One of the main problems that people that decide to stop smoking marijuana face is the danger of relapse. Some smokers have been smoking for years before they decided to give it up, and not picking the habit back up can be really hard for them, especially if they are not prepared for life after marijuana.
If you’re in a similar situation to what I described above, these tips will be very helpful to you. Just follow them and there is no reason why you should not be successful in your determination to never smoke weed again.
Stay away from Cannabis!
This might be one of those “oh man! That’s so obvious!” things to you, but it’s very important and that’s why I wanted to talk to you about it anyway. Staying away from marijuana doesn’t just mean that you’re not going to go ahead and buy it. It also means that you’re not going to go to places where you used to smoke it, or where it’s easily accessible to you. You don’t want to be around marijuana. You can’t smoke if there is nothing to smoke!
Think about triggers to relapse.
Every smoker has triggers that cause them want to smoke. Did you usually smoke after a meal? Did you have a puff when you woke up each morning? Did you wear your favorite jacket as you did it? Did you smoke with specific people and in specific places?
The thing is that as soon as you go to those places, see those people, put on those clothes, you’re going to just start remembering that you want to smoke. You will actually feel the desire to do it because a trigger will have gone off in your head. I know this sounds crazy, but you’re going to trust me on this one. Just identify those triggers and by all means avoid them. Don’t hang out with the same people, don’t go to those same places, just avoid anything that might cause you want a smoke and weaken your determination to stop smoking marijuana.
Find new, non smoking friends.
This one goes without saying, right? You need friends, but your old, smoking, friends will have a bad influence on you, so you need to find some new ones to hang out with. It’s actually easier than you think. Just start meeting new people and you’ll find a friend in no time. When you do and you can trust him, tell him about your addiction and let him know that you’re working on quitting. They’ll be helping hands. It doesn’t mean you can’t see your old friends, but you will move on from some friendships that were based on a mutual addiction.
Staying away from the stuff, meeting new people and avoiding all the triggers that make you want to smoke is a great start on your way to stop smoking marijuana. I have no doubt that you’ll be successful if you follow the tips I outlined in this article.
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After 39 years of smoking marijuana and I mean heavy smoking for the past 20 years (2-6 times per day) I finally made the commitment to quit three weeks ago today. I quit by making the commitment to myself and my God. I asked for his help in curbing the depression that I knew would occur and each time that I get the urge (which is very infrequent surprisingly) I simply close my eyes and ask my God to take the urge away. I work out and have worked out 3-4 times a week or the past 15 years and when I was finished, I went to the car and rolled one up. No more. I am free from the effects and quite frankly I would be scared to do it again; especially since the weed I smoked was the best. Weed now days is much much stronger that the weed of the1970′s and 80′s. Trust me I know weed and I have smoked a freaking ton of it. It is only when I made that commitment to me and my God was I able to do it. Good luck to all who attempt to quit and if I can offer any advice or encouragement, just email me.
After 39 years of smoking marijuana and I mean heavy smoking for the past 25 years (2-6 times per day) I finally made the commitment to quit three weeks ago today. I quit by making the commitment to myself and my God. I asked for his help in curbing the depression that I knew would occur and each time that I get the urge (which is very infrequent surprisingly) I simply close my eyes and ask my God to take the urge away. I work out and have worked out 3-4 times a week or the past 15 years and when I was finished, I went to the car and rolled one up. Since I have quit my eating habits have changed dramatically. Now I eat breakfast, mid morning, lunch, mid afternoon, dinner and a bedtime snack. I have lost ten pounds and my body and mind is feeling stronger every day. If I had a bag I would smoke it day to night everyday. I could not just casually smoke like some people can; I wish I could but I have come to the realization that I can’t be a casual smoker. I am an addict. No more. I am free from the effects and quite frankly I would be scared to do it again; especially since the weed I smoked was the best. Weed now days is much much stronger that the weed of the1970′s and 80′s. Trust me I know weed and I have smoked a freaking ton of it. It is only when I made that commitment to me and my God was I able to do it. Good luck to all who attempt to quit and if I can offer any advice or encouragement, just email me.
i just found this website because i am a 32yo female, have been smoking since i was about 16 but increasingly heavily in the past couple of years – several times a day now. DON’T START THEN YOU CAN’T GET ADDICTED – YOU MIGHT THINK YOU WON’T BUT YOU WILL AND IT WILL RUIN YOUR MIND, YOUR RELATIONSHIPS AND EVENTUALLY YOUR LIFE i can see that’s the path i’m going down. please let this website give me hope & help. thank-you.
i’ve already lied (part of the addiction mess) – sometimes it’s more like several times an hour (cones) than several times a day…
Thanks for the help – it makes things easier when you know there are others out there in the same situation that have quit. I’ve smoked the best years of my life away from 12 years old to 22. in that time my personality has changed, my physical appearance (i used to look like a zombie 24/7) my mental health and you miss out on the most important things – Family and REAL Friends.
