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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just think possitive/head high/go and treat yoursalf with the money u save? not just that you only get one body one life lets tell bit of truth! wot good is it? give it a week you will feel a big dif keep going love you all good luck ….day 7 loveing it
damn these comments are bogus to say the least none of these things happen when you smoke weed i smoke alot of pot every day and i have for 22 years now . my health is great i get realy stoned and go for a 2 mile jog around my local parks track almost every day on the weekends i get high and play basketball or football or sometimes me and my girlfriend go hiking or moutainbiking in the shanandoah national park as for a relationship me and my girl have been together for 10 years now with no sign of stopping if anything pot enhances this. as far as the financial aspect i spend about 700 to 900 every two weeks i know thats alot for some of you but i can afford it i have a great job working with computers im head of my companies I.T department and i make 93,000 a year i own my house i own three cars a 2008 hyundai sonata a 2005 corvette z06 and a 2010 benz slk and i bought my girl a bmw z3… so you see smoking pot has made my life awesome . before i smoked pot i was a shy antisocial prick i dont think i would have ever came out of my shell without it . so all these crybabies on this website should stop smoking you give the all us people who can smoke and be productive a bad name if you cant handle it then dont do it marijuana is not a drug its a plant and its effects on the body are way less than drinking or smoking cigarettes it has been PROVEN to fight lung cancer it helps with mental functions it improver the blood flow the list goes on and on and it has also been proven to NOT BE ADDICTIVE .. most people who say pot is bad put out solid proof show me one person who has ever od on pot or died in any pot related way now compare that to beer or liquor witch one is realy worse??? most of these pot haters grew up being brainwashed by local and federial governments. just think how much money we would have for schools or roads or healthcare if we stop paying for people in jail for smoking or selling weed when we jail them we have to feed and clothe them for the duration of there sentance and if they wernt in jail there would be room for rapeist and murderers and we wouldnt have to spend money building more prisons and we could make money selling and taxing it like we do with alcohol but anyway pot dose not ruin your life actualy you ruin your life and you just blame it on pot because you grew up being told it was bad..
I was a heavy smoker several years ago. Spent my whole freshman year of college in a haze. Alcohol was not my thing but the herb took it’s place.
It started as a way to fight insomnia that plagued me for years. For a few weeks it worked great. Shortly after that I began smoking earlier in the day till I was smoking from the moment I got up( at this point around 1 pm) till I finally passed out( around 4 am).
I was able to afford this habit due to a full ride athletic scholarship, and a small food allowence my parents sent me. The allowence however, came after I exhausted the saving account I built over 3 summers. That was a horrible realization I might add.
The “friends” I hung out with were always smoking. Often times my stuff. I never wanted to smoke alone so I never thought twice about it. It did not take me long to figure out they were a bunch of leaches. They never had enough to share but always shared in mine. Soon I began smoking alone. After the free hand out ended they bounced. Turning on me as if I were denying them food.
So at this point I am broke and begging for money from my folks and lonely. My answer? Smoke more and ignore the problem.
Now my coach and most my teachers have not seen me in over a month. Campus security and the head resident assistant open my door one day to see if I hung myself or something. They find me passed out in a bag of chips at my desk. Sucessfully finding me alive they leave after citing me for tampering with the smoke alarm.
The next day my coach informs me I am off the team and my scholarship has been revoked. This means no more free ride. Worse then that no more living in the dorms(part of scholarship). I had 2 weeks to move and nowhere to go. So I smoked some more.
2 days before my eviction I called my parents. Begged them for a plane ticket home and gushed about how hard things have Been for me. They of coarse did not know I was a stoner, or the details of my rapid departure. They agreed and I moved back home.
Once home my life changed. In my old room I was surrounded with all my acheivments. Trophies, awards, and posters of exotic cars and women surrounded me. I really cried for the first time in my life.
It was overwhelming to be reminded of all I was and wanted to be when I became the one thing I said I never would.
I will argue with anyone that says it is not addicting. It is!! Not pysically but mentally. I was a very strong willed and minded person before the weed. The weed is what makes you weak.
Instead of dealing with the problems that came up like I used to. The weed instead became the answer. Why not? makes me feel better. My stress goes away. It helps me sleep. In my little bubble as it was put all was good in the world. Too bad I was just fooling myself.
I quit cold turkey the day I got on that plane. Since then I have smoked maybe a dozen times. 10 years have past now. I graduated from college and have devoid career. My insomnia went away when I found faith, and stopped lying to my family and myself.
I have found, at least for myself, that life is not easy. It never was meant to be. Hard times hit us all. Be it mental, pysical, finacial, or social we all have hard times. I find it so much better to accept it then find the solution rather then smoke till I forget about it.
A man I met several years ago once told me something I found funny and very true. ” if you ever say I need something then you in fact are addicted to it. Most of these addiction are necessary. Food, water, air, exercise, and love. I admit to being an addict of all these things. In moderation of coarse. These addiction reward me with the one thing I never want to live without.”When I asked what that was he said happiness.
I know this is very longwinded, but I was able to break away and am happier in all aspects of my life becuse i did. I know all of you looking to quit can too.
