EX WEED SMOKERS How long does it take to feel normal again after quitting smokin!
Question: EX WEED SMOKERS How long does it take to feel normal again after quitting smoking weed?
This was after smoking for about a year and a half. It started of as just one spliff every week just to relax and then it changed to a few every weekend. About a couple of months into this, the monged out feeling that you get the morning after smoking seamed to start lasting longer. At first it didn't bother me much but then the time when I would feel normal again in between smoking started to get shorter and shorter until I felt like that all the time.
It feels like Im living in a dream and really disconnected from life, like Im just watching it rather than actually being there. It makes it really hard to concentrate and I am always feeling really tired. it started to effect my grades at school and my relationships with other people. And don't tell me that its all just psychological because its like a constant buzz in my head which is almost like the initial buzz you get when you take a few tokes from a sliff.
Anyway I started smoking much more often until it got to a pretty much daily thing. I tried to quit a few times before. The best I got to was about 3 weeks and I felt no different from doing that.
Its now been 6 weeks and I feel exactly the same as I did before I quit. How long will this last for?
I am so sick of it and I just want to be my old self again and get back to the ground.
Also I am considering smoking just one this weekend because I am really stressed at the moment. If I do I am going to make sure I burn a load of fat off the next day so that I can be sure that it wont send me back to square one again. Will this work? and will one spliff really make that much difference?
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I know exactly what you mean...I FEEL like I'm not completely "there" as it were, having months on and off it - not had any for nearly 4 months now and I'm STILL not back to normal, it IS bearable but not being able to get "fully alert" is a pain in the ****
That is exactly what happened to me.
I don't remember how long it lasted, and I didn't smoke that frequently.
I think it might have gone on for around 2 months.
you should go to doctor immediately.
Please stick at it although it does now the feeling like this wont be around forever!! what the price of feeling like this for a few weeks then being fine or having another one and putting yourself right back at square one felling crap!!
You can do this and feel much better about yourself.
GOOD LUCK!
I've been smoking pretty steady for about 7 years steady now, and I have taken the occasional month off here and there for your exact said reasons. I know where your coming from too... the one thing that really helped me come back to earth and get my brain functioning normally again was exercise and a clean diet. I would just engage in full-blown intense cardio and weight lifting almost everyday, as well as eating clean healthy foods(no fast-food or processed foods) and within a week I was feeling back to normal at least in terms of the functionality of my brain and how I was interacting with people. I definitely felt a lot more energy and quickness in my ability to think and form better sentences.
So my advice to you is, keep off the pot as long as you can until you start exercising and feeling back to your normal self, then just use pot for its true purpose which is to take off the stress, relax and forget your worries... which in reality shouldn't be an everyday thing unless you work a wicked job.
Hope that helps man.
Experience
Let me applaud your actions on you quitting. Smoking does disconnect you, and to get that connection back it is all up to you. You should be good about yourself and the choice you made. Make sure you DONT smoke to relieve yourself of stress. You will fall right back to where you were. Ans when you are high, you will either think to yourself that you are in control and smoke when ever you 'need' to.. Or you just won't care...Find some 'good' friend to surround yourself with and take you mind off of 'your stress'. For me, it only took about a month. But i never 'cheated' and took a puff from a passing joint. What you are 'feeling', in in your mind now, more psychological than physical.
Once the weed is out of your system (which does take about 6 weeks if you've been lighting up every day) you probably will still feel a little disjointed.
This is not due to THC - this is due to your brain being used to being in a relaxed disconnected state of mind.
To get back to a more sharp state of mind, you need to intentionally work on thinking that way.
Since you are stressed as hell, try and relax a different way ( a decaf tea with camomille, a dryer warmed blanket, soothing music) and don't go back to the weed.
Now when you're retraining your mind to be 'on point' you need to have a positive outlook - you can beat the 'dream', you just need to do two things: Catch yourself feeling dreamy, and substitute a logic-requiring thought (do a simple math question, or try to remember state captials, or something that requires brain power), and when you notice a sharp thought, CONGRATULATE yourself.
Retraining your brain takes some time, and a small amount of effort, but don't ever let your catching dreamy/disconnected state get you down. That just means you think about something logical and "at this moment" - it's not a failure. It's just a continuous retraining, until you tell your brain that you really do want it to start producing a sharper state of mind.
This is basical cognitive behavioural theory - it worked for my depression and anxiety.