Smoking to overcome things that life is about (death,life, relationship break up etc) just makes you a blank piece of canvas where a Picasso or Monet used to be, totally lacking feelings or a care for anything other than smoking
On dope that is all you are and ever will be (a dope), no matter how you smoke, who with or how often. Only a FORTNIGHT clean, and I feel better, I have colour in my face and I dont spend my life trying to find my next smoke.
For anyone thinking about quitting i say this – Give it ONE WEEK. One week is nothing, but the difference you see is everything
Any advice for me? I date a user and just confronted him. He led me to believe it was an occasional thing only to find out he is way more involved.
I took the lay vows in Buddhism, one of which is the branch vow of taking in no intoxicants. I made it 3 weeks and then relapsed. I live with my husband, a legal marijuana supplier for patients. He doesn’t even smoke that much. I am the one who is surprised at how attached I am to it. It’s been 22 years that I’ve been doing it. I didn’t think it would be that hard. When I smoke it, I experience things more fully. I thoroughly enjoy it. I don’t have to buy it. It helps me to slow myself down for my autistic son, helping him do his homework. I have developed patience while under the influence. When I stopped, it was like I had to learn patience all over again. I don’t want to keep breaking my vow!! I didn’t think it was a problem when I took that vow. Now I realize it is. I have limited my relationships with the friends that smoke it. I will not leave my husband of 15 years because of it though. I do feel that gut craving and I smoke to get rid of that anxiety. While it hasn’t ruined my life- successful job, beautiful family, good healthy friends-I want to truly know what my mind is without it. I want to honor my vow, not keep breaking it!! I feel great regret when I’ve done it and then I confess that I’ve done so. But I feel I have no one to talk to that truly understands where I am at. My husband is not a buddhist so doesn’t really understand why I am even doing it. But when I quit, I don’t feel comfortable in my own skin. Yet, in buddhism, I am supposed to accept things the way they are. I guess the other reason I want to stop is for my kids. How can I tell them how to deal with problems when I myself am not correctly dealing with them (not under the influence)? They are young right now. Plus I don’t want it to get to the point where it could ruin my life. I start out the day with good intentions and then get to the end of the day and crave it greatly. It almost feels like a reward because I waited until the end of the day. But, in the end, I’ve still broken my vow-yet again. I wish I could go to a retreat for a month to get into the right routine, but I can’t take myself from my family and life for that long. Feeling all alone in this fight right now.
i am a casual smoker and i’ finding myself about to get caught up into getting addicted. I just cant understand how alcohol is worse than weed but its hard to break away from smoking then drinking.
I have been a pot smoker since age 15. At first it was occasional when I went out to a friends. By age 21 I was smoking several times a day, and now at 38 I am trying to cut it back and for the most part have been successful. This has been a daily thing for me for most of my life, in fact i don’t really remember who I was before pot. I am truly afraid that I don’t know who I am. I got firied from my job last year for missing time. I lost the love of my life and didn’t even realize it was mostly due to me smoking till recently. I am a single mom with two lil boys, in which I am not a very good role model with the smoking. My kids don’t know me sober, everytime I get up in the morning I go to Tim Hortons grab a cple extra lrg coffees come home and smoke cigarrettes and weed. When my buzz where’s off I top it up all day long and nite too. I don’t eat till I’m like starving around supper. I substitute smokes and coffee for food all day. I really don’t want to smoke anymore it makes me feel sick lately. My jaw is extremely tight, and my muscles tense, it causes anxiety for me lately. Could be from the guilt of it I don’t know. But I do know that I am truly addicted to the crap, and its a major downfall in my life. Now I have met a guy who does not smoke or drink and definetly does not smoke weed!!!! Which is great geez he even excercises What is that???? anyway my point I don’t want to lose him. I will be out soon like in the next couple days and due to my finances their is no way I can buy any. I am happy to find this site with so much info, I totally thought I was near alone on this one. Glad to know I’m not and their is recovery. Well I will keep posted on my journey with this quittin thing, I’m sure this won’t be pretty, but needed.
You can not quit unless you want to.
I quit smoking for 1 year and then relapsed because I wanted to be a casual smoker. I really didn’t feel like smoking at the time, but I did anyway, since then i have digressed back into a 24/7 stoner…
So I smoked for 5 years straight, quit for 1, now smoked again for 1 year straight, and am quitting now again . Hopefully for good, but the sad part is I can never see my life without marijuana in it completely..
I know I can quit for long periods of time, because I have done it. However the WHOLE time I wished that I could be a casual smoker like I was when I started (what i mean by casual is once a weekend) and that’s it. But for me its either i smoke everyday all day long or i don’t smoke at all :S
I’m not sure ill ever be able to attain my dream of being a weekend warrior again….
I am in a relationship with a user. But he’s trying his best to quit. I am doing my best to help him. What about your date? Is he planning to quit anytime soon?