My b/f of 2 years is a pot head. I have realised from reading all these posts that alot of our relationship problems have occured because of his habbit. Missed birthdays, engagements, cancelling plans at the last minute, mood swings ( He can be so loving one minute and then completly selfish the next), defensive when i question if he has smoked today. His money is always spent too. I suppose i enabled him as i always gave him cash too, for gas i thought, but he spent it on weed. He complains all the time about lack of money, house untidy (haven’t seen his bedroom carpet for about 18months, too much shit on it.), lack of motivation. I try and help, but i don’t want to nag because he just gets cross and then i don’t see him for a week. He lies to me alot about everything. He gets paranoid im going to flip because of some small thing, and when i find out i do flip, but because of the lie, not what he’s done. He is such a smart guy when he’s sober. I love him so much and after reading this, im going to try and talk to him. I think alot of his problems could be managed better without pot. He has to change and the pot has to stop. He also has BP dissorder and uses pot to self medicate as well as taking his meds. It a worrying combination and im scared for him. He has DUI’s and i call and ask where he is and he believes im insecure, but im not, i just want to know where he is incase something happens to him while he’s stoned and mixing his meds with pot. I like to know the area so i can send the police in the right direction when he goes missing, or something happens to him while he’s out driving stoned. He has already totaled 2 trucks. It’s putting alot of stress on me too as you can tell. This is the last shot, i can’t cope with him while he’s stoned 24/7. It has to stop now.
Thank you first all
i started smoking pot in high school in my final year but we all know what happens in college right. i went right in into the oblivion pit of pot and its past the point of fun after 6 six years. i’ve waisted most of my talent and brains which could have and may still take me to hieghts I don’t even know
I must say though that i do personaly know people who smoke daily that live progressive live, except for the health part ofcos. in my case i will say it’s not like that. I am taking this dicision to improve myself and to live it to its max and to be able to see my perceived potantial being reached.
pot makes me close up.its time to wise up and live anew. time is waisted when high but it is never enough when you sober and working
aluta continua day1 and beyond to a life of zol being free
Hello Everyone
I saved this site to my Favourites some months ago and returned today to look at the comments for inspiration.
I am not addicted but my husband, who I love very much, is.
I have been with him for 21 years and he has always smoked. He does look after us financially and I know he loves us. I have put up and shut up for many years, at first I didn’t understand why he behaved so irrationally sometimes because I bought all the stuff he told me about marijuana being a perfectly safe, non-addictive, symptom free drug.
I now know why he becomes panicky and paranoid and shouts an becomes rude and agressive towards me and his children. I get it, I finally get it. The saddest thing of all is that he doesn’t, and I don’t think ever will.
I have spoken to him about how his ‘need for a fix’ impacts on our family life (those of you who have experienced living with someone whose life revolves around the next draw, will know exactly what I am talking about), but he cannot stop himself.
I have wanted to leave him to his First Love so many times but he begs me to stay and tells me it will hurt our children. Meanwhile life is passing me by…
Thoughts people…
I am 55 years old. Smoked as a from 17 thru 48 on and off. Never thougth it was a problem. 5 years ago I began to smoke on almost a daily basis. I was unemployed for a few months, bored, had found a reliable dealer (lol). It has really been a horror. I spend at least $100 a week. For the first time in my life I have outrageous credit card bills. I use cash to buy weed and put real obligations on the credit card. I can go on and on, but after reading all of the above, we all seem to have the same story…..we are addicted to pot. I am making a promise to myself that with the help of God I will never smoke again. This is day one for me. Wish me luck!
Love technology b/c you can get support like this. Hate technology b/c I am now addicted to online solitaire! And cigarettes and coffee and alcohol and pot and junk stores. I am a professional. An upstanding citizen. However I started smoking cigs at age 11. Alcohol at age 12. And weed at age 13. Hey, it was the 70′s! Cigarettes have been quit for long stretches (3 years, 5 years), but am currently smoking. Alcohol I have never really quit. Pot was on and off, but 3 years ago it became daily. I knew it was becoming a problem. All of it combined. Like, OMG, I’m an addict. I CAN’T BELIEVE I HAVE BECOME AN ADDICT. There’s a new book out there about High Functioning Alcoholics. Can only buy online. I have yet to buy it. There are LOTS of people out there who you would never know are addicts. Circumstances isolated me and the daily pot has only isolated me further. I smoked the last of my pot 2 weeks ago and it was the best pot ever from this dealer and his weed was always good shit man. I’m doing ok w/o, feeling more productive, NOT isolating, but needed some mental support tonight. I can relate to all of you and thank you for you input and insights. Unfortunately I continue to drink and smoke cigarettes. HATE my beer belly which has arrived at middle age for me. UGH! Like I said, never thought I would be in this position.
Marijuana can not ruin anyones life if you think your addicted its because your weak willed. I smoked weed for 6 years straight then quit for months because of my job. Sure I missed smoking because it was something to do when i was bored, but i could stop without any withdrawls or symphtoms that you wuld see with hardcore drugs or even caffiene. In short most of you are idiots or actors either way weed will eventually be legal and all this lame propaganda will die. Peace.
King, it turns out that you are actually the idiot since you cannot understand that different people have different brains and can have very different experiences with marijuana. You’re not addicted to pot. Good for you. Some people are addicted and are on this site because they’re trying to get help. Why are you here? Whose propaganda and lies are you spreading? There’s plenty of lies on both sides of this issue but this site isn’t about any of that. It’s just about people trying to get help and support. If you don’t need help, and don’t have any support to offer these “idiots and actors” then leave us alone.
I used to think that pot was good and okay… now im no so sure. I always go through this cycle of thinking maybe its not so good then over thinking it and end up smoking a couple bowls. Fuck it
Pot hassome benefits as I have a chronic stomach condition and have smoked for 37 years, am now 54. 6 months ago I lost my job and used pot daily to forget my troubles. You cannot find work these days w/out a drug screen and although there is all kinds of bs on the net to get around these screens, the fact is this drug has some nasty side effects-us smokers know them well-can’t concentrate,moodiness,crazy munchie attacks where you cannot stop eating, daytime sleepiness, inability to learn new tasks. I have now gone 2 weeks without it and aside from some discomfort and occasionally wanting a toke, each day is easier. This is my longest break in 5 years, and in 37 years the best I’ve done is quit for 3 months. Stop deluding yourselves fellow chronic smokers-quit and experience sobriety and the joy of waking refreshed, more energy, clearer thoughts, and using energy to do positive things. Your wife/girlfriend, kids, will thank-you and you will be a happier,better functioning human being. If you can toke occasionally great, but daily smoking is a trap and makes you an addict whether you admit to it or not. Wish me luck on my sobriety.
