Today was a pretty good day. I ended up having a puff, which is not good, but I have identified the pattern that leads to these relapses and will close off that opportunity. I have some friends coming in to town this weekend, so I will be busy with them and be able to get a couple of days under my belt.
Next week, I am not allowed to go and hang out at the local pub. I may extend this all the way through to Christmas. Each time I have messed up, it has been from meeting up with folks there. This is clearly an old habit and way of thinking that I need to change.
I did, however, sleep like a baby last night. In my first week, I went from smoking about 25 times to only 3. This is progress. Progress is all I am looking for, perfection comes later.
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ok admin, what i read from u is like youre reading my mind, no need to say much i havent been able to or even really tried hard to quit, i am at a point where it just does not give me a good high, it´s an obstacle in my life and i´ve been doing it 4 20 years straight, mi mind feels tired, my soul needs a change, so i will try to make my clean date on dec 1st, today and tomorrow will be transition, but i will begin sharing my expereince here cause i´ve had enough.
Right on Cholo-Barco. We will get through this. If you are interested in writing a piece or article on here, you are welcome to. I think its important for people to know they are not alone, so the more stories we can share, the better.
sure man, i´ll be sending u one, i think u should talk of how the media sells us an image or pot where its ok to like addictes, bob marley, coffe shops, the whole hippie culture, rastafarians, i mean when i was a 15 year old punk i thought being like bob marle was awesome, like a fucking role model, when one is a punk kid at 15 we have no responsability or we have no notion of anything and smoke pot like stupid, thats really bad, i think the media sucks, it has a lot of responsability also, in the way marihuana is portrayed, cool to be fucking rasta!!!, yeah, bob marle can kiss my butt, and most rastafarians are thiefs, in poverty and addicted, to me being a rasta is a lie.
i also think u shuld talk on a spiritual way how it harms us, or i can write it down, how our energy channels are all fucked up cause of the addiction
also of the narcotrafick, when we buy pot we make the criminal organizations richer, and they become richer cause of our addiction, and thats being a part of the shitstem also, we are their lambs cause of our addiction.
happy day
cholo-barco
u going from 25 times/week to 3 times/week should show you that this is not an “addicting” “drug.” It’s all in your head. Tell yourself you don’t need it and you won’t.
Personally, i think everything with moderation is a good thing, or an improvement to everyday life.
Junk food, for example, is very bad for you when over-comsumed, we all know that. But a dq blizzard once a month isnt a bad thing, and can be a nice treat. Just like weed, do anything too much and the negative side effects will obviously outweigh the benefits.
Know your limits, and stay inside them.
It can be very hard at first, not falling into the same routine of smoking another 10 bowls or joints or w/e after you’ve finishised off the first one, Or staying sober after you wake up.
Its all about how you want to live your life, whether you want weed to be a part of your life, like everything else, or something that completley controls you.
Everything gets easier to do once it becomes routine.
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I quit smoking weed 6 months ago, and it has really been a bumpy ride with lots of ups and downs. (currently on a down, i was 100% back to normal at two points)
I smoked for approx 2 months quite regularly, then quit cold turkey.
It was truly horrific in the beginning, and for some reason you tend do bump in alot with your old smoking buddies which makes quitting permanently so much more difficult.
Also a strange phenomenon, i seem to have become very sensitive to “catching” peoples high while out in town, and people think im high when im not.
its pretty strange, everybody noticed when i quit smoking but nobody noticed anything when i was high.
this is such a bizarre experience
Bizarre
yea i wna stop to ckuz all the black mucus but idk when i get fustrated it always feels good to smoke a phat blunt so even though maryjane harms u she makes up for it by everything she eases nd calms down nd also good 4 meditation n for u to find ur self n come to peace wit the mind …she willl turn a fighter to a lover she will increase love n peace dats y she will malways b my babii gurl maryjane always n for ever no matter wat till death do us part N NO ONE LIKES A QUITTER
Hi guys. just though id see if i could get some advice,
I have been smoking weed for the last 7 years, since i was 15 i started,
I was a extremely heavy smoker, i would nearly go through half a ounce a week, i have always been a intelligent person, who knows where im going in life, good job – qualified, car nice house etc, i have always loved smoked weed, the reason i have decided to give up is because for one im a very small guy, i want to put on weight, i understand from weed always increasing your heart rate it must increase my metabolism, since i no longer get the munchies from it i am not balancing it out! and from what ive read weed could of had something to do with that from when i started smoking it so young, and not to mention the motivation i think i have lost, although i have a good life im sure if i didn’t smoke so much i would be involved in alot more, since i like to come home after a days work and if i dont need to do anything important i smoke, or if i have a easy day at work i smoke on my break.. or in weekends it is constant soon as i wake up i look for mr bongo, So its now been 4 weeks since i have given up, after overcoming the 1st week…which was a nightmare with the withdrawals, but i am very determined not to get back into the stoner habit, i do miss it so much tho, just sitting at home, so board half the time smoking weed would just make you content doing nothing, not to mention going out drinking and smoking, makes you that much more pissed! So i am asking if i was to start having it say once a month would that bring back the withdrawals i was having in the 1st week? would it make me slip back into a daily habit even tho i am very strong about not turning into a stoner again! i would just like to have it in a special place like on the beach here in Bondi where im living! so relaxing i miss it, but am sick of how it can control you if you are susceptible to a addicted personality.. i really envy tho’s who can smoke every now and then and not want it all the time, so please can someone tell me can i smoke occasionally after 7 years of at least 4x daily use? its been 4 weeks off, shall i wait longer before i try occasional or not try at all?
