Hello everyone, I quit smoking pot.
It has been a long time since my last blog update, although have been dropping in and posting on the forums. It has been close to 1o months since I began my voyage to rid myself of my marijuana addiction, and it has been quite a ride. I haven’t smoked anything in the last 3 months and am beginning to experience a new feeling of freedom and confidence.
I’ll be honest folks, I really struggled when I first tried to quit smoking. I knew that if I persisted, I would be succesfull. I don’t think that I can define success in the long run – just that each day that I choose not to smoke is a positive one.
I have kept myself very busy during the last 3 months – one of the things that I spent a huge amount of time on was researching marijuana addiction, withdrawal, and struggles facing people like you and I. I will continue to update the site with the best knowledge, help and guidance I can find.
When I started, I didn’t really have a map to help me through the quitting process. Each hiccup along the way was unexpected and stressful. I truly believe that making a plan is a key step to the quitting process. I was lucky enough to stumble upon Gary Evans, the Cannabis Coach and his audio series “The Easy Quit Marijuana Audio Program”. This audio set gave me the plan and motivation to follow through with my goal and remain “weed free” for 3 months now. The first day that I quit, I set the day aside to listen to the entire program, and for a week after, I would listen to it in my car, and when walking in the evening (I highly recommend rigorous exercise in the first few days of quitting). I continue to listen to some sections of the program, like the 6 step method, to reinforce my resolve and behavior.
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Just found this website. Will probably use it a lot. (The site that is!) Anyway great comments it seems a very beneficial activity is to simply write about one’s problems.
I hope you will be stopping by the forums a lot!
i forgot what i was going to say…
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hello all, im 23, and have been a big pot smoker since I was 13. It started just on the weekends,but within a month of smoking I reliezed how easy it was for me to get a bag and I became a huge stoner pretty quick. Just recently I’ve decided to quit smoking because of just being tried of the cycle of smoking getting a bag and doing it all over again, and Im a smart guy people havealways told me so and don’t want it to hinder my potental any more than it may have already done, and after beening out of high school for 5 years or so and jumping around from job to job I got myself back in school and hopefully that will work out well. I also told myself that I would quit when I finished my bag, but it never really worked. It seems to me by the end of high school it had become trendy to get high and thought that was stupid, I started getting high regularly because it opened my mind to new ideas thought processes and music,and it just let me get away for awhile(being a lonely chubby kid). I just quit a few days ago and Im having problems with sleeping and being anxious as could be expected, but really hope I can quit but still be able to take a rip when I want or with a friend in the future. I want to quit but its kinda sad for me, I feel like I lost my dog or something.
I suppose almost anything can be addictive. Addiction is a term that is not as clear-cut as some would like to believe… In any case, congrats on your achievement in quitting pot!
Hello, I’m 3 weeks out now, and I’m having a helluva hard time. I still dont have my appetite back, I have absolutely NO sweet tooth. Weed kept me from finishing my degree, it kept me from a great job in the army intelligence program, it has made me a forgetful, lazy, unambitious, panicky shut in. I now have no friends, because all of my friends from high school became potheads, and then moved on to harder drugs and the only people that I have met since high school are stoners, even the girls that I have been with. Many of those friends have gone on to harder drugs as well. They often smoke a bunch of weed with me and then sneak around behind my back to do things such as ecstacy, cocaine, snorting heroin, taking lots of pills(benzos, painkillers) but I catch them all the time. They know that I do not approve of them doing those drugs.
The problem is, I HATE STONERS! But they are my social network. My cousin is a big hippie that grows weed and he is constanly trying to get me to go into business with him, transporting weed and supplying dealers. I do not want to get into that, there is so much money and free weed involved, really good weed, but I would literally just become a plant if I took on that life.
I hate how weed makes my lungs feel, I hate how distracted it makes me, I hate the depression and insomnia and panic when I try to go a single day without smoking. The nihilism, malaise and lack of energy that sets in right after quitting is unberable.
I have tried to quit several times. The first time, for a month, but I kept hanging out with the same friends, then much later, I quit for another month, but went back AGAIN!
