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Quitting weed

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3rd day of cold turkey after more than 9 years (I don't remember exactly hehe), of quite intense daily (wake'n'bake, "functional stoner", 10+ smokes a day) use.
Tried stopping several times, every time it was a race to find a reason to smoke up again.

This time, the commitment is serious.

Oh Cannabis, Mary Jane, Marijuana, Weed, You sweet green mamba snake. You can replace everything in life, but at what cost?
I loved growing plants, smoking them and sharing with friends, but everything has it's depth and weed pond looks very shallow, after all these years :)
Bored? Smoke weed. Hungry? Smoke weed. Sad? Smoke weed. Happy? Smoke weed. Problem? Smoke some more. No problems? Smoke even more!
Tbh, I WAS functional stoner. Have a great job, family, kids, friends. But how functional? That's the question of a perspective :) I think at least 30% less functional than sober me.

I am a bit angry at myself, "that's why you can't have good things", I get addicted to good stuff easily and the feel incomplete without subject of my addiction.

Reddit has very good and supportive community "r/leaves", I thought maybe we could start a small "sober(ed) up" support thread over here too :)
 
I know the feeling. I quit from time to time for various reasons. This last time I quit for a year and only just recently started smoking pot again, but I feel that this will be short lived. I do enjoy smoking weed and would definitely consider myself a functional stoner. It never really got in the way of anything in my life, per se. For me it was about finding some clarity and moderation.

I don't think it's an addiction more than it is just sheer habit. Being a stoner is a lifestyle. You have all your stoner gear for the lifestyle, pipes, papers, grinders, trays, bongs and all the rest. I always kept that stuff in a box someplace when I quit, full well knowing that I should just get rid of it all. There it all sits, waiting for the stoner to return. I think I will always be a stoner at heart. I quit struggling with it. I smoke when I want and like I mentioned, quit when I want. I totally see myself as an old man sparking up a joint on my death bed.

Quitting is hard. The withdrawals from weed can be pretty intense and difficult to navigate. I think it always takes me about 2 weeks before I start to feel ok. I completely understand what you are experiencing quitting.

I think it's great that you made this commitment and I wish you success. More than happy to support you!

YOU CAN DO IT!!
 
Thanks for your opinions and support, friends :)
I understand that 3 days without weed might seem as ridiculous achievement, if you are a casual smoker.
4th day btw, it's much better already. Much less sweating, less anxiety, I am surprised that I don't have as big nausea towards food, as previous time I've tried.

This time it's gonna be it.
 
Decades ago this was government-sponsored propaganda in my $a¢rifi¢ed canuck province, dispatched from high orbit around planet cold turkey after it's been invaded by the living dead, brain eaters and other frightening blood sucker creatures escaped through the gates of hell:

Christiane F: Wir kinder von Bahnhof Zoo (1981) English subs @ 1h33m43s​

Personally i worship the satanic toilet zombie scene most @ 9m19s, but the vomit splashing one which ruins 2 good doses at the very last moment of anticipation is priceless! Too bad Halloween was just a few months ago, at least there's Easter left. Yano, celebrating the crucifixion of God's son himself. If only he had left a phone number, civilization could benefit from some divine advice received from beyond the sky... In The Name Of Children, poor little victims of stoner$/droÿé$!
 
Egzoset said:
Decades ago this was government-sponsored propaganda in my $a¢rifi¢ed canuck province, dispatched from high orbit around planet cold turkey after it's been invaded by the living dead, brain eaters and other frightening blood sucker creatures escaped through the gates of hell:

Christiane F: Wir kinder von Bahnhof Zoo (1981) English subs @ 1h33m43s​

Personally i worship the satanic toilet zombie scene most @ 9m19s, but the vomit splashing one which ruins 2 good doses at the very last moment of anticipation is priceless! Too bad Halloween was just a few months ago, at least there's Easter left. Yano, celebrating the crucifixion of God's son himself. If only he had left a phone number, civilization could benefit from some divine advice received from beyond the sky... In The Name Of Children, poor little victims of stoner$/droÿé$!
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Dude... I want whatever you are on!
 