I’ve just started to see weed to be not as cool as I thought. I mean, let’s face it,, ya, it is! But where you find yourself after 15 years of smoking(14-29) is not all I had originally planned, you know what I mean? No wait, it is actually, but I haven’t seen it that way in a long time. I need more effort. lol Like it hurts to think about how boring I’ve become from smoking pot all the time for years!! Maybe I’m just depressed a little from unemployment but that’s enough pressure for me to want to quit. I thought it was helping! Weed fooled me again.. Weed is definately a stinker. If I have to describe weed to someone in one word: stinker. And many others.. So I’m quiting the day after tomorrow. I don’t know, but whenever this bag is gone.. lol For real though. I’m quiting, but I liked reading everyone’s comments, thank you. And good luck, me!
FoR thE past 2-3 yrs I’ve spent on average $180 monthly..
..that’s ..Wow! $4,320..no Wonder I’m in debt..fuCK!..
SeriouSly this is the first time I’ve tried to figure how much
I’ve spEnt..(SIGH)
So I’m high right noW..And its officiAl..I will no longer smoke.
I shAll blog my symptoms as I feEl thE on thiS particulAr
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Compton USA
I have been smoking weed regularly for 8 years. I smoke everyday- it’s generally the first thing I want to do when I wake up. I have been wanting to quit for years and I have that same “last bag” conversation with myself over and over again, but as soon as I run out of trees, nothing is really more important to me than getting more. Its hard to say how much of a negative effect weed has on my life. It destroys time. I never have enough time, but I find the time to get high. Always. I’m always tired, its just how I always am, tired. I definately would rather be alone in my room smoking pot. But forever? No family no kids no husband? Just me in a smoky room? I don’t want that I don’t! So I am trying to quit again, its just my attachment to the high, the ritual, the smoking. But there are better things for me in this life.
Your right jersy boy. I have been smoking for 35 years. I tried it for the first time and LOVED it. It was an instant desire for me. I Loved the smell taste and the great disconnected relaxed feeling trhat it gives me. I have done alot of different addicitve stuff but hard to beive it is pot that is my challenge. I smoked cigs for a few years and then left it like nothing. I can drink alcohol and stop like nothing along with all the other substances that i have tried throughout my life. I know now that everyone reacts different to substances for example I couldnt be be an alcoholic if I tried. Take three people give them a drink the first say yuk tases awful the second says mm I kinda like this I could drink it once and a whil athe thrird say WOW i really like this I want to drink this all of the time hes in trouble. I boozes bad not necessarly depends who is interacting with it. I love pot, but just like anything if you abuse it it will harm you in many ways. For example lets say I replce the 10 tokes I rougly take a day for for ten slices of chocolate cake by the end of the day I would feel sicj upset stomach etc imagine 10 slices a day for 35 years. My point is that anything can be bad if it is abused even exercise. And my second point is thateveryone reacts differently to differnt substances. Thats why there i9s son much controversy about herb everyone sees it differently. I dont understand how some people become alcohoice any more tahn some would understand how I became a potoholic, but that is what I am. The long term effect are starting to take ist toll on my breathing and lungs due to my abuse. This might sound strange to some, but I dont want to quit I like it too mch I wnat to control my desire just like everything eles. I actually quit for tow years 15 years ago and I really didnt feel much better. I was happy to smoke again but then the habit started to dictate my lifstyle and I smoke daily morning to a couple hours before bed. I get some benefits from smoking like better sleep and reduced stress. I still am very fit and exercise almost daliy. On the flip side the adverse effects are takein its toll I cough and feel less motivated, my social life is in trouble I am recluse and less enthusiastic about life at times.. My conclusion in MY particular case is to control it like alcohol orI will have to quit all together wich I would hate to do…Iknow that this e mail sends mixed messages but this is no so cut and dry of an issue for some as it could be for others. I will continue to fight for my mind and find a plce for this habit…………………..good luck to you all
Oh and a comment of Mr kings calling us idiots and others that we are cry babies I hope what i wrote gives them insight, and sheds some light on the fact that we all react DIFFERENTLY to different substaces. People can be catgorized based on thier reaction, but it is random ,on how your personal reaction would be….
@Josh.
People have “different brains” – no they don’t really, their personality, soul or whatever you want to call it change their perception, but on the whole a brain is a brain unless you have some sort of mental illness.
Point is there’s still nothing to really prove that cannabis is physically addictive as there is evidence for tobacco, heroine and whatever else. So that leaves the conclusion that it is down to peoples psychology or being weak willed. The fact that scientists can’t really find any proof that it’s addictive kinds tells you it’s in peoples heads.
Sure, it may be a strong thing, but you just have to get over it and stop smoking. I quit for long stretches at a time and it’s bad for the first few days.
The thing that proves to me that I don’t NEED cannabis is that I can do that and if there’s a situation that I need to not be stoned in, I don’t get stoned. I also never get stoned when I’m away somewhere, I live in a small town which is boring as hell and that’s one of the reasons I smoke dope. When I’m in a place where there’s actually stuff to do I feel no need for it.
most of the comments here suck. most of the reasons that people claim about weed being a bad source in there life stem back to the legality issues with pot. I am addicted to smoking pot!! that is the truth. but if it were legal, then it would cut out 90% of the reasons to quit smoking.