If he’s not, then, you better decide if you want to continue dating him. Because it will get more and more difficult with each passing day. The more you get involved in his life, the more it will hurt for you. So, you have to be prepared and be strong since there will be bad days for him… days where he will shout and be irrational and selfish. But on good days, where he’s not taking any of that stuff, he’ll be the normal guy you met and was attracted to. My concern is that you don’t know yet if he’s wanting to quit using weed. And if he’s admitting there is a problem with him using weed.
Hi Linda,
My partner of 5 years left me a year ago because of all the lies I used to tell her about weed. It wasnt so much the weed smoking but more the fact she had totally lost all trust in me.
I used to tell her I was giving up and I had given up only for her to bust me smoking in my car when I thought she was asleep.
I have finally decided to give it up and I know it isnt much but im onto my second day without, but the thing is you cannot force him to quit but you can help him if he actually wants to.
You need to know everything and not get angry at him because that will only lead to more lies.
The thing im trying to get at is talk to him about it without blaming him because weed is addictive and can mask a lot of underlying problems that need to be sorted out and trust me if I was him and know what I know now I would be still with my partner and living a happy life.
Well thats my 2 cents worth but I hope I could help.
Day 1 yesterday: Tried to keep myself busy all day, but I still thought about it all day long, by the afternoon I was searchin the place for roaches or anything to get that high off of not pretty. I ended up finding nothing, because I knew I would do this the night before I cleaned house. Thank goodness because i would have cracked. Couldn’t fall assleep for about 3 hours. But awoke this morning feeling like it was the best sleep I’ve had in years. My jaw is amazingly not tight and taunt. I feel good today I think today will b easier than day 1 but not sure yet as it is still early. I am determined to keep truckin.What doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger!!!!!!!!
is it worth it what will come back ? mentel wise
I just found your website. I googled that “after 40 yrs I think I need to quit” and this site came up. I have quit for short periods then just returned with no thought…..I get it and lately I just do it all up in a couple days.. the budget is ‘arranged’ around weed. I adjust payig my bills to make sure I have that sack. I moved to take another job to a different part of my state and right away met the ‘wrong crowd’. After they were convinced I was nota narc, well right back into a routine. funny thing is I have random sampling at work, does not seem ot bother me…how wrong thinking is that?????
Took alot for me to p ost this. P{art of me still rationalizes and says its to chill out after work, better than drinking. My cough comes and goes withthe supply on hand lol….duh….
Hope to keep refering to this site in the future. thanks all.
it says post another comment so here it is….
sounds like I am in good company now.
Ok, I’ve been smoking since 13, now I’m 26. That’s exactly 13 yrs of substance abused, frankly, I’m tired of trying to get high everyday, tire of being a fien for weed, I want to enjoy my life to the fullest, n see my grand kids. I called help lines I saw on tv, it didn’t work, they transferred me around n around. I am seeking advices from anyone that can advise me. E-mail me: nguyendinhbao@hotmail.com
I want to quit n need support that can push me further than just wishful thinking.
Hey all…after smoking weed as a very heavy daily user for almost 15 years, I am on my 4th day without it, and determined to quit. I, like some others here, have tried to cut back to just weekend use. I cannot do that. Because I cannot control my intake, I know it is an addiction for me. The hardest part so far, is the night sweats and nightmares. Crazy though, I have not been craving it. The posts here give me hope that it is possible to be weed free. I want to FEEL everything now good, bad, or otherwise. Can anyone tell me how long the night sweats go on for????
Ive been a huge Chronic and grower of Cannabis for over 20 years.
I pretty much smoked myself into retardation. I like the way it makes me feel but hate being dependant on it to ease stress and function in daily life. Not to mention the loss of brain cells. I also like my friends who smoke and see it as a social event to hang out and get baked. Ive got a real soft spot for high quality herb.
That being said I need to grow up and be a good role model for people in general and start helping my community as a whole.
I came to this site because i realy feel like smoking up right now, ive done really good the last 4 months only smoking occasionaly.
The longer I go without it the better I feel about myself and my life so I guess I will just go take a nap instead of a toke. Thanks for listening and good luck to you all!!
My name is ashley and I’m quitting. For me, my kids, and my husband. I told my husband that I’d quit if he agreed to be with me when we first got together and I did. For a while. Then I went back to casually smoking and only with others. Before I knew it, I was smoking all the time, by myself. My husband and I have been married for 5 years and I’m going to loose him if I don’t quit. I have. Its been 2 days but I’m determined to show him, and myself, that there are more important things than pot. I love him and I’m going to do my best. Thanks for the site. I now know that I’m not alone and want to take the time to say QUIT NOW! Before its too late and you loose everything.
At my 3rd day today. Going pretty well as I try to occupy myself.
Weed was like a hobby to me, it passed the time. My life revolved around it. I was anxious to go home after work to smoke weed, bypassing certain obligations.