Then I went to rehab, and unfortunately I was stuck in with the biggest load of pricks and bitches that I have ever met. The people all seemed so focused on how much they love their drugs and not on their recovery. They would make fun of me for being the only person there for weed addiction. They would make fun of me to my face because I was academically much smarter than many of them(I know alot of random stuff because I read ALOT!) These people were all so ignorant. I did find comfort in hanging around the people there who were much older than me because they werent there trying to get laid and set up this high schoolish social order. The counselors forced me to stay in the youth program because of my age, but I hated all of the people in it. A 45 year old heroin addict really helped me get through, we both had a love of the guitar. Because of rehab, I was able to quit for two months, but then I went to manhattan for a couple months and the guy I ended up rooming with (a 38 year old lawyer) turned out to be a HUGE pothead. I fell off the wagon.
Then I tried again months later, quit for three months, was accepted instantly by the army intelligence program and put on a fast-track to go in instantly for a year of HARDCORE training, and then 4 years of service. A $40,000 signing bonus and a starting salary of twice what your average enlistee starts with. Needless to say, I panicked, dropped out of the delayed enlistment program after ALL the work and testing that I went through. I panicked and began smoking heavily again, with some newfound pothead friends(no hard druggers this time at least). Then I worked up the courage to quit for another two months, then, just as I was feeling better, I got drunk and said, SCREW IT, I’ll SMOKE! And here I am, once again trying to quit a heavy weed binge.
3 weeks out, and I am having a tough time. I have told all of my friends that I will no longer have anything to do with them. The reactions were quite mixed.
Anyone who says that weed is NOT addictive either lack some genetic trait that I have, or they are blazing a fat J and have glazed over, droopy, red eyes. I have to quit, or I will continue to fail in life. My family is behind me, and I cannot keep letting them down. I simply can not ever smoke another hit of weed. I know that now. You have to just sort of amputate that part of yourself.
I sympathize with all of you. These are the things that I learned to keep me clean. First, go to NA and get a support group. Change your friends and playground. Exercise a lot. Take vitamins and for problem sleeping try highlands cell salts homeopathic remedy to calm your nerves or warm milk and honey before you go to sleep.
Get on your knees and pray and ask to be delivered. Place cards all over your room or bathroom where you’ll see it that say Just for today I don’t have to use or higher power please help me.. Get out of the house, do not isolate. Be willing to stay clean just as much as you were willing to get the dope. Find something that interests and surround yourself with people who are already doing it. Learn to live on life’s terms and get in your body thru dance, running or anything that gets you there. Hang out in your brain and tell it sorry for programming it to use whenever you feel uncomfortable feelings. Feelings Wont kill you. Be willing to feel, cry and train your brain to choose exercise or whatever when you are feeling upset. Listen to your Ipod and go for a walk. Read and listen to things that nourish your spirit. This is a spiritual disease! Hope this helps. You are stronger than you realize and call on that strength when you need it!
Okay, I started smoking when I was 16, by the time I was 17 I was smoking weed every day, from morning to night around 20 quiders a day down the drain, I was also an addict to coke, speed and pills, I’m now 20, it was a year since I last touched hard drugs, yesterday I woke up, and said hey ho I won’t buy any weed today am abit skint (this was the first day without a joint for 2 years) and I found it fairly easy, just had to distract myself, now on day 2 and I’ve decided I really want to quit, as I don’t even get high anymore, and been sober feels like been high now anyway (which is scary) lol I also have a slight drinking problem but I will save that for 10 years time when I’m in the *AA
– I feel okay today, I’m gona go to gym tonight, then smoke about 500 cigs which beats the point, play call of duty and just pray I don’t lapse. Has anyone here ever had it when your like I won’t buy any today, then like 3 hours later u have some, but u don’t even remember getting it lol
I want to stop wasting money i dont have on it. I want to not need it.
Thanks! just what I was looking for!!
Thanks for the info, i am trying to quit again, this time i have been clean for 3 days now and beginning to feel intense cravings but i really want to do it. This site is being extremly helpful since right now i can’t afford the cannabis coach program. Thanks thanks.
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You’ve already proven that you are a person of high enough standard for the military program that you have ambitions for. You should have confidence in that fact alone. OK so you had a panic attack and started getting stoned again. No big deal—some people grab a bottle and deal with it that way. But booze, pot, benzo, whatever—it’s only you having to deal with yourself, at the end of the day. You can do it. Give it more time, don’t expect any major fireworks, and just carry on getting on with doing the things you want to do in your life.
Sorry to hear the rehab wasn’t so great—and that you felt you weren’t taken seriously for pot addiction. Cheers.
