Quit MJ after 17 yrs a 1/2 oz a week user. HELP
 

Have any of you guys ever quit and struggled like I am? I know it is what I want to do but I am alienating everyone around me. Man this sucks. I can't seem to control myself. I am not yelling but I am so confused and emotional like a woman right now it is horrible.

Never tried the stuff. Really.

How long ago did you quit?

It's tough. The main thing to remember is that your addiction is basically a perversion of the survival drives...somewhere along the line MJ got added in with Food, Water, Shelter, and Sex. Recognizing it as such makes it a bit easier, but nothing will make it a walk in the park.

Try finding a decent support group, but use your best judgement when "sounding" one out.

You also might try regular exercise. It will help flush the metabolites over time, and help you re-establish a normal wake-sleep cycle.

Hang in there, and good luck.

I'd probably end up drinking a lot.

I've tried the stuff, even regularly smoked as a youngster but it's never been a struggle for me. Quitting copenhagen was incredibly difficult. Most of the battle is sincerely making up your mind. Good luck.

well hello

truth there. quitting cigs the 1st ten times literally made me a nut case. by the grace of God i finally got it done. by the mercy of God booze and dope wasn't a problem. strange thing was, i loved getting drunk, and hated cigs. nasty smell and taste in your mouth, that sort of stuff.
anyways best of luck. i'll say a prayer for you.

It's very difficult. Moreso than most people realize, Mr. Chief Roundup.

My recommendation is that you find a 12 step program. The yellow pages and a few phone calls will locate a meeting in your area. If you're serious about the change, dive into the program with everything you've got.

It's the best (and oftentimes the only) way to accomplish what you're after.

Best,

FAX

Very true. Knowing you should quit doing something, and honestly wanting to are very different.

I believe most people fail because they only make a half-hearted attempt in the first place. I know that's been true of me in the past. (Concerning various bad habits.)

Havelock offers you some sound advice. Exercise is key, even if it only is walking, it will help your body. For your mind, understand what you're doing is to help yourself and your REAL friends will "weed" themselves out time. Explore new interests and look for new hobbies. Good Luck and God Bless.

I've quit a few times :)
I've smoked the ganj for about 8 years now. Only outside help i ever got that actually did anything was going to local NA meetings. here is a link with state listings to of group meetings: http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/meetings/a/blaa.htm

I gave up Copenhagen a month ago after chewing for over 25 years. I just woke up one day and said fug this, I'm done and gave it up cold turkey. I had read in advance that giving up chew was equivalent to knocking a heroin habit because of the amount of nicotine in a single pinch of chew. I knew what I was in for in advance and it still kicked my ass. I ran the same emotional gamut you are going through and was a world class dick weed to be around. I am just now leveling off. It must have taken that long for all the nicotine to leave my system. There were days when I was about half crazy. I would go from zero to sixty on the pissed off scale in about two seconds. Now that it’s over with (knock on wood) I feel a lot better, have more energy and have been hitting the weights and kick boxing hard again. What you are going through is totally natural, a pain in the ass, but totally natural. Expect your emotions to be off the chart for a period of time. If you get pissed off around your family or friends, take a walk, get out of there. Just know you made the right choice, the smart choice, things will level off, and you will be a stronger person for having the rocks to kick the habit. Hang in there and good Luck!! :thumb:

dip doesn't really affect you or the people around you like a marijuana addiction.. that's like biting your nails.

9 days

remember Mj is not physically addcitive only mentaly.

Unline Nicotine or Alchohol

MJ additcion is all mental


Mind over matter buddy!

:thumb:

Hey guys I am through. Just seeing how this is affecting makes me feel very ugly and not worthy of the great people that are now in my life.
The funny thing is that the kids seem to be calming but my wife seems to be the one that I am cold and distant to. And she does not deserve that.

I will never smoke again. It is over. It is just a matter of getting past this without making her hate me right now and wanting to leave.

Nictoine is very difficult to cold turkey. I bought a can of fake tobacco they sell at wal-mart called smokey mountain. Mixed 1/2 a can of copenhagen with 1/2 a can of that and only allowed myself a certain number of dips per day. After a few days I cut down on the dips allowed and then started mxiing only 1/4 copenhagen with 3/4 smokey mtn. Did that for a week or so and then finally switched all the way over to the fake stuff with no copenhagen. It was much easier then i thought it would initially be. If i had to do it again i would also use wellbutrin or zyban to help in the process.

Like biting your nails? As far as I know, biting yoru nails won't cause cancer or cost you a shit load of money. As far as quitting, quitting weed is easier than to quitting the Chew habit because of the physical addiction factor related to nicotine..........seriously, look it up.

He is And Idiot

Well I quit smoking cigs for 4 months and it was not nearly as emotional as stopping MJ. I did start cigs again after that though.

psssst...

if you're quitting, can i have your pipe? :bong:

That may have been a better route to go, but in my mind, I'm either doing something or I'm not so that's why I said screw this I'm doing it cold turkey. That technique is not for everyone, but I knew it was best for my personality. I knew it would be harder up front, but would be over faster. The first three weeks were a total bitch, but the last week was a walk through the park on a comparative level.

Every week I put $25 into a box (what it was costing me to use Copenhagen plus a little extra) and after one year, I am going to take the money and do something with the family. Here's the kicker. :drool: I told my wife if I fell off the wagon for even one chew during that year, I would make myself triple what was in the kitty and donate the money to PETA. Needless to say, I won't let that happen come hell or high water. :hmmm:

I thought this stuff wasn't addictive?

