This is the last post in this weeks series of posts on relaxation techniques for helping cope with the stress associated with marijuana withdrawal. A couple commentators, Meggers and Tani, have both recommended yoga for stress relief and a great nights sleep.
Yoga is an ancient path to spiritual growth, and originates out of India where hinduism is practiced. The practice and goal of yoga dates back to the Upanishads, written between 1000-5000 BC.
I have only performed one type of Yoga sequence before, and I think it is perfect for beginners. The Sun Salutation is a sequence of 12 movements that can be performed quickly whenever you need a boost. I just did a set to try it out – I like it. It feels more physically demanding than the moving meditation relaxation technique and gets the blood flowing quickly.
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Dude, you are doing pretty shitty. you keep relapsing. Now, I hate to call the kettle black, because I am sitting here taking hits out of my bong, but i am working on quitting as well. I cant go a day yet, but you have made somewhat of a comitment. get you shit together!
Excellent choice of sequence!
I also started with the sun salutation, and it is indeed an exercise that gets the heart going. You can also slow down and hold the poses for longer for a slightly different workout.
Thank you for the sun sequence, it is great.
I don’t think you are doing shitty because you are relapsing. It just proves how strong the addiction is. I think you are strong and awesome for wanting to stop and for giving us all inspiration and help. By telling us about your relapses it shows us that we are all on the same boat and that it is VERY FUCKING HARD TO STOP.
I don’t think your doing shitty either. I’ve been trying to quit for 6 years. It’s really hard. I have been smoking for 15, I quit for 5 and then started back. I am very functional but I think I can do better. It’s hard to judge because I’m going so well I’m not sure if I have a issue. Anyway good luck with you! Thanks for the site, don’t worry about the “haters”.
I smoked for 1 year and 6 months, just quit on the first, and man do I feel good. I dont have any urge to smoke, any anxiety, or any withdrawl symptoms at this point. Just dont keep smoking, dont look for it anymore. You can live happily without it.
I havent relapsed once so far.
Hi all,
I desperately need help and support to quit. I am a university student in the last 3 months of my degree and I have been smoking so much of late, I cannot focus on my thesis, and I dont like the feeling of it. Initally I started smoking just to relax at the end of the day. But now I have the urge to smoke in the morning and in the evenings, everyday, and I dont like it. Can someone please help me!!!
-skitzo
nah but much love and support for my quitterz out there i know ya need it
skitzo muthafuckin fritzo
I have been triing to quit since two months ago, with a couple of relapsing in between (6 or 7 times), after smoking for 30 long years without rest, almost every day, and boy this is hard. Finnally I confess it to my wife an look for some psiquitric help. Now i am finishing the firs week without it, for the third time. This week I am really working in get onto the second and third, which say are the most difficul. However I have the will to do it, but feel so weack some times, I like to read this forum and realise that some people had the stregnt to quit. Please keep triing, show everybody that it is possible. Sometimes it feels like an inferno, I cant sleep at nights and my mind keeps at 100%, but I need to find a job, and almost all good jobs drug test you. I want it to finish and control this addctions, but it looks like it controls me. Really want to quit, I been doing all possible ways, dont want to relap again and start over. The only way toquit is your will, bur for god sake, how difficult is. As I enter this forum I see that I am not alone, there are lots of people out there, having my same fight, I think is good to share the possitive thinks you or someone else can do to quit, it keeps your spirt strong to keep fighting, please keep writing and allow other people to share you feelings and experienc, I know it can be done, many people had done it, wo why we dong, what is differnte from them, their will??? Maybe, lest take them as an example to follow, if they did it, why I would not. This is not an easy fight fellows, but who said it would be easy. I need to get strength to control it.
I have just realized today that i am in fact addicted to marijuana. I never thought i would come to this point but apparently I am one of those people that weed has a profound influence on. I was surfing the net looking for something, anything to help me quit. Everything you have described in this article fits me to a t and its crazy reading some of the comments posted as it looks like they could have been left by me or my gf. Marijuana is a wonderful thing for some people but i have realized for that for me at this point in my life it is the worst thing i could possibly do maybe when i get my life straightened around i can try and enjoy the sweet taste of cannabis again but until then its my worst enemy
Hi
i am really grateful for this site and all its info andf fofr the o ther people who have posted here. i have smoked everyday morning noon and night for ten years, in 2007 i started to try and quit. it is now nearly 2011 and i still smoke every day! but i am still tring, i have that desire. ia m in debt i am lonely and im fed up of the lifestyle.
i try and talk to my mates (who obv all smke) and no one goes thru the things i do when i stop or if i cant get a smoke. i was so confused and scared that i had this serious addiction and there was no one else who had it. iv done meetings / day care etc but mainly the focus on the crack / herion users. This is a serious addiction,i new that already but iv realised reading through this site i am not the only one, and all tho i feel for any of you that get the sweats the insomnia and all that stuff, im glad your all here as now i know i am not alone.