I smoke marijuana and I hate the fact that yellow journalism stated that mexicans are crazy and marijuana makes them crazy you know that hurts a lot. In fact when I do smoke marijuana once to twice a week all that happens that I get either tired, hungry or I focus more on my homework. In fact drugs today we take for medicine are a lot worse than marijuana in fact even some of the food people eat is worse than marijuana (hate modified foods get rid of them now!). To me when I get high I also get really horny. All in legalize and peace.
I am 22 year old college student and have been smoking weed since early high school. I love smoking and I usually smoke 1-3 times a day. I have also successfully gone through college at a University for the last four years while smoking. I am about to graduate and I am facing my first job opportunity at my current internship which means a drug test…my first drug test. The struggle to quit has been unbearable. It’s been only 3 days now. Anyways I really think your blog will help. Thanks.
I am fifteen years old and ive struggled wit a marajuana addiction for 4 years. i knew there was a problem when we were gettin high before school at lunch and after school i soon began failing my classes and knew something had to change. Me and my best friend set a date to stop before i even knew about this website, but on that same date i was caught with 5 grams of weed at school. I now attend drug rehab and have been sober since i was caught two days ago. I do not want to smoke anymore knowing what it can do and what its done to my life. WISH ME LUCK!!!!!!!!
i’ve been a heavy pot smoker for about 9 years now and i really have to quit. for most of that time i’ve had serious anxiety problems and panic attacks such that not only am i addicted to pot, but i have to take two different kinds of anxiety/depression meds every day. i have finally started feeling like i can’t live like this and i am hoping that when i finally detoxify myself from the pot that i will be “normal” again and can get off the other meds and live like i used to. i realize now that i am actually terrified that i will always feel like this even if i quit, that this is just what i have become. i don’t even believe in god but i find myself inwardly PRAYING that i can be healthy again.
This is it! I’ve been smoking heavily for several years now and have tried to quit a few times. As all “stoners” know, smoking weed is a slippery slope, and I fell right to the bottom. To the level of smoking the old resin from the inside of my filthy wet bong, in a desperate attempt to get high when I couldn’t get on. I’ve ruined friendships, lost money, given up opportunities, and been severely depressed all because of bud. Is it worth it? Of course not, but once you are used to the cycle of smoking weed before you do anything, from watching a movie, to opening a new package you’ve got in the mail and want to feel excited about – like these things are nothing without weed, it’s very hard to stop.
When all you really want to do is instantly not feel the desire to smoke, but have no one you can talk to about it – your in a bad place, and I’ve certainly been there. I’ve tried to stop so many times over the years, I once even threw out 2 grams of chopped weed onto the lawn to get rid of it, and a day later I was out there looking for the scraps. I’m not proud of it, and being a weed addict is not something I ever wanted to be – if I could go back 5 years and watch myself scrounging amongst the cracks of my draws for any little bits of weed I could find, I would never have believed it, and I would have been as disgusted as I am now. But I’m putting it behind me, and I’m going to start my life again.
I have a medical for an opportunity I cannot possibly give up in 25 days time, and I AM NOT smoking weed before that, and each and every day I am more and more certain I never will after it. No longer do I have to cancel arrangements cos I’m high, I can actually get things done during the day, because I’m not always too stoned and just putting them off. It’s like all of a sudden I am waking up after years of useless, futile sleep. Even one week after quitting I feel different. For the first time in over a year I experienced dreams in my sleep, I had forgotten they even happened. I am exercising, eating less frequently and more healthily, and loving the fact that every time I see a police car now, I don’t worry and get paranoid because I am some filthy reclusive stoner waiting to be caught driving high, I feel like a part of the society I live in once again. No longer do I feel like I am holding and hiding a separate secret person within my personality, but I am once again wholly myself – and very happy to be so.
I’ve ridden myself of EVERY single piece of weed paraphernalia I own, and all of a sudden I no longer have to worry about anyone discovering I am a stoner – because I no longer am. Sure it’s hard to even consider stopping smoking (unless you are high with lots of weed in reserve and telling yourself it’s the last bag you’ll buy). But it’s not that hard to do, all you have to do, is not smoke weed. That might sound stupid, but you keep yourself busy, get into the hobbies and things you have always put off because of being high and you’ll start to notice life without weed isn’t boring and bland – but it is drastically more vivid, satisfying, and invigorating. I had been so depressed and angry from being a stoner I have considered suicide more times than I could remember – something I would never in my wildest dreams have thought I would think about before I got into the depths of pot. I am so glad to say I haven’t smoked weed for days and for the first time in a long while I am proud of myself, and can actually say I am doing what I have wanted too for years. I can finally look to the future and see it without weed, I can finally see how I can get my life on track, and I can finally see how much better life really is, and was, without the stupidity of smoking excessive amounts of weed – just because it’s what I do, not because I really needed too.
