Comments on: Addiction to Marijuana – Relapse Patterns

By: NVA TREES GONE BAD

NVA TREES GONE BAD — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:41:32 +0000

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

By: jan

jan — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:43:26 +0000

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”.

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:38:33 +0000

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

By: Rene

Rene — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:47 +0000

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.

By: Josh Prieto

Josh Prieto — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:10:39 +0000

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.