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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and Kevin Richard seems to be on the right track.
i agree that the people are just who they are,and then smoking weed adds to it all. because i smoke weed nearly everyday and have for nearly 4 years solid i also agree that you can maintain a healthy body and state of mind but you have to give it your best shot. because thats exactly what i have done/am doing. because i believe you can maintain your true personality when you smoke weed, i encourage others like me to not give up on self-maintanence because thats what has kept me going through hard times. and again,
-Thanks
I just started smoking weed like a month ago ,of course it was peer pressure . i believed them that weed is gr8 has no harmful effects and all that crap , since then i am smoking weed . i tell my self after the weed gets over ..i would not try it again … but i am smoking like almost daily but i dont want to do …i never got addicted to anything not even alcohol. i never touched a cigarette. i think that its not harmful cuz i just started ….i don kow why …i keep searching about weed and collecting info’s and stuff like that .
please suggest i am confused
are you addicted to weed? no one can tell you except you. I know people who will go through an eighth every couple days (about 7 joints) and looking at them from the outside they seems to be ok. Perhaps they experience a negative effect it has (like the mysterious facial pain B described here) – but i can’t see that. It’s up to each individual to look at their pot consumption honestly and get help if they need it. So to you people trying to convince others it’s not addictive, I think that argument is a waist of time… look at yourself, everyone is different and you are an adult, right? You can’t rely on science because there hasn’t been enough research done on weed and other illegal drugs. Intimacy with your own body is more valuable anyways.
I am a 42 year old woman. I don’t drink or do other drugs. I have a strong habit with weed. I only eat it – I stopped smoking. Honestly I don’t know if it’s physical or mental, but I don’t think it matters. I have been high all day everyday for weeks and this is not the version of me I’m down with! I had no negative effects until I increased my consumption. I got really into eating cannabis- I was so excited about how well it was working and no pain in my lungs – and I loved the taste of the cookies I was making. Previously I had been smoking 1/2 – 1gram a day. Now I eat 3/4 – 3 grams a day. Maybe that doesn’t seem like much to people here, but for me it’s too much. I like my sober mind. I’ve always been in shape/slim, but it takes work! It takes extra work when I’m feeling hungry and tired from being high.
don’t get me wrong, i LOVE the way marijuana makes me feel, but i’m definitely getting to my individual limit and having “diminishing returns”. I plan to do whatever I need to do to get back to my lighter consumption. I believe I will be able to, because I am usually able to do this on my own as long as I don’t live with a pothead.
To the young woman on this board “hi!” trying to help her bf’s quit… it’s usually a totally useless occupation to try to control your partner’s habits. If your partner is habitual with a substance and you don’t like how they act on it you should probably take a break from the relationship. Take your eyes off him and put them on yourself. What are you doing with YOUR life – your dreams and ambitions will not be handled by anyone but you. If he’s an adult he’s got to come to the truth on his own. Some women are “addicted” to “helping” when all they are doing is trying to avoid responsibility for their own lives! Are you a nurse or your own person? This is called codependency and can be helped by going to Al-anon, as well as reading Melody Beattie.
Addiction is a over used word, that people use an excuse to do something repeatedly. Your “addiction” as you call it, is 100% mental, you wanted to some 1-5 joints a day. Don’t blame your wanting to smoke marijuana as much as you did on addiction. NO chemicals in the world can make you do something, no matter what they put in anything, addiction is mental. NOT PHYSICAL. Addiction does not exist. Marijuana should be legalized, part of the “American Dream” that all these over payed officials in office stress on every American is to be able to do what you want in this “free” country. If a person wants to follow that dream, but they are hindered by a sadistic government that feeds the rich and punishes the poor, then how does that make sense? Let human beings, the most complex and intellectual creatures on this earth express themselves, however they want. It is our right to want the best for ourselves, and for us to be able to express ourselves. So let it happen.
Peace be to all
hey i smoke regularly, once a week, and I am great athlete i do cycling 250 miles a week and play tennis and when i get stoned i eat lots of veggies and fruits and veggie pizza, I think it all depends you are to get addicted and being unhealthy
I have smoked since I was in middle school, I am now 21 and living in a seperate State from long-time friends and family. I moved to get away from so many people b/c were I was from the whole ” everybody knows everybody” excuse really wasn’t an excuse. Now living in a seperate State for almost a year I actually quit for 3 months and guess what… I smoked one time and and now have the same paranoid feel when I smoke and the same feeling of “everybody knows” when in public which is funny b/c when I’m stoned it’s obvious b/c of how paranoid I get, it has been like this since middle school yrs. And i’m actually at work right now wishing I didn’t just hit that blunt on break. So all this just happens and now I’m telling my story after finding this website 30 min. Ago I’m finally feeling like I’m finished with weed. After reading these comments it is very real I have quit before only 1 time though, and it was for a good amount of time and I remember finding the old me again. The one before even smoking.
Kayla,
you’ll be looking like a glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut from taking on the entire varsity BBall team, all at once, by the time you get your learner’s permit.
then you’ll just be a cock smoker. hopefully there will be a forum to help you with that.
