, i do
that already, and while im at the show im
gonna want to smoke. take up an art form.
i already have. weed doesnt stop me from
creating art and when im straight i just
want it more to create. make new friends.
okay, well most of my friends dont smoke
and ive got a lot of friends to begin
with, so much so that i dont really have
time for more. etc, etc, etc. do you see
my problem here?
another example. when traveling in the
states i dont smoke cause of their obscene
pot laws. i was in santa barbara, i had
been clean for a couple of days. it was
so beautiful there. i really enjoyed it,
soaked in the vibe and the scenery. but
the whole time, the whole entire time, i
couldnt stop thinking about how much
better the place wouldve been if i were
high. part of me sees how pathetic this
is and part of me just wants to be high.
so whats a girl to do? i guess the only
answer is suck it up, live with the desire
and try not to give in. i was kind of
hoping though that someone might have a
better idea.
the_girlfreind
wrote:
well then it doesnt sound
like your a pot head! i thought u menat
you smoke all the time!
a joint or two a day is ok but being
stoned all day isnt good
sorry i couldnt help much :/
lol
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betafishblue
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 4 Location: montreal
I Also Worry..... Posted: 07-01-07 21:03pm
im also worried about how this is going to
affect my personality. its been such a
huge part of my life for so long. (not
the personality that withdrawls incur, but
the personality i become after i no longer
smoke.)
am i going to become a bitter hag now that
i dont have my happy mood inducing drug?
will i loose my sense of humour, my
youthful attitude, my
antiestablishmentarianism? (kay, that
last one was a joke)
im scared that straight me is someone i
dont want to know. a boring and uncool me
is just waiting around the corner.
just some more chronic problems from a
chronic girl.
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young Girl
Especially EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 13932 Location: everythings better in, texas USA
Posted: 07-01-07 21:54pm
someone ill help you i guess
but however it obviously not me
if you ever need to talk about it though
you can PM me naytime
good luck and i hope it all works out
:]
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sweets1313
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 7
Posted: 07-09-07 20:32pm
so.. guess what?! it will have been 14
days tomorrow and no pot for me.. It has
been 4 years of smoking pot every day all
day long for me so this is pretty amazing
for me. Anyway it feels great. The strange
things is everything seems better.. the
sunset looks prettier.. music sounds
better who would have guessed?? Definitely
not me. Anyway I also quit taking adderall
for the same amount of time. I still get
urges almost everyday to do both but I am
happy to be gaining my old self back more
and more each day. However I am still
extremely tired a lot of days and feel
slow because I did take 60 mg of adderall
for about 2 years. So my biggest issue now
is that I am gaining weight. My bulimia
which had slowed greatly has been coming
back into my life once again. I feel fat
all of the time and eat all of the time.
It is what I do now that I don't smoke to
get rid of my pain. It is my new hobby.
The thing is the only time I would throw
up while i was smoking/ taking adderall
was when I accidentally had eaten too much
and felt uncomfortable however now I'm
back to my old ways of eating way too much
on purpose all of the time and I try not
to throw up all of the time but then my
self hatred and disgust grows. I want to
start taking adderall again despritely and
loose the weight I have gained. Thank you
for saying I was probably underweight and
should gain some weight I know its
probably part of my sick thinking but that
made me feel better. I am not under weight
at all now and don't think I was before I
was just thin which is a good thing.. not
too thin. Any how its just when I'm on
adderall I just focus on getting
EVERYTHING done and then I stress out
because I am a complete perfectionist and
adderall just increases those tendencies
by a million times. The down side here is
that I stress out and don't make any time
to even talk to anyone not my family not
my friends.. its all about getting
everything done. Since I work at a day
care this doesn't really work in the
childrens favor as I just clean and clean
and don't even "have the time" to listen
to what the children have to say. Anyway
my best friend who is my ex.. absolutely
hates when I take adderall and insists
that I never take it again.. so I haven't
been but today like most days he had
another out break and threw a health forum
fit so I REALLY want to take it tomorrow..