I have smoked both pot and cigarrettes for the last 25 years! I put an exclaimation mark but it is nothing to be excited about. I have been a chronic closet marijuana smoker since about 17 yrs of age. I am now 38 and have finally realized that I really need to stop this. What started as an occassional user to be in the in crowd, has now left me depend on my next fix daily. I have tried to cut down and go without, told myself no more bags. Every time giving in to it. Marijuana use has absolutely ruined my life……In every way shape and form. Jobs/ relationships/ and finances. Made me lazy and walking around in circles. I am depressed on it and depressed without it, I really have no clue how to be happy without it, and I really need to figure it out. I really enjoy and in fact desire it over everything in life. It is actually really sad and I know that. I stumbled upon this website today and found some very useful info and am soooo ready to try this…….
I am a 32 year old suburban house wife and mother of two. An active, very active, year and a half old girl and six and half year old boy. I love to garden, do photography, am well educated, and smart and articulate, and pretty attractive, some people say, but I think I look like a freak… well are we grading on a curve?
Oh I should also mention that I’ve had a pretty severe and totally undiagnosed anxiety disorder since I was about 6. Well it’s diagnosed, now, but only after a had a postpartum break down after my son was born. Then I became an alchoholic about 18 months later, and drank about 4 liters of wine every two days or so for a while. Ah yes, I remember washing down the Paxil and sleeping pills with wine. Then I “recovered”. Cold turkey, no rehab. after almost 4 years of daily drinking I stopped.
Then this year, when my daughter was about the same age that my son was when I casually started drinking, I casually started smoking pot. Now nine months later i am stoned all day every day. I am amazed at how fast everything spiraled out of control again. One day I thought, hey, I’m bored, I’ll have a joint this morning. The daily life of a stay at home mom is monotonous, you know… It was a morning in early August, and since that day I went from a one or two smokes a night person, to smoking at 8 in the morning with my kids inside. My husband is pulling out of the driveway and I’m locking the front door and going out back for a smoke. I miss appointments, forget to pay bills, cable and internet and phone disconnect, partly because I was too high to pay attention, and partly because my husband’s meager income was being smoked. I forget to get my kids proper foods sometimes, and find reasons for everyone under the sun to stop at the store for me in a panic.
I want to stop. I am starting a new job tomorrow and need to stop. I have gone to work high, smoked a roach on a break, driven high, gone to interviews high, gone to my son’s school high, everything.l It’s out of control. I just packed up my stuff and put it in the basement. Where do I go from here?
And I would Like to add, that I realize that a lot of people out there have smoked a lot longer than me, but I want to say that I want to stop now after just these few months of being stoned all day so that it doesn’t turn into years.
And Good luck to you all. Good Lord, good luck.
Hey Matt, it’s good to know that living your life as a happy pothead with the love of your life, a nice job with nice income, with healthy habits along the way.
It’s nice to also know that pot has taught you things that you would never have learned yourself if you hadn’t started smoking it, because in this case you are a marajuana victim who has recieved everything good from this source of bud, and how is that not good when it has helped out with your life?
For I, have similiar cases to how marajuana has helped my life. If I hadn’t smoked weed, I would be a very close minded person and I wouldn’t have ever found the knowledge that I know today. I wouldn’t discover how much I could expand my mind, nor realise that how much of an idiot and immature I had been in the past.
If I didn’t smoke pot, I would be a bogus talker… like the haters on Youtube.
However, as much as marajuana had helped me for these past 3 to almost 4 years, I think it’s time that I should start quitting this everyday habit of mine… or at least cut down and save it only for special occasions.
I’m a high school student and in second year of grade 12. I started skipping school in the middle of grade 10, because of my idiotic depression issues and never being able to stay home because I NEEDED to stay with friends any time of day or night. This had lead me to failing all of the courses that year accept for two.
I had smoked weed at least 3 times in the fall of grade 10, being first introduced to it and not caring about it at all at the time being. Once it struck new years, one day being home and depressed being there, I saw my dads stash in the bathroom one time when I needed to pee. Just analyzing it and him not being home, I had decided to take a few pipe hits just for the hell of it and was I just HIGH OUT OF MY MIND. I called up my friends just to take a kick at how high I was that night.
Of course, this habit started to kick in the day right after, as I decided to steal a few more pipe hits from my fathers lovely weed. From then on and to this day, I started to smoke weed everyday. Because my parents didn’t know I smoked weed, I kept this habit underground by buying my own weed and making new pothead friends. But of course, they know of the habit now!
As I had smoked pot the past few first months, I had started thinking deeply more and opened my mind more to new things, knowledge and such. I had also started loving myself and got less depressed as I had lived my everyday life finding a new reason to not be sad over my past, and to hope to be better for the future. It had also made me very mature, as I have autism and in the past I thought being very immature was the way to go (only God knows why).
These are only a majority of the good things that has helped me change and find a person in me I would’ve never been able to find before, not without the little help of marajuana ;D.
However, I had damaged my life more than I could ever have at the same time. I had gain all of that knowledge all through the rest of grade 10 and the summer being. Once summer had ended, my marajuana days should have, too.
But they hadn’t. I stuck to it. And I loved it so much that it was too hard to quit, mentally. From thereon, I kept smoking it and started skipping school again for the new year. It was so hard to wake up for school that I didn’t even bother. I woke up at 1pm everyday, and only went to school at lunch just to buy more weed to smoke and then skip. The habit became out of hand, because I now did not smoke it for knowledge, but just to get a kick of a high I had the night before.
If I had quit weed after that summer, I don’t think I would’ve suffered any of the consequences that I suffer through today. I would be not burnt out and be ready for a new day of school. I would find the time to do new activites and hobbies that I thought I wasn’t good or capable of doing in the first place. I would be able to save my money to buy whatever I want. I would have the time to study my work with my boyfriend because he’d be able to help me with my homework no problem. And, I could’ve learned my life long dream skills to play an instrument let alone learn music theory, and be writing songs and making songs. I could’ve been attending a college course for DJing right now, and volunteering at clubs to DJ my own stuff. And much more.