It might sound naive, but if you want to stop smoking weed, all you have to do is put your mind to it. Throw out your grinders, bongs, and pipes. Delete your dealers numbers, realise the $$$ your saving that you were otherwise spending on ruining and slowing down your life. Get yourself into other things and keep yourself busy, and all of a sudden you will realise that you aren’t a stoner – you were just lost and confused.
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This is all just BS. Look, if you are a lazy, unfocused, slob, and you decide to use cannabis, you will still be a lazy, unfocused, slob who smokes or otherwise ingests cannabis. Cannabis doesn’t change who you are positively or negatively, it doesn’t make you stupid and apparently you can still win several gold Olympic medals if that’s your thing. Stop listening to your government’s propaganda and do some independant objective research if you want to learn anything about the effects of cannabis and if it is addictive or not. Because it is illegal, paying for it, getting it, using it, and getting some more, may take a lot of time and money you could be doing something else with, and you may be associating with people you’d rather not know, but that’s it. In other words, take responsibility for who you are, and what you decide to do. Cannabis did not make you an unfocused, dumbass. loser. If you were that to start with, and now, maybe you’ve decided to try something else, with or without cannabis. Good luck with that. Once you get over blaming a plant for your own weaknesses, lack of ambition, and focus, you will be on the road to “recovery”.
I think its time to quit, I just spent the whole saturday smoking around the house and watching anime, like a tired food eating zombie. I shuffle into the kitchen and the hand becomes a shovel into the cerel box, damn, I just made a tray of brown sugar cashews!
This is getting serious as my stomach hurts but I so tired, high and hungry that it was a struggle to leave them in the kitchen. The cycle is becoming a vicious smoke > eat > sit, repeating itself until you sit up like rip van winkle and say, its 2010? thats my gut ? dang.
But then again that perma-torn menuscus doesnt hurt too much, and I might not go blind from a hereditary disease, oh well.
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Wow.. After reading what most of you have been through, i can totally relate.
Dan the Man, you sound like such a lovely bloke and can relate to alot of what you have said….. good luck with your NEW life mate!
So my story is.. I’m 25, been smoking for 10years. Tried quitting alot through the years, you know, 2 weeks here, a month there, but always had it in the back on my head….. I feel guilty for the shit i have put my family though. So now… This is it…….. I have a 14mth old little baby and it isnt only me i need to do this for now. How selfish to think i didnt even stop while pregnate. I know most of you would think ‘What a selfish bitch, poor baby’. But you know what, that was then, and this is now. and i DO feel awful for that. I have flipped out, from which i have scars on my body, said nasty things to people very close to me, gone up and then v ery far down, being very lowwwwww.. But the one thing i AM proud of is not doing havier drugs..
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I’m only 1 day free of dope. 1 Friggen day.. But i am so proud of myself for that, i’m smiling right now
This is my letter to maryjane.. It gives me the power to say good- bye, i hope it gives someone else that too..
Dear Maryjane,
Recently i have been on a natural high, and i like it!
Gone are the days of me laving no energy or motivation, no more wake and bakes.
I want to experience a Real life, with Real dreams that actualy come true..
All that is left now, are your ashes, and i’m perfectly fine with that.
I wont say i wont think of you from time to time, but i simply can not hang-out with you, or kiss you anymore.
So i’m saying goodbye and letting you blow freely in the wind.
Yours NEVER agian… Nickycole xx
you people do know that Marijuana is not physically addictive don’t you? This is not my opinion. It is a proven fact.
There is no such thing as Marijuana addiction.
I have been a user of the herb for 24 years now, over that time I have stopped to give myself, my body and mind a detox a few times, once for over a year. I am currently on a detox break and this is my 7th day without any herb, I did get a few urges for a smoke within the first 24 hours, much like hunger for food but it all subsided and went away, just your body wanting something it has gotten into the habit of getting. I have plenty in the house so it is not a lack of supply issue forcing a break.