I go to Ireland in 13 days and then back
to school 5 days after that and really
want to look good and because I was pretty
thin for me last year I really do'nt want
to be one of those girls people say.. LOOK
how fat she's gotten.. AHH I try to work
out but by the time I get home from work (
i work every day all day) I am so tired /
full I don't feel like working out.. which
adderall helped with too.. AHH tahnks for
the advice so far its been wonderful
obviously I still need a little help.. oh
and theres one more aspect of life I'm
struggling with.. I can't have an orgasm
never have.. dont' know how and I'm not
sure I really even enjoy sex.. my mom was
sexually abused and raped many times and
by people that I have been around my whole
life.. i have no memories of abuse but am
starting to wonder.. i mean sex is nice..
some times I just wish i could be normal
the weird thing is I think it gives me a
gross feeling a lot of the time and have
heard bulimia is related to sexual
abuse... i have never masturbated and I'm
20.. I know this is weird.. I wish
despritely for a normal sex life.. I feel
as though it will greatly hinder my
ability to have a normal relationship.. I
can only have sex when under the influence
of alcohol to actually really enjoy it.
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sweets1313
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 7
Posted: 07-09-07 20:53pm
oh and to you up there.. quit the pot..
you will feel so much better after you
sound just like me.. I did everything
high.. needed it all the time or I would
think wow this would be much better high
and not enjoy my sober time.. however no
matter how long you've been smoking I
think the first 3 days are the roughest by
far after that your golden especially if
you have the right mental attitude.. what
it took for me was my ex almost comitting
suicide and just realized I wanted to
change it just takes a complete mental
turn around in your thinking.. its still
hard when I am going to do something
boring or crafty I still think about
smoking but I have cut off all of my pot
head friends or atleast the ones who smoke
in disrespectful ways for me.. i wasn't
around pot until saturday night so it had
been a good 12 days before it was smoked
in front of me and I made a huge fuss
about it but I didn't smoke it and I think
I was depressed because I knew I wanted to
quit but it controlled me thats what
really got me to quit i don't want
anything to control me like that I even
put my family on pause last year to smoke
a couple onies before finishing the
opening of the gifts saying i had to use
the rest room really quick and they called
me out on it anyway and I dunno it just
feels great when you run into non smoking
friends and your not stoned for once and
about the personality i think you will
come to realize after about 2 to 3 weeks
of being clean your personality will
actually becoem way more existent and it
sounds like you are already an awesome
person and that lots of people like you so
this means it will be better than you'd
ever imagined goood luck .. plan some sort
of trip away from all things that might
lure you into smoking plan up to that day
thinking of how much you are disgusted
with your habits and how much you want to
break free then DO IT and ya it soudns
liek your just as addicted as I was so you
def need to make this get away in a place
that it is simply impossible to access any
pot and tell everyone about your plan so
that you will feel horrible if you break
it and they know because if your like me
my friends would all laugh at me in the
past when i said I was goign to quit
responding with hahah yaa okay and I'd
always prove them right..
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redjohn
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 28 Location: Fl.
Quitting Posted: 07-10-07 14:14pm
No joke. It's like Sweets said. Just don't
do it. It's no big deal as pot is not
addicting. I quit after some 39 years and
missed it for a couple days. That was a
few months ago and I never even think
about it now. You've probably been taught
that it's an addicting drug. It's all a
big lie. If nothing else think of the
money you'll save.
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sweets1313
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 7
One Addiction Replaced By Another Posted: 07-11-07 10:50am
so I've recently quit smoking pot after 4
years of heavy every day use and quit
taking adderall after 2 years of taking
about 60 mg a day I felt great for a
while.. but now my bulimia has gotten
worse than ever I think about food
constantly it's horrible.. I'm so
depressed that I'm worse off than when I
was a pothead the depression keeps me from
doing things that need to be done.. I
really don't know what to do when I took
the adderall I ate healthy in small
amounts all day and felt happy it ceased
my binging and the weed gave me something
else to do instead of eat when I was
distracted.. I try workign out but by the
time I get home from work I am too full /
tired to do anything but get upset with
myself.. I'm open to ANY suggestions..
Help! I feel like taking my adderall and
smoking a huge bong right now but I've
come way too far.. AHHH WHAT DO I DO?!
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redjohn
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 28 Location: Fl.
Progress Posted: 07-11-07 15:00pm
Hang in there. Food may not be your enemy.