Instead, because of my habit that I had never kicked, I resulted in a disgusting lazy path of waking up late because I was too burnt out, waking up just to have another wake n bake, and living my day seeing people just to smoke up. I also had a new depression where I wanted to stop smoking weed because I knew it would hurt my boyfriend so much hiding it behind his back. I had friends who also encouraged my habit and this made me feel alone on my decision too. My mom hates pot and me getting into it made her hate it alot more. This has inflicted on my parents, as they care about my education and I had ruined it for myself. It has made me lose my motivation and skill to do much of anything. I can’t even pick up my own clothes and fold them when they’re on the floor.
Marajuana has partially ruined my life, my high school education and practically everything around me. It drives my family apart too. If I had quit, like I said above, my life would be much better right now.
Which is why you shouldn’t be talking shit in the first place, Matt. Everybody’s different and our bodies take in drugs in different ways. It could be good one day and the next day bad. It could be good for the rest of your life or you could take a toke and never touch it again. Everybody’s different.
If you smoke weed and you feel that it’s not giving you the benefits you could have in life to progress and evolve your life into the next stage, then take a look at my example and see how much I could’ve improved my life in just a matter of two/three years. It could’ve made such a difference. I’m living in a hellhole right now because of it. I know, it’s soft and it’s not even considered a real drug, but take a look at the facts. It makes you lazy, gives you financial problems and even clogs your throat with phlem… Isn’t that attractive?
So far, I went through today desperate to smoke a spliff, but f*** it. Writing this has given me inspiration to hold on and to resist something that has been destroying my life! I will write again when I am sober and happy and will there be a difference.
Much love and inspiration to marajuana quitters out there.
I am 65 years of age. I have smoked marihuana on and off since I was 18. I have gone long periods of time, up to 10 years, without smoking, but return to smoking. I have smoked daily up to two years at various times.
On the WHOLE, considering the BIG Picture of one’s life, I would not recommend that a person smoke marihuana.
My main concern, lately, and as I age, is the unfavorable effect on my health when I smoke, i.e., poor respiratory function, lightheartedness, increased blood pressure, unnecessary binge eating, not enjoying exercise, lack of strength, unsteadiness of gait, and the zombie body.
Great website: informative, inspiring, useful.
Colin, read what Josh said on Sept 15. There is really no answer to that.
I started soking pot when I was a junior in high school, after it was introduced to me in the summer by my brother. At that point I was lost, I had just been expelled from high school. Looking up to my brother, I started to smoke with him as a way to relax. It was the good shit too, so the high it gave me was a total reality escape.
Here I am two years later, lonely and depressed. I have anxiety about going in public. I don’t want people to know that I’m high. A lot of times my confidence fades around girls. Being high has taught me to believe that I am incapable of maintaining a conversation. If I make eye contact with someone, the simple thought of what they are thinkining runs through my head.
Smoking weed as a way to escape your problems is a destructive coping mechanism. I know it has been repeated but the only way to solve a problem is to tackle it head on.
Weed can provide positive qualities for its patients, particulary cancer patients, or certain psychological disorders. However, those with a personality prone to addiction should stay away. The fact of the matter is marijuana is a drug, and it can be abused.
I am finally ready to quit. I have hit rock bottom and feel lonelier than ever. All of my friends smoke pot, and the support that I need isn’t as strong as I’d like it to be. But I have paved my own road.
To all the smokers who read this and plan on quitting, go for it. I was scared to quit. We are creatures of habit, so quitting was near impossible.
I have been smoking since I was in eighth grade. I am 18 now and a senior in highschool. It became one of those things I did every weekend. I got tired of it by the end of the year and basically quit for football. I worked my ass off to get a starting job. From getting up on a saturday at 545 am to running laps after doing 100 squats with a plate 25 and then running sprints around the teack until we puked. I went through hell and back to get that job. When I began to realize I wasnt going to play, I gave up on everything: school, my teamates, my coaches, my team, and myself. I smoked to take the sting off of football but rather I discovered myself smoking nightly on my room. I want to go off to school sober but I dont know if I will be able to do it…
5th day sober… never thought I’d quit. Still not sure if i even want to but I haven’t been sober this long in probably two years. I must admit it’s boring but I’m pretty sure It will be beneficial. thanx for all the help!
I love how this Matt guy, who commented on April 4, 2010, states that he’s the head of his companies I.T. department. However his comment is filled with grammatical and punctuational mistakes =p. Come on, you work with computers all day, doesn’t your company make you type correctly? Possibly it’s because he just writes programs all day. I just find your comment hard to believe Matt. Sorry.
I’m not anti-pot. I haven’t been since I started smoking. I’m not for it being illegal. But after smoking it for about 6 years everyday now, I can tell you all, it’s addictive. And that’s why I found this site. I can’t do this alone. Just reading about other people’s struggles makes me realize I’m not alone. I know some of you believe it’s not addictive. That’s fine. Believe what you want to. Maybe you aren’t addicted. But I am. And I’m not anti-pot. But it’s taken my life, and it sometimes FEELS like I can’t live without it. But I know I can because I did before. And I have gone through withdrawal symptoms. I feel odd in my brain now for the past few days that I quit. So it’s BS when people say it isn’t addictive. Maybe it’s not alcohol or heroin, but it’s physically addictive because your brain is a part of your physical body.
People are saying its not addictive, but I’m quitting because we are always broke. I just did the math. We spend $140 a month on pot, easily. Well, we’ve been doing it for 6 years. That’s $1680 a year. That equals $10,080 over the past 6 years. No wonder we never have any money.
But I say no more! It’s not worth it!
i started smoking weed when i was 15 after my best friend moved away to america, it wasnt something i thought id ever do. i remember the first time i puffed on a joint of dirty hash, not the pure pollen hash but dirty dieseley crap full of plastic and shit, it made me feel sick!! but as there was nothing much else to do we al began smoking more and more.
