I quit smoking pot

As the name implies, I’m navy bound, but do NOT know how to quit my smoking. Helppp!

Excellent. I plan on joining you once I finish the bag I have now. Should be a couple of weeks.

Do you recommend tapering down usage before stopping?

Cheers.

Congratulations! Please stay the course. The love of my life — a 38-year-old man — couldn’t quit it. I had to leave. As my name implies, I’m so very, very sad. Although it’s hard to “feel” life (which can be depressingly awful at times), at least you’re willing to face it … experience it … and stop numbing it. You are now a man, not a boy. I wish you the best of luck, in life and love.

This web site has helped me so much. You are making a difference in people’s lives. Again, thank you.

wellit has been proven that there is nothing in marijuana that makes it addictive. so really, quitters never win.

While it is great that you’ve overcome your addiction, people that read this website need to understand that marijuana is not a dangerous drug. There is also a huge difference between use and abuse, and addicted people abuse marijuana. The addiction is not caused by marijuana but by the person abusing it. Marijuana is a great thing and it’s beneficial properties should be recognized and celebrated.
Peace and love

Hello all you ex-pot heads…I have been smoking since age 11…However, I did quit for seven years! But I have been smoking heavy for the last five year…Damn I truly hate pot it has almost destroyed my life. I snore all night long and have deep chest pains…I have not smoked for 3 days and flushed my purple erke down the toilet. I will succeed and never smoke again or I will die.

Hello to all,

People such as Lola seek out sites such as this, as they have a barrow to push. They do not want others to think that dope is addictive. She is probably out of so Californian pro dope group.

I always loved dope, but I also relaised the damage it was doing me, and how difficult it is to stop. I did manage though (since easter this year) and this site helped along the way.

Good luck to all those addicted to dope and looking to stop. And to those dopers who say its not addictive, “keep of puffin”

My site sometimes gets bombarded by the pro marijuana movement, only willing to believe that marijuana can only have positive effects and totally dismissive that it can have any negative effects what so ever, they are like a militant cult and just like any other cult totally brainwashed. Yes marijuana can have beneficial effects for some, particularly those with certain medical conditions, but it can also have allot of negative effects too, especially when smoked, I wish certain people would take a more objective and balanced view when it comes to marijuana.

For the pro marijuana people, I through my journey of trying to quit have concluded that being stoned simply doesn’t work in our society. For various reasons which u may find in this great blog; which by the way has been like a refreshment of my lost\high memories of why not to smoke.
Any ways keep mentally strong as ill try :S just 2 days sober loads of insomnia leading me to find this blog.

dude… good for you man. im trying sooo hard to stop burning. i got a state job and cant affoard loseing it over a positive drug test (which would happen if i got tested tomorrow :/ damnit) anyhow the thing that pisses me off the most is that marijuana causeing no harm and is alot better than pills, alochol, or any other drug out there and to not smoke it becuase its illegal and would lose a job pisses me off! since ive been trying to quit i have noticed i drink 10xs more than i use to when i did smoke and ive also become more less tollerable to stress…. bad habbits! -Neil

I turned 40 last year and after 22 years of smoking pot I realised no matter how much I liked it, I had to stop.
For 20 years I was a night time smoker, then 2 years ago I almost lost my right hand in a work accident. It was cut off and reattached by some Brilliant doctors in Brisbane, Australia. For the first few months I couldn’t smoke anything, as it would severely hamper the healing process, so the doctors had me on prescription painkillers, which worked, but the side effects just frustrated me. So I stopped taking them and turned to pot for pain relief. I found myself smoking all day, everyday, for over two years. My pain was being controlled, but other problems were developping, like coughing and a Police bust, not to mention the money I was burning. So about two weeks ago I decided enough was enough, went to see my dealer and told him I was quitting. Surprisingly, he was very supportive. I’d already thought about my quitting tactics, Remove the green from the mix. I grew up in Melbourne, where we always mixed our pot with tobacco, it makes the pot burn better and the mix last a bit longer, you can also sorta control how stoned you get (I liked to be able to function when I smoked) So I removed the pot from the mix and have been just smoking the odd tobacco bong when the cravings get a bit much. I plan to continue this for a few weeks, then get some nicotine patches and throw away my bong. It hasn’t really been that hard so far, most of the cravings I handle by just considering myself sick, a tactic I used when I quit smoking ciggarets over a year ago. (Just consider yourself sick and time is your medicine) I know I haven’t quit tobacco entirely (yet) but quitting ciggarets was a huge step and I’m extremely confident I’ll be over ALL types of smoking soon. I’ve told all my friends and Family of my quitting and they’re all rapt for me. My parents even sent me a “We’re so Proud of you card” That was the best. The most positive sign of my success came just a couple of nights ago in a dream, It was so Vivid, my dealer came over with a big clear box of Alfoil balls full of pot,(it was strange because I’d never seen pot sold like that before) he said “They’re only $20 each” and I said I’d take one. Then straight away I said, “No I wont, I don’t smoke pot anymore.” And I didn’t even wake up.

