Reasons to Quit Marijuana #4 - Financial

• pete_dystopia said,

  yes all those costs mount up, and its the incidental things like getting stoned and missing trains, etc, etc for me which results in massive taxi fares

  good luck to you. I have quit myself after 7 - 8 years of smoking. Today is only day 2 but i already feel brighter, more energetic and social.
  pete

• AbundantCreature said,

  I really, really very much appreciate this blog. I have been a chronic abuser since 1988. For the past six years it has troubled me greatly. I am almost forty years old and feel I wasted my life doing nothing but getting high every single day. I managed to quit for five months a couple of years ago but didn’t know enough about myself to keep it going. I’m ready to give it another try. Thanks for your blog!

• Gerry said,

  how much does liquor cost? and how fast does THAT go down the pipes? yea…exactly.

• Taylor said,

  Hey man - insightful list - I greatly appreciate hearing about someone else in a very similar situation, because just like the isolating elements of weed itself, its easy to feel like we are the only ones that battle with all of these apparently universal day to day issues. I’m a pretty successful musician with a good career, and yet weed has still managed to emotionally remove myself from it enough that I forget how good I have it, and I bury myself in depressed isolation instead. I have a loving girlfriend that I live with also, and she occasionally smokes, and I think the fact that she’s accepting when I smoke is not helping me…..if she was against it totally, I’d probably put that priority higher, and wouldn’t have it around the apartment. Either way, it has to come from me. I think the hardest part is just thinking of “I have to walk to the bank” without getting stoned first (something that has always made me feel more creative and inspired on the way to the bank but then when I get there, I start getting paranoid that the bank thinks I’m going to rob them…..)
  Anyways, that was my little ramble about my own issues, this is day 1 of soberness for me, so wish me luck…..Thanks!

• lily said,

  I hear you I ALWAYS owe money for pot ALWAYS !
  At the moment it totals $100 bucks.So frustating !

• justin said,

  If your quitting weed make sure that you dont pick up alcohol to take its place. If you end up going down that route pick the blunt back up. Alcohol is not the way to go.

• KCK said,

  I added the numbers up and at 120.00 twice a week for just 3 months……$3,000.00 WHAT WAS I THINKING???? STOOOOPID

• The Stoners Promise said,

  Thank you all for the inspirational blogs. I have been smoking weed for almost ten years now starting with my sophomore year of high school. While I am unable to remember most of my adolescent years as well as the majority of times in which I was high… I will always remember the very first time I did get high, to the very detail. Probably because it was the one time when I recognized that I was hurting myself. It took me ten years to get back to that idea. Now that i’ve finally escaped my self-delusion, I am ready to move foreward with my life. I was looking for inspiration and found this site. Day one starts now.

• Quitter said,

  I decided to quit 8 days ago after smoking daily for over 5 years. I’m still going strong. To be honest it hasn’t been easy, but when I think about going back to where I was, getting high all day, that is my motivation to quit. I don’t want to remain a stoner any longer. I can still make the jump from this addition without messing up my life so much. I still have a great job and a bright future.

  When I first started smoking, back in college, I would smoke before bed because it helped me sleep. Then it progressed to smoking in the afternoons, and then all day long. I’ve been spending about $500/ month on weed, which is ridiculous. I could be using that money is so many better ways, like saving for a house.

  Those of you that just made the decision to quit, from my experience the first 5 days were the hardest. It’s all been downhill from there. The best thing you can do is, delete all dealers from your phone, and make sure you don’t have them written down anywhere. STAY BUSY-fill the time you used to spend smoking in other ways. I took the opportunity to get out and ride my bike more, and have been seeing parks and parts of my city that I didn’t know existed. When you are bored, you are more likely to want to relapse. When you start getting those thoughts, do something productive to get your mind off it. Exercise seems to work great, but the point is to remove yourself from the atmosphere that allows you to relapse.

  Stick with it!!! You can do it!! I never thought I would be able to stop smoking, but when I finally made up my mind, I quit.

• Sammy said,

  Thank you for the insite, my boyfriend of one year has been a pot user. The sad thing is he never told me. I never quite understood, how he could keep this from me and how I never saw the signs. Your site has been helpful in understanding this. I felt I had to end the relationship because I knew I could not compete with his addiction. I realize now that there were other problems that were making it difficult for him to quit. His family were users and so it was easily accessible. Now it makes sense that he didn’t have many friends and was poor at returning calls to his existing friends and family members. He had isolated himself. I also realized he had a hard time saving his money and felt he needed to spend money on other people or lend other people money rather than managing his money for himself. I hope he can get help and realize that he can have a life without pot.

• Yini said,

  I reeeaalllyyy want to quit for all the reasons you’ve listed and more. But the prospect of being sober makes me extremely anxious - almost more anxious than when I’m high and hating myself for being an addict. Additionally, I question the feasibility of quitting b/c my husband is an avid smoker who does’t want to quit; he doesn’t experience the same paranoia and depression that I so often do and it actually enhances both productivity and positive thoughts for him. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for me. I’ve been a daily smoker for 2 years now and am just ready to move on with my life, improve, and learn from these dark times. I’ve always been an outcast.. a pariah, the one that sticks out awkwardly like a sore thumb. i feel like when i’m high this is even moreso true. i’ve always tried to be normal my whole life and this is not helping. yet another part of me does not understand why I blame all my mistakes and regrets on weed; “it’s me & my issues, not the weed.” i want to be sober. i want to know i can be sober and still have fun. if anyone would like an email buddy to email when you’re on the verge of relapse, or just to talk to when you’re feeling down, that is something i’m looking for, so please let me know… i’ll check back here in a couple of weeks.

