I Smoked this evening. Looks like I will have my last smoke later tonight. I don’t know how to moderate my usage so that I am going to try to quit weed cold turkey. I am going to throw away all of my rolling papers, pipes, and other gear, then take the trash out and throw it in the dumpster. My house will be clean. I won’t have to worry about the lingering smell, or the odd bit of bud in a couch cushion or a roach in an ashtray.
I think the first couple days will be easy, it will be the weeks and months that will test my resolve. Just today I was thinking that smoking pot wasn’t so bad at all, and maybe I should just cut back. My experience tells me I should know better! I really have made this conscious decision to change.
I am going to write a long post this evening, where I spell out my reasons for quitting marijuana. If I get around to it….Come on its my last day!
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Just checking things out right now.
Economy is bad and in order for me to get a new job, I need to quit.
1968 in 7th grade was when I started and never skipped a beat.
Kind of scary in a way, but I still need to work another 10 – 11 years.
It’s only been 5 days now since my last toke.
Really don’t know why I’m even typing, except I have nothing better to do.
good shit bro… i need to stop i just dont know how.. ive smoked since i was 11 years old and i am 18 now.. i have no social skills and lack so much motivation.. over the years it has become an addiction
I really want to quit. I spend way too much money on smoke. BUT Man do I really love it!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve been smoking everyday for about the last decade and plan on stoping cold turkey tomorrow. I feel that i have become extremely dependent on it, im worried that i will have the same side effects like alcoholics and in some extreme cases of quiting nicotine. I’m talking about seizures and stuff like that. I plan on smoking again in a couple of months, i just want to clean my system out and see if i can become a casual smoker not a everday, every couple of hours pothead.
tonight will be my last night. I have outgrown marijuana but yet I still smoke every day for the past 7 years. I know what i have to do.
im23 or 24 i smoke abought a half a day 14 j s a day or 7 to 10 blunts a day witch can add up to 20 grams on a stress day i work for 10.00 hour just 2 smoke now i want to stop i started at 11 do to stress o f fear and when 18 government took my meds for add n adhd so i turnd to weed now it works the same ass riddlen 4 me but i need my med back can n e 1 heep what do i do who do i talk to how do i do it if u r reading this u can do it also if i can snoop dog and cheech can so u can2
I am not going to smoke weed anymore. I must stay stay strong and not let others influence my decision. I know that I am a better person without weed.
I live in a house full of weed. Morning, noon and night there is someone smoking it up. This is gonna be hard!
Charl Clark I feel for you. I think I’ve quit smoking weed everyday for the last six years, yet I’ve somehow managed to smoke everyday for the last ten. What to do? My house is full of it and I love the people I live with, but how do you say no? especially if you have nothing better to do that instant? Is there a formula somewhere? Some guide to show me how to get over justifications? DO I have no free will? To know but not do seems crazy..am I crazy?
I started at 15 and still a daily user 40 years later. No more. I have hit a wall and don’t want to lose my girlfriend over this. Finally found something that means more to me than smoke. This is day 4. For years I was kidding myself and everyone else as I climbed in corporate America. From the outside it all looks like success, but inside there is this helpless hole I need to climb out of and see who shows up. Tired of being numb. It is hard for those of use who cannot just do it every once and a while. Hang in there. I want to find myself again.
I’m quitting the first of December. Set a date, rid myself of most of my toys and i’m more than conscientiously resolved. Wish me luck guys!
I quit cold turkey,as of Nov 14/2011,I am on day 2 and Ifeel like throwing up all the time,I am also doing it for my health,I notice i gained a few pounds,smoking again,I quit once b4,but only lasted 1 month,hopefully this time longer….
