This is Part #4 of a 4 part series on my reason to quit smoking weed.
As seen in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, 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 Effects of Marijuana on my Finances:
Cost of Marijuana: My previous post on How Much my Addiction to Pot Has Cost Me, shows how expensive this habit can become. Add it up for yourself, its amazing what happens when this goes unchecked in the long term.
Paying Bills: I forget to pay my bills on time, or even open them. I always leave my banking to the last possible moment. My cell phone frequently gets disconnected. In the past, I have had TV and Phone service disconnected. Not because I didn’t have the money, just I was stoned all the time and never thought of it.
Planning Ahead: I haven’t saved anything for a house. I don’t plan well or have a budget from month to month. I tend to live in the current moment, or just far enough ahead in the future when stoned. Being in the stoned bubble really blurs the ability to look into the future.
Incidental Expenses: I eat a lot of low nutrition, high cost foods when I smoke marijuana. After smoking pot, its common to get the munchies and eat fast food. Also, I am less motivated to make my own food, or even go the grocery store to get new food. When not smoking, I eat healthier and am more conscious of my food choices.
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What I can admit though, is my willingness to stop. To stop smoking, I found this site because I was searching for help, I can admit that, and I can help myself. If admittence is acceptance, than I admit I am addicted to weed regardless of conflicting opinions, I am addicted to Marrijauna. I accept the guilt that this drug has caused me to have in my life and I accept the time I lost and the money I burned threw. I accept that I need help. One day at a time.
i also live in england and i have to say 1gram for a 10a is mint up my way the northeast 0.7 or 1.5 for £20 although when i first started 8 yr ago it was like 3.2gram for £20. i have a love for the weed but its ruining my life i want a life without it but cant see my life without it.
and for those who say its not addictive it is to me i admit i thought it wasnt and in the 8 yers i have toked its only the last year when i have came dependent on it every day and i have had it tht long i cant remember what life was like b4 i openly admit to being an addict and this site has been usefull giving me motivation to stop unfortunatly i came on after i have got my bag of blue cheese and im starting to sound like a broken record with this is the last bag shit but hopefuly this will be. i have quit drinking and i did have a problem with coke untill seeing my m8 being hospitalised nd its been over a yr without coke. i dont understand how i can kick a coke habbit but not skunk i dont smoke solids just skunk. good luck to every 1 trying to quit nd to those ppl who come on and give shit all i say is fuk em your doing it for u nd the reasons for u just bcos they aint realised they aint got a problem,
I would like to say thank you to the creator of this website. I am quitting smoking cannabis after 10 years of smoking it 3-5 times a day. As I was reading through the material, I was amazed at how much of it mirrored my own experiences with cannabis addiction.
To anyone who thinks that cannabis can not be addictive (especially “Matt”, who posted earlier) – Addiction does not just mean physical dependance. There are many people who smoke cannabis daily who are NOT addicted. In my case, I have been mentally addicted to cannabis for going on 10 years now and it has taken a huge toll on my life.
I am not blaming all of my life problems on cannabis. Actually, I am an advocate for cannabis legalization. Personally, I think that no one should be told what they can and cannot put into their bodies. Alcohol and tobacco are both legal, yet they cause huge problems in our society They are both highly physically and mentally addictive. The reason that they are legal is that people have decided they do not want the government regulating their personal freedoms.
In my opinion, we need to educate people on addiction, not on the negatives of soft drugs like cannabis and psychedelics.
ANYTHING can be addicitive
I think this site has some very provoking statements, even though it’s a sham site, and half the comments are fake (reading the comments on finances, after about the 20th mention of god saving someone, you will realise).
I have smoked from the age of 13 to about 18, then from 21 through to 29 (current).
I am here because my habit has implications further reaching than my own state of mind/body/wallet. Mainly my girlfriend, my friends and my colleagues. They don’t deserve to have to deal with the ‘quasi’ self I seem apt at deploying so much recently.
I have been working from home for the past year, and i have totally satisfied that little 18 year old who dreampt of sitting in his den and getting high 24/7 with no cash worries, always buying in ounces, never having less than a 1/4 in etc etc.
It’s time to engage with the world again.
BUT I feel quitting is not the answer, there will ALWAYS be that voice in your head for the true THC lover. I am taking the mediation route, buying an eighth on a Friday and finishing it by the Sunday night.
One thing I’ve noticed as I’ve tried to ween myself off the cones is this: The major deamon to excise is nicotiene.
I’ve had no bud for 2 days, I ony use cigs for spliff but have been smoking marlborough like they’re going out of fashion. This will be a much bigger problem for me, as I intend to quit cigs for good for my new years resolution.
As for all the reported side effects etc, even the faked ones, they can and do occur. I have friends who are on meds due to dope and their unability to deal with it mentally. Then you have evening shift, the guys that just toke on the evening, but they get properlly hammered. Also there are the guys that toke constantly, but not to the point of stonedom, i fit in here.
To sum up, and I think it’s something we all love to overlook and carry on regardless, but:
Marijuana is A DRUG and it SHOULD be used as one, constant use should NOT be seen as normal behaviour. This is where all my problems have stemmed from.
I totally agree with what you said Ryan. Thank you very much to the creator of this site, hopefully this will be what I need to finally quit for good. It helps to know that so many people have gone through the exact same feelings and are in the same place I am. At times it seems totally hopeless to think that I’ll ever quit for my entire life but at the same time I realize that pot has no place in my ideal plan for life. Thanks for putting this manifesto up and thanks to everyone who’s been commenting, it’s helped a lot.