Damn, just starting watching Fringe episode 16 right now and the first scene is Walter somking a bong… Damn it Walter! Why do you have to do this to me…
This shows that you cannot put yourself out of weed’s way completely. It will always find you. But there is no obligations to go buy some or smoke. I am stronger than a plant.
I have smoked on and off for the past 25 years. I am now 44 years old. I have been trying to stop smoking for the past year. I buy a bag and say to myself that this is it. This is the last one. It has not worked out that way though. I have flushed many bags down the toilet just to go back out and buy another.
When I smoke, I initially feel good but then start getting really paranoid. I begin to think that I am going to die or rush out to the point where I feel like I am going to have a heart attack. I know this is mostly anxiety but the feelings when being high really suck. I am at an age now where bad things can happen if I do not take care of myself. I have a wife and 2 kids which I have lied by hiding or sneaking around to smoke it. It is pathetic. I am tired of the guilt that I feel and just want to quit. I am praying to God now to take the urges away. I found this website with hopes of finding and conversing with other people who are going through the same thing. So far I really like what I see. I am tired of having thoughts of death and not being around for my kids, so I have made a commitment to God and myself that I will try to stop. One day at a time or even better one minute at a time. Thanks!
Hello. My name is A*** and I am a pothead. I first started smoking pot at age 20 and been doing it ever since. My life has changed drastically due t my marijuana abuse and it’s time for a change. I have been trying to seriously quit for 2 years, but only to find myself relapsing. I am now in a rut. Marijuana was the answer to, and the cause of, all my life’s problems. I do not like who I’ve become. I owe it to my mother who have sacrificed everything for me to stop smoking pot. I know I can do it and I will. Today is Day 1 for me. God speed!
Hey I have been a hard core smoker for the lat 7-8 years going through about 2 grms per day i was trapped… a prisoner, i could not commit to anything because that would mean that i might not be able to smoke
. I quit cold turkey and I have been clean for 7 weeks today (28th March 2011) 
. Reading through peoples posts on here i can relate to most. The biggest thing for me is that once i quit i started counting the days. this has been a great help to me because as soon as it was 1 week without smoking i didn’t want to have to start that count again. Im aming to be 100 days sober by my birthday and once i get to that 100 days there is no way i can go back to it. 100 days is a 100 days. The other thing is replacing it. You have probably heard this before but its true. Excercise is good and as a result i have really got into indoor rock climbing. it is fun scary, gives you a big rush and will leave you completely buggered after it and you will be fit. This will help you with insomnia. To help see your GP maybe get some light sleeping pills to help you through the first week trust me after 1 week you will start sleeping properly again. (i never used to be able to sleep in ever now i can just fine) and you will have some full on wierd dreams!!!! Fianlly focus on the things that you can now do normally e.g. You can live a free life… you don’t have to worry about getting on (the …how much does it suck when your chasing weed and you can’t get it?), you don’t have to worry about keeping a dirty little secret, you don’t have to worry about getting busted by the cops, you don’t have to worry about going away for work and you can go on holidays somewhere without worrying what your going to do without weed. (previously any holidays that i took were driving holidays so that i could take my bong and weed).. I travel a bit with work (flying interstate) i used to smuggle weed on the plane just to get me through 
…. can you beleive that? how stupid! I could have ended up in jail over a stupid addiction!! I recently had to go away for 3 days and it felt so amazing to not have to worry about it this time.. it made me feel human again 
. I can now commit to going out with freinds for more than a couple of hours even days.. So much so im heading to NZ (over seas) snowboarding in August and im not worried in the slightest about not having weed.. I can fly on a plane anywhere i want and not worry about having to score or smuggle weed. I am not a prisoner anymore, I am free!
My non smoking friends and my fiance have been great support to me and tell me that they notice a difference in my personality and its really good to hear.
Im not going to lie to you i still struggle some days and want it (little reminders are going to pop up in your life and make you crave it but 100 days is a 100 days and my freedom is my freedom)! I never want to be trapped again. To be honest the craving only lasts a couple of minutes these days and i usually forget about it by doing something different (even something as small as changing the channel on TV). Whatever you are doing just make sure you keep yourself busy. if your having hard core cravings go for a walk, swim, run or in my case rock climb you will feel better. I will continue to check in to this website because to be honest i feel better after reading your posts and posting my own post. It has given me a further boost. I wish you all luck with your battles.. we are not alone..
I used to be a super casual smoker, only smoking when I happened to be around friends that had some weed. This eventually evolved into getting my own pipe and smoking on weekends only, but then turned into an evening ritual. I fear my wife is now about to leave me over all the lies I have told her regarding the weed.
Sadly, my wife never really said she didn’t want me to do it. She just asked me not to do it before I drive (duh) and got irritated if I was doing it ALL THE TIME (understandable…I’m not the same person when I’m high).