Iv been smoking for 15 years straight, iv been trying to quit for about 10 of those years, i quit for 2 years out of those 15… and i started back 3 years like a dumb ass… people are differnt… leagal or not, weed controls my life, its all i think about at work, i cant wait to get home and smoke, i smoke be lazy watch tv, eat same routine everyday, im ready to quit again, iv done ecstasy, vicoden percs, xanax, sniffed coke, smoked crack, tripped LSD , Mescalline , fucken everything, marijuana is the only thing i cant quit, but i CAN and im going to
I have been smoking weed from when i was 13 till i’m 18 right now, i’m kinda bored of it now and i managed to get a gf finnaly but i couldn’t interact with her on a proper way because i was stoned most of the time but i don’t want no more fuck ups in my life i think about quiting it for good
i saw this site yesterday
i wrote a piece
today i feel much better
this is day three
i’m already feeling better
the magical mental fascination is less
don’t get me wrong
i like it
but i like dirt too
but i wouldn’t eat it
i read the pro entries with interest
i guess before i was truthful with myself
i would have been in that camp
but now
knowing myself and my habit
and taking an honest appraisal
i have to say
for me
it’s worse than heroin
if i keep that in mind
i might make it
i would never do heoin
now i want to be able to say that about pot
it’s insidious
and is killing me
it was not until i found a medical pot dealer
who would sell to me
that i began to decline
before that i was buying schwag
80 an ounce
medical is 60 for and 1/8 oz
and i smoke it like a fiend
i’ve spent 5000 since december
what a waste
i was a waste
i’m glad to begin this “no pot” journey again
hope you get honest and try too
cheers
Watch the union and get over your placebo effect bullshit.
PLD
Hey people! ok i was a major major pot head my entire life. days-weeks-months-years evolved around getting stoned … i have been completely sober for exactly 1 month and just recently i have been having these VIVID REALSTIC dreams that seemed so real they would wake up several times in one night.. to be more specific they have been about tragedy people dieing suffocating crying VERY VERY scrary dreams…NIGHT MARES i would call them.
Does anybody know if this is a normal side effect?
Important: Don’t blame the drug, blame your actions. You can look at two months of limited productivity and think, “way to go, marijuana” or you can realize that it wasn’t because you were high, but because you decided time and time again that you’d rather get high, knowing full well that you weren’t going to do anything productive. Otherwise it’s easy to replace marijuana with something else like alcohol, video games, or whatever else.
If you want to be motivated, figure out what it is you’re NOT doing and then DO IT. I’ve personally just picked up some programming stuff that I literally put off since last year when I first start smoking heavily. Do I blame the weed? Negative, because it was my choice every time I smoked to just chill on the couch and watch TV rather than work.
It’s also easy to get caught up in your head about all the work you plan to do once you’ve stopped smoking, and how motivated you are to do things in the future, but motivation means doing something now. Want to work on something? Do it this second! Don’t wait, just do it.
hey, i live in mendo county northern cal. I am a green party member and as liberal as they get. I have been smoking pot before during and after school since I was 13. with my mom!!
everyone here smokes, grows and trims pot as part of a daily economy, its everywhere. I feel social pressure to keep smoking. I am so stoned all the time,I have not been clear headed for more then 3 days in the past 13 years. I smoked all during my pregnancy and am battling with myself now to become a sober mother of my one year old. I want to remember his life. I want to treat my body as sacred. remember you don’t have to be republican to think pot, as a sacred plant, is being misused.
thank you for establishing the fact that you are an illogical, irrational, unscientific, ignorant person. Cannabis is obviously not any more PHYSICALLY ADDICTIVE than water. In the human body we have endocannabinoids, which are produced by our body to regulate many things including hunger and pain control. THC, the most abundant cannabinoid in Cannabis, is not that structurally different from anandamide, an endocannabinoid, and neither of them have an LD50. Neither inhibit the natural production of endocannabinoids in the human body or destroy receptors found throughout the brain and body. THC has also been proven to be more beneficial to the human body with it’s tumor destroying properties as well as being a neuroprotectant rather than being harmful. It has been being used as a medicine 2,000 years before the birth of Christ (the “Anointed One”), who wished to anoint his followers with an oil containing “kaneh-bosem”. The psychological effects on a HEALTHY mind are minimal, short term and rarely negative. I am currently working in the medical profession and majored in psychology and religion for a few semesters while smoking cannabis every two hours, every day, maintaining a healthy vegan/vegetarian diet and working out. Also, as for your breathing, maybe the blunts are to blame, obviously containing tobacco. Cannabis smoke has expectorant properties and has controlled my asthma for the last year and a half despite me having to be medicate with a prescribed bronchodilator and steroid inhalant, virtually taking one at least once a day, before i started smoking. so keep your ignorant babbling to yourself and go sit in a porn or shopping addiction seminar because they are more equivalent to a marijuana addiction than marijuana is to heroin, another class 1 drug.
I have been smoking weed since I was 13 and I am now 22. I have been consistently smoking weed on a daily basis for the last 7 years. I really enjoyed this article because I felt that many of the benefits discussed here from quitting weed are similar to those I formulated myself. As I was reading posts from other people I started to notice many people that were skeptical, if not against, the idea of weed being a bad influence in one’s life and it being addictive. These are the points I wish to address in my post.
First of all let me say this much. A person who drinks alcohol occasionally is not addicted even though alcohol is an addicting substance. Some people who drink regularly are also not addicted. So why is it so hard for you occasional smokers and even habitual smokers who are not addicted to weed to see that other people could be addicted even though you never were or are?
