This is Part #1 of a 4 part series on my reason to quit smoking weed.
I believe that it is a great idea to create an inventory of all of the reasons that I want to quit smoking weed. This servers 2 purposes: To clarify the negative effects of marijuana addiction in my life, and to use as a reference guide when I crave smoking pot, and think about relapsing.
The Negative Physical Effects of Marijuana:
Respiratory System: My respiratory system takes the largest toll when I smoke pot. I do not breathe as well as I would if I did not smoke at all. From attempts at quitting in the past, it takes about 2 weeks to a month to notice a change in my lung capacity. I currently have a wheeze if I breathe out quickly. My lungs have also been burnt from inhaling smoke that is way to hot, it usually hurts for about a day, then goes away. I also find myself holding my breath and creating tension in my body for no reason, like I am trying to hold in an imaginary hit of weed. I need to take slower, deeper, breaths.
My mucus production is through the roof. I don’t have the weed smokers cough right now, it seems to come and go. I DO awake everyone morning with a stuffed nose. If I get a cold, it takes me a long time to beat it. I had nasal congestion from late July to early October this year.
Skin: My skin doesn’t look good. I think this may be a blood circulation and oxygen thing from smoking pot. You know how you can look at a 60 year old and tell if they are smokers or not….I think that to a lesser extent smoking weed does the same thing. I quit smoking for about 3 months a couple years ago and noticed that my skin, particularly my face was way smoother and healthier looking. I also noticed when I quit that the bags under my eyes, and surrounding pores looked way smaller and better.
My thumb and forefinger are also discolored from holding onto joints and blunts. It is pretty common to burn the skin slightly when I am going for the last hit on a roach.
Eyes: My eyes get bloodshot and itchy when I smoke weed. When I smoke heavily, my eyes get kind of dazed, 1/2 open, and I don’t focus well. However, I will admit that smoking pot does improve night vision.
Teeth: One of my teeth is getting stained from tar and resin in the joints I smoke. I was smoking between 1-5 joints a day. So it does add up and it is visible to me.
Eating Habits: You are what you eat, and when I get stoned, I eat shitty fast food – and lots of it. Taco Bell, McDonalds, Jack in the Box etc. When I am too stoned to drive and too lazy to walk there is always pizza or Chinese food that can be delivered. Not only is this terrible for me, it also costs a lot of money. I don’t go to the grocery store that often because I don’t want to go stoned, so I would just smoke more pot instead and eat junk food. 7-11 is 24 hours, but the hot dogs are only good until about 2:30 am. I have put on about 15lbs in the last 2 years.
Lack of Exercise: I don’t do physical activity nearly enough. I used to be in excellent shape and need to get back to where I was before. Swapping the smoking habit and high for the exercise habit and high is a priority for me. My cardiovascular system has been beat up from all of the pot smoking. Once I have quit smoking weed, I should see that rebound pretty well – especially if I push myself with bike rides and hikes.
The best program that I have found for quitting marijuana is the Cannabis Coach system by Gary Evans, my physical shape has improved drastically since I quit smoking weed using his audio program.
See for yourself – Click Here to See the Cannabis Coach – Easy Quit Audio Program
What negative symptoms do you experience? If you think I have missed anything, or would like to share some of your own, please comment.
See Also
Part 2 – Psychological Reasons to Quit Marijuana
Part 3 – Reasons to Quit Marijuana – Relationships
Part 4 – Financial Reasons to Quit Marijuana
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During almost 10 years of smoking I experienced severe headaches brought on by the weed. Although I didn’t want to admit that my buddy was hurting me – it was. I never suffered headaches until I started smoking consistently. Almost everyday I would wake up with a pounder, I take about 6 headache tablets a day to ease the pain. When I get home from work and smoke, the headache comes back. Eventually by the end of the night its too painful to even sit with the lights on. The worste was waking up everyday with the agony. Its definitely no way to live. On rare occasions smoking weed would take the headache away, but then again the weed was the cause in the first place. My skin is pasty, my eyes have huge purple/blue circles, sometimes when I smoked a bong my lungs would hurt so much, as if they were popping, sometimes the tendons in my eyes got sore when I moved my eyes to rapidly to the side. Also waking up extremely groggy and tired no matter how long I slept, and this horrible stuffy feeling in my head that only leaves after 2 hours of being awake.