Please help!
As for the post above…. girl one minute your saying you wanna quit then your saying you love it and your going to smoke it your whole life, and no one likes quitters???.. come on grow up and dont post shit like that!
With everything which appears to be developing throughout this subject matter, all your points of view are actually rather exciting. Even so, I beg your pardon, because I can not subscribe to your whole plan, all be it exhilarating none the less. It would seem to everyone that your comments are generally not completely rationalized and in actuality you are generally yourself not completely convinced of the assertion. In any event I did take pleasure in examining it.
a year and 7 months I’ve been clean. I started smoking at 14 and I’m 24. I grew up as a ski bum, racing in slc utah. It was heavily used around me and I loved doing it on the slopes. When I was forced to quit ski racing when I was 18 bc of lack of money I started smoking really heavily and got into some harder drugs as well. It took me about a year to realilize that I had gotten myself into a place I didn’t want to be. I had done just about every drug there is to experiment with and my mind was almost completely lost. I knew I needed to do something. I went back to church every now and then. Started workin more, went back to school, and tried not go party when I got stressed out. I must have relapsed 100 times before new years 2010. I quit for good this time. The new years party I went to wasn’t the same as years past. I was drinking trying to have a good time. I had stoped buying weed but was looking for some the whole night. Finally at an afte party after the bar someone had weed and I had some blunts. It was my way of not smoking a lot of weed. I would buy blunts find someone with weed and roll a fat blunt for them so I could get high. So I got high that night for the last time. When I was driving home I was really high. I hadn’t been smoking daily for some time and my blunts were fat. I realized something that night and those last few times getting high. It never made me happy. I thought about the things that did. The things that did make me happy were things that required effort, took time, and had something more behind it than just a high. Never again will I waste my time on something that took no effort at all and only gave me a perscribed amount of satisfaction.
As we embark on this sober journey it is very easy to give up and toke like we always have. We must stay strong. Dont give in. You stopped because you had a problem. Lets face it, we arent like the rest of the world that can do it on occassion. The truth of the matter is that once we toke up we will eventually end up in the same sad place which led us to quit in the first place.
even when you’re 1 month+ clean, getting high just once brings back my withdrawal symptoms for days after i get high again but keep off. i think this time, i will just stay off completely because ive been smoking for 10 years with all kinds of different routines and smoking once a week or once a month is still messing with your motherboard
30 yr + smoker here. I was a pretty heavy smoker (1/4 oz a week) for about 20 of those years and had quit on and off for up to 3 or 4 weeks at a time. I’m convinced 2012 is my year to give up the “devil’s shrubbery” for good!
OK, many comments about the addiction process and I’ll admit the physical addiction is the cop out I used and most everyone uses to justify their use. If it’s not physically addicting, why can’t I quit then?
The psychological part is what holds everyone back. Some of us think we’re pretty smart and could never get caught in that trap – but, think again! Lack of motivation is one of pot’s worst side effects. That includes losing the motivation to live a normal life w/o cannabis; losing the motivation to quit!
Fot the creative type, artists, musicians, etc, I agree pot helps with creativity, though sometimes we can become too creative and come up with ideas that are so far out there they could only become reality in someone’s cannabis induced haze. A famous doper once said, “what cannabis gives in creativity, it takes away in ambition”.
I’m having trouble with relapses. Stopped smoking about 5 days ago. First two days i felt a little high, now I’m dizzy as fuck. This sucks. I was thinking maybe if I just lengthened my smoking pattern until eventually nothing it would help. Give me your input. I like my idea of smoking less and less and less until I don’t smoke at all. I feel that would make a transition easier. Please feel free to give advice. And right now im saying it(though I thought I never would) FUCK WEED