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Monday, January 5, 2009

How to Quit Marijuana - Keep Yourself Busy

Posted by admin on January 11, 2008

Today was a long, busy day. One of the keys for me as I learn how to quit marijuana is to keep yourself busy. This is especially true in the first 3 to 5 days. During these first days, I have a bit of a marijuana hangover, and the only cure is more pot! Getting past what I call the ‘fuzzy’ stage is really hard work….because your head is still kind of fuzzy, and would rather be stoned, or completely sober….choose sober, it just takes a few more days to get there….and a lot longer to maintain!

I plan on having a nice, calm weekend.  My goal is to eat healthy, self-made meals!

Happy Friday everyone!

Days Sober: 7

  • Lemon eater said,

    Hope, you had a good weekend. Thank you for replying my post. I´m sitting here and start working, this is when I usually light up my first spliff. But not today. I´m gonna do meditation now instead of dope, hope it gives me relaxed feeling so I can really work. This will be my second or third day whitout smoking. Your blog is great, I´ll be hanging here. Take care!

    Lemon eater.

  • tito-bee said,

    hi, read my post on day 50.
    leave just one of these, were not too many, some i guess have been dissaponited??, either you do it or not, i mean in the relapsing issue, maybe not many beleive, lot crediblility maybe.
    Good luck ill keep cpming, were only a few.

  • shrek said,

    hey wats up man i found ur website throw google right now i am sitting at my computer on jan 12 its 1 am i am 18 years old i have been smoking only for about 4 years but the amount i have smoked is probly doulbe that of some one whohas been smoking for more the 10 years i love ot i do but i have lost control i feel that i …i cant do anything with out it i get mad easily i zone out and i blow up in peoples face’s … i no this may seem wierd but i need help and i just dont no how to ask and wats worst i dont think i can stop its always around me all and boy to i mean all of my friends smoke . i guess i should also tell u y i dont think i will be able to stop because i have a chemical inbalance in my head so ever since that first hit i have been hooked but unlike others that smoke i have no limit i can keep getting higher and higher to no end i once smoked a pound of straight up chronic to myself in about a 6-8 hour period i dont no how to limit myself i …i just dont no wat to do man

  • Vali S. Bowers said,

    I didn’t start smoking weed until my early twenties, and as with a lot of smokers it has had for many years its great moments. I would smoke every day once or twice a day; occassionally took time off for a year or so (mainly because I would move somewhere and not have any contacts). However, that changed when I moved to Amsterdam three years ago for graduate school. While initially I resumed a once or twice a day habit this quickly spiralled into 5-6 times a day as the stress of graduate studies and sheer availability kicked in. After almost a year of this sitting down to write a paper became impossible without spending large chunks of time just pacing autistically around the apartment. Just cycling home today from the library today I had to repeat to myself ‘do not buy pot’, ‘do not buy pot’. Coming home I looked online for inspiration to not walk the few blocks to ‘coffeshop freedom’ for a gram and found this blog. So, thanks a lot for this, and good luck to everybody trying to get this under control!!

  • tito-bee said,

    i think no one beleives this blog or the author anymore, no one is here, is was a good beginning, but lost all credibility, no one comes at all, im outta here.

  • Jill said,

    hey there! i’d just like to say good luck on your endeavor, i will be checking your blog regularly.

    fyi, i am currently going for my M.Sc/specialization in psychology with the intent to become an addictions counselor. if you need to talk or anything, just let me know. again, i wish you the best of luck and kudos on creating a website that shows that there ARE in fact risks associated with marijuana use, as so many people refuse to believe.

  • lala said,

    isn’t pot legal there? and u can get it anywhere?

  • eddie said,

    hey man glad you quit again…i think you quit-lol! i dont know if you remember the last comment i left but if anyone else suffered from the insane headaches dont worry they go away….it was 3 months and the dreams came and went the hot and cold flashes came and went - the only think that was left was the freekin retarded headaches….they got better and now boom 4 months later they are all gone…very rarely i get one but it is minor and does not last all day….keep up the quittin =)
    i still crave weed but thats prob cause all my friends smoke…must be strong..

  • Ryan said,

    The hardest part for me about quitting is the depression that ensues. Whenever i try to quit, i get extremely depressed, i hate my life, nothing entertains me, i try to do things that used to entertain me and they just don’t anymore. I am just bored with everything when i’m sober. It is so difficult. But after this weekend I am making my best attempt at quitting, i have to. Hopefully i can do so successfully. I really want to take control of this addiction, but it is so hard. Hopefully i can get through the depression stage this time and actually make it more than a couple of days.

  • dazednconfused said,

    I just found this site today and started reading from the very beginning. How quickly it went from very inspiring to totally depressing. You have to either update this site or destroy it because as it is right now makes it seem like quitting is impossible.

  • S said,

    I found this blog while looking for inspiration on how to end my own addication. I see it has been a couple of months since you posted and I am wondering how it is going. I can definitely relate to all the reasons for quitting that you posted.

    If first tried pot at the age of 24. It really isn’t even the same thing to me as what it was when I first tried it. By the time I was 26 it was an every evening activity, and all day on the weekends. I am 34 now and it doesn’t really get me high, I just do it because I can. Ideally I would just do it once in a blue moon, like at an outdoor rock concert, but I can’t do that. If I have weed, I smoke it. I am dissatisfied with where this has gotten me. I have tried quitting in the past but not the right way. I stopped from June to November of 2006, but started smoking cigarettes in that time as kind of a substitute, and now I need to quit both. I am on day 2 and I have a long way to go.

    One thing I read about how to quit any addiction is to pray and ask for strength. Do it first thing every day, as soon as you wake up. Even if you are not religious I recommend giving this a try. It can’t hurt your chances. Good luck to all those who want to quit.

  • Sheaseree said,

    Hello my friends :)
    ;)

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