Some of you argue that propaganda is to blame for beliefs that weed is an addicting and bad substance for us. But I assure you that many of us who believe so were once in your position; An in denial and/or ignorant smoker who wholeheartedly believed that weed is not an addicting drug or even bad at all. We only learned through our own experiences that weed hindered us from becoming successful in this society and also caused (some of) us physical harm, whether it be as little as smoker’s cough to something as grave as emphysema. This can not be scientifically assessed or quantified but rather noticed through self-observation.
Some of you argue that us who blame weed on our failures are the ones really in denial. However, while weed has limited my initial potential for success, it did not derail me to the point where I can not end up where I was supposed too. I, personally, am not one who is making excuses for his failures, but rather noticed a correlation between my levels of ability and achievements during the times I was and was not smoking weed. Just like alcohol makes certain people “happy drunks” and others very violent, why can your narrow mind not grasp the concept that any drug (encompassing alcohol) will have different effects on different minds. I personally love getting high because it has always had a rather strong effect on me(unfortunately no effect is greater than tolerance build up). So if you were not derailed by your weed habit, can’t it be possible that it did so to another? (Or are you one of those stupid people who still believe that there is a such thing as a “normal” person where every person should respond to a certain stimuli or experience in the same exact way no matter the circumstances?)
Some of you argue that weed is not addicting because heroin is a much harder drug which produces heavier mental and physical withdrawal effects. First of all, it’s heroin; nobody’s denying that the withdrawals from that garbage is greater than those from weed. But claiming that no one suffers from physical or mental withdrawals to any degree from weed is not only false, but extremely audacious to assume. I personally have experienced physical and mental symptoms of withdrawal during one of my many failed attempts to stop smoking pot. My stomach hurts, I can not eat, I get head aches, and I have mood swings the first few days(maybe longer but I haven’t gone that long yet so I do not know).
Some of you use science as a basis for claiming that weed is not addicting. First of all, I’d take the word of one who experienced something for years over another who just studied it. Aside from that, scientists and doctors said years ago that cigarettes weren’t addicting or bad either (sound familiar?). Science and medicine is NOT fact. Science and medicine, rather, is simply the best we know to date. Facts never change; 2+2 has equaled 4 ever since and even before mathematics has been around. Science and medicine may have certain facts, but more so they have theories. Theories which are proved and disproved all the time. Adamantly believing in something which very well may not be true is blind faith; OK for you to believe in, but not for you to press upon others. These so called scientific facts are all done from case studies or experiments. For pot, most likely, they observed a group of people who smoked weed. How long could they have possibly observed them? 1 year? 3 years? 5? I was still in full denial by year 5 of the bad effects of smoking weed so having those people be the basis for these scientific facts is unsettling to say the least. Also, how much were they smoking? How often? How potent was the weed? How many people were observed? All these questions are factors which can determine whether or not one will build an addiction to weed. I don’t have the necessity to look it up because I know that I am battling an addiction currently.
There is so much more I have to say and argue on the topic but I have said more than enough to hopefully spark some comments on my post and I’ll wait to see them to write more.
(P.S. Just finished day one of quitting about 3 hours ago. Good luck to the rest of you ADDICTS with kicking your ADDICTION. Don’t let any one tell you that you are not battling an addiction because they read an article by Dr. Dipshit on his studies of weed with patients tweedle dee and tweedle dum. They want to believe it’s not an addiction because they are still in the denial stage. We were there once. And they’ll be where we are soon enough. Stay clean off the green.)
WOW thats from one pearson who was obviously a hardcore stoner
now wut u have to do is not smoke that much….
the person who wrote this is fucking stupid i swear….
the most i smoke is like once every other week thats it and thats all u shud smoke to stay healthy
IGHT?!?
not evryone that smokes eats unhealthy, i work out evry single day and i eat fairly healthy…id pig out if i wanted to, but i dont usually, all the things he states here can be avoided, if you dont want your eyes to get red or have bad teeth use a vaporizer…duh…if i could i would just eat pot all day
I smoked pot since I was like 17, I’m now 41! Not many on here are more informed or experienced than I am, when it comes to this subject. I quit four weeks ago today! Not a day goes by when I dont think about it. I have been irritable, mood swings, shakey, no sexual desire, no appitite. Have lost about ten lbs. And I just started having these crazy dreams. Two or three a night, none good all bad. And I have night sweats, have been for weeks. I was a heavy smoker, about an OZ every three weeks or so. I dont smoke cigs, however in the last few years I have developed asthma, allergies, night cough, wheezing and I catch every cold that comes my way. My social abilities were hindered emensly and my ambition, well there was none! I was forced to quit, although I always wanted to. I’m a single father of a 6 y/o boy. Either my X or my “Biotch” neighbor called DCF on me! It was the best thing that ever happen to me! Despite all the negative side effects of quiting, which I’m sure will pass in time. There are allot of good things that have come out of it. I havent used my inhaler in weeks, the wheezing and cough is gradually going away. My energy level is through the roof. The weight loss has gotten rid of back problems and acid relux ( which I suffered from daily). My bank accout is growing, the money I have saved is wonderfull. I dont have to worry about going to get the shit or driving home with it. What a pain in the ass! Or becomming a major asshole when things “dry up”. Which happens more and more often these days. And trying to hide it from my son and my job, which was not easy! Living a secret life, plain and simple! No more! I’m done! Not posting here to judge all you smokers that defend pot smoking. I used to be just like you! However for those of you that say its not addicting and its not bad for you. You couldnt be more WRONG! I’m living proof! 25 years of research in the making! Sooner or later it will catch up with you! Its an individual decision to get high or not to get high. I hope my personal experience may help someone out there who is going through the same thing! Hang in there and good luck!