Check with your family Doc and find out if
you're underweight. For most people,
particularly if they're active, food is a
good thing. Sounds to me that you're on
the right track. There are many
antidepresants out there. Pot will
probably increase your apetite. If you
purge, you must stop it. You were built
with a system of digestion ending with a
trip to the toilet. It sounds like you are
active. Your body needs food like your car
needs gas.
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smokey206
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 1
Cold Turkey Posted: 08-15-07 11:49am
someone help! i have been smoking multiple
times a day for the past two years, more
this summer (about 10x/day). i have been
on vacation since saturday (where there is
no pot available) and it is now wednesday.
on every morning of my vacation so far, i
have woken up feeling excessively nauseous
and have actually ended up vomiting. this
is very messed up and irregular, yes, but
it is happening nonetheless.
If anyone has experienced something
similar and thinks he/she might be able to
say something at all helpful, please
reply! but please dont reply with the
worthless "its all psychological" horse
caca that i've been reading on this page
because obviously, for me, its not.
thank you so much. i really feel like the
wrath of god.
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redjohn
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 28 Location: Fl.
Nausia? Posted: 08-15-07 14:22pm
Did you swallow a pot seed there Smokey?
Sounds to me like you're pregnant. With
luck your baby will have many buds. You
might be a budfather in time. ----or---
you you could have picked up a virus. If
you felt fine for a few days it's not
withdrawal,(which you can't get from
marijuana anyway) You're probably just a
little under the weather. You can waste
your money on a doctor resulting in him or
her getting even richer and giving them
something to laugh about over a joint in
the break room.
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Confused_Stressed
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 62 Location: Spokane, wa USA
Some Experience Posted: 08-18-07 00:46am
Well...
From reading everyones posts and what
not....wow. Some people have the right
idea...some not so much. I honestly will
say now that I was not HEAVY into pot
but...I did do it 2 months solid. Honestly
its just not for me....I like alcohol
maybe twice a month. My big brothers were
both into pot for like 4 years. One of
them was growing, selling, smoking ATLEAST
6 to 10 times a day. My bro Bri got out
of it Bc he went to jail for two years and
found god. My bro Bar got a child, got
diagnosed with Jondis(seriously dont know
how to spell lol), on top of that he also
has liver problems ( note all mainly from
prolonged use of Meth). All Im saying
is...it takes a lot to get completely done
with something that you have grown
accustomed to. You cant tell someone how
to get over an addiction be it mentally or
physically. My only suggestion is, My bro
bri is in NA...Ive gone to a few meeting
with him for support, (im not preachy
BUT) he has found himself in God and that
helps. So Its all in you, how you feel
you want to, But I would suggest NA
meetings just go to one and sit there for
an hour, you would be suprised.
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redjohn
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 28 Location: Fl.
Quitting Posted: 08-18-07 17:39pm
Pot is not addicting physically.
Psycologically, but only slightly. If you
wish to stop smoking pot just do it. Of
all my many vices, and there've been
plenty (not bragging), pot was by far the
easiest to quit. Get a hobby or some way
to stay busy. I started smoking pot in
1968. All I had to do to quit was to
simply not do it anymore. The human mind
is a powerful thing. I believe that you've
invented your addiction. That whole, "just
say no" campagn was about stupid except in
the case of marijuana. With pot you really
can just say no. Perhaps you need to see a
shrink. You may be self medicating for
clinicall depression. At any rate you can
easilly quit. It may help to not hang out
with people who smoke. You can do this. If
I could do it after some 26 years, with
not much of a problem, I know that you can
too. Stay away from it and hang in there.
