Marijuana Withdrawal Symptoms - What Marijuana Detox is Like

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  […] is why I say 3 months, most everything is more normal after 30 days. I wrote an article here about Marijuana Withdrawal Symptoms here. Feel free to have a look as it describes this stuff in a lot more detail. […]

• Amit said,

  thanks so much, I love this website… you have no idea how important it is to me to have found this!

  I am not alone, thank you so much. Your a very kind and generous person for REACHING OUT.

  Thank you! I WISH YOU THE VERY VERY BEST!!

  Stay sober man, your a success =)

• PEACHES said,

  I KNOW WHEN I DONT HAVE ANY MONEY TO BUY WEED, I BE HAVING WITHDRAW.I ALSO GET REALLY BAD HEADACHES AND CANT SEEM TO SLEEP VERY MUCH.I DONT HAVE MUCH OF AN APPETITE MYSELF WHEN IM SOBER. THATS BAD I KNO. I NEED HELP, BUT AS LONG AS I HAVE THE MONEY TO GET IT, HOW CAN I REFUSE.

• jen said,

  I started going to marijuana anonymous this week. It has made a major change in me. It is very difficult for me to quit on my own, but with the group, I have a lot of support and care. The group fills the void that marijuana once filled.

• Chantel said,

  I smoked pot as I have severe insomnia and it worked great for about 12 years, but recently I have totally changed my life and have become very healthy except for this… so I quit about 10 days ago. I have been experiencing extreme insomnia, I wake up and I don’t realize I was even asleep until I remember the dream I just had…I am so irritable and my doctor has given me sleeping pills but it doesn’t seem to have any effect.. I am trying to get through this but it is so hard to function. If anyone has any words of encouragement or suggestions, please, please, suggest!!! I want to kick this and I have the willpower… I think, just not sure how sane I’m going to be in a few days if I don’t get some sleep…

• jarrod said,

  im having withdrawals right now too. i ran out 2 days ago. i had the anxiety sweats a little bit last night along with a headache which i never get. today i can see my face sinking in from the lack of eating. this happens every time i run out. i smoke 1 oz every 5 days so im a heavy smoker. im also bi polar and im freaking crazy without weed. im even on disability for this. pills dont work!! tried over 10 diffrent meds untill my liver enzymes got messed up from the pills. il have my weed (savior) tomorrow but i was just looking for a cure to help me eat when im out because im already underweight. good luck to the people who want to quit. i wish i could and be sane.

• caro said,

  I quit smoking 10 days ago (after 15 years of smoking).
  the last 5 days I’ve been having nightmares all related with smoking. It’s hard because your system is used to the weed so your body is wanting more.
  During the day I’m doing fine, I’m practicing restorative yoga (calming poses) and inversions, they help a lot with anxiety and insomnia. I recomend Viparita Karani, supta badha konasana.
  Good luck.

• George said,

  i use to smoke blunts all day everyday.. for breakfast..lucnch..brunch.. and dinner.. today is going to be my 3rd day clean. i havent had any withdrawls yet,but ill be looking out for them

• Tony said,

  wow… when i read the title about marijuana i laughed thinking who could possibly believe in marijuana withdrawal… stupidest thing i’ve ever heard. So i heard it and I experienced EVERY SINGLE ONE of those symptoms whenever I decided to quit…

• Leah said,

  I have a boyfriend who is against my constant breaks for smoking pot. We have been dating for four months now and the cravings for pot and the constant questioniong of why i am sober is haunting me. I Feel as if I get more abusive and kind of rude when i am having a craving. Why? I dont want to lose my boyfriend. I’m afraid ill hurt him. What do I do?