I have been smoking hashish and weed (mostly weed) for 20 years straight. I finally decided to stop 3 weeks and the withdrawal symptoms are overwhelming. I have done research on whether weed is addictive both physically and psychologically. The latest research and studies revealed that weed is very addictive. One research studies using canines showed serious side-effects such as physical trembling and other negative physical reactions. I don’t have specifics so you will have to do your own research. I think what some individuals fail to realize that oftentimes you are not smoking just weed but added ingredients to add to its potency and weight, such as windex (ammonia). One study stated that growers during the late stages of growth will spray miracle grow on the weed. The study also further stated that miracle grow convert in a salt like substance in and on the plant. So if someone has smoked this stuff for several years, you are going to have serious adverse reactions when withdrawing from it.
I thought I had a reliable dealer who I have been buying weed from for about 5 years. I was talking with his mother the day and she inadvertently told me that the reason some buds are hard to break apart is because they have sprayed the weed with something to keep it from smelling loud when transporting across state lines. I was shocked! I couldn’t get anymore specifics from her so the subject was dropped.
Since quitting I have had evil nightmares that were so vivid that when I woke up I thought I was still dreaming. I have to convince myself that I am really awake. I am having anxiety, and severe mood swings. I am a little depressed without reasons. Also I have tingling in both arms and hands. I am suffering from some kind bronchial and sinus condition. I am now having serious post nasal drip that I have never had before. I am also having muscle twithes and I am sick of the stomach most of the times. I feel like I have an infection. I have a hard time sleeping. When I do it’s for only 1 or 2 hours. Say what you want to about weed not being addictive, but you are wrong on this one. Weed is highly addictive and the withdrawal symptoms can be severe.
Hi,
I have been smoking pot for 15 years, about 1/4 every 2-3 days. I’m on day 3 of quitting and im feeling better already. Some of the side effects that everyone is taking about have not happen to me yet, im alittle bitchy and snappy but other then that okay. Does anyone know when the sleeping problems and dreams come? I wish everyone out there quitting good luck u can do it, just like me ….
okayy well first off, im always with people who smoke and my brothers and friends and boyfriends.. its really hard since thee past 2 months because ive tried smoking about 10 times and nothing EVER EVER happened.. and then the last 2 times ive smoked they were the worst and totally changed my mind on things and everything
i felt very scared, the first 10 minutes nothing happened but after i sat down, my mind and brain started to dislodge from my body. i couldnt help it. i looked down at my hands and in the mirror, it looked like i was looking at any other individual, but myself. i was panicking and paranoid. I felt like i was in a game.. i got back up to see if i was just thinking this but as i was looking at a group of my friends they were in slow motion. it felt like they were screwing aroun with me and trying to bother me and trick me. while i was talking to my boyfriend, everything he said was in a pattern, he would say 5 lines then it seemed like he repeated them , and repeated them i was so scared i was crying and screaming to go to a hospital. i heard my voice as if it was someone else’s. Everyone was going supperrrr slow and asnwered my questions 2 minutes later. i kept on looking at the time, it was going very slow felt like i was there forever.. i felt the same way for about 3 weeks and i didnt even smoke then..IS THIS NORMAL? some people told me it was probably laced with windex.
my boyfriend told me hes trying to quit, my brothers smoke all the time and im worried about them. i fear that they wont become anything and all their values and dreams will not come true because smoking all day every day is making them not motivated , lazy, and prettyy much DUMB. i used to always like bad guys who smoked and did bad stuff and now since the 2 last times i smoked and felt that way im starting not to like them , its very weird. its as if it made me smarter and think of the future more, afterwards obviously. the high is something i do not want to experience ever again. ill stick to alcohol.
**PLEASE READ**
I’m only 16, smoking pot was the biggest mistake of my life.
I am on my 2nd day of quitting.
But here are some symptoms that should make you either consider you amount of consumption or quit overall. 20+ year smokers have commented here, i’m sure they loved their pot too and thought it was a good thing….And look where we all end up,regardless of how much you smoke weed is a very potent drug now and is much more addicting than it has been claimed to be.
Anyways, symptoms.
Paranoia/anxiety
- Self explanitory, all stoners have their paranoia and axiety under certain circumstances…No one likes it.
Concentration
- While trying to learn( not stoned) i notice myself reading an entire page, while thinking of something completely different, or forgetting everything i have just read, so i re -read over and over.
- The thing that might bother me the most about marijuana is i cannot seem to listen to or comprehend what a person is telling me, especially while stoned. While they are talking to me, I am thinking of something completely different. Blocking them out, maybe not even realizing they are talking to me.
Weird shit from pot
- It makes you pretty stupid. While smoking with friends and stuff for some reason, after i pass the bowl i hold my lighter there offering it to that person….when clearly they are lighting the bowl with ther own lighter and have no use of it….i realized i did this the other day when my friend pointed it out lol
- I basically live in a self defined world, where everything could be possible even if completely irrelevant.
-Another thing that is probably the most bothering to me is over analyzing things or thinking to hard.
Example: Someone says something, could it be possible that this person used sarcasm…Or ment something completely different from what they said.With them saying that, or the way they said it…Could it be possible that they ment something insulting by it? Do they know that i think what they said is insulting? Or is it really not insulting. How do i know exactly? ask them, out of the question.
