Marijuana Addiction Recovery

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.    Quitting can be hard when your laziness due to Cannabis addiction catches up with you.  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.

Today was a long, busy day. One of the keys for me as I learn how to quit marijuana is to keep yourself busy. This is especially true in the first 3 to 5 days. During these first days, I have a bit of a marijuana hangover, and the only cure is more pot! Getting past what I call the ‘fuzzy’ stage is really hard work….because your head is still kind of fuzzy, and would rather be stoned, or completely sober….choose sober, it just takes a few more days to get there….and a lot longer to maintain!

I plan on having a nice, calm weekend.  My goal is to eat healthy, self-made meals!

Happy Friday everyone!

Days Sober: 7

Hey everyone,  I am back and still dedicated as ever to Quit Smoking Weed!

Guess I better fill everyone in on the last month or so. Looks like my last post was on December 8th. Yikes.

It is a New Year and a fresh start. Many of us want to quit smoking pot in the new year! Good for us! I am going to make 2008 a great year.

I got pretty depressed, and heavily medicated, aka super stoned, from about December 8th through the 20th. I was smoking a lot of weed, keeping weird hours, and sleeping or at least laying down more that 12 hours a day. I felt really guilty about letting myself down - especially because it was the first time I really put a huge amount of effort into ending my marijuana addiction. I got a really bad cold at the time, and was smoking, then coughing, and had super bad mucus and phlegm from all the smoke I was inhaling. A normal person doesn’t smoke or drink when they are sick, and addict does!

I didn’t smoke weed for about 10 days over the holiday Dec 19-28, but smoked on the 29th of December through the 4th of January. I haven’t smoked since the 4th which officially puts me on Day 6 of sober. This is awesome. I have had some great comments while I was away and am still dedicated to this goal. I had some minor relapses and my first major one, but I also accomplished a new record since I began this blog of 10 days sober.

I will be posting some new articles this week on foods helpful for detoxing from addiction. I am sure you will enjoy the. If you would like me to write on a specific topic, please let me know by posting a comment.

Days Sober - 6

I was sober today!  Woohoo.  It took a lot of work and I had to keep busy all day, but I managed to do it.  The relaxation techniques really came in handy.   The Sun Salutation is  great way to start they day.  I have also been working on breathing deeply throughout the day.  If I ever struggle to take a deep relaxed slow breath, I immediately do the Deep Breathing reset, and am back in no time.   I think relaxation is one of the keys to stop smoking weed.

My sleeping patterns and eating patterns are horrible, I can’t get to bed early, and I want to sleep all day.   I believe that there are 2 keys here:  Diet and Exercise.

My diet is really shitty.  I cook for myself once or twice a week and eat junk the rest of the time, most of the exercise I do is walking too or from my vehicle to the fast food restaurant or 7-11.   This was OK when I was baked constantly, but really needs to change now.   I have a lot of time, so learning to cook is a great skill to develop  in the mean time.  Ironically, I am not overweight.  I think this is because some days I only eat one meal.

I am also in poor physical shape.   My natural build and body type gives me a great frame for sports and physical activities, but my cardiovascular ability has been cut in half by the amount of weed I smoked.  My diet and lack of exercise made me again about 20 lbs in the last 2 years.  I would like to keep the weight and lose the fat!

Till Tomorrow.

Thanks to all of you who have been posting comments to update me with their progress or keep me on track.    Today was a great day, being that it is Friday and I have the weekend in front of me.   My entire goal of Friday night is preparing for the weekend and not smoking weed at all.   The weekends are usually when I smoke a tonne of weed so it will take a lot of will power and distraction to keep sober over the next 2 days.   I also need to make sure I don’t substitute with alcohol - I really don’t want to trade marijuana addiction for alcoholism!

I have some withdrawal mood swings over the last 3 or 4 days.   Not exactly depressed, but angry and cynical.    I remember a quote “Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm”, so I am getting somewhere :)    I am feeling good at the moment and looking forward to accomplishing a lot this weekend.

But hey, 1 day at a time.  I have been researching new hobbies and will be putting some time into the website this weekend.    I think I am going to wait a little longer before I do a major overhaul on the layout, categories, and navigation.

This is the last post in this weeks series of posts on relaxation techniques for helping cope with the stress associated with marijuana withdrawal. A couple commentators, Meggers and Tani, have both recommended yoga for stress relief and a great nights sleep.

Yoga is an ancient path to spiritual growth, and originates out of India where hinduism is practiced. The practice and goal of yoga dates back to the Upanishads, written between 1000-5000 BC.

I have only performed one type of Yoga sequence before, and I think it is perfect for beginners. The Sun Salutation is a sequence of 12 movements that can be performed quickly whenever you need a boost. I just did a set to try it out - I like it. It feels more physically demanding than the moving meditation relaxation technique and gets the blood flowing quickly.

Click Here for the Sun Salutation Exercise

Hey Folks,

Well, I had a little to smoke again  today.  I keep finding it and not saying “No”.  In the grand scheme of things, this is still improvement.  This weekend is going to be very tough because I usually wake and bake, then get stoned all day.   I know I need to stop smoking weed, so I will be working hard toward this goal on the weekend - day by day.

Friday’s post will be much more detailed.

Good Night.

I came across deep relaxation audio tape that I liked and thought I should share it. The first few days of withdrawal from smoking weed are always the hardest for me, so I am building up a nice list of relaxation and distraction techniques to help me get through the cravings and other marijuana withdrawal symptoms.

You will need RealPlayer to play the files. One of the files is 6 minutes, and the other is 20 minutes.

Click Here for the Deep Relaxation audio recording

Do any of you have specific techniques you would like to share? If you do, please leave a comment or contact me!

Today was a pretty crappy day…I caved again and smoked….Because I repeated the pattern of going out to a pub. I did see some great live music, and meet a potentially awesome business connection, so it hasn’t all been bad….but damn, time to reset that counter back to 0.

Days Sober 0
Days Stoned 1