Clean Slate

So I'm trying to quit because I think the negative effects of too much smoking are starting to become clear. It's easy to say quit buying it, but how long does that compulsion to buy it when you run out, because that's what you do, last? It's almost like a battle of inner dialogue. And the sleepless nights, about how many.......? They're not easy... Did anyone ever think that this would become such a problem, or to put it mildly, a dilema?

soccerchamp76

I did it a lot my this past fall semester, and it was always free, because I had a car so we drove, smoked, and came back to campus. I never did it at home and only started it at college (gotta experiment sometime), but the spring semester I only did it once and then they wanted me to start paying......so I stopped. I had no ill-effects from stopping, no withdrawal symptoms at all.

I guess just try to avoid any situations that involve weed at all.

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stevie667

I quit smoking weed a month or so back, just told myself no more and refused anything that came my way.

Yeh i was a grumpy bastard who never got any sleep, but that passes suprisingly quickly. It's limiting yourself next time you have pot around you thats the hard bit.

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Duaegis

I've also been trying to quit smoking for a while, and I keep doing it lol.
I've found that not talking or hanging out with people that do smoke REALLY helps to quitting. My only problem is that I'm a very regular smoker. In the last 3 years I haven't went more than 1-3 days at a time without smoking and usually it's every day from the first 5 min I'm awake until I go to sleep.
The friends I hang out with on a regular basis smoke, and when I'm sitting at home trying to quit I get really bored. That's why I'm on the message board right now, because I'm so bored lol.

Has anyone ever gotten sick and thrown up after "smoking out". Last night after smoking out my car I got sick to my stomach after 30 min. afterwards and threw up. I'm a little confused because I've never gotten anywhere near getting sick because of bud. I couldn't see in the dark but when I went inside to wash my mouth out I spit and it had a lot of red in it. Was this blood perhaps?

thingstodo

Seems silly, but just stop. It's not addictive. Possibly a little on the psychological side but certainly not like cigs. More of a habit like blinking your eyes alot, coughing, that sort of thing. And not like drinking or other drugs, either. It's more a lifestyle - for example, like some people think they can't face a long drive without some smoke. They can but just don't want to!

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SSJTWIZTA

Drink more..thats about it...plain and easy.

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hunnychile

This is still a very important and relevant post because, let's face it, Gang, we ALL know someone who is still Very into smoking pot. I quit a long, long time ago because it made me paranoid and extremely nervous. But I have to admit that Yes, I did start drinking more. It's not a great feeling to know either. My S.O. still likes to smoke (ALOT) and I would much rather he kept on smoking instead of drinking more because he becomes intensely abusive as a drinker.

Any thoughts? I'm at wits end regarding this issue. It's such a major issue on all accounts. I don't think I can handle this much longer.

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Sage

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Walk away, hunnychile, walk away. Part of the effects of drinking is it makes you feel more impulsive and less confined by the restrictions that society places on you. It's an outlet for deeper, regressive emotions. If someone gets angry and abusive when they drink, those are feelings that are latient when they're sober... but how long are they going to stay latient?

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Dissociated

Well first of all what are your reasons for wanting him to quit? Weed is a relatively safe and mind expanding drug that happens to be a lot of fun, but can be abused. If your friend is spending a lot of money on it and he does it to escape his reality on a regular basis, then yes you should probably help him out in which case everyone else has already said what I could think of. But if he only does it like once a week to chill out and relax then I think you should just leave him be. Hell it's a lot safer than alcohol anyway.

pan6467

There are newer studies showing weed is physically addictive. It is most definitively psychologically so.

The belief "weed is safe" is bullshit. In groups I can spot those that smoked weed on a regular basis faster than I can 99% of other drug users (the only 1% would be those in true alcohol or opioid detoxification).

It slows reflexes and creates a split second delay in cognitive thinking. Both of which after time become permanent. (Hence the name "burnout"). It also kills motivation and destroys memory short term and long term.

For anyone to say weed is "a safe drug", they truly are either a smoker or are going by what friends have told them.

But then again, noone wants to hear a lecture on the truth, so people will believe what they wish to believe. There will be those that argue, but the there are simple tests to see if there is truth in which I speak.....

1) can they put it down for a length of time, without any cravings or change in personality?

2) look at how they act, their memory, reflexes, thought processes, motivation, etc and compare them to before the person smoked or just compare them to when first meeting the person and watch...... because those aspects once they start going they are gone with continued use and depending on the use and the damage, those functions may never come back. Those functions will always be less than what they were before the person smoked.

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Kensei

Whoever said there were no such things as dumb questions didn't know what he/she was talking about.

You want to stop smoking weed? Then stop smoking it. Bye bye.