Exitwound said:
3rd day of cold turkey after more than 9 years (I don't remember exactly hehe), of quite intense daily (wake'n'bake, "functional stoner", 10+ smokes a day) use.
Tried stopping several times, every time it was a race to find a reason to smoke up again.

This time, the commitment is serious.

Oh Cannabis, Mary Jane, Marijuana, Weed, You sweet green mamba snake. You can replace everything in life, but at what cost?
I loved growing plants, smoking them and sharing with friends, but everything has it's depth and weed pond looks very shallow, after all these years :)
Bored? Smoke weed. Hungry? Smoke weed. Sad? Smoke weed. Happy? Smoke weed. Problem? Smoke some more. No problems? Smoke even more!
Tbh, I WAS functional stoner. Have a great job, family, kids, friends. But how functional? That's the question of a perspective :) I think at least 30% less functional than sober me.

I am a bit angry at myself, "that's why you can't have good things", I get addicted to good stuff easily and the feel incomplete without subject of my addiction.

Reddit has very good and supportive community "r/leaves", I thought maybe we could start a small "sober(ed) up" support thread over here too :)
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I have also quit many a times, I think there was about 5-7 times where I quit for about a 6 month period was the longest stretch that I went for. Eventually I sort of drifted back into the cannahaze and like Graham Hancock put it, "the green bitch" which wasn't necessarily cannabis but his relationship with it. One time I spoke with an older lady on the topic and it was just incredible how many parallels/problems we both shared due to what she called the "dark princess..." She said in some South American countries they referred to cannabis as this as this plant spirit is a very sticky and possessive one, not just physically but metaphysically. Each time I drifted back in it was quite fast after having told myself I would only do it X number of times per week but before long I was back to being high 24/7.

This video was a bit sobering, this doctor had scanned thousands of peoples brains and found that cannabis, caffeine, nicotine where causing people to have less bloodflow to the brain but even without watching this I kinda knew it was affecting me, having a hard time remembering words/ideas/things, concentrating, doing basic math. As well understanding other people, and having myself be clearly understood was becoming more and more difficult.

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Also this is from Power Vs. Force, at first this seemed a bit woo-woo to me but they also calibrated various substances according to the same tests they used to come up with this scale(muscle-testing) and they found that cannabis was coming up at about 350 on the scale, which is at the level of acceptance, and this aligns with the second paragraph in the previous article and as well as my own observations of myself and others 'trapped' in the whole of cannabis addiction and the total chaos it can bring to peoples lives.
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Also while some people do not at all have any issues with cannabis, it's funny how every video you see on youtube about quitting cannabis, even though the video creator might have adressed this in their video, there are like hundreds of people all willing to chime in how it's great and amazing and doesn't affect anything... I know for sure I was also a "functional user" like many other people that live stoned but it reached a point where it wasn't possible to keep my head in the sand. One thing I think that helped me a lot was Sananga, the Tabernathe Undulata eye drops. I was taking them for a while and was a bit sad that 'they didn't help' because I kept vaping weed the whole time and I was expecting my Sananga practise to just magically 'fix' my life for me but then I would keep vaping. It wasn't until several months later where it sort of fell away organically, as it did other times in the past... when I felt it was time to stop it wasn't as difficult as I had been making it out to be but this time it also feels more 'grounded.' I guess we get a bit wiser, unless if we don't 😉

Also after a long time of being a 'chronic' I found myself being moody, over the smallest little things. As well at times when I abstained and observed other 'chronics' I also observed the same moodyness, irritability, impatience etc. Each time I stopped for a while I was presented with someone in my life and given the experience of dealing with a pothead almost like karma is a real thing 😉 and it was good to ponder on this new perspective.

Definitely feel like my vocabulary, memory, cognitive function is all starting to come back. Thinking more clearly, strange chest pains are going away, being happy to talk to others and feeling much, much much more connected to others when I do. Feeling less lethargic as well, but also still sort of battling chronic exhaustion, still needing to get my sleep cycles back on track after so many years where I was just content to stay up to crazy hours of the morning doing nothing really productive. Anyways keep it up, wishing you all the best in your journey.
 
