Advice to quitting smoking marijuana...In need of GREAT advice!?!
Question: I don't want to hear the whole "its not physically addicting" thing. Maybe it wasn't at first but this is something I've done everyday for the last 8 years now. Its coming to the point where I need it morning, afternoon, and night. I need it because Im bored just every excuse you can think of. When I do try to quit I just end up smoking more. I also get massive headaches as well act extremely bitchy to everybody around me. I feel the withdrawl (though not as bad as other drugs) I'm getting too old for this, I'm always tired, I have anxiety problems, and I overeat on occasssion....perhaps some doesn't have to do w/ my habit but I don't want to be controlled anymore by this. As for you who will respond with only stronger drugs truely give you physical addiction my response to that is that I have done those stronger drugs (and liked them a lot). I believe I have overcome the other addictions but I really need help overcoming this one...I need advice from someone who understands
Answers: I don't want to hear the whole "its not physically addicting" thing. Maybe it wasn't at first but this is something I've done everyday for the last 8 years now. Its coming to the point where I need it morning, afternoon, and night. I need it because Im bored just every excuse you can think of. When I do try to quit I just end up smoking more. I also get massive headaches as well act extremely bitchy to everybody around me. I feel the withdrawl (though not as bad as other drugs) I'm getting too old for this, I'm always tired, I have anxiety problems, and I overeat on occasssion....perhaps some doesn't have to do w/ my habit but I don't want to be controlled anymore by this. As for you who will respond with only stronger drugs truely give you physical addiction my response to that is that I have done those stronger drugs (and liked them a lot). I believe I have overcome the other addictions but I really need help overcoming this one...I need advice from someone who understands
Why dont you try weening. Get a dub sack, and limit yourself to smoking once-a-day before you go to bed. At the same time mentally prepare yourself, each time you smoke make a commitment to yourself that this is the last sack youre smoking. As your sack gets smaller, keep reaffirming that this will be your last sack. On the last night, when you know you are smoking your final bowl and there's not enough to pack a second, make it somewhat of a cerimonial event. It might sound corny, but it will really reinforce your commitment. Tell yourself that this is the last time I will smoke weed for a long while, and really mean it.
After that, when the weed's gone, it's gone. You may have a couple of rough days, but after a week or so the temptation will be pretty much gone. And you'll start to apprieciate your clarity of mind, and you might even actually prefer your sobriety.
But it's important to make sure everybody knows that youre quitting, and that youre serious about it. You cant afford to have your pothead friends coming around and tempting you in those first few weak days after you quit.
I was just as bad as you are for just as long. And if a weedhead like me could quit, ANYBODY can. You just have to dedicate yourself.
goodluck
Go to a NA or AA meeting. They can point you in the right direction.
You could try an alternative maybe? Try something called Wild or Klip Dagga.
Some people I know has gone to N.A to get help to quit. Mostly you need to find something else to do with your time.
THC is not physically addicting. You may have a psychological addiction to it. That's something you're going to have to work out with yourself or get therapy for.
Psychological addictions are no less real than physical addictions. My question to you would be, what do you do for a living and how have you passed all your piss tests?
you could try something all natural to help with this, a vast array of natural products can be found at places like Whole Foods or Sunharvest,etc.
star chewing gum,dont tlk to your dealer.
when you feel you need it.splash you face with water.
think of somthing else.make somefriends that dont do it.
join a self help group,and dont try and
take other drugs to help you
forget.ive smoked pot,and it can only lead down a bad road...
get your self in gear and start a new life w/o it.best of luck~
Pray, turn it over to God.
Then take a cleansing laxitive, drink lots of water, and take a Antioxidant. or co-Q-10, You have to cleanse your body and the cells of the drug. Go to your local health food store if you are serious about quiting the addiction.
I will be praying for you. I do understand.
Try checking yourself into a rehab facility... You are ready making progress by WANTING to do something to stop your addiction! Good Luck!
Sometimes it's using your mouth or the act of smoking or your habit that is addictive, not the substance itself.
When you feel the craving try chewing gum and see how you feel after a piece of gum. If you still crave Marijuana after the gum, try smoking regular tobaco in your pipe or smoke bedes.
In otherwords. Make yourself have to get through layers of actions before you submit to smoking wacky tabacky.
well you'll never be able to quit until...
until you decide to quit.
I mean you need to realize that your life will be better without it.
if you can't do that then
you'll never be able to quit.
you'll need to be locked up in a rehab center or a prison and made to physically quit.
your body is mentally and physically addicted to smoking.
you are the only one who can make yourself quit.