Great to see this site as i’m tryin to kick this habit. I have smoked weed since i was 12. but almost every day since 19 i’m now 30. I dont enjoy a joint. I see it more of a task that i have to do and I can’t even think of how much money, health and above all people and the quality time I have missed out on with them that I can never get back. I hope everyone on this journey to bettering themselves gains a strong will and understanding of this problem. good luck
what does a marijuana habit cost my ex girlfriend smoked 4 or5 joints a day and was broke all the time of course,but never really knew what it cost, in the old days a 4 finger lid wasw about 20 bucks but i dont think its that anymore
Thanks for putting this up. I have been struggling with pot for about the past 7 yrs. Smoking on a daily basis for the past 3 yrs. It didn’t really become a daunting task for me up until recently. I got to the point where i could not leve my house without smoking up at 5am in the morning before work. Even when i was not smoking i was daydreaming of when i was going to smoke next. All the talking points you hit on were 100% true. Ive told myself for about the past year that i want/need to stop. Easier said than done right. I never thought that there was an addiction with pot be cause i denied the notation when some one would say something. weed has been taking my money, relationships and opportunity from me. I wish everybody luck with this undermined struggle.
your a genious
I just got this website and I gonna try form now on.
I smoked about 2g every day for the last 10 years,my familly life is afected and I have to do somthing for us.Lots of money I produce only for smoke.I’m really scared because I have done one pot this morning and decide I won’t buy and smoke any more.please give me some advice
Thank you for this write-up. I’ve been smoking for the past 6 years and a daily smoker for the past 3 years. I’ve tried to quit countless times but I always go back to it. You touch on many of the same reasons I want to quit. The sad part is even though i’ve known this information for the past couple years, I still can’t get myself to quit. It’s a serious psychological addiction for me. I will bookmark these write ups and read them everyday to remind myself on why I am quitting. Heres to the first day.
I didnt get high before bed…it’s now 718 AM! I feel great, mind you. But the last 5 years of my weed life has resulted indirectly in flunking business school in third year, losing a resturant 3 years later, losing girlfriends to awkward stoner moments… My roommate got an honors degree thanks to weed, as he says. I try to remind him also that he didnt get into his masters because of weed. haha! I think weed turns exceptional people into awesome people, awesome people into average people, average people into losers, and losers into heroes…because every loser stoner thinks hes a fuckin hero. i think i’ll try to stay off the weed another day! i’m tired of being such a hero
I smoked weed for 28 years. (Age 16 to 44) I was a huge stoner. “wake and bake”.. I easily did one ounce per week, and I liked the high quality weed. Finally, it was the mood swings, the anxiety and paranoia of the police and most of all the financial costs that motivated me to quit.
One day, I looked in the mirror, put down the weed and never touched it again. Even when I have had the opportunity, I have never accepted a single drag. In fact, these days I don’t even think about it for long periods of time.
Now after 10 years weed-free I have lost almost 100 pounds, am a healthy 54-year-old, happy and on track. (I never was a cigarette smoker, and I don’t drink alcohol or caffeine.)
Dude! Realistically, I smoked more than $300,000.00 in weed in those 28 years. Can you imagine how much money I would have if I had just put that money in the bank? With the compounding of interest I’d be a millionaire and the loss of money from the lack of motivation and missed opportunities in life are incalculable.
Don’t judge me. I am not some born again red-neck pot-head hater. I still have my life-long friends who are stoners and I tolerate them and they tolerate me and they respect the fact that for my personal well being, I had to quit. But when I see that they are doing the same thing I was and I see them missing opportunities in life, it makes me sad. When they are wiped-out and reeking of weed, I realize that I was the same way. I was high functioning and even had myself convinced that I was an “artist” and weed made me more “artistic”. But now I realize that when I was sitting in meetings and interacting with business people while reeking of skunk-bud, they knew! They smelled it, they saw my eyes, they put up with me. Why I don’t know? These were the days before drug testing in the workplace, so it seems they tolerated me but I am sure terrific opportunities passed me by many times because I was a “pot-head”.
These past ten years without the weed have been my most productive and happiest ever. I am finally making real money, have a clear perspective on life and living.
I lived it, I quit, and I have never looked back. You can do it. Just put it down and walk away.
So I have a question that hopefully someone can answer.
I married my husband 17 years ago, before we met, we both has alcohol problems and we’d both quit. About 10 years ago he started smoking pot, he said it helped his shoulder pain. Now he smokes constantly. He sneaks it into work, he gets up a couple of times a night to smoke… he tells me he’s quitting, but he’s just trying harder to hide it from me.
My dilemma? I love him, but I hate the pot. I hate walking into the bathroom only to smell that he was in there with the window open, smoking… I hate when he kisses me and smells like weed. I hate traveling with him as I know he’s carrying it through airports…
It’s hurting our relationship.
I’m 50, he’s 54… I don’t want to leave him, I don’t want to start over again but it’s getting harder to love him and hate what he does.
At times I feel like I’m being unreasonable and selfish as he says this is the only thing he has that gives him relief.
He doesn’t miss work, he’s careful about getting into trouble and other than *knowing* that he’s doing it all the time and disliking it, it doesn’t seem to cause him any problems. He’s functional.
Is there something wrong with me that I cannot accept this at face value? Why does his smoking bother me soooo much?
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