*basically just stuff like that, where you go into never ending trances of thought and shit….it’s rough really takes a toll on your mind after a while
-Relationships
i’ve noticed ever since i’ve became a hardcore stoner like 3 years ago that i have lost many relationships.
I’m now only friends with the people i get baked with, my parents don’t like me…well they do, but i didn’t talk to them because i come home baked and am paranoid so i go straight to my room, sleep. repeat the same thing everyday.
My mom told me my dad was going to kick me out soon if i kept it up. I truly, honestly didn’t care. I thought sweet, i can get stoned more often. Idk you just miss stuff like that after awhile….
Another reason to quit weed is, nothing is fun other than getting stoned. It seems like life itself has been sucked out of me and i sit and wait everyday dying…just waiting to get high, all the stuff you use to do that was fun…no longer isn’t. I’m serious, i see it happen to everyone that has started smoking to finish smoking lol
It’s just really not worth it, if you don’t believe me…remember this post 10 years down the road where everything i say resembles you completely.
-Also, thank you for reading this and does anyone have any weird stuff going on with like mirrors? staring into them and dazing off n stuff….Maybe i’m just fucked up and none of it has to do with pot lmao
Thanks again
@ email me charles.klos33@yahoo.com if ya have any questions or just simply wanna talk about budz, i’m down for that. Peace
I’ve been smoking weed for about 2 years now almost every day. I know it isn’t much compared to many that have posted on this site, but for me it is too much. When I first started smoking, my grades dropped in college dramatically. It took me a few quarters of low grades to realize that I was messing up. I continued to smoke pot and learned to put school first. I still feel that it personally hinders my potential to get the grades that I could get if I didn’t smoke. Although one quarter, I smoked every day and still got a 3.9 in calculus (I had to cheat a bit though
lol ) Anyway I’ve gotten fat, grown man boobs, and grew extremely lazy the past years. I don’t do anything anymore besides get stoned. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of being so damn lazy and tired all the time. Never having the motivation to do great things in life. I want to get out there, explore the world and live life, rather than smoke weed and stay in town doing nothing 24/7. Life has become meaningless without weed. Today is day one with no marijuana. I am hoping to accomplish at least 3 months compeletely away from it. It will be the longest I’ve ever gone without it, and hopefully I can quit. Weed is not physically addicting to me, but very psychologically. ALL MY FRIENDS SMOKE. MY SOCIAL NETWORK CONSISTS OF HEAVY POTHEADS. it seems the whole world smokes now and that just makes it so much harder to quit. Just about 30 mins ago I got a call from a friend saying he was in my neighborhood and wanted to smoke. I’ve gotten about 4 different calls just to smoke weed. And when I tell my friends I’m trying to quit they just say, “Oh okay, I wonder how long it’ll last this time.” As in they all feel I’m stuck in a phase and I”m eventually goign to be back. Even I feel that sometimes. But i MUST QUIT MARIJUANA EVEN IF MY LIFE BECOMES THE MOST BORING IT HAS EVER BEEN AT LEAST I KNOW MY BODY IS HEALTHY AND CLEAN AND I WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO THINK AND FUNCTION LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN BEING!!
Cannabis effects different people in different ways, you cannot standardize a dosage beyond what works for the patient.
The real truth of the matter is, I know i would be addicted to Opiate derivative pain killers if it weren’t for my choices in fighting the pain, I am in from a nasty bitch of a car wreck i was in…
if given a choice, and i think many Americans will side with me on this, If given the choice to have cannabinoids or opiates running around my body, I’m thinking the cannabinoids are the better bet of the 2.
I would never consider doing such a crazy thing to myself as someone whom does opiates, knowing their addiction rates.
I am content for the most part with my decision to opt away from
using Opiate derivatives like Vicodin and OxyContin.
That shit is Dangerous and will kill you just like Alcohol and Cocaine…
LoL I am CoooL on all of that!
Hey everyone. Weed makes you feel good and high and everything but it is addictive. I smoked for 4 years (just about 3.5 of those years I was a pothead and smoked every day.) Quitting isn’t easy. It takes will power. Once you are addicted, you realize this after several failed attempts at quitting. You realize you are spending lots of money. What else could you be doing with that money? Also, let’s face it… weed makes you lazy, forgetful, unmotivated, and it makes you eat everything in the fridge. If you want to have better skin, improve your quality of life, actually feel emotions, and actually want to accomplish something significant in your life except rolling blunts – quit smoking the green. It’s great to do it in moderation, but that’s hard to do when you’ve been a pothead for a long time. So just quit and then maybe if you want – do it some other time in life when something is really stressing you out and you really just want to relax. Plus, after a while you barely get high anymore. I mean you do, but it doesn’t last very long at all, entailing you to have to buy more and more of the plant. Kinda sucks. It’s a vicious cycle. So far I haven’t smoked for three weeks and I can already breathe better. I’m not nearly as hungry. I’ve lost weight (that’s a good thing.) My skin looks healthier, and all around I feel way more in control of my life and it’s much easier to make decisions. Also, I’ve noticed I actually CARE about things I should CARE about now. Kinda nice
Bye bye weed 
That’s why you gotta smoke da herb in moderation man… moderation is key. Have a little fun and you’ll be alright.
my names joe and i love maijuana..it gods greatest gift to man
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PHYSICAL MARIJUANA ADDICTION! there are scientific facts to prove that, feel free to prove me wrong. any “addiction” you have is purely physcological, which is something you can get from literally anything. trust me, i know quitting isn’t the easiest thing in the world, it requires a little bit of will power. it is much easier just to say you cant stop because you’re addicted. and yes you will probably feel a little different when you stop smoking if you’ve done it everyday for years. NO FUCKING SHIT! if you did ANYTHING everyday for several years and then just stopped, you’d probably feel pretty strange. an addiction is something you cannot stop, you CAN stop, you’re choosing not to. when you’re selling everything you have just to throw some rocks in your pipe then post your SOB stories up here.
oh and to Charles, the “weird shit from pot” is called being high. if you’re passing a bowl to your friend and just holding the lighter out for no reason, it means you are high. if you dont like it, then dont get high.