lol you are all kinda weak individuals. i smoked for almost 3 yrs now. 2 yrs as daily. only stopped for a week when i couldn’t find any.
i still play sports and i am a dedicated dancer. shit i even smoke before most of these activities, makes me stay longer and not be lazy. just recently started using a vape becasue i have asthma. but i still smoke occasionally. i had breathing test from before i started smoking weed and after ive been smoking for these 3 yrs.
my asthma doctor said that my asthma is still mild and my breathing test are the same every 6 months visit. but i will say weed affects everyone differently. but i guess since you people want to give up this wonderfull herb i would start by deleting are your contacts od your dealers and anyone else that would infulence you snmoking. easy as pie.
good luck im going to go roll a doob! =) peeace
For all of you people bitching about how marijuana isn’t addictive get the fuck out of here. Keep your wack crack and deal with your ‘real’ problems if you want to look at ours as if they don’t exist. Get off your high drug horse and use your brain. He did not say there was anything contained in marijuana that is addictive. He SAID it is a psychological addiction. It’s sad when someone wants to admit they have a problem to get help and losers like you want to say “your a loser, you don’t have an ‘addiction’ stfu with all that mess. Honestly when you would rather sit home all day and get high then go to a Christmas party, I think you have a problem. That is not normal, there are a lot of people who are like that but it is not normal to depend on something. It’s sad when people would rahter push the people who love them away and not get help so they can get high. Off of weed, meth, whatever is your fix.. it’s all the same rush to whoever prefers whichever. Quitting is not easy. It has to come from the heart. You may want to just up and QUIT but the want to get high will sometimes over power that want. So just whatever you do if you’re trying to quit, keep positive and stay strong. Remember you have accomplished bigger things then kicking the green
Good luck.
An addict is obviously weaker than the substance he’s addicted to. Practice saying, “No, no thanks. More for you.”
Man I can relate to a lot about what you talk about, but I think this website is very stereotypical. Not all chronic pot smokers behave the way you do. I myself fiend dope from morning til night and I have been doing so for many years. I hold a job as a junior engineer which involved an immensely difficult journey to acquire… 4 years of extensive university training in math/science, highly competitive job hunting. I am in excellent, well above average physical fitness and am highly active while stoned.
I can say myself that I have transcended the negative view towards pot which you hold and the cognitive side effects like social problems that come with it. I am capable of loving relationships but tend to stick with mainly pot smokers because they tend to be laid back and inquisitive. Seems to me like you are one of those people who cannot accept the different woldview encountered during the experience of the sacred plant.
I am also capable of extended breaks lasting for months.
You speak of these things “pot makes me stupid”, “pot makes me social awkward” etc. like they are facts. They are not. You create your own reality with your mind and if things arn’t working out you can’t just blame a plant because it is your own fault for failing to control the plant. The plant makes people naturally passive and relaxed in bliss
smoking weed is bad for you i tried to convince most of my friends tryed to make them understand that smoking weed is really bad for you it just kills your brain cells its give you nothing good instead of relaying on the weed to get off your problems face them like the man/woman you are dont let anyone tell you you aint worth it never stop trying to acchive your goal
Hey,
So I am on my way to recovery. I don’t like what I’ve become. It’s only been 2 days – but for me thats good. You have to start somewhere. Thank you. Hopefully I can quit and not fall back into it.
-Sober and loving it.
I have been smoking weed for just over 10 years, near enough daily. i can’t believe it’s been that long. at the beginning it was fun and sociable things to do and me and my mates would have a laugh. As I got older everyone stopped apart from a few of my mates. It was the only thing that mattered.
I was in deep denial that it was effecting me, i feel like it sucked the life out of me. I started getting really paranoid and depressed. Didn’t want to see my friends or go out or talk to anybody. If I did go out I’d wished I hadn’t and stayed in to get stoned. It was a vicious circle, the worse I felt the more I smoked to forget things.I got the munchies all the time and put on weight. I found going to work really difficult, i would wake up on the morning with a weed hangover, and couldn’t concentrate or remember things at work. I would call in sick just to stay at home and get stoned.
Several people i know had psychological problems and sent to Mental
Institutions. So I know just how bad things can get.It can take over your life!
It’s stopped me having proper relationships.
