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This week has been successful! Things are going well. I will have to keep myself this weekend to avoid temptation. I have had a few beers tonight, and didn’t enjoy it that much. I will be setting up the marijuana addiction forum this weekend, and hope have it running by Sunday afternoon.
Till tomorrow.
Another busy and productive day today, with a good sleep last night. Last night was the first night that I had vivid dreams after quitting marijuana. The majority of the weed addicts that I know don’t recall their dreams, or have fewer dreams than non smokers. I have heard that it is pretty common to have ‘end of the world’ nightmares when quitting weed. In my previous attempts to quit, I have had some crazy nightmares.
This dream was definitely strange - and I got stoned in my dream…This doesn’t count as relapse right 
. The Dream: So I was outside on the main drag of a town with my colleagues, and a bunch of them were up ahead in a circle. One woman came up to me and said something along the lines of “I smoke, but don’t tell anyone”, and joined the circle. I followed behind her, and next thing I new, I was passed a joint. This was the end of the dream as I remember it. Shitty description, but dreams are hard to describe.
One of the reasons that I wanted to quit is because I didn’t want colleagues to find out about my marijuana habit. I am sure some of them know and don’t say anything to me. Weed made me paranoid so I always wondered if they DID know.
‘Til Tomorrow - which will be double digits sober! Wooohooo!
Another day without smoking pot. Today was a better day. I was extremely busy today, and did not experience any intense cannabis withdrawal symptoms. The anxiety and dread that I was feeling is definitely in recession. I know that I am only 8 days in, but I feel like the worst part of the psychological detox is past me. Now I will need to deal with sobriety on a daily basis. The physical detox will take up to 3 months for all of the fat-soluble thc to be free from my system. Only after 3 months will I consider myself ‘clean’ from weed. Clean is not the same thing as recovered!
Sleep was also better last night - I got 7 hours and only woke up once. When smoking weed, I seemed to wake up a lot more during the night. Sometimes I would even awake, smoke a roach, then head straight back to bed. It appears that marijuana makes sleep come easy, but the quality of sleep is worse than a sober sleep would be. Anyone find the same thing happening to them.
Bucking Faked requested the ability to blog on their progress. I will be configuring and opening a Marijuana Addiction Support Forum this weekend. I don’t know if it will be on this site, or on another domain…I still need to work out the logistics.
Hey everyone,
Just a quick update - I am going to sleep like a baby tonight. I only got another 5 hours last night. I am seriously wiped out and looking forward to nodding off immediately after I post this. I have been through this kind of weed withdrawal insomnia before, so I was prepared for it.
The anxiety is still there, but the worst of it was Saturday. I was not prepared for it, and am hoping the worst of it is over. I am going to meditate and stretch before bed to release some of the tension. The marijuana recovery process is stressful!
I will be writing another series of 4 or 5 articles that I will publish before the end of April. Any topic requests?
When I woke up today, I felt great. After quitting marijuana for 6 days, my morning energy and mindset is improving. My mind is much clearer than a week ago! I used to smoke weed primarily at night, and it is almost a guarantee that I would fall asleep stoned or burnt out…..That seems to carry over into a mediocre sleep and a tough wakeup in the morning. My marijuana hangovers rob me of energy and a positive attitude in the morning. Sometimes my eyes looked stony, even if it had been hours.
When I take in a full breath, the top of my lungs hurt a little bit, I don’t know if that is from quitting pot, being more aware of my body, or from the exercise I have been doing in the past couple of days. Maybe they are being cleaned out.
Starting a couple of days ago, I was experiencing significant anxiety and nervousness…This hasn’t happened to me before when trying to end my marijuana addiction. I have had a very stressed out 2 weeks, so I think the marijuana withdrawal played a small role in this overall mental state.
I haven’t had any major cravings yet. In my case, those don’t start for a little while. I have stayed away from the pubs and thus the party. It is a lot easier to quit when you aren’t surrounded by it.
It’s been a weird couple of days. I have had all sorts of nervous energy and anxiety…I don’t want to call them panic attacks, but rather feelings of intense dread for no reason. Sometimes my mind races. It kind of feels like a ball of energy heating up at my center and moving up the top of my body. I think this nervous energy is the cause of my insomnia as well.
I notice that I have been ‘holding’ my breath a lot and have been tense or fidgety for no reason. I have been doing some of the stress relaxation techniques and deep breathing drills which are actually working ! I haven’t experienced the marijuana withdrawal anxiety before to this severity. Usually it was only mental, but the physical withdrawal symptoms from cannabis are discomforting. I need to bleed off more stress during this beginning transition phase. With the right stress management program, the stress and anxiety from marijuana withdrawal can be minimized.
Quitting Marijuana can cause anxiety in some people, but I don’t know how long it is supposed to last, and what to expect. Needless to say, the last couple of days have NOT been fun. I got about 6 hours of solid sleep. Normally I wake up a lot during the night, but this was a nice uninterrupted rest.
Only one dream of note so far, all I remember is being hit in the liver by something, then someone I knew (don’t know who) hitting me in the same spot.
Today was a pretty good day. When I was attempting to quit smoking weed last time, I was spending a fair bit of my ‘new’ extra time at the pub, which lead to a lot of relapses. I haven’t been drinking in the last couple of weeks - and have had little to drink in 2 months. This feels really good, and waking up in the morning is way easier when you don’t go to sleep with a couple of beers in you.
Weed has always made me sleep well, so the last couple of days have seen little sleep. I got up around 3 pm yesterday, and had a slight nap between 4-6 AM, and just powered through the day. So I have been up for 30 hours with a 2 hour nap in between. I am definitely tired, and should sleep well tonight. I haven’t had any of the crazy dreams yet. I will be sure to let you know about them.
I am taking a lot of vitamin C and drinking lots of water to keep my immune system up. I haven’t been very hungry in the last couple days either. I have been eating a better diet than I normally do though. It will be a busy Easter weekend and I am sure I will have an appetite when I sit down for Easter dinner!
I have been online and reading a lot about psychology, addiction, and all that fun stuff - I am kind of able analyze my own actions and learn from them. This takes a lot of introspection. My mind is starting to clear and I have pretty good energy when considering my lack of appetite and crazy sleeping schedule.
I just read an article over at Scientific American regarding cigarette smokers called “Smoking Can’t Buy Happiness“. It helped to clarify that the reason I smoke marijuana is for instant pleasure. All of this short term pleasure, and I supposed it is the “pleasure” I am addicted to, ultimately makes me unhappy in the long run.
I also need to really define happiness on my own terms, so that I can live towards that goal, rather than just trying to quit marijuana. So there ya go…..lots of empty pleasure makes me unhappy. Does anyone else out there experience the same?
I am feeling alright today, I am working on clearing out my backlog of chores and things that I haven’t done because I was too stoned and a-motivational to do them. My mood is pretty average. I will head to the gym and ride a bike to burn off some of this extra energy I have.
I am going to have a very busy couple on months ahead of me. I need to save money in a bad way, not dropping a couple hundred a month on weed will definitely help me out!
I definitely need to get outside more during the daylight hours. I will be sure to do that for the remainder of this week.
Hello All,
It has been too long since my last post. As you can guess from my lack of posting, there has also been a lack of progress on my goal to quit. I told myself that if I didn’t quit within a year, I would join MA or NA. I would prefer to do this on my own, so I am starting up the challenge again.
I threw away all of the marijuana that I had left, and flushed it down the toilet - about $50 worth. I have only thrown it away a couple of times before, so it felt really good.
Numerous comments have been made about me giving up, and that I should remove this blog from the web…Not gonna happen for now folks!
Good luck to everyone in their goals as well.