Hi,
I am a university student and I have been smoking pot every day for the past 3 years. My consumption goes from smoking about 5 times a day during the summer, to cutting down and possibly only smoking 1-3 times during the school year. I have always maintained good marks- especially in this past year i maintained a 92% average. I have noticed a lot of memory failure from marijuana, but somehow am able to keep marks up. I beleive there are 2 types of potheads. Those who rely, schedule around, and constantly think about marijuana. Others who smoke it cause its available, and just do it for some fun to releive boredom. Either way as long as you can control the habbit, i dont beleive it is a bad thing.
THIS SITE IS SOMEWHAT BRAIN WASHING
Yes, the idea of living high is very appealing. I’ve smoked since I was 17 and I’m 23 now. I love doing it. I think it’s such an unique feeling in life and it should not be abused, cause then it becomes not-funny at all, like it used to be…
When you said…. hey… I’ve got an idea… lets smoke a joint and get stoned! Cause now… to me.. its like… if I have some pot, this voice in my head says “hey! that’d be more fun if stoned! Hey! A friends coming, you have to invite him a joint! Hey! You ordererd some pizza, get stoned first and enjoy it better!”
But nah… Smoke pot when you think it’d be fun to do, not cause you think you’ll be happier if you are high..
Cause drugs are too good to waste them, and to get wasted the whole day.. and waste thoughts… and be lazy.. I mean.. It’s the best drug ever, period… BUT DO IT MODERATLY
like chocoloate, or LSD
THIS SITE IS SOMEWHAT BRAIN WASHING
what? You’re gonna deprive me of the right to speak my mind? YES I think this site is somewhat brain washing, so allow me to post whateva i wanna say about that, cause it is.
Hello to all my fellow Weed Quitters.
I am 21 on day 1 of quitting after 5 years (at least)
This site has helped me cope with inner expressions and ideas
As too my addiction for weed..
I do support the theory that weed is MENTALY addicting. I have failed
To quit numerous times due to relapsing on Triggers.
I work fulltime, community college at night, compose music on spare time
And a Father for the rest of my life. I feel I ave a lot on my plate and
I can’t afford to be baked any longer..litteraly..lol..its like I don’t hesitate
To spend my last 10 on bud but I have to think twice about buying Jeans
For example..ill say “$35 for levis?! That’s an eighth of Kush! ”
And so instead ill buy the weed.
I have been cutting back successfully to 3 times a week.
But I want to go cold turkey..yesterday I smoked my last gram..
And since ill be heading off to school far an exam any minute now,
I feel a temptation to call the connect for I could be High on the test
And get a “High” score..lol..sike!
I know I’m better than that..and I’m almost 80 percent sure that after
I post this I will try to score..once again Failing my effort to
Quit.
Why do I want to be high? Because its a gloomy day and ill feel
More relaxed in class?
Either way I’m looking forward to post my symptoms as I go threw
Withdrawl..
Tanks..Compton USA
i can’t quit smoking weed. i’ve been smoking for 8 years. i get stoned every day. i think about weed as soon as i wake up. i get stoned before work. i think about how i wish i was stoned all day. as soon as i get home i get stoned.
the main reason i want to quit is because i feel retarded. like i actually feel my brain has become rather retarded. i’m the clumsiest person i’ve ever met. i’m extremly forgetful, so bad that it’s interfering with my job and relationships with my friends. my brain can’t process things properly.
i’ve had some bad experiences with extreme paranoia and panic.
i always tell myself i will quit and never do. it’s horrible. i wish i could just stop but then i just go and get stoned again.
i wish i could control myself but i can’t. i’d like to just smoke weed a couple of times a month or something, but if i have weed i just keep smoking and am stoned all the time. i can’t just not be stoned.
i feel like i’ve missed so many oppurtunites in my life because i wanted to get stoned instead. i feel like i’m addicted to weed. but i love it. but i hate.
I have been smoking pot continously since I was 15 and now I’m 24 yrs old. I have always said that if I found a problem with it then I would stop. I know deep down there will be some sort of reprecussion but I’ve yet to find it. I graduated college, workout almost daily, socialize, have a career already, don’t get in trouble, don’t get sloppy, and still make good decision. I have anxiety problems and weed helps bring me down when I get too worked up or I need an off button to being overactive. I think your method is a good way to remind yourself why you don’t want to smoke. Maybe I should take more time to look at how bud does me wrong, but I’ve never came across a reason.
Hi fellow quitters, i’m 19 and have been smoking heavily since i was 15, and weed is addictive, my mood swings last for about a week after quitting, and they arn’t normal, they consist of me going from normal to foaming at the mouth angry, from the smallest thing. My friends try to talk down the addiction, cos they are equaly addicted but they have been smoking twice as long, so tell me i know nothing, as for dreams, they arn’t always bad, tbh i got alot of uber realistic sex dreams when i quit, and tbh last time i quit after 2 months i felt like i could accomplish anything ( most ambition ever), but through constant smoking im back to couch potato.