• not required said,

  hey…so i started having sinus and congestion pains the last month before i quit..its been 8 years of smoking everyday(hash and tobacco joints)..this is my second time quitting…i quit once for a few months 8 years ago..before which i had been smoking 4 yrs without a break…it has always been the highlight of the day…put everything aside even family just to come back home and do my thing…i really love it…but i knew that the attacks and pain were only going to get worse…they had started to drive me crazy…so i decided to quit for a few months….now its been 25 days or so…i have been focusing on my health…added new things to my daily routine..if i can call it a routine…things like fruits and veggies,exercise,vitamins etc…so now i spend almost 2 hours everyday on these things…i feel good about it..but i have still not started to feel positive changes in my life as yet…i guess i need to keep at it and give it some more time…i have been experiencing most of the symptoms of withdrawal like bad sleep,anxiety,stress, vivid dreams etc…some of these dreams are beautiful and i learn lots from them…but overall i am feeling stressed at times…also because i am at a confusing stage in my life…lots going on…i’m trying to start a new business(small)…i have hardly ever worked and have many conflicts in my mind about work and how life should be spent doing what one loves but then there is the need for money …and my parents are not going to be able to support me for ever..i live in a country where the minimum wage is like $3 a day for a 12 hour shift and there is lots of poverty around this enrages and frightens me.so…i am in the process of taking responsibility for my own life,unhappyness,loneliness etc..i have never earned money before ..i’m 27…i’ve never had a girlfriend…etc…so i tend to worry about stuff..sometimes more than necessary..many times ending it all seems like a logical step…but thats not a solution..i know that…and i love life…it is so beautiful…but our world of people and what we have created and call life…and esspecially the direction we are headed…glamour,money,capitalism,pollution,greed,war,global warming etc…these things just make it seem like there is no way out…but i still know that anything is possible…i can still be happy inspite of all the crap…anyway…quitting has been a good decesion…the sinus pains are slowly subsiding…gonna give it its time…care for my body..also i tend to be more willing to go out and do things , meet people etc which is a good thing while starting a business .after some time i’m gonna start with cannabutter and edible thc stuff like that…then a vaporizer..but i’m gonna live a balanced life..it is possible to do everything in moderation…hopefully in the next few months i will be able to get my life on track…start getting some confidence about my ability to earn and support myself…the girl thing will fall in place in time…as of now…being sucessful at sticking to my plan of going clean is going to instill some self confidence..and renewed faith in my self and my will to succeed at all the upcoming challenges… anyway…thanks for reading..and providing a place to share..goodluck and lots of love to everyone…

• Jon said,

  While I agree that there is such a thing as cannabis withdrawal, most of the symptoms you describe-insomnia, anxiety, lack of appetite-can be a result of several causes, not simply the marijuana itself.

  First of all, I assume most of you actually smoke marijuana, as opposed to eating or vaporizing it. This means you’re constantly ingesting multitudes of toxic chemicals-benzene, carbon monoxide, tar, other carcinogens-from the smoke into your system. Of course you’re going to feel crappy once you stop: your body has to clean itself out while you’re no longer staving off the pain with a daily high. This happens when you smoke ANYTHING, not just pot.

  Also, if like one of the above posters you are smoking tobacco-wrapped blunts, congratulations. You are most likely addicted to nicotine. And, as any cigarette smoker can tell you, nicotine withdrawal is a total bitch. Check out http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/cravingsandurges/a/withdrawal.htm and you’ll see that many of the symptoms you’re complaining about can be directly linked to nicotine use. Again, if you were to eat or vaporize your pot, you wouldn’t be having these problems.

  Second, the author is incorrect in his saying that THC withdrawal causes negative feelings. Anyone who has five minutes and basic research skills will discover that not only is it chemically IMPOSSIBLE to become addicted to THC, but your brain actually has special cells (cannabinoid receptors) specifically made to accommodate substances like THC. The compound, once ingested, activates these receptors for a set amount of time (usually between four and six hours, the time that you’re “high”), and is then relegated to the body’s adipose (fat) tissue, where it remains chemically inert. That is, it stays in your body for weeks after you ingest it (that’s how drug tests can detect previous use), though it doesn’t actually make a chemical impact on your system.

  The post-quitting “anxiety” many of you profess to experience can also be traced back not to the lack of drug use but to your own issues as an individual. Smoking multiple times a day indicates a psychological addiction (like I said, chemical addiction is not possible). You experience anxiety because the crux you’ve been using to cope with your problems is now gone. Instead of going cold-turkey and quitting, why not just scale back your use until you can live your life without it? I treat pot the same way as I treat go-kart rides and ice cream cones: a fun treat to enjoy once in a while, and nothing more. Until you can fix whatever it is in your life that’s caused you to turn to constant drug use, you won’t be happy-whether you’re high OR sober.