It can be habit forming, but then so can anything if you do it often enough. It is a very useful drug that has many many benefits, and I can say that for me, beyond any doubt it has been a very positive part of my life, but like all drugs it can be misused. There have been times when it has played a negative side also, but that is more to me misusing it, smoking when I should not have been etc. You are not going to smoke your problems away by burying your head in the sand. That is not something that would ever happen to me today as I have experience and learnt from my past. If I had just been told the truth, instead of the JUST SAY NO campaign at school it would have saved me from the negative side of things. (Alcohol was never part of the just say no campaign and I have seen that to be far more destructive and dangerous, it has taken the lives of some of my loved ones, but hey, that like tobacco is a legal drug)
If you wake up in the morning and light up a joint for breakfast, then not getting much done that day is more your fault than the herb, much like if you woke up and started drinking a bottle of Gin.
If you think it is effecting your life, have a break, smoke every other day, smoke once a week etc. If you find that hard to manage then maybe stopping smoking is the best option for you, it is not healthy to be a slave to any drug. One thing I have done is to stop smoking when doing certain activities, such as playing video games for example, for me I was just really smoking for the sake of it and missing the point and benefit of the herb. There is a lot of mis-information out there, people and organisations with hidden agendas, pharmaceuticals would loose a lot of profit if it was legalised for example. Be sensible, don’t smoke when you should be working or at class in school, much the same way as it is stupid to get drunk and be working or studying.
Enjoy your life, live your life, have some moderation and structure, I have a good, well paid job that I enjoy, but if I smoked all day every day I would soon be out on my ass.
Re: my previous post
I would just like to add that I only smoke pure so do not have any issues with the nicotine from tobacco which is very addictive and I only smoke what I have grown myself so I know exactly what is in my smoke.
It has been 11 days since i had a bong..
Soo glad i found this site. I have been a very heavy smoker for 15 + years now. I didnt touch it all through high school but one day(1996) a freind was put on probation handed me his bag and bowl and i have been in a battle ever since. i never thought it could of gotten like this. I have tried quitting once before Jan 1 2010. it lasted 2 weeks then my birthday came and i said i have been doing good so ill treat my self for my Bday. It seems now i smoke even more than before .
Im tired of making excuses and being broke i can easily spend $100-$150 a week and freak out when my bag gets low. I will push everything aside to get the next bag. I have lost all freinds,motivation and feel i am not fullfilling my relationship with my wife ( non smoker) I smoked cigarettes for 16 years and was so easy to quit but weed i just cant seem to do. Its amzing reading all the comments that many of us are going through the same struggles. I really hope i can stick to it this time. reading these comments has kept me in the mindset of quitting if i can get past the weekend i think i will be OK
Just thought I’d leave a comment to say all this has helped a lot. My boyfriend currently smokes weed but is trying to cut down as he knows how much i HATE it. I want to help him however I can. All his mates do it & he’s been doing it a long time so it isn’t easy, especially since he’s surrounded by it all the time, but I think I’ve picked up a few tips from here
I had to quit smoking pot so i could pass a drug test, and continue to work. I smoked heavily, every day since i was 16, but first toked when i was 12. I had no choice but to quit so i could keep working. it took 3 weeks to get the clean drug test, but decided to keep going and have been smoke free for over 3 months. I wish i could say it was getting easier, but the fact is i’m finding it very difficult to remain clean. My boyfriend continues to puff, but he cut way back, and won’t come around me until he’s washed his hands, brushed his teeth and changed his clothes. The physical symptoms were pretty harsh, including major mood swings, insomnia, cold sweats, and CRAZY dreams. Those have pretty much gone away, but i’m finding my mood hasn’t improved like i thought it would. It’s very frustrating to be around my friends who smoke pot. i have to remove myself and end up by myself in my bedroom because it’s too hard to be around the pot. I thought it would be easier but it’s not. its still a struggle.
the hardest part is that after i passed my test, i could smoke again…. so now i’m choosing not to, not being forced not to. it’s hard to remain firm in my choice when it would be easeir to light up. many of my friends and family have said things like ‘why not smoke on weekends or when you drink’ ‘if it’s that hard, why don’t you light up?’ ‘wanna go smoke a joint?’
anyone who says pot is not addictive is ignorant. if shopping can be addictive, so can pot.
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