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jdubs
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 1
Fg Posted: 09-14-07 07:42am
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Marianne0558
Supporter
Joined: 10 Sep 2007 Posts: 1634 Location: Charleston, SC USA
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Re: to Quantify... Posted: 09-14-07 07:46am
betafishblue
wrote:
i disagree
i would say im chronic because i smoke
every morning before work and as soon as i
get home from work. then ill be smoking
for the rest of the night till i go to
sleep. on weekends its non stop. also
depending on my job ive been known to
smoke during work (smoke break) or during
my lunch break.
its chronic because i need it. especially
when i wake up and before bed. i need it
to entertain my brain and it allows me to
deal with stuff i have problems handling.
but i know im also using it as an excuse
for when i screw up or to hide from things
i dont want to deal with. in the long
run, thats not okay.
so im cutting back. but how to deal with
the boredom? go to a show. sure, i do
that already, and while im at the show im
gonna want to smoke. take up an art form.
i already have. weed doesnt stop me from
creating art and when im straight i just
want it more to create. make new friends.
okay, well most of my friends dont smoke
and ive got a lot of friends to begin
with, so much so that i dont really have
time for more. etc, etc, etc. do you see
my problem here?
another example. when traveling in the
states i dont smoke cause of their obscene
pot laws. i was in santa barbara, i had
been clean for a couple of days. it was
so beautiful there. i really enjoyed it,
soaked in the vibe and the scenery. but
the whole time, the whole entire time, i
couldnt stop thinking about how much
better the place wouldve been if i were
high. part of me sees how pathetic this
is and part of me just wants to be high.
so whats a girl to do? i guess the only
answer is suck it up, live with the desire
and try not to give in. i was kind of
hoping though that someone might have a
better idea.
Ok, now I feel like a pot head too!!!
haha
We had that problem for a little while.
What we did was take all the extra money
we would have spent on the weed and put it
in an account that neither of us could
touch. That way, there was no extra money
to taunt us into buying some.
Now, we smoke maybe 3 times a week, after
the baby is sleeping. I tell you, it can
be very nice to sit down, smoke a joint,
and not do anything at all but feel happy
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PotSucks
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 3
Re: Addiction to Maijuana Posted: 09-14-07 16:53pm
redjohn
wrote:
THC is the psychoactive
ingredient in pot. THC is not physically
addictive. You seem to have an addictive
personality. You can try going to NA
(narcotics anonymous), but you'll probably
not be taken seriously. You'd be among
people who are addicted to actual drugs.
With a personality like yours I'd stay
away from coffee and tobaco, both of which
contain real drugs. I have no great amount
of self control yet stopped smoking pot
quite easily after some 39 years of
regular use. You've been brain washed into
believing that pot is an actual drug. The
danger here is not pot, but the difficulty
with which you found yourself quitting.
Stay away from alcohol as well. You are a
drug addict/alcoholic waiting to
happen.
Sorry but that just isn't true. It may
not be addictive for some people but it
does not just have to do with personality.
I have used alcohol, coffee, and
marijuana and pot was BY FAR the hardest
detox I had. I hadn't drank alcohol in
almost a year and had been smoking
everyday. Tons I would go through ounces
a week not even sure how much just to
myself. And when I finally quit I felt
like complete crap, both body and mind. I
thought I was going to die everything
hurt, and I thought I was going insane.
It's been 8 months now and I still have a
lot of the mental side effects, and I
don't want to smoke ever again. I was
very addicted I wanted to quit for a very
long time. I would think about it and
then just having feelings of omg I need
weed. It's just way to good and all this
crap. I don't have the same addiction to
alcohol or coffee, when I quit those I did
not feel any strange urges of I need it
like I needed pot. However I still drink
alcohol sometimes now that I turned 21,
but all i'm saying is it's all different
for each person. I know people that light
up like crazy and can quit when they want
and do sometimes for work, etc. Just like
some people drink and get liver disease in
15 years and others drink even more and
don't get it there whole life...The truth
is there are risks to smoking pot in many
ways, some people just don't get the crap,
but quiting pot has been the worst time in
my life...
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snarflex87
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 1
Weed Addiction Posted: 09-17-07 18:47pm
Ive been smoking buds for 13 years i am
now 20. in my experience the only problem
with bud is its illegal. they shoulda made
it legal when they legalized beer. ive
quit once for 6 months while in jail but
the reality is i love smokin and why stop
if it makes me happy ill tell u y because
the world doesnt want us to be happy u
cant get a decent job these days if u
smoke bud ive lost a couple already but i
say what business is it of theirs what i
do in the privacy of my own home we need
to stop being so lazy and rise up because
they are wrong about what they say i can
understand if i went to work high but what
i do after work to ease the stress off
this shitty ass life is my own business we
need to write some one or do something
about this because last i heaerd this was
a free country
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