• Ganjitano said,

  I think withdrawal symptoms is a small price to pay to become like a normal sober person again. (given that these symptoms only last upto 2 weeks in MOST cases). Few word of advice….no matter how severe the symptoms are or how crazy you go without weed, DO NOT take any pharmaceuticals or other stuffs to make you sleep better. C’mon guys we are trying to QUIT AN ADDICTION, and what good will it do if you quit weed, and take on sleeping pills every night to go to sleep, or take anti-depressant pills to make you relax. These pills also got a long term effect on your body. Why give up which once was your best friend (yeah dude I am talking about your best friend called POT) and take up something so stupid as sleeping & anti depressant pills which doesn’t give you any HIGH or STONED, has the risk of OD, and also cost you money, and doesn’t really do any good to your body?? If you cannot sleep, do a little physical exercise to make your body tired, and if that doesn’t help, and let it be like that and don’t worry, as things will start getting stabilize after the 1st week. I was happy to accept the fact that my first week’s routine will get upside down due to lack of sleep & loss of appetite and anxiety & the craving, because its much better than your life gets upside down somewhere along the track if you continue to smoke weed. Just the way it took sometime for you to develop the habit of smoking weed every day, similarly it will take time for the THC to get out of your body. There must be good few pounds of THC in your body, so TIME is STICKING TO YOUR DECISION FIRMLY will make the whole thing a little easier. And if everything fails, go on a forced holiday somewhere, where you won’t have access to any dealer But still do not take those medications…………… Some doctors look at us as Psychos, otherwise why would we need medications??

  Lastly if YOU think QUITTING is going to do you GOOD, then please make a sincere effort and don’t be a chicken to face the withdrawal symptoms. I went nuts too for the first 6-7 days, but I am counting my DAY 13, and things surely looks progressing.

  Good luck to you all and wish me luck too…..

• got to have it said,

  while surfing the net (fu$$ed up off of some good a@s s*!t) me and stay to high(my cousin) found this website and started reading the comment and decide that we were going to make it our new years resolution to stop smoking weed. (we’re not ready just yet) we will stop on the 1st. but we will slow down on the intake of blunts and go all natural with a bong. we will keep you posted on the status of quitting….

• Stay 2 High said,

  Interesting, Check this out…..”My cousin Gotta Have It”and I
  were discussing how we were going to stop smokin Herbals the natural plant of the earth. We came across this websight, We were high as hell while we were doing this….
  What Fu**** our minds up was that we are not the only ones who smoke like a Moth-Fu***. Continuing to read the comments posted we became overwhelmed and had to take a Blueberry Cush break believe me it was worth it!!!! We decided that we will quit however we will continue until the end of 2008. We will keep you updated on our progress
  Stay 2 High

• The MoonStir said,

  I Mus say ive been smokeing weed for about 4 years stright and be for the 2 years i took off i must of smoked back to to back 2 years befor that in a total that would be aorund 8 years, i am 22 and i smoke up to 4~5 blunts daily feels as if my life never goten sucessful because of this problem
  but then again im allways happy on it
  iam focused on it now
  i relax and injoy it indulgently
  but it has to stop i gave up ciggerettes,
  not will have to give up pot, MAN!!! NOT THE POT!!!!

• dan uk said,

  to jon, i think some of the stuff you said was a bit negative to this website, first of all why are you talking about cannibis not being pysically addictive, you said its pyscological, well pyscological or pysical its still addictive, and i would rather have the shakes, than no sleep, and no appetite, i have a serious addiction to skunk,im trying to give up, its been 5 days now, at the moment i have about 4-5 hours sleep, and it also messed up my times, ive been trying to sleep at around six in the morning and i have a job, and im not even tired i just try to relax as much as i can, my body like you said is working fine, no pyscal addiction, so ill get hungry, but my brain dosent care, same with sleep, last night i could feel my body stating to relax but my eyes were squinting because i was forcing them closed, its not good when your belly is rumbling you go to eat and, its like your brain is rejecting it. by the way i still smoke cigarettes so how can it be a nicotine problem. also some people are known as bingers, i dont know why but if ihad to guess i would say it could be down to the individual, example, maybe the person is quilt spoilt with no real disipline of themselves, but then surely you should give up all together if you cant control yourself, if you can then good for you, but then you shouldent even be moaning or writing on a website like this one because you have no real problem. good luck to everyone else

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