I too was addictive to it. I guess my will power was stronger. I was tired of my husband doing it and being lazy and how he treated the kids and My will power took over b/c my kids were more important. Yes I smoke way more cigs, and suffer major with-drawls such as mood swings but saw the doctor but was not honest to her and she put me on Birth-control pills for hormones and it really help too. Clean and sober eight years.
If you feel addicted to smoking marijuana, breathing exercises can sometimes work as a replacement. It is the physical action of breathing in and out to inhale and exhale the smoke that can be addictive for some people. Cut yourself off at the source, even break friends if you can, or get your friends to quit with you. Search for a few 'horror' stories, other peoples devastating experiences can be enough to put you off. Whilst trying to quit the habit, cut down, only allow yourself to smoke it everyother day to start with. Then reduce the days one by one as you feel like you can control it. Ive not had much experience myself, but I have friends who are in the same position.
If you have tried to get over your addiction and do not have the self-control to do it on your own, it's time you tell someone you know to help you. I did this for alcohol. When I saw how badly drinking was screwing up my life, I told my parents to help me. At first, I thought only morons would tell their parents they had those types of problems, but at the end of the day, the fact that my life was so messed up won. I had asked my friends to help me with it, but they hardly did anything because they could not watch me or control me. All they did when they saw me drinking was say "Oh that's not such a good idea" and that's it. My parents took over my life and started controlling everything I did. And I mean EVERYTHING. At first, this pissed me off so much that I literally felt like running them over with my car, but in the end, it helped me too much to explain.
Tell somebody who cares about you to help. And not just people like my friends who don't really do anything at all. Tell people who will physically hold you down, throw your stuff away, and do everything necessary to get you out of it.
Look at the underlying reason as to why you started smoking weed. What jumped out at me was anxiety. Some of us are prone to being high anxiety and gravitate toward drug usage. I would look into getting with a counselor and getting help with the anxiety. I know how you feel, really I do. The best thing Ive ever done was get help with my anxiety and bitchy ways ;) I dont think its the weed controlling u per say, but the emotional problems you are having right now. I also used to be quite the marijuana smoker.
I JUST QUIT AFTER 38 YEARS AND YOU DO GET WITHDRAWAL. Smoked very day (except when in jail for having pot) for years , quit 3 weeks ago just getting over the jones now. It took all of my will power and then some but now I feel good, was ill tempered and miserable for the first 10 days, then it started getting easier, Don't smoke anything don't drink alcohol drink plenty of water chew gum exercise regularly walk when you feel you have to have one, KNOW YOU CAN QUIT. EMAIL ME FOR MORE DETAIL
I used to smoke marijuana but now I only allow myself once in the summer as part of good bye to another academic year and hello to a nice long holiday. The feeling you get form smoking marijauna is quite addictive, I know alot of people that have lost their lovers, friends and family because of it, most part of quitting is emotional input, the will to do it so to speak, find a reason to quit and always keep that in mind. You are addicted to the feeling of it and like an addict, you use any excuse to do so. Put your energy into something else, if you have family distract yourself from it with them, or a girlfriend (if you're single). Stop socialising with people that smoke marijuana and put up with the headaches and bitchiness because you are merely having withdrawal symptoms. Get a hobby, just pass each day with out it. Try to go cold turkey on it because it's such a lightweight drug, you have to totally take yourself off it otherwise you will keep telling yourself that you could just a bit more since you are easing yourself off it. It's not actually addictive, it is all in your mind, it's is yourself putting reliance on it. Your body does not need it to function like the higher drugs but its the feeling that you are on it that you are addicted to so you need to find the same buzz from something else that does not control your life as much. Think about the money you will save if you stop smoking it, put it all to one side and get something you really want or just go on an awesome night out with all your mates, but no marijuana! Also if you tell yourself that its all in your head soon you will change your veiw on it. By the sounds of it your trying to find an excuse like you are addicted. My friend was a drug dealer and did marijuana everyday all day he thought he was totally "addicted" and thought he couldnt stop. His girlfriend got pregnant and they decided to keep it and straight away he gave up, stopped dealing and stopped taking it. Five months down the line he's an excited soon to be dad who's drug habit is behind him. I'm not saying get some girl pregnant but find something you care about and give up for that. Sorry if it seems repitive but I really think you should quit especially if you are THAT addicted and want to quit. If you want, you can email me from time to time, I don't mind and I'll reply as quickly as I can, you can do it through my profile. Good luck if I don't speak to you again!
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