So heres my story, i have been an everyday smoker since i was 13 i am now 24 and smoke many times a day. After high school i went to work for a shipping and recieving company thay thankfully did not drug test. I was laid off in february and since then i have been collecting unemployment but have not been able to find a job that does not drug test. I have to get a job soon so i decided to quit cold turkey. It has only been 36 hours and it is already terrible. I dont have a job, no kids, am single, and my only real hobby was smoking. I am bored out of my mind, now i do not plan on quitting for good, i am trying to find a job that only does an initial drug screen. I have to say though that just sitting around all day with nothing to do is hell.
im a mother of one, an started smoking weed about 2 years ago. before the weed i was addicted to speed, an the speed messed me up badly. but i went cold turkey an got through it but i have now got this addiction to weed an it just seems so hard to stop. but i am guna do it as im spending way to much money on it an i should be spending it on my daughter i feel guilty everytime i buy a bag, but this is it. no turning back!!
ha im high AF* reading this i need 2 quit im joining the marines to hopefully change my lifestyle on weed?
I’ve been trying to cut back my use to once a week, I will always love marijuana and I’m trying to only smoke religiously on my Sabbath. Quitting forever isn’t exercising self control, it’s simply replacing the habit with some other mantra. My cynicism is my problem, and it’s been a problem long before I started smoking weed. Like the Ass Burgers episode of South Park, one day life got incredibly shitty and I felt helpless to endure a life full of bullshit from educational institutions, employers, and the government (just to name a few). I was gonna kill myself but I wanted to try smoking pot before I died , and in a way it saved my life. But it seems like as the global population rises we continuously have to jump through more hoops to succeed, delayed gratification gets even longer and often its reward isn’t everything you though it’d be. There is so much hype everywhere and so many people fool themselves into believing they need something or someone to be happy that I feel like I have to dumb myself down just to have a positive experience. That said, I’m gonna go have one last dance with Mary Jane, I’ll quit tomorrow
I decided that last night would be my last night. I smoked all yesterday and all weekend. But I realize its the one crutch. My addiction is keeping me from rewards that God has reserved for me. I quit for 30 days because I was on probation (another result of weed addiction) and I was able to go cold turkey. So I know that we can all quit. I have wasted too many years not living up to my full potential… So heres to day 1 of the rest of my life!
see you guys there
I’ve been smoking weed since I was 16. I’m 60 now and I think it’s time to quit. I quit Meth and Crack after 20 years about 20 years ago. I quit cigarettes after 30 years about 15 years ago. I don’t use alcohol. Weed is harder to quit for me. I have a card so I can grow and this makes it cheap to stay addicted. I want to quit so I can get more energy and motivation to do things with my wife. I’ve been stoned longer than what I will live straight.
This has got to be the year I quit, quit smoking, quit pot, quit sitting on my ass as I watch life go by!
Yesterday is the day where I decided to quit. I want to quit cold turkey, but the insomnia and restless sleeps are a huge concern. It’s tempting to smoke after 9pm each night because I know I will not need to be social and it will help me sleep. I am hoping this lasts only a few days while most of the THC leaves my system. I’ve been a huge daily smoker for 16 years, and have only quit once for seven days in the past. My life reflects your top four reasons why I should quit, and helps to motivate anyone who enjoys it as much as I do. Good work on the site, and good luck to all who are looking to quit.
I’m 24. I get high only in private, being stoned around people makes me feel completely inadequate. I’ve dropped out of college so I don’t really know where my life will take me, which is a funny sentence as I feel I have absolutely no control whatsoever over my life, a complete lack of motivation and pretty serious depression that makes me unable to cope with even the most basic of tasks, such as finding a job and earning money. I believe I’ve got qualities that would have earned me a respectable place in society if I had been able to get my shit straight and stopped myself from falling ever deeper into the pit of despair I’m in, but due to lack of motivation and foresight, I didn’t. Last time I smoked pot I scored a 20€ bag and it was gone in 3 days. I’ve run out of money so I was kinda hoping my mother wouldn’t mind sending me some cash to get me some food (which I’ve run out of), and some pot. The last day I smoked was the 27th of December, it’s been 9 days. I’ve gone without it for longer periods of time, but even though I know it’s not truly enjoyable for me anymore I end up craving possession, taste, numbness and expanded sensations it gives me, and I want nothing more than to fall into that terrible embrace once more.