Anyway, im 22 now and have been contemplating stopping for a while, i no exactly what ppl mean when they say “this will be the last bag” although i have the best intentions at the time, by the evening im phoning up everybody i know to get some more, which is easy. thats the trouble.
recently i sat and thought about where my life was going and in all honesty it hasnt really changed a great deal from when i started smoking 7 years ago, sure i look abit different maybe but my mental state hasnt changed that much at all.
I smoked every day without fail, a quarter a week (£50) come rain or shine. nothing got in the way of it, id leave places early so i could have a smoke, park on the roadside on the way to work to lug afew bongs, hide up throughout the day to have a quick smoke and as soon as id leave work stop in the same place as the morning to smoke some more before i got home. it evan got to the stage where id take days off just to get stoned and for what?? to be broke 24/7, have mates that only ring u to smoke your weed, etc etc . i evan try to justify to myself thaat its where my life is destined to go, but deep down i know it isnt.
I want more from life and to feel like i am doing something worthwile with it. So 3 weeks ago i decided to stop. yes it was hard and i got the shakes and sweats but in those weeks i have finally moved forward. i have started up my own buisness, began to save money and already made new friends which i never thought was possible while i smoked. i found it relativly easy to stop but i think this is partly due to having it all planned out in my head before i stopped. I no some ppl will find it harder than others but once you stop you will realise how much of your life was wasted just because you were always wasted.
thank you and goodnight
I just admire the honesty and openness of some of you.
I lost the love of my life because he lost himself in drugs, he really lost himself and left the relationship.
I loved him with my soul, and his addiction broke my hart and many other things in my life.
I know him already for 22 years and we are still in contact as “friends”, we live in different countries and we write very deep emotional letters to each other.
I am now married to another person and cannot get too emotional with him. I want to keep my marriage. But he will always be in my hart. He has always been difficult with keeping our friendship and is difficult to relate to him. I know we will never be able to be lovers again, maybe in a future life. That is why I want at least to be a good friend for him. Thank you for sharing your experiences of addiction to weed. It helps me to learn to help my friend to get completelly out of his nightmare.
Im turning 23 years old in a week. I have started smoking weed since I was 21. Before then it was on and off and very seldom. What got me into smoking weed is a really good friend of mine. We used to smoke at nights. I used to sneak out of my parents house and pick him and we would go hot box or put the windows down and smoke it down in some isolated area. This happed all of summer of my 21st bday. Then as college started again, in August, I started hate the fact that I had to be with him in order to smoke. So I used to always sound desperate and calling him to smoke with me. Finally, I got the balls to call a dealer and then started to purchase lower quality marijuana(down here we call it mids). An ounce used to run me roughly 70-80 and that lasted me 3-4 weeks depending on how many test I had each week. I was a smart kid. Always in Gifted classes back in high school and went to a good college and was in graduate school. Then one day I finally decided that I do NOT need to do this crap. This decision came after I started to smoke HEAVILY since it became so easily accessible to me. I took this lifestyle for almost whole year where I was smoking daily after classes and work and whenever I did not have school. I will say I was lucky that I could still keep my determination up and continued going to class and maintaing good grades. Fianlly after finding out three of my friends who smoke chronically with me had been busted and had to be bailed out I decided I will quit. It has been 2 months now since I last saw a blunt, or anything. I quit talking to any of my firends who smoke and am determined to keep this. It’s not worth me fucking my life and career for this shit. I think about it now that weed was psychologically addicting and it took a LOT for me to quit. What has really helped me is that I started working out and made a LIST of things that can ruin my life, body, career, if I smoke weed such as being caught, not working out, being lazy, always sounding dumb in front of people. All I want to say is that people that are MOTIVATED and DETERMINED will find a way to quit. Guys I used to smoke 6-7 fat Blunts of the white grape everyday for almost 2 years. If I can do it, Im sure many of you guys can.
I wonder if this «proof» that marijuana helps with lung cancer is from a reliable medical research journal or did e stumble upon it on a website?
@ Matt (computer tech guy),
1) why do u feel the need to defend marijuana on a marijuana quit site like this? DO YOU ALSO DEFEND ALCOHOL USE TO ALCOHOLICS ATTENDING ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS?!
IT’S GOOD POT HASN’T AFFECTED UR LIFE NEGATIVELY, BUT WHY DO U HAVE TO STOMP ON OTHER PPL WHO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH POT?
*Btw, you don’t have all those material things u mentioned. U probably just lied about all that to strengthen the pro-cannabis argument you so angrily try to defend.
Also, u said weed is just a plant, but so is cocaine (cocoa leaf) & so is heroin (poppy plants).
Keep spewing that bs u keep spewing till u believe it, because those of us who have a problem with cannabis use, know in our hearts that it’s not right for us, it may be ok for others, so stop trying to belittle us & call our experiences bullSHT, because they are real to us & are subjective & we have the courage to share them to not only help ourselves but to help others similarly situated.
I’m a different “Mike” than the other mike who posted here.