Voidmatrix said:
I'm so happy for you. I want to get my habit under better control. Stresses of life kinda caused me to stop caring and now I am where I am. How are you sleeping?
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I using a bit of help from beer, to go to sleep. Dreams are back and on a funny side: what did I get in my first remembered dream many years? Dream about shitting yourself in the most humiliating way :D I think it was a sign that I am on the right path.

Brain fog is still present. Typically I have no problem recounting things in my head , not now if it's more than 5 things, I'd rather use spreadsheets :)

Currently the most unpleasant physical effect is high hart resting rate (95-100 bpm) and pressure (systolic 120+).
But it also get better, very very slowly from day to day.

Cravings for getting high are not that hard to fight, had to say firm "no" to several little devils (friends) that inevitably arrived on the path.

Keeping yourself occupied with life stuff is very helpful.
Very positive side of quitting is that energy and ability to "not procrastinate" is already back. This week has been very productive in terms of getting things done :)
 
Exitwound said:
Thanks for your opinions and support, friends :)
I understand that 3 days without weed might seem as ridiculous achievement, if you are a casual smoker.
4th day btw, it's much better already. Much less sweating, less anxiety, I am surprised that I don't have as big nausea towards food, as previous time I've tried.

This time it's gonna be it.
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I think it peaks on day 2 or 3, then gets better quickly for 1-2 weeks. Then, strangely enough, gets better very slowly for a month or three (maybe more). This is even after having a 3 day binge after a long abstinence, so I'm pretty sure fat solubility has nothing to do with it. I think Cannabis has a unique effect on receptors and that last little bit takes a while to come back.

Anyway, you're over the worst. Next challenge is at a few weeks when you feel pretty good and think, "Once won't hurt". At that stage, once takes you back to square one rather quickly.
 
I know the feeling. I now only use cannabis on special occasions. Never more than once a week, and preferably only once or twice a month.

What i like most about cannabis, is how well it synergizes with LSD and mescaline, and most of these special occasions are me taking LSD or mescaline. This is maybe the only way of using cannabis with a realy very low potential for abuse because you cannot use LSD or mescaline on a daily basis anyway, even if you would realy want to.

What i found realy hard about quitting cannabis, is that most of the realy fun things in life are so much more fun on cannabis. I mean, there are the innevitable outbursts of pure rage because the bag in your pedalbin ruptured without warning. And that's bad enough already.
But choosing not to do something you realy like because it just isn't as much fun anymore as it would normally be....that was the stupidest part of cannabis withdrawals for me.

But it is still so much better than:"i'm gonna stop smoking weed tomorrow". For months on end.
 
i'm happy for you :)

i quit 6 years ago and now i know it has been one of the best choices i made in my life
keep going, trust your decision, it is worth it

if you feel like smoking, try to think about what you expect from weed and what instead you would get. often the thought of smoking and the first hit are way better than the high itself. otherwise you wouldn't have come to this conclusion. so never doubt your decision

you will find out many things about yourself that smoking used to hide, and hopefully you'll be able to address the reason why you got addicted in the first place
 
From my POV, discussing quitting smoking/addiction is as valid discussion here in this sub-forum as "enjoying smoking", it's also an aspect of cannabis, whether you agree with it or not.
Your are not owner of this website or moderator, to tell anybody what to do here.
Since you obviously don't like this topic, I ask you to please ignore it and stop posting in my thread.
Your negativity is not welcome here.

P.s. 1 week clean and going strong :)
 
15 years of wake and bake mentality followed by quitting completely for about another 15 years and changed many things about my life for the better.

Nowadays I seem to be cultivating a new relationship with THC. Much less destructive, more creative application. Strict rules about having everything done during the day before indulging. Kids in bed? Now I can eat some butter or smoke a tiny little roll up lightly laced, then play guitar or listen to music while meditating. The idea of wake and bake now feels impossible.

Only took 30 years of addiction and time wasting converted into effort and discipline to reach this point. Story of half a lifetime.
 
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