But first she caught me smoking it in the car. After that, I promised I would never do that again. But low and behold, I did. More recently, I made a very foolish mistake while I was under the influence. After that, I promised her I would never smoke again. Well, I did, and she seems to have lost all trust in me.
I have become not physically addicted to weed, but emotionally. Every time I feel stress, I want to light up. Not only that, I just enjoy doing it so much, I even started smoking before I went to church just for the fun of it. I light up when I take my son to the park. I light up when we watch movies. I try to light up every time I go to any party or social gathering. I find myself just thinking about the next time I’ll get high, and that’s not really living. That’s living for weed.
I need help. God forbid I loose my wife, I know I’ll be smoking really heavily, which will no doubt make it harder for me to move on and cope with my loss. Could someone give me some advise? My email is evanspadre@aol.com.
Thanks.
Hi, i´m 20 years old and ive been free from marijuana for about 24 hours and feeling better already, weed is still pretty much all i think about but i know the need will get less each day. I think of it this way, every day there will be moments where you will want a spliff. The first day the whole day is that kind of moment, it has been that way for me and im guessing it goes the same for you. Anyway, the second day is probably easier and the craving takes up less of youre day. Then each day the moments of craving will become less frequent and shorter. Now lets hope ill make it another 24 hours
here we go again, Stopped for 6 months and made the http://www.marijuana-addict.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cry.gifcommon mistake of thinking I could handle smokin a lil bit. and smoked my birthday, we’ll that was 6 months ago and believe me I regret ever thinking I could “handle” a “lil bit” now im back to a full blown addict.When I stopped I was able to get the highest paying job I’ve had so far, and get a boat load of personal goals accomplished. Now because of spending on my addiction, my rent is past due, I dont have enough money for laundry or even gas, have to go to the pawn shop. and Yet God has blessed me with everything for a successful life, weed has also affected my relationships with people. Im battling this disease again! on my knees daily. This time I know to Never start back up again when I get through this one. I love this website been visiting for years, and its the most helpful website for weed addiction that I have found
Hi everyone,
I dont really know where to start on this, because iv’e never done it before, but i guess you could say that i have a ‘bit’ of a substance abuse problem. I have tried in vain to give up many times, and have in fact succeeded for a couple of weeks at a time, but i always find myself falling into the same perpetual cycle of smoking almost 24/7.
I realize the negative conations that smoking weed has on me – pushing friends away and reclusive behavior, the constant financial difficulties i find myself in (not to mention the amount of stuff i’ve sold just to habituate my addiction; the compulsive lies to friends, family and myself, health risks, but perhaps most importantly i feel like I’m slowly losing my identity as i find myself self evaluating to the point where i cannot make any concrete trusims about myself, and these distinctions i”m making, i have realized are changing the very fabric of my personality, albeit on very subtle level at the moment, im worried how these could impact in later life.
The problem i face, which im sure many of you do is….how can you live the rest of your life without the need for a spliff, but i actually think it goes further than that…. life isn’t as good unless you have weed and you cannot exume the same enjoyment out of the particular things you used to do when you smoke. More specifically in my case, i play guitar, now forget the inherent characteristics that are so often associated with drug addiction in musicians and the propaganda and image they try and portray – my problem stems from the fact that music simply sounds better when im high, as im sure it does to many of you. I have tried to distinguish myself from the sort of person who smokes regularly, and i try not to compare myself to many of these people.
But sadly my problem stems much deeper than just what extra enjoyment i think i can get out of smoking weed. My parents have just got a divorce and i found out that my father had another family and kid. Now at the age im at, 21, this is quite alot to take on board, especially as im approaching my finals at uni. I find having an addiction to weed massively depressing sometimes, how did i let myself get like this, why can’t i pull myself of it and why the fuck do i seem to be a different person through each hour of the day, i.e. 10:00 am, i wanna give up do some work, 11:00 i will treat myself to a meaty joint – and then every hour or so after. I think part of the problem is that at the moment weed is the only thing i can definitively rely on to make me happy or numb, but the larger cycle of smoking weed still makes me miserable.
I really thank anyone that might be able to offer me any help, im so sick of hearing of all the same reasons, that doctors give, as to why u should give up as i have found a way of justifying in my head, better reasons to carry on. Thanks once again to anyone who took the time out of their day to read this.
Am 44 yrs old, been smoking weed since I was 13 and everyday for about last 24 years. I myself always tried to downplay the impact it has had on my life or the fact i was “addicted”, no way not me. B.S. I found myself smoking 5 or 6 times a day and just burned a 1/4 pound in 6 weeks by myself. I have been stoned my entire adult life. Can remember the dreams and goals and plans i had when i was young and followed through on none of it. Spending all the time in search of the next high or to maintain the high i’ve been on. It’s ridiculous. I relate to the articles stating that weed comes first and then you pay rent and bills. That’s been my motto. The money wasted, the relationships gone bad because i went through them like a zombie with no emotion. I didn’t care about anything more than smoking more and more pot. It became a life mission. Always worried about running out. Freaking out when my stash was down to a 1/4 oz already planning the next purchase so as not to skip a beat. But then those times when you can’t get right away and it becomes an unecessary living hell. I would have never imagined this at 20 yrs old but believe me it can sneak up on you and take over your life completely. I related to someone posting before this how they wasted the best years of their life smoking weed and that is exactly what i did. Day 4 now, feeling a little better still edgy with slight stomach pain but finally ate a meal today. Still sleeping like crap but glad the runs and headache have stopped. MJ addiction is real as can be people, believe it. God bless and good luck.