About an hour ago I was re-planning my life “hell, fuck a life of possible relevance, money, power and fulfillment… I might just as well go live near the mediterranean sea in an old house, pay a low rent, work somewhere simple and undemanding, grow my own pot and stone myself to death for the rest of my life.” No kids, no girlfriend, no ambitions, no worries.
Now I see that might not be as easy as it sounds, considering the ball and chain I drag behind me are those joints I crave that make me far less than a hermit. I’ve already cut all the links that joined me to friends and family, the only one I keep is to my mother. I’m truly fucked up, I already was before smoking, it’s just worse now. It pains me terribly to know I have to give it up and spend the rest of my life as a non-smoker, adds to somber thoughts of being destined only to suffer, no reprieve of any kind for my soul throughout this existence, not a second can I let my fucking guard down. Seems like a fucking pointless existence to me.
The worst part, from my point of view, is knowing there’s people that pass through these experiences unscathed… It’s an unfair and cruel reality for those of us that can’t. God is an asshole.
Glad 2 find this site just so i can get some stuff off my mind. Trying with great difficulty to quit smoking mj — many little reasons why i want to quit, main one being financial. i am 56, disabled, and have a prescription for mj (arthritis pain & sleep); my husband also uses but has no script. It is his income that keeps us with a roof over our head & me with medical insurance (which i desperately need!). His company has a “0 tolerance” policy (prescription or not) & by the Grace of God he has dodged bullets 3 times over the past 7 yrs. This stresses me out, big-time! We have both agreed to quit in the past but he never sticks with it, therefore, neither do i. He is a very angry person to begin with, but without mj he gets really explosive. i suspect one of the reasons i smoke more than i need is to tolerate his volatile behavior, of which i am usually the recipient…. It has been 5 days since i last smoked & 2nite i find myself scouring the couch cushions, searching for any remnant — piece of bud, resinated roach paper, ANYTHING! Wine isn’t cutting it without a toke…. These things said, i do want my mental clarity back – abusing mj definitely takes that away. Hope this time will be it….
i’ve been smoking so long now, nearly 10 years, all day, everyday.. now i realize i do it out of habit. i’m a happy person, i have fount peace in my life, i don’t need weed, i don’t need anything to be happy and i know that, but still i do not stop. i don’t feel lost without it, i used to, but with my new philosophy, i don’t feel as i need it, i’m perfect, complete, peaceful. just that this new outlook on life stops me from being able to stop. i live life for the moment, to the fullest, i may not be here tomorrow thats why i do what i want today. it makes me happy, why stop doing it, health, cost? none of this matters to me.. this is my dilema, i live for the now, i am too hedonistic. i don’t know what will happen in the future, i rarely think of it, i think, as like with all things in life, more balance is required..
I have smoked since I was in my early 20s and now in 30s and have been down this road of quitting several times before and I usually smoke for a few weeks at a time and then I stop for about four months at a time, so for those who struggle with quitting I would suggest avoidind people who might encourage you to smoke.
Hi, I am A-Jay. I have been smoking weed since I was 18. It was a casual thing then turned into an everyday thing. I have probably smoked at least 1 – 6 spliffs a day for the passed 5 years straight. I can feel my insides hurting every time I blaze up. I want to just do it like on a Friday or something. I have got a bit left which is for the weekend but then I will feel to have one after work. I can’t get away from it. I am going to try go 1 day without it when this finishes. I’m just so scared to quit like what will happen and stuff… I’m scared I will become very violent which I do. I would like advice and help please from anyone.
marijuana is a horrible drug, i’ve had a love/hate relationship with it for about 15 years but its time to part ways. I’ve quit about 4 times for more than 3 months. Abstinence is amazing but you don’t even get to start experiencing life without numbness for a few days of the weed being forcefully sucked from your fat cells. I find smoking makes me completely apathic and comfortable living in the same filthiness of ab use for year after year