Thanks for this blog!! Hopefully I can do it. I am turning 28 years old tomorrow, and I’ve been saying for the past year that I’ll quit before my 28th birthday. I have about 1 bowl left of some good quality Cali chronic, and I plan to save a little bit for our big move this weekend. I have a great job, a wife, 2 little kids, and too much to lose. Weed can’t control my life anymore. It’s not worth the risk!! I have been smoking almost every day for the past year, and smoking for a total of about 11 years now. I know this will be hard, but after tomorrow I will NOT buy another bag for myself. I’m not going to sit here and lie and say I’ll never cheif again, because if I’m around a friend who might have some then I might take a few puffs here and there. But no more smoking by myself every morning, noon, evening, and night. Thanks again!!

Wow. Apparently I need “treatment” and/or jailtime This is why cannabis won’t ever get legalized: People like you that either couldn’t handle themselves or that took things WAY too far (as America is prone to do with otherwise benevolent things). What is so hard about differentiating between when it’s time to practice recreation and when it’s time to man up and work? Withdrawal? What are you TALKING about? When I run out of my bud that’s it! I’m out! Who cares? I had my couple nights of fun with it, I got what I wanted end of story! It never ceases to amaze me the torrent of venom and filth people are willing to spew about cannabis when there’s starting to be traces of anti-depressants in our water supply from people doped up on them (instead of coping with real life like our ancestors did just fine) pissing it out into our water. I advocate freedom of choice. I choose to use cannabis responsibly, and I also choose not to abuse it and become a worthless burnout that blames the substance instead of their own failings and inadequacies. More power to you if you want to quit and do so, but knock it off with the deliberate misinformation and the whole acting like a stoner is the same as a cokehead – because they’re not. A cokehead becomes an addict because his brain actually changes to tell him he needs it. A stoner becomes an addict because he/she is weak-willed and unable to see that their are things much better and more important than smoking that next bowl. Stop failing at life and dragging responsible adults down with you.

Thanks for putting this site together…

I’ve never posted anything like this. I think the problem is that when I was growing up, all we heard was that “drugs were bad” and that you should “just say no.” As a kid, I remember thinking how silly it was to actually decide to do something that was so horrible for you.

As I got older, and saw so many people having such a good time AND being able to function the next day…I figured I’d give it a try to see what the fuss was all about. It wasn’t bad, it made you feel alive…like you really could do anything.

Therein lies the problem…

It got to the point (and I suspect this is true for many of you) where I felt like I was at my best when I was high. Conversely, I felt like a lost soul when I was sober.

After all these years of smoking (12 years…gasp) I’ve never been arrested, never lost a job, never really hurt anyone…I’ve just been in a holding pattern.

I’m 31 now…I know it sounds crazy, but I feel like it’s too late or me. I feel like the damage is irreversible.

Damnit! I’m gonna get up and actually go for a long bike ride tomorrow, drink a ton of water and eat healthy…sober. And then I’m going to get up the next day and do the same. And the next day….

I have been trying to quit smoking marijuana for about oh at least 8 years! I have a little daughter that is 19 months and I’m pregnant again! I couldn’t quit smoking pot even with my first pregnancy and this one is proving just as hard to quit!! Any advice, I plan to quit when this stuff I have is gone!! HELP!!!!

hi fellow stoners and ex stoners! today is day 4… im 22 and have been smoking it since i was about 13. i started just as something to do on block, resin, hash whatever u want to call it, but since i was about 18 its been just skunk. i have never wanted to quit before. but now i do. i have realised i could be so much more than i am when stoned. so end of last week i ran out. tomorrow i am getting more but im determined to cut way back and maybe quit totally… i use everyday, i wake up early for work just to smoke before i leave, i cant wait for the day to end to get home and high. i hardly go out anymore, ive been single for 3 years. im suffering immense withdrawal, sweats shakes nausea chest pains dry cough stomach cramps random crying… sweating is the worst. im looking for any help i can get and found this site on my mobile phone today, i hope i can be strong! from a girl somewhere in england…

On Sept 22 2009 I decided it was the time to stop and to start living a real life, not some fantasy on how I wanted things to turn out for myself.

I found this website after googling ‘marijuana recovery forums’, and I’d just like to say this website and many others have been extremely helpful for me by putting this horrible addiction behind me. I can relate to so many of you. It’s difficult for me to open up like this, since I’m the shy, reserved, spiteful type which probably explains why I’ve lived a sheltered lifestyle for the last 14 years; a lifestyle of a low self-esteem individual who uses marijuana to escape.

I started using marijuana recreationally at 18, my freshman year in college, and by the time I was 20, I was I addicted. I went from a 2.8 gpa my freshman year to failing out after my 2nd year. I knew what the problem was but I was in denial with myself. for 14 years I’ve wanted to be a moderate smoker and to get on with life although I’ve known deep down this could never happen. The one time I tried to quit before, about 10+ years ago, I went 21 days but relapsed. There was a part of me that didn’t want to give up the lifestyle I guess; the so called weed cirle of friends and connections, the joy of lighting up after a tough day, a way to escape. As if I was actually missing out on something. I sure was, but I could never face the reality of it. I’m a dreamer and not a do’er which has made me a perfect candidate for being a pothead.

