My daughter is a heavy hash smoker and
also epileptic.
She is now trying to give up the hash.
Should she just stop and go coldturkey or
should she cut it out gradually. Her
method is too not smoke at all during the
week but then have a blow out at the
weekend. Her fits are increasing.
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quicksilver024
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Posted: 04-07-06 21:27pm
Shes gonna have mood swings for a while,
of course the intensity and duration will
depend on the length of time shes been
smoking and how much. I would seriously
suggest if she quits, to quit cold turkey.
For one marijuana does not really have
too much in the way of physical withdrawal
and she will be more likely to relapse if
she continues to smoke even once and a
while. She needs to quit and find
something constuctive to do instead.
Also her friends will probably play a big
role, if she is a social smoker. Coming
from an ex "pothead" friends that smoke
are pretty much the biggest obstacle in
quittting, since marijuana isnt a hard
drug and often a small relapse doesnt seem
like a big deal, but it continues the
pyschological dependance.
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davi3165
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Posted: 04-08-06 20:22pm
I used to be a heavy marijuana smoker and
I know that the reason my habit became so
bad was because of the people I was
around. I didn't even like smoking it, as
a matter of fact, I hated the taste, and
it made me sick. But I still did it 4-5
times a day because all of my friends did
it. Yes it's ridiculous I know. My
mother (bless her heart) finally got so
tired of my friends bringing me down, it
seemed that her only option was to move me
to another city where I could make new
friends. I hated the idea, we actually
had a huge argument about it. But we
moved anyway. She didn't move me to a
city, she actually moved me to a town that
had approximately 500 people living there.
What a culture shock. This sacrifice
that my mother made for me, saved my life.
I began hanging around with people that
didn't use drugs and actually cared about
school. I haven't touched marijuana
since. The friends that your daughter
hangs around with have a huge part in the
decisions that she makes. I am speaking
from personal experience. I really
started to go down a bad path and my
mother saw that and did something about
it. At the time I was really upset about
the relocation, but now that I am older, I
am so thankful that she did what she did.
So as a parent, you need to look at other
things just besides the drug use, is your
child hanging out with "bad" kids, is the
marijuana use effecting school? I'm not
telling you to move to another city or
anything, I was telling you what my mother
did to save my life when it seemed that
nothing else would help. Good luck.
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Pastah
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Posted: 04-15-06 17:44pm
Wow, davi my situation was really similar.
I didn't move away from my friends tho...
But I smoked a lot because of the people
I was around, even tho I hated it. I
never realized I hated it tho... I would
just get quiet and awkward when high and I
hated being around people. I still kept
doing it though... Because my friends did
it all the time. When I got to university
I smoked even more.. Until one of my best
friends who means a lot to me, and who
doesn't smoke, called me a stoner. I
probably was, but it hurt coming from her,
and from that moment on I cut it out cold
turkey. It's worked for me too.. Since
then i've felt a lot better about myself
and I laugh a lot more (go figure lol).
I've also managed to snag a girlfriend. I
guess my point is, that I would recommend
cutting it out cold turkey.
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sandyallen
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Posted: 04-15-06 18:20pm
Hi there! I am sorry to hear of your
problems! Being an epileptic and having
a chemical dependency problem such as hash
can be a double problem because she does
need some medications for her epilepsy.
My suggestion would be to talk to the dr
even though I am not a dr if she continues
to keep the hash in her system, she is
going to have problems and getting off of
it cold turkey might make her epilepsy
worse but it does sound to me like she
does need some better friends as the
others have suggested. It does sound like
she wants to get off of it but it does
sound like she is scared and needs help
and like I said, maybe her dr can give her
this help that she really needs, if they
are that close as it does sound like she
might need some professional guidance
along with a type of a friend guidance and
her mother guidance.
Good luck to the both of you! We are
here for you both!
Keep us posted.
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