I am 48 and been smoking for 20 years,It has been five weeeks since I have stopped smoking weed, the first 3 days was hard, couldn’t sleep and I wanted to smoke so bad, I kept telling myself I am strong enough to do this and prayed everyday to God to give me the strength to do this. everyday that I didn’t smoke, my will got stronger, I started to do yoga, it helped me alot, I knew at the end of the day instead of smoking which is bad for me , i will do yoga which is good for me. everyday my mall theind was sharper, conversations was better, i was more organized with my work. It was much easier than I thought. I keep reading online all the bad side of weed over and over every day.
Life is much better this way .
Good luck all
I am 23 years old and I have been smoking since I can remember; it’s funny because most of the stories I read above is a mirror of what I have been battling with since the age of 13. I can remember when I first started smoking occasionally, always telling myself, I’m no addict because I never buy it, I only smoke when others are supplying the goods, so I know I’m not addicted. That’s until of course everyone got tired of supplying me and I had to supply myself in order to get my new found best friend “Mary Jane”. Soon thereafter I started buying my own and smoking before school and sometimes during, this went on until I was an everyday committed smoker. Up until today 5/26/11, I have smoked consistently for the better part of my life. I am tired of spending all my extra money, tired of being lazy and letting my responsibilities go unattended to and most of all I’m tired of letting it control my entire life for the last 8 years. My every waking hour for the last 8 years have been surrounded by the joy of ” Mary”. I don’t go to church anymore and I feel horrible when I do because my thought are filled with getting high. I’ve went to jail for it once, I smoke at school (I’m in college) risking my education & financial aid should I be caught,. Long story short IT IS TIME FOR ME TO MAKE A DECISION, is “Mary” worth it? Is it worth my declining relationship with the Good Lord? Is getting high more important than my productivity and lively hood? Is it more important than my health and education? HELL NAWLL!!!! Every time I try and quit; I relapse within months, the longest I ever stopped was for 3 or 4 months. The thing that worries and scares me the most is the fact that, “Mary” has not only became my best and sometimes only friend, but also my way of life for years, for so long sometimes I can’t imagine losing her for life, hell I aint gonna lie I love it, and to be honest it is something that I know will always be apart of me, but I know it cannot be a way of life for me, If I want to be who God ordained me to be. So I have a choice to make, as do everyone else on this lovely site. Is Mary Jane worth it?
Please email me if you are experiencing the same issues and battling with this life changing addiction, I could really use/offer some support from individuals going through the same things decaturchick23@gmail.com
Thanks for reading and Good Luck…….”We can do all things in Christ whom strengthens us”
hey guys. im 39 years old and have been smoking since i was 17 yrs. old. in high school, i wasnt cool unless i was high. its a huge mental trap. its ridiculous and im almost ashamed being that i got caught up in peer pressure early on. every one would say,”its only weed”,so i proceeded on. im on my 4th day weed free and i see a difference already. my best friend isnt going to quit, although i challenged him to. thats fine, but i had to distance myself from him and the weed smoke.. i sense jealousy from him since i stopped. hes still a friend, but i will be open to non smoking weed circles.”new friends”. i was smoking 3 eighths a week “fire og kush”. i make pretty good money,but i want to no me again. i have a great personality that has taken a hit.. when im high, i dont like doing anything. i have lost weight. WEED REALLY CURVES MY APPETITE. ive gained 5 pounds since i stopped a few days ago. im a strong minded person, so i really believe im done..all you guys r in my prayers.. god bless..