The big problem for me is that when i quit, ive got an empty void , that used to be full of me locating the high, getting the money together.. traveling to go get it, comming home, calling friends round, having a session with music, nd or games. All the ambition and energy has nowhere to go, and starts to feel pointless, to be honoust ud need to make new friends all together.. cos all my friends do is smoke….so if i wanted to for instance go out, start changing things, they would still be smoking, but i love my friends we have been close since we were toddlers. so its hard.
i also need to go amsterdam before i quit, how could i say i have smoked the finest buds in the world, when i still havn’t visited cannabis mecca, and tbh i would need to up my tolerance for amsterdam, so if i quit now, id know that i was gna have to get re-addicted to go to amsterdam and not pull a whity. All the hard work from quitting then goes to waste. The other option is nip amsterdam in the bud, just forget about my dream, tell myself its shit anyways.
PS.. i always am getting calls from friends to come smoke, or go halves on a draw, and ive got the money, BUT I MUST QUIT, I MUST PUSH THRU THIS FEELING, THAT QUITTING WILL BE A NEVER ENDING WAIT FOR MY NEXT SPLIFF…. anddd the guy who put must read.. is right.. after smoking for years, nothing is fun to do anymore except smoking weed, and that jus means that it sucks the fun out of life. AND TO BE HONOUST LAST TIME I QUIT I FELT EUPHORICALLY GOOD BUT AS SOON I STARTED SMOKIN AGAIN I FORGOT HOW GOOD IT FELT .
feels fucken bo0m ass fuck and some times i drink wen i’m in party’s and i get fucked up………..
Ay you said your fingers are discolored from smoking blunts. Ive smoked blunts everyday for the past 4 years and theres not a difference at all with the tone of my skin. Its better now than it was 4 years ago. And about your teeth, brush moree. You also said lack of exercise, i go to the gym everyday and its a habit to get faded and workout. you should try it
For those of you unsure if weed is addictive lemme share my life experiences I’m 29 started smoking at 20 and only missed about 20 days of smoking. Tried quiting at least five times. Arrested in 04 for possession. I can honestly say I love being high.it makes dealing with stress easier and actually helps me focus on complex problems, especially useful in my trade (mechanic). I comes from family of smokers who run that gamut of addition from casual to daily (me) the only thing I think of at work is how I can’t wait to get home and smoke.i never get high before work as I have to drive others cars and would be totally screwed if I were ever in an accident, however I just lost my 50k yr job because of random screening.bring a convicted felon makes even finding a crappy job next to impossible, especially in typists economy.i ve been doin some serious soul searching and decided to stop making excuses for smoking. The cons far outweigh the pros. I dealt herb when I first started to support my very expensive habit, and ended up getting caught just being a passenger in the wrong car wrong time, after probation and 13k worth of legal fees, went back into the work force to be a productive citizen…..what I realize is that I had to be addicted I never even considered quiting when I was on probation doing weekly! So I was risking a year in jail cheating my piss tests so I could stay high.I’ve ben to rehab, narcotics anonymous, and I got high as soon as I walked out the building.didn’t work even in the face of all that risk.i noticed that I was doing more and more reckless activities like xtc, having threesomes and calling outfrom work. The routine just perpetuated itself every day.wake up, work, go home,c smoke, eat everything, screw something go to sleep.for the last 5 straight years. Weed made me lose my sense of logical reasoning.taking way too many risks and I honestly used to be a normal person.great athlete, good grades, spiritual, huge social networks etc.it turned into a hermit. Don’t go out often unless its with other stoners,find myself avoiding family gatherings or elders in my family because they would ridicule me due to my criminal history like hadn’t weed given you enough hell? Well they were right.spend 3 to 4 hundred bucks a month on the shit with nothing to show for it.stay complacent,i don’t believe weed makes you lazy but complacent. That’s s difference. the majority of the fucked up situations I’ve ben in weed was right in the center. It definitely can lower your ambition d and limit your potential making underachievers out of talented people.that is the common ground I believe we all share.for people with addictive personalities it is not something that can be played with.i agree that recreational use is okay for people who can handle it (i can’t) but the rest of us who are easily addicted, or who s lives have been ruined by it can easily see that it is no different than liquor our other drugs.if abused it will destroy you. The mental and physical dependancy is fact. I cannot get an appetite without it, cranky s hell spend my last on a bag the list goes on and on.every smoker should examine the effects that weed has had on there lives and you be hard pressed to show me an example of where it benefited a person more to use.Step one really is being honest about the shit to yourself. discolored lips and finger tips, smelly car, eyes permanently glazed, loss of: appetite, job ambition, money, freedom the list goes on forever.I’m liberal, black,inner city, who had all the potential in the world, georgia tech, engineering, tall dark and handsome lol! And weed was there for the whole downfall. Take an unbiased look at yourself and make the best decision for your particular situation.it’s not for everybody as we are all unique. Good luck to everyone! Day 2 of my sobriety.
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Does anyone have any sexual side effects from smoking too much? I notice my libido lacking when I spend a few days really hitting the joints.
Anyways, to the one guy that asked about the dreams, yeah it happens when you come off a lot of diff types of medicines, you’re likely to have vivid dreams for a while.