LOL, Well I took this entire thing seriously until I read “My insomnia went away when I found faith”. Lol, replacing weed with the story book that is the bible is not an improvement. I am willing to bet that religion has more negative effects (on both society as a whole, and individuals) than weed ever has/will. Haha, this is my first day sober, well technically tommorow will be since I smoked my last toke this morning
I started smoking the summer after eighth grade. the only reason i started was because my friends from school introduced it to me and i thought well i know my mom and dad have smoked it and i knew my best friends dad did at the time because of the familiar smell, so i tried it, it was a blast we would all come together with the little amount of money we had to get a sack and go floating or on hikes and nething to do with nature, it gave me a since of peace with the world and the people i new. soon after new drugs came into the picture mushrooms, meth, cocaine, i always new meth and cocaine were horrible because my father has done it for years and has been in and out of jail, however when with friends and being so naive of course i tried it, those drugs always had their come downs so i soon realized it wasn’t for me, so i just stuck with bud and alcohol partying became more important to me then school, i started skipping until i finally had truancy, somehow i completed that over a summer with the help of my pothead friends by doing 5 500 word essays about teen pregnancy blah blah blah…, once the new school year started i focused still a pot head mind you and was taking eight classes in high school to try and graduate with all the kids i grew up with, it never happened to say the least i dropped out because i was failing once class so i decided i was gonna get my GED, here i am 22 no diploma, no GED, no job because of my social anxiety and my uncomfortable feeling around other people, i did meet the love of my life in the middle of that we are now married have been dating for 7 years, married nov 5 2010, but were struggling quitting, i always tell him how depressed i feel about my life being shit, and hes always prepared to quite, but i feel like i just need another bag, for what? it doesn’t help that his mother is a pot addict and has been smoking almost her whole life and has asked us to get her sacks and wont quite even though she spends almost 500 a moth on her habit and stays in her room all day long living off of disability meanwhile her husband(my father-in law) bring home two 4o’s a night to get wasted and start fight with whoever ‘s around to finally relieve the stress of knowing they arent going to change for anybody not even their three kids, i have quit before, for only three months at a time it seems and something happens to where i feel i need it, the saddest part is i have a younger brother by four years and he hasn’t been to school since 6th grade and is a continuing smoker, i feel like its all my fault for not being a better example, hes so smart too, but now hes not going to have the social skills to get a job and be apart of society i thinks its going to be really hard for him to learn
anyways my bags almost out and i want to quite really really bad for my health i have gained 60 pounds because I smoking marijuana and im a 22 year old girl with a wonderful family that would do anything for me i want to feel good about myself again and be motivated and not afraid of other people, i know their will always be ass holes out there that hurt my feeling for no good reason but i think im prepared somewhat to stand up again and feel good about myself, i want to do something GREAT with my life, i hope it i can
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUPPORT ON HERE AND TO THOSE WHO SAY THEY ARE DOING GREAT ON MARIJUANA, I HAVE NOT ONE FRIEND THAT STILL SMOKES IT THAT’S PROUD UNLESS THEIR A DEALER AND WANT OUR WELL EARNED MONEY TO PAY THEIR BILLS, IM TIRED OF BEING A VICTIM TO MY HABIT! oh yeah another thing my husbands had his gallbladder removed because of all the fast food we have eaten over the years because of our laziness due to marijuana and now he cant go out to eat anywhere and we cant have a nice drink once in awhile together IM DONE! wish me luck…thanks.
Hey matt from April 4th your a real jerk off arent you. I find it fascinating that someone who doesnt have a problem is Googleing addiction websites! And then to have the nerve to get on and devalue everyone elses relationship with it because you are oh so happy! ew you are so gross everything about you is gross i would rather be poor than be an ignorant self serving bastard like you. Go wave your huge gluttonous nasty flacid dick around somewhere else.
Hey, im a 17 year old grade 12 high school student. I have a problem with marijuana and so does my best freind. Because my parents are gone i live at his house and basically we get high. Because we always toke together we buy ourselves a quater or 2 a week each, i have a job at a gas station and half my pay check goes towards dope every time. Me and my friend basically are high 24-7. In the last week i had a couple freinds who confronted me and told me they were concerned about what i was doing, so i decided to take one day off weed for the first time in 4 months. I found that not smoking weed today was the hardest thing ever, but i found that it was wierd to be able to remember your whole day. It seems like my whole year just disapeared. I am always high at school (its a private christian school
) and ive already dropped one course and am failing another 2. This isnt how i wana live my life anymore, i wana be able to suceed. Today is my 1st day off it and i hope to keep it going.
Ok, I’ll chime in Here! I have smoked for almost 20 years. I am successful in my career, making just shy of a six figure salary. I am a daily smoker, legal in the stat of Cali with a prescription.
I have always loved to get high and never noticed it having a bad affect on my life.
Recently my level of stress, focus, decoction and emotional stability have been in question. I was not sure the root cuase of my issues, but I have a feeling.
Ofcourse, I too would also “buy one more bag”…. I can’t not tell you how many times that has happen. I needed to find what was happening to me.. And why?
After a near nervous break down, close to ruining my career… I started to do some deep thinking.. SOBER!,,
Im very glad I found this site! Many of the things I have read here area true, or at least seem to be true in my case.
Todayis actually day 2 of my sobriety! While I am so tempted to go into the garage and smoke , i cant let myself!
Reading all of these post are keeping me motivated!!
I will keep everyone posted, ask for your support and please share any best practices to keep myself sober!
While discussioning this with an older friend of mine he said he smoked pot for 20 years, in his late 30′s he said the pot “turned” on him. Anxity, nerves, etc… It sounds like that is very possible, not due to age, but maybe other amount of THC? Any thoughts on this ?
Thank you all!
Much love and support to you all!
Ive been really lonely lately and my best friends boyfriend smoked alot of green so i started smoking it with him while my best friend was at work (shes always working) now its like i cant quit. I steal money to buy weed. I feel terrible but i always tell myself ill pay it back (i have a job) but somehow i lost track of how much ive been taking. I didnt really think i had an addiction until i realized that i tell myself every g will be the last one but it never is. Its what people do and i want to be around people and even though i know they only hang around because i smoke them up i cant quit. I keep buying more and more weed… I know alot of people dont get addicted but ive learned im one of those few people who has little will power when it comes to green. I hope tomorrow will be my last day…
I started smoking weed about 9 years ago when I met my now husband. I used to be a very active, though somewhat introverted person, who liked to get out of the house and do things. When I first started I never wanted to smoke during the day because I realized how lazy it made me feel and only increased my introversion and paranoia about associating with others, but eventually I began to smoke during the day, and I HATE IT! I do it because I am bored and feel I have nothing to do, but the marijuana is the real source of my boredom. I have a real desire to quit smoking during the day and know that I can succeed, but the problem is I feel I need the pot to sleep. My whole life I have been a terrible insomniac and weed was the only thing that helped. I would be fine smoking a little weed before bed, but as long as it is in the house I WILL smoke during the day and completely regret it. I don’t know what to do…..