For ages I wanted to give up but never had the will
Power and kept telling myself I was fine.
I have only stopped smoking for a week now but already I feel much better, I’m more positive and feel more clear headed. It’s time
To get my life back on track. I wish I had quit sooner. Although I do miss the feeling of being stoned and relaxed.
Smoking weed is definitively addictive, much more than people think.
Well its been almost two weeks for me, I now have the confidence to actually quite smoking pot, but I can’t lie about the side effects. I can honestly tell you they are real and my evidence is my high level of anxiety, and insomnia. Last night was the worst night so far. I slept for maybe 2 hours and tossed and turned for the majority of the night. The positives are my new found energy is everything I do. I’m beginning to dream again and to believe that I do have choices and my life is what I make of it, and a life centered around the pot culture is hindering my potential and puts me in a self defeating cycle. I am going to end this cycle and I am going to quite. I finally applied to go back to school, and I have more motivation then I’ve ever had in the ten years since I took my first hit. Thank your for this website and the information in it. It feels me with hope and confidence every time I read new posts. Here is to taking our minds back and to sober active minds.
Ughhh i have insomnia while im reading this. Ive been smoking for over six years now pretty much everyday. Worst part is i dont smoke joints i smoke blunts and about 3 a day. Its honestly a drag in my life but for some reason part of me doesnt want to let it go. Ive quite for tqo weeks then went back and months later here i am tommorrows day 5 but thats nothing. Word to the wise if you want to quit smoki ng dont lie to yourself and say your going to cutt back. It takes true will power and an actual want to cut the stoner acts, but if you want it as bad as you say you do then the road to success happens to be very rewarding.
I agree with the coughing and cold parts, but my fingers have never changed color from being burned, they will definetly collect resin if you smoke enough, but thats just as true as cigs.
id say the only withdrawals youll feel are, an induction into the real world’s brainwave, insomnia for a couple nights, and I noticed i was laughing alot harder than anyone else at the dumbest things.
clears up your head and is definetly benefitial to your spirits and well-being, then, smoke and have fun all over again! its not good to stay high by smoking everyday even once daily. i can feel it the next morning, just a ‘reset’ feeling, which is okay, but I’m growing up, and my surroundings are changing so its good to be on one brainwave or train of though instaed of getting stoned and going into outerspace and back daily.
Martijuana can be over-whelming at times, but its important to be around other people. VERY important, otherwise shit just goes sour cause being alone sucks enough as it is, ad then you smoke to cope, and its downhill from there.
I usually get inspired to workout when i look at my scrawny arms, and MJ has no noticable effect on the amount muscle i gain, and its actually good to eat alot around exercising
also, exercising takes away from the mental buzz, so its nice to get high and workout and reallllly relax and veg out and not feel bad about it.
the oly bad times ive had on weed is with alot of people, where communication is lost, or by myself, its always good with other people even if i dont like them.
I have been smoking weed for almost 10 years now and DAILY.
If you are lacking motivation and forgetting everything when u smoke weed, then maybe I shouldnt smoke it. I personally think its bullshit to say you have an addiction to weed. If you go into a
Narcotics anonymous meeting and say I
Am addicted to weed, they are going to laugh you out of there.. If its
Financial problems your having, then u should find another supplier or get a better job…. I am a pathologist…. Studied at the university of western Ontario in London Ontario and I think you guys are all off your rockers saying pot is addictive but if u choose to quit then thats you and to those that posted on here that smoke pot, WELL KEEP ON SMOKING MY FELLOW POTHEADS
Tht was supposed to say maybe U shouldn’t smoke it lol
This is a great website. I find it interesting that some people come to this site to “correct” others by telling them that marijuana can’t get you addicted. In the same breath they’ll say that one is “weak” for being addicted. (which seems to contradict the idea one can’t get addicted)
Is there anything in life that is 100% good? There is a dark side to everything. People get on their high horse and speak about marijuana about gives one special access to a spiritual realm and that one has failed in some way if they have a different relationship to the plant. Why don’t these people ask themselves why they need the plant at all?
The way I see it, if this is a truly intelligent plant – its probably just telling the people who are having negative experiences with it “You don’t need me. Stop taking me.” Deepest of luck to those who are parting ways and becoming free and independent of this lifestyle.
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