Fellow Smokers,
Thank you so much for creating this website and assisting me in fixing the issues caused by marijuana. I have been a frequent marijuana smoker for four years and have had different phases of addiction. I would take week long breaks very often then have periods of all out smoking using bongs and bubblers, never joints. For all smokers out there, after all these years of not using blunts of papers, I havent experienced discoloration of teeth or fingers or have a chronic cough. Although this option is not always available, I always try to stay away from smoking methods that involve breathing in whole peices of ash and resin.
I come here to write about the symptoms which I suffer from everyday in my life so others out there feeling the same way can know that someone else is experiencing the same thing. Everyday, I smoke at night to help me fall asleep and to enjoy the feelings after a long day. I do not have dreams and wake up early the next morning feeling exhausted and not motivated. I sometimes even have a crust like build up near my eyes. Only in the past year of my smoking habits, I developed dark circles under my eyes which do not go away even with excess amounts of sleep. In my case, this occurs because THC prohibits the REM phase in sleeping, causing my body to never enter the dream state or complete sleep state. Emotionally, weed has drastic affects, ESPECIALLY in relationships with those around you and family. I do not want to be around sober people when I want to be high and this influences who I want to be with. Friendships have been severed or weakened by this effect. Having a girlfriend actually helped me cut back on use because I didn’t need to be high anymore. Once that ended, replase all over again. Moving on to mental side effects, marijuana causes me to be in a daze or be completly out of it. I feel like I’m not completly there in thought and my surroundings. This happens the day after smoking marijuana or a few days after.
If you took the time to read this sentence, I wish you the best of luck if you are trying to quit smoking marijuana and if you aren’t, be aware of the changes in your life and about your body. Smoking in moderation will not cause these effects but if you are a first time smoker and reading this, keep it to moderation. After years of the same lifestyle, I wish I could go back and change many things in my life including: maintaining a better relationship with my parents, have more motivation in school, and have the normal mind of a teenager for once. Thank you and good luck!
hi,
i just want to share my experience with you all. i started smoking weed when i was 15 im now 29. when i first started smoking i thought i could quit whenever i wanted. if you asked me 3 years ago i would tell u the same thing: it was my choice its who i am take it or leave it. i havent been sober in ten years. the last day i dint smoke was in 2001. i smoke at least 5gr on weekdays and almost an ounce in a weekend. i dont pay for my weed i grow it 1st because i dont like giving money to drug dealers and 2nd because i like to know what i smoke. ive done coke over the years ive tried heroine ive tripped on acid and pills a multitude of times so trust me when i say i know the drug world better than the back of my hand. the good thing is that i always was able to succeed in my goals, i finished college got my masters in law and have been working for the last 7 years very successfully however i have quit chemicals for over 5 years instantly and with no trouble.
i always have been inclined to depression i have attempted suicide at least 3 times in my life and yes mj has helped me cope with a number of psychological pitfalls. three years ago i my child passed away and my love of my life left… and no i didnt lose them cause of smoking pot. this led me to the greatest and the most prolonged depression i have ever been through and without pot to numb the pain i would not be with you today. but if i want to be with you tomorrow and if i want to be apt and alive again, i have to give up the greatest part of my life. the reason is that i do make decisions i wouldnt if i wasnt high and i do stay inside cause im bored or to high to be seen but what really bothers me is that my head isnt clean and if i dont smoke i dont feel well. im depressed and when im not high i feel anxious and fear. i want to wake up in the morning and feel the same way i did 15 years ago full of life and full of energy. my problem is that i dont have the psychological strength to give up on my old self. i dont know if i quit cold turkey if i will relapse a week from now or if i try to cut down till i quit if i will be able to actually quit or just harness my will to quit and i relapse again. i smoke 100% organic weed so jumping on a chemical medicine does not fit with me. maybe by showing how i got where i am today some will realize for their own self that all they need to do is take care of their heart and love themselves other peoples opinions dont matter, laws dont matter and there is no hell.
love always and strength to all
So I have a problem, it’s freaking me out. For the past week my throat feels like it’s burnt very badly. It hurts to swallow breath and migraines. Also I can barely hear because my ears seem to be clogged. Is this just something that happens or should I see a doctor?
This is some goddamn dumb shit … tar on the teeth omfg learn to smoke a fucking joint normally and don’t do such a retarded website just to give reasons to quit weed that only morons will follow
Lol. You guys need to stop being faggots. Either take a hit and enjoy it, or pass it and shut the fuck up.
Loooooooooooooool Loooosers
I think marijuana is so hard to quit, because it really doesn’t harm you THAT much! You can be stoned all the time and still function well enough to get by in life! That being said- those that think it doesn’t have physical addictive qualities aren’t smoking enough, or haven’t smoked long enough. Ever try going to sleep after not smoking? Really hard to do. I even got to the point once where I couldn’t eat without first getting stoned! Despite this, it’s possible to carry on your life with marijuana – just ask yourself if you are at your full potential.
Hahahahaha I love how all these mighty pot heads boast how amazing weed is, yet here they are researching how to quit. Its all good in moderation. People are different and react to things differently. I know I am ADDICTED – oh gosh look I said it, ill
say it again ADDICTED and I don’t give a crap what you self righteous morons think. People who can smoke occasionally are the lucky ones, not every one has strong self control. To all the happy potheads – go research sites to better mess your life up, or better yet… Just wait. Its incredible how all the people promoting it start with the line “I’ve been smoking for one month…… I’ve been smoking for two months” – get a clue! To the creator of this site… BIG UPS!!!!!!!!
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