Matt,
To be honest, u still sound like an anti-social prick.
Most drugs are derived from a plant.
The effect on the lungs of each joint is equivalent to smoking between 2.5 and five cigarettes in one go according to reseach done by the science journal ‘Thorax’
It has NOT been proven to fight lung cancer – I actually lol’d at this
And im telling you now, from my 10 years experience of smoking it, it IS mentally addictive.
If you’ve smoked marijuana for 22 years and think it HELPS with mental functions, you’re either
a) High as a kite right now,
b) stupid,
c) smoking so much you cant tell any difference anymore
or d) ur lying (which is quite likely given ur little speech about how well your doing, like u think we give a shit)
I was/am/will forever be and advocate of legalisation of marijuana. Its benefits massively outweigh the negatives. I could write pages on this but yeah, weed in my eyes was cool, a great stress relief (especially with me being a chef), and a great way to socialise. I have researched its history and the reasons for its prohibition, both official and unofficial (but most likely) reasons.
I hate to say that i agree with you, that combating its use and distribution with jail sentences and court time is an absolute waste of time and taxpayers money.
BUT
I absolutely oppose, and am quite pissed off, that you would come on a help website to flame people that its all their own fault and their problems have nothing to do with marijuana.
And to that i say fuck you.
This site is specifically for people who DO have problems with marijuana, as some are more susceptible to drugs than others. It aids them in finding a strategy for quitting, or just simply reducing their intake.
If ur fine with it, then go do something more productive rather than flaming all the people on here who come looking for help.
Why don’t you go smoke up the inside of your SLK and crash it. maybe get a better car like mine
Hello everyone,
I’ve recently been contemplating my smoking habit and the effects it has on my life. I appreciate all of your comments and have really found this website to be quite insightful. Here is my story.
I smoked weed for the first time the summer after my senior year of high school. I was 18. I was an occasional smoker, smoking just 10-15 times for about 9 months after trying weed.
Then, in the second semester of my freshman year of college, a girl problem got me really down in the dumps, and I decided to start blazing up more frequently to escape the reality of my depressed feelings.
I started to really love the feeling of getting high, the smoking routine, the different types of weed, and the different people I could smoke with.
16 months later, I find myself in the summer before my Junior year of college. For the last 16 months, I have been almost a daily cannabis user. I also took to selling the Mary Jane a couple months back to deal with the financial aspects of smoking and because I like having weed around me all the time.
Up until this summer, I truly felt that I had control over my habit and could kick it or slow down at any time. Now that I have moved out of the dorms into a house with my fraternity brothers and am selling and have constant unrestricted access to super dank crystally bud, I’m not so sure I have control anymore.
People stop by everyday to buy or to chill. Our house is super chill, maybe too chill. It is probably the most enabling atmosphere for smoking weed that I could’ve possibly dreamed up. I’ve smoked every day this summer, but I usually am able to limit myself to just toking at nighttime.
However, I feel debilitated every morning. Each day, I tell myself that I’d like to take today off to clear my head, but I end up smoking each night.
Being an intelligent and self-confident person, I really can convince myself of almost anything, so of course my mind makes all sorts of excuses for my habit and justifies all of my marijuana-related actions.
I do think, that with weed, like anything else, high and lows are inevitable. If taken in moderation, I do believe that cannabis can enhance your life by relieving stress.
I’m worried, though, about my declining productivity, faulty memory, and unsociable nature when I’m stoned. I do not want these things to become more of a problem then they already are.
I do not know if I’m ready to face the daunting task of trying to quit using weed, though. I truly do love the plant.
I think a 2-3 week break would do me a lot of good and is exactly what I need. I do not, however, have any clue how to go about this. My environment is so weed-friendly that it makes it seem alright no matter what. It is so easy to disregard all other consequences in search of the high.
I’m still indecisive about what I should do, which probably means you’ll be able to find me smoking the Volcano Vaporizer once again tomorrow night. I know I won’t be able to quit for any period of time until I really really want too.
I’m not sure how far down the road it will be, but I do think that sooner or later I will have to face this crutch of mine that I continue to lean on more and more as the months pass by.
Got high everyday since 11th grade 1986…Quit about 5 days ago and feeling good, more confident, less paranoia. I look forward to the best from life now-not so reclusive and timid! I just dont want to get zoned out any more..its boring…almost a burden! I haven’t lost my job but did lose my g/f maybe that was the best thing though! Anyway, I am gonna keep gettin up and gettin on with life without the paranoia and stress of weed…it is a problem people if you can’t control it.. I couldnt so I QUIT…. Feeling better all the time…u should try it tooo!!!
STONERS FUCKING SUCK!!!
lOSERS!!!
Matt~
So happy for you that you’ve been such as success…….in spite of your addiction to pot.
Feeling so sad for you because you’ve missed the point……It’s obvious that all the “toys” and “big money” that you’re earning is what’s important to you……
Sad, because you’re not yet at that point where you realize that all of the “material” shit/toys isn’t what makes a person whole. Yes, it all serves a purpose…temporarily. But, then reality sets in.
You’re justifying!!!! You’re not living.
Matt sounds like a huge Dickhead and should go fuck himself. For a guy who works as the head of an IT company he types like a god damn retard. I smell BS.
Why can’t anyone spell right????
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