Thank you
xx
alot of the recovery groups do only focus on the “hardcore” drugs. I have found a way to decrease the withdrawn symptoms. I learned this from watchin Malcolm X. 1 tablespoon of Nutmeg added to 1 1/2 cups of water, drink briskfully. I try to drink it 2-3 times a week to get the monkey off my back. So far it has worked. (knock on wood). Being a lifeless stoner is not the way to spend your youth (or being an alcoholic). Majority of my family are drinkers and don’t feel that they have a problem because they only do it occasionally, but when all the things that you need to make a mixed drink or all your conversations are around drinking, there’s the rub. I only worry about me. If there is any type of addictive behavior occuring I know remove my self and my children. In my opinion an alcohoic is worse than a stoner, any day.
I lost me best thing that happened to my life b/c/ i mixed weed and beer. Now he has totally pulled himself away from me b/c i told him that i didn’t drink or smoke ( i relasped…ok). i have come to realize that those who can’t understand the recovery process have no patience for those in recovery. Plus he drinks like a fish ( so he wasn’t the best thing-just best at the time). Stay strong Quitters…We R No Quitters!!
I am 26 and am ready to live a real life. In the last couple days I have put a lot of my life together to better understand why I am where I am. I am a happy and energetic person with a dark side. I would rather hide in my room at night by myself and smoke weed then talk to the people I love….. I have put smoking before careers and many other things in my life. I have avoided jobs based on the fact that I would have to be drug tested. I am sad about this. Its not supposed to be me. I wanted so such more…I was given so much more…. I know I still have a lot of potential in life and with a few changes will be successful. But I love to self hate and smoking weed makes that easier for me. I am ready to put myself first.
I am ready to feel life rather than feeling numb to it.
My planned start date is Monday, June 13, 2011. But I also plan on using the next few days to talk to a couple friends to tell them about making positive changes in my life and weining myself off. I know I dont need it. And within the last few years I dont get as high anyways…. its the act that is most comforting. I plan on replacing it with being more active and achieving my goals.
Today I have not smoked at all… yet. The night toke will be the hardest for me…. its my weakness. I have thought about it all day and have tried to rationalize it all day. But today is the first day I know this cycle NEEDS to end.
I am too young and have too much to give to keep living this life.
its a 2nd day 200th time nw…nd m going out to smoke..i thot i controlled it few minutes ago, cooled down a bit..but wtf…
@LUCY: u ve no idea how wired i think i am in case of smokin up nd having these stoned feelings,, i guess nobody else feels how i feel or wht i feel by smokin.. nd i wont lie, i like it ..m not sure wht part of it i like exactly.. but gettin stoned feels rit smhow.. but m shit scared of it too.. i mean it is not social, nt normal.. gives me too many limitations and complexes … but even after realizing the perks, nd the way of life i cld get.. i want to get stoned rit nw..it has broken my SELF,, nd m aware of it..so to get out of this sad fukin discussion and mood ..shd get high..
very good tips .pl use video clips to teach yoga to the beginners
I’m on day 4 right now and just found this website. It has inspired me not to relapse, I’ve smoked for several years on and off but with in the last two I’ve been buying bag after bag, usually two or three a week (if I didn’t it in big quantities, I didnt feel like an addict) Now I realise there is nothing wrong with me, I’m just dealing with this addiction. I’ve isolated myself and felt like I’ve become less of myself. Spend all night reading everything on this site. It is pure genius. THANK YOU FOR REASSURING ME I’M NOT ALONE! hopefully I can concentrate again and finish my last year of high school. It’s amazing how much I related to these articles. As I said, it’s wonderful to know it’s not just me who is going through this. I’m staying positive and when ever I crave it, I read an article from here.