I am 40 and have been smoking dope for 23 years. When i started it was an amazing escape from my troubled childhood. My mom and step dad fought constantly then divorced. I just kept it up all these years. Smoking during lunch break then afterwork with alcohol, bad combo. I realized i was screwing up my life but i was addicted. I met a girl that i knew would not put up with weed smoking and thought she could help me to quit. I did quit for 4 years and then started to smoke once in a blue moon. Then once in awhile,then a little more often. I would do it while golfing or boating and told myself i could handle it. My girlfriend was getting wise and of course i was lying to her about smoking it. step by little step,lie by lie i was being sucked back in to the life. I have a rental house up north and the renters moved out. I told my girlfriend i was going up there to renovate and clean. I did do that but also smoked weed 4-6 times a day. She is not stupid and when i got back a month later she was gone. We talked about getting back together but i was trying to convince her to let me smoke weed. She did not go for it. I stopped drinking three weeks ago. I stopped smoking pot three days ago. i had been smoking 3-5 times a day. I felt pathetic,hopeless a real loser and have been hanging out with similar people most my life. I am determined to be sober now. i am preparing to go on the master cleanse to seek enlightenment. I feel like i am taking on all this maybe because i was just dumped and need to react but whatever works right? I feel clear after stopping alcohol and not smoking pot for a few days. I feel like being sober again and living the second half of my life that way. I need to get to the point where i am thanking myself for changing my life for the good. When i was a kid before booze and dope i was strong. I feel like me as a kid would say to me now”come on buddy get it together, you can do this its just mind over matter, you have to period, no excuses”. I know my life would have turned out better without weed, now thats sobering. Thinking about being still addicted in another 20 years is profoundly scary. Here i stand at the fork in the road,scared to fail,excited to succeed.
salam.. I am a typical guy from Afghanistan living here in Canada and Ive been strugglng to quit ive stopped for about 6 months but have relapsed once after about 5 months so i smoked about a month ago.. i hate smoking weed but i a addicted. i dont know what to do since i am again thinking about smoking weed it screwed up my life and everything i dropped out of school because of it. I really dont know what to do its ruining my life. I start school back up in the fall and i hope i can actually stop for good. my mind is on god and i hope god helps me out iA
I’m 21 and started smoking casually at age 17 (<1 time a week)
Went away to college and that is when it slowly picked up to multiple times per day. I have had no trouble going for short two week "breaks" at times when necessary but also smoke very heavily at other times during vacations, etc. I have been smoking weed every day now for at least two years and I don't like it. I wish I could be a casual user ( 1 -2 times per month) again but I don't think this will be possible if I am holding a bag. Yesterday was my first day without and today I will take good advice and clean up and get rid of all of my pieces and equipment.
Mary, I’m going through much the same as you. I am 19 years old, but have recently taken up a buddhist way of life, although I cannot say I taken any formal vows. Sometimes it helps to look at everything from different perceptive points of view in order to appreciate reality for what it is. I too cannot seem to avoid relapse, for the past four days I have told myself every day that I won’t smoke, and end up doing it about an hour before going to bed. I have been smoking too much again recently, but I believe there is a middle path with the use of cannabis and even occasionally hallucinogens.
There is the technicality issue with the use of the word ‘intoxicant’. Alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine etc can be considered as intoxicants because they give they are toxic substances that give the user a high. Cannabis is not considered toxic, and has been used with respect by humans around the world for thousands of years.
I gave up smoking daily and completely stopped all mind altering substances for 3 weeks, for the first couple of weeks I felt really good, then it just started to become dull. I have a deep appreciation for life and the universe. I hope to spend my life learning about everything around us through maths and science, although occasionally it’s nice to have a break from the deep thinking and just float about in a stoned daze.
I really appreciated the time I had sober though, I even went to an underground rave in London and managed to dance all night and half the day without any more than green tea. I am hoping to keep my cannabis use to only once in a while, and even stop for months on end, but I know that it will never be completely out of my life.
I spent a full year SOBER, then on my sobriety date, roasted some killer bud and it was off the races from there. I can’t do this anymore. I’ve centered everything around being high and I’m very good at it. I smoke 2-3 times at work in a 12 hr. shift some nights…then after about once every hour. I can’t take it anymore…im going mental! or is it the lack of THC?? Please anyone with words of wosdom e-mail me…i’ll take anything right now.
wow.. so i expect this is the start of the end. ive gotten into this crazy habit of coming home from work, smoking a J and then working out for an hour or so. crazy thing is- im in the best shape of my life and have been stuck in this cycle for a couple years now. been smoking for at least a decade.. 30yo male. no one ones what a freaking crack head for weed i am. i buy a bag, smoke a bunch, starting freaking out, start lying, start hiding. not myself. so i throw the weed away, flush it down the toilet. then the next day i’m looking for roaches in the grass next to my condo. looking for, finding, and smoking joints from the previous week or so. when that runs out i find random pieces of nug in my room, car, etc. then i smoke it out of a can. and then i go ride my bike and run. its fucking insane. driving me insane. today is day 1 of no weed. im a fiend man. ive called like 5 people all day. secretly happy no one has gotten back with me. just glad to see there are more out there. best to everyone…
I’ve been a user since I was 13…so that’s what, 39 years? Well that’s got to have most of you beat. Like some, I WANT to be a “late evening on the weekend” only smoker, but the simple fact is, if I have pot…I smoke it. I’ve been getting high “around” (secretly) my child since he was born, now he’s 12 and it’s getting rediculous to think I can get away with it anymore. And what do I say when we have the “drug conversation”?
No, I have to quit. I quit a while back for 5 weeks while going through a job interview situation with a high tech company known for testing. Not really a problem and I felt great. Question is, can I do it now that I don’t have such a clear cut reason?
