Stop Smoking Weed – Relaxation Technique #2

I was running a google on “falun dafa smoking” today to see what other people had quit smoking with Dafa and ran across this page. I think it’s cool that you are recommending Exercise 1 of Falun Dafa to help the people who use your page to quit smoking weed.

I quit weed and alcohol back in 2003, but had gone to psychiatry for help, so I was immediately put on antidepressants. *rolls eyes* Things got pretty out of hand with that, where side-effects of the pills were labeled as mental illness rather than effects of the drugs. Eventually I was on stuff that was worse than weed and alcohol, but I kept playing along thinking psychiatry had the answer. It didn’t. In retrospect it was a nightmare and a hoax.

Finally four and a half years later, a new doctor easily saw during our first meeting that I was misdiagnosed and overmedicated. My life had pretty much been ruined at that point. I was unemployed and applying for Social Security Disablity for mental illness. He got me off everything except Prozac, which included an antipsychotic (Seroquel), a mood stabilizer (Trileptal), a benzodiazephine (Klonopin). It took several months of tapering the dose down a tiny bit at a time and every time the withdrawal was really something else… waking up in the middle of the night scared and that type of thing. Those drugs are just awful even though they’re prescribed like candy, even to small children.

Well, in mid-April of 2008 I discovered Falun Dafa. Two weeks into it, I quit Prozac and Wellbutrin cold turkey. No withdrawal. None of the usual nausea, vertigo or depression relapses I’d had every other time I’d tried to _taper_ off antidepressants, let alone when I quit all at once! Nothing happened. At the very least I would have had a depression spell worse than anything before the drugs. Instead, absolutely nothing happened. It was over.

A week after that I was doing Exercise 2. In the middle of the exercise I grabbed my last pack of smokes, broke them each in half one by one and threw them away. I quit smoking cigarettes cold turkey that day and haven’t had an urge since. It’s been over two months now without one single urge or mood swing. I can even be at a convenience store staring right at the cigarettes with money in my pocket and think, “Do I need a cigarette?” The answer is always, “No.” I just couldn’t care less. I just shrug it off, but it’s really quite amazing.

All I can say is that Falun Dafa will save your life. For me it was a 360 degree turnaround in mental and physical health in such a short time… I know it sounds too good to be true… but it’s not. It’s just good. Falun Dafa is good.

I don’t know how it works, but it’s easy and powerful. You don’t even need to know. It’s the one thing you can just do and not think about. I do the exercises pretty much everyday, even getting out to the local practice site to be with others. It’s always free. There’s never an obligation to anyone. All anyone in Falun Dafa ever wants to do is share the practice with you.

wow I dont know where to start! I guess it starts with me realizing 2 days ago that pot IS the reason I have so many failures. I always thought it was just me not being able to control it properly, but it was that I was stoned into thinking that everyday for years now. I have to admit that it controls me, and my life revolves around it because of that, and I do not feel ashamed of this, more of proud that I noticed it by myself and that Im taking the proper steps in changing. however as I look back I am ashamed of my actions of selfishness, and not caring for anything and everything but pot. Since I decided to take my life back I dont have a problem with not smoking and I want to stop, but its only been two days so Im sure the cravings are coming, from what I read 2 weeks is the bad part. My problem that is just rediculously hard to deal with is the anxiety that I have when not high. when Im not high 10 minutes feels like an hour, and I am not working much because of the winter months so I have absolutely nothing to do during the day. and since everyday was get high and play games I have no actual hobbies or anything to really entertain myself other that video games and now they seem a little dull so they dont entertain me as long. the best way to put it is that so far falun dafa just takes the edge off like getting high did. this all kinda scares me because I was a hardcore believer that marijuana was a good thing and that it couldnt possibly be bad, kinda modern hippie ish. I am 27 and have been smoking constantly for most of the day everyday since I was 20, I actually started smoking around 16 but it didnt become every day until I was 20 and everyone knew I smoked and didnt have to hide it anymore. falun dafa is the first thing I picked up in years besides a bowl or blunt to feel better, and it actually worked, it worked for my anxiety and I could not believe the length of relief that I get from one full motion through exercise 1, all the crazy feelings, thoughts, and emotions that are just a hurricane of hell in my head just fade away for a while. I too hope in the future to help others that are in need, that dont even know it, but I feel that now while I am going through this hell of quitting marijuana I would be able to help also because it helps when you read someone elses words that are the same as the thoughts in your head…. who ever you are youre reading this for a reason, and youre on the right track! were all in it together even though we feel alone in doing so.

I really like this exercise because it helps me get through my drug program. It takes away my urge to go smoke a bong.