• GreenLove said,

  Again, thanks so much for your honest and frank information about your symptoms of marijuana abuse and how you plan to use these as a put-off when you are hanging out. Your 4-part series made me look at ways I’ve been allowing myself to relapse and I praise you for pointing out not just the emotional and mental side-effects but the physical ones as well… I thought I was damn crazy! After reading your info I now realise the reason I’m a useless housekeeper, and all the other things I can now attribute to my addiction. It’s given me even more resolve to stay clean and sober. I am now 4 days in and it’s bloody HELL, but I will get through this… Like Taylor above, I am also a musician and I have a promising future in my chosen career, if only I can stay off the pot!!! Congratulations on your determination to stop and for providing a place for all of us who are dealing with exactly the same problem. Blessed be.

• pete said,

  mate , that was epic , im only on Day 3 and think about weed every 5 minutes , so much of what you detailed I never could 100% blame on weed , not that i should blame it on weed because it is me but all the things that nag me when i go to sleep were just brought up , listed and detailed , was a very surreal experience and I thank you for posting this

• mark said,

  The answer to not smoking pot is easy but to really understand the answer may take a bit more thought. having once been a smoker from a very young age (13) and not giving up Until the age of 33 - 10 years ago. My real mistake was my inner and outer dialog on the matter which was the negative terminology “giving up” which means we are to leave something we love and not have any more, to miss out. when we see stopping our habit as giving up we are psychological setting ourselves up to experiencing a void in our lives. so here is the key… the answer the magic pill if you will… you are not giving up anything you are gaining a new positive you. you are heading towards great reward of accomplishment. As you move away from the first few days of not having it you start to feel better and your life will be under your control.
  bewared your subconscious will play tricks on you to get you to buy that next bag of weed and it will trick your conscious by telling you “its OK this will be my last bag” your subconscious will even make you moody so when you do get that “last” bag its not your fault you don’t need to feel an utter failure because its not you as you were in a terrible mood and just needed to chill. but when you have a strong mindset as to where you are going without the weed in your life it makes it sooo easy to get annoyed with your subconscious mind and just ignore its destructive demands. mark my words from experience , all the good in you when you are stone will stay with you but it will be better, stronger and more consistent and without all the negatives.

• Xclusive said,

  Lol this site is hilarous, there is no such thing as pot “addiction”.. Moderation is key. Hey, who said you have to buy the stuff? Grows in ground just fine. =). If you can’t man up to responsibility then you shouldn’t be smoking anyway. And to that girl who broke up with her girlfriend because of pot is reaalllyy stupid… It’s a good thing that relationship ended because dang, he would have had to gone out with someone with no brain. Pot is NOT addictive, however some people have ADDICTIVE PERSONALITIES and don’t understand moderation, Pot isn’t the problem, YOU are the problem. I know PLENTY of people who function just fine stoned and don’t mind if they don’t smoke for a few months. Oh and did I mention if you were smart, the drug is free from the ground.

• krissy said,

  xclusive–you are a moron…show me solid facts supporting your opinions above and maybe someone will listen–until then, get a grip on reality and addiction. you sound very sophmoric with your ‘facts’…try adding something positive and TRUE the next time you leave a comment. any substance that changes brain chemistry, function, etc. can be addictive…do your homework child

• admin said,

  I am not going to deny that we are the problem, this site is about helping us find out how to solve our problems, marijuana being one of them. Thanks for your comments. I wish I could moderate my usage as well as you Xclusive….unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way for me.

• Billy B said,

  I would also think about the money I was spending when I smoked and realized how much of a waste it was, but of course I would ignore it and just get another sack for $100 to last me the week. When I was in high school a group of people would always put 5 on it, 5 that my dad gave me for lunch or something (now that I look back, how dumb is it to spend your food money on weed? what a retard I was) My brother would have a sack and I would always pinch off that to get high during the night time and go to sleep. At 19 I got my first job, and when I started making my own money, the bigger the weed bags I was buying. Add to that I was buying the kush, it’s an expensive habit, especially if you can’t ration it like some people are able to do. Before you know it, those 5 or 7 grams are always gone within 5 or 7 days. Back to the ATM to get another $100 out, and the cycle continues. I think of all the times I did that, if I really checked into it and figured out the thousands of dollars spent on NOTHING, no fun at all, I would probably be very depressed, that’s why I just ignore it. Thankfully I’m clean now and it’s amazing when you don’t smoke how much your money stacks up every week. Rather than my checking account being at a standstill, it’s actually growing, what a surprise! I’ve quit periodically (not too long) over the past few years but I’m going on 3 weeks now and I feel much better. I honestly don’t even want to smoke, even when around it and thinking about it. My lungs don’t hurt anymore, I don’t think weird thoughts, and my money isn’t going down the toilet as much. The physical, mental, relationship aspects all get better, but don’t forget about the REAL green. Save it up and don’t smoke it.

• agness said,

  I kept track of all the money I spent on pot in the month of October. It was a staggering amount. I can’t even begin to think of how much money I have spent in the 42 years I have been smoking.

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