Now at 34, I feel like the best part of my life is gone and I can’t rebound. 14 years of being stoned and nothing to show for, except graduating college at 28 (big deal). No girlfriends, no life, no new friends, the same stupid job for eight years because i’m too afraid to try something new. The same old routine, get high with two of my so called friends, who are just as pathetic as me and watch sports on the weekends. thats it! I bought a condo 6 years ago, I live alone and escape from the real world, from real situations, by sitting on my ass day dreaming, high as a kite, hoping how great my life will turn out. 14 years of this thinking tomorrow will be the day I’ll be somebody new.

I had always hoped there would be significant moment, an inspiration, a catalyst of some sort that would make me change my ways, and on the 22nd after being high and depressed, for some unexplained reason I was honest with myself and came to my senses that this moment wasn’t reality and that that day was the day. My plan was to smoke the rest of my grass that day and the rest I would throw out. And I did! I have real goals now and I’m chosing LIFE!

My recovery has been rather easy. After about 4 days my cravings are rather mild. I knew I wouldn’t have withdrawls as I’ve never been an all day smoker and in my fourteen years and I’ve had plenty of days and even weeks where I went without it while waiting for my next bag/score. However, I’m still reserved. I’m still afraid to make the next step in my life, like finding a new career, meeting girls, accomplishing tasks. Does anyone know who long it takes for things to get better? When do you start thinking more clearly? When do start speaking more coherently, like being able to put together two sentences together? Has anyones life really changed for the better? thanks, Mike

Hey all. I just wanted to say this site alleviated some of the fears I was having about what I was experiencing. It’s been about a week now since I last smoked and as of late I’ve had this weird feeling of restlessness in the pit of my stomach and would be overly emotional. I’m a football guy so emotions aren’t usually a part of my day-to-day. To make matters worse I’m trying to quit chewing tobbacco as well and have a viral infection in my throat haha. Guess I must have a little masochist inside. Those who say pot isn’t addictive is kidding themselves. Narrow minded people like the crazy hippy chick on here are just offended because it’s something she’s grown to love and I can’t say I don’t understand. We’ve all been there or else we wouldn’t be on here. Anything that becomes part of a day to day routine can become addictive. As far as the crazy emotions part of quitting goes I find that a certain song or thought can trigger these emotions and the stomach anxiety thing gets stronger at night. Reading the Bible and prayer helped me as well as support from loving parents. I know not all believe in God and respect your ability to choose, but faith helped me. I hope and will pray you all find what you’re looking for. Good luck guys.

Matthew Chapter 23 verse 26

Congratulations on quitting. One of the good things about marijuana is that at least during withdrawal, your body isn’t giving you a craving for the drug itself like it does with, say, opiates or nicotine, but it’s simply putting you through some negative systems while it does the work of clearing it out.

With that in mind, approaching withdrawal as though it were a mild flu can be a good way of fighting the physiological response to quitting without constantly reminding yourself that you feel the way you do because you haven’t smoked yet.

Also, a lot of people seem to feel really negative about what they’ve done with the drug. There’s nothing wrong with admitting that you’ve taken its use to excess, but it’s important not to beat yourself up about how long you’ve been using it or what you’ve potentially missed out on — why? The same reason you wouldn’t beat yourself up about spending the past 2 and a half hours watching an enjoyable movie or countless weekends playing video games. The time is gone and you have nothing to show for it, but remember that we all go to work and make money simply as a means to reaching that end: enjoying the moment. Don’t feel like you have to devote all of your time to productivity, and remember to find some balance even after quitting where you have some chill out time to just relax and enjoy the moment, because that’s what life is all about, with or without weed.

And to k from England:

It sounds like you really got hit with some really hard symptoms, but I’m kind of curious about how much you were smoking toward the end? Personally I noticed I had gone from casually smoking an eighth every couple weeks to a quarter every 3-5 days, and that was when I really started to notice some serious side effects just from smoking (like feeling like I needed to smoke to not feel shitty even in the morning after going to sleep high).

Not sure when you posted the comment but hope it all worked out for you and I’m sure the symptoms have subsided at this point.

Also remember that if you still really love smoking marijuana, once you’ve fully quit for a while it’s not a terrible thing to allow yourself to use it on OCCASION, coupled with personal discipline. It’s a great thing, can make you feel awesome, and it can totally enhance a lot of things like food, movies, sex, you name it, but it’s also important to remember that it’s only worth using something if it doesn’t have negative effects coupled with it. Once a month and it’ll be out of your system within 2-5 days, you shouldn’t feel any negative effects from smoking, you’ll still get to enjoy the occasional smoke, and the best part is even smoking a bowl between you and a friend or significant other can be pretty potent when you’ve let your body lose the resistance it slowly builds as a regular smoker.

Just wanted to say again how glad I am I found this site (and the article that linked to it on ezinearticles) because I’m happy to see so many people growing as people. This is a learning experience, and if you’re quitting, chances are you’ve learned your limitations the hard way — This is a lesson you can carry with you for the rest of your life if you’re willing to acknowledge it. Good luck all!