Tonight is the first test. My kid’s at camp, and I can go home and smoke….or throw it all, weed/hash/pipes/everything into the trash, which gets collected tomorrow. I’m going to throw it out. Eliminating access is critical for me, or I…WILL…SMOKE!
hi, i’m looking at this site to try and help my bf of 5 yrs, he has smoked pot on and off for yrs. I know that he has an addiction he got really bad to the point where he wouldn’t leave the bong alone for more than an hr, and when he couldn’t get it he would take his anger out on me, eventually he decided to quit, he did really well, only had two cones in 12 months, its been about 18 months since he quit and he’s been smoking again and trying to lie about it and making excuses saying he can controll it now, i know its not true because if he was doing it for fun he wouldn’t be scraping the cone pieces and draining bongs etc just to get a hit. We have a child together now, we talked about having a baby and agreed that we would start trying at least 6 months after he quit and 6 months later i fell pregnant with our daughter, and then a few months ago i fell pregnant again and we lost the pregnancy and he has been smoking pot since then i know he has trouble dealing with emotions and loss, but i also know that smoking pot is not the right answer to it, what can i do to help him before it gets worse
Day one of my battle.
I’ve been smoking for 14 years and I’m 28.
Tired of having some lame ass drug determine my moods and finances.
God give me strength and patience cuz damn I’m gonna need it!
Deep breaths and I’m gonna start a journal. No reason that everyone around me needs to suffer bc I’ve been a slefish b!tch for the last few years.
I’m fixing me and I’m gonna love it!!!!
Ditch your friends and find new ones, great advice…Let’s all forget about our meaningful friendships because we are too weak resist weed.
You know what scares me most…….that stopping won’t make a difference. I know why it should, I just hope it does.
I like many other have smoked for years since i was 12 i’m almost 30 now my problem is that i know or i’m pretty sure i have the strength to quit it’s just i enjoy it so much and the reason i say i can quit is cuz i’ve beat my other addictions 6yrs ago i did crack for about a year i could actually see my life going to hell problems in my marriage to lazy to go to work, i just wasn’t me anymore found the strenght to quit asked god for help told him i couldn’t do it without his help and some time later i quit. But i still had a problem with meth 3yrs later found myself in the same sitution i was about to lose my wife my life to meth again asked god to step in and help me cuz i no longer could help myself it took another year to build up the strength to quit but i did. That was going on 2yrs ago i will never go to crack/meth ever again. But here’s my problem with weed my wife let’s me smoke weed cuz it don’t change who i am i work everyday my marriage is better than it’s ever been i get a bag of smoke and stay home with my family and enjoy my weekends when i don’t have to work. I don’t go hang out for hours with friends doing meth like i used to i’m always home with my family enjoying their company.But weed still costs money money that be saved or spent on something useful even though my wife doesn’t mind to much about weed she worries about my health i’m not getting any younger and my kids are getting older i worry about the type of role model i’ll be when they’re old enough to understand things and i smoke cigs too i need to quit before i get cancer and die. See this is my problem my marriage is good i’m allowed to smoke weed and i love to get high set back unwind after a hard day at work but i need to quit for my family for myself and start saving the money i spend on weed but when i try to quit i get mad easliy i can’t sleep very well and i smoke several times a day i hate to say it but i’m a better person when i smoke that’s why it’s hard for me to stop smoking i’m afraid of how i feel when i try to quit. I know it’s lack of weed in my brain that causes this that’s why i need to quit for good i get my brain trained cope without weed GOOD LUCK TO ANYONE WHO TRYS AND CAN QUIT WEED cuz i’m slowly trying to get my tolerace down to quit
I am 26 years old and clean for a week now. I used to smoke every day for around a year. I started when I was 15 years of age. It become more and more frequent until I finally lost control over it. It spoiled me to the extent that the only thing I thought about when starting my job was coming back home and getting stoned. All my life was about picking up weed, coming back home and smoking till i fell asleep. I did not smoke that lon compared to other people hear however that was perfectly enough to make me feel like an empty piece of paper. Now I ended up withou any social skills. One can say I am afraid of people and paranoid assuming everybody knows I am a piece of trash representing nothing. People I bought stuff from tempt me now every day , my ‘friends’ also keep sending texts when they can’t get supply. I am determined to quit this once and for all but I don’t think I can handle this on my own. It is just the feeling of depression and low self-esteem that’s killing me. This forum makes me feel better as I know I am not alone. I wish all of you good luck in kicking this nasty habit.
I quit cannabis smoking for 14 months , I’ve posted some of my progress in the forum at http://www.givingupcannabis.com
All I can say is , it does get better , the cravings lessen and the will to continue increases.
Hi All, my Name is Nesta been a smoker for 25 Years, recently had a health scare so have decided to give up, Its been 7 days, got a long way to go, will keep all posted. m havin trouble sleeping but trying to gt thru, these times….
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