I smoked alot of weed 10-15 years ago. Haven't smoked on a regular basis in 9. I quit because I moved to Ohio and wasn't hanging around people who used. That makes it easy...

LOL, Brian, you know me well enough to know hell would freeze over before I would let something as dreadful as that happen. I thought of the worst punishment I could think of in the event I ever fell off the wagon and for me, donating to PETA was it.........I'm done.

Find something to do. Perhaps poker.

I've always heard that. I never felt I ever really NEEDED it. I don't see how it could be chemically addicitive, just psychologically, I suppose...

You bought a Peta fishing hat...

Anything that your body is used to running on is an addiction. For example sugar. When you have maintained a certain sugar level and try to change that level your body is used to, your body will crave it until it reaches the sugar level it has become used to. Only after stopping for a couple weeks will your body aclimate to the new levels.

Until then, you will be irritable. The mood swings can be very severe. Nicotine is only an addiction because of the longevity that your body has run on it. You dont smoke one cigarette and are suddenly addicted. Your body has to aclimate to it. Once it does, and then you try to stop your body is starving for it. That applies whether it is nicotine, fat, sugar, whatever.

CRU, you are almost there.

Yeah, that's what I think too. I had my day with it, days long past now, but I know a few people who are smoking 24/7, and nobody can tell me they aren't addicted in some respect. If everybody they know is 'dry' they pretty much freak out.

MJ is a good icing on the cake of life, but too many begin to make it the cake.

Working out really makes a huge difference... it makes you feel better than any substance can. I have been working out and man, I rarely even drink beer now.

Indeed, but I didn't know it at the time. The only reason I found out the wench was a PETA member was from her return address label. The issue with the crushed has has been taken care of, the money had been returned through Papal and negative feedback has been left. :evil:

Never really thought of it that way. I've recently cut way back on my Dr. Pepper consumption. I had an easier time quitting smoking...

This is a good explanation as to why the Atkins diet is crap, as well.

Reminded of the guys I used to know that had to smoke it because they had it,so stoned they didn't know they were stoned so had to smoke it till it was gone.

this depends on who you ask. some psychologists think a mental addiction is harder to quit than the physical addiction. for example, if you want to quit cigs, or chew, all you have to do is get over the physical withdrawls that go along with it. no small task i know, i'm a smoker. on the other hand, a mental addiction is harder to convince yourself of the want to quit, and your mind will "make up" physical symptoms of withdrawl.
regardless of which is an easier habit to quit, both are mountains that are difficult to climb.

that's why it's good to know lots of people... :p :p :p

That's because you have cut back on it and not quit.

To cut back is the same as trying to quit smoking and every so often, you smoke a few cigs. You either quit, or you just prolong the torture. Eventually, you will get tired of the torture, and give up.

same here, only i'm out.

AND I'M FREAKIN OUT MAN!!!!

j/k actually. i'm out, but not freakin out

Don't get me wrong, you make a valid point but there is a mental aspect that goes along with chewing as well. I know the first time I go out fly fishing this spring without chewing is going to be a bitch. The same goes for hunting and several other activities that one relates to putting in a dip. A person starts mentally incorporating various tasks in life with putting in a dip, lighting up, or downing a can of Mountain Dew.

The bottom line is, a person has to be ready to quit no matter what habit they are trying to break. If that's not the case, the probability of success is going to be limited at best.

:LOL:

i think fly fishing in itself is an addiction. the local trout season doesn't start till march 1 and i'm ready to go now. i'd say for sure not being able to go fishing is bothering me more right now than the fact i'm out of pot.

there was a party at my house yesterday and people took pain pills before drinking. sooo 8th grade

You could always take up golf, as well. Of course, you'd only be replacing one addiction for another.

mj is my only illegal vice. i don't take pills. hardly even take advil or asprin or any of that stuff.

Heh! Well if that's the case, it's one I'm going to keep. :)

i am ready to do some fishing too.

Smoking weed is also a social habit. A person that smokes habitually is likey to have a social circle that does the same. When you quit smoking weed, you also have to realize that the people you hang with have to change. Just like drinking.

There is nobody that is going to quit hanging with you because you quit dipping. Another example is smoking cigs. If you are a smoker and you are going to stay the week with someone who doesn't let you smoke, it becomes an inconvenience. When I smoked, I would rather hang with other smokers, than those who didn't. I remember taking my own car places, for no other reason than I couldn't smoke in the other persons car.

When I smoked weed, it gave me a reason to get together with my other friends. Someone might come over to burn one and hang out. Once I quit so did the social interaction with those people. At least to some degree. I just couldn't hang out with others if they were smoking. It was too tough. To quit a social habit it tough. It's not just a decision to not smoke. It's a statement to those you have been smoking with.

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Go get yourself some kava kava, it'll help take the edge off. I wish you the best of luck.

Thanks for eveyones words and all the help. I am glad that my real friends are quiting as well. But right now I kind of have to keep some space from my friends because with my emotional level and others levels who are also quiting I am afraid that it would just make for more anger and emotions that are just not good for anyone. I am sure that they understand that even though I haven't said that directly to them.

That is another thing about where I am It is like all of the sudden I have forgotten how to communicate with anyone including myself. It is like I have a huge block from one side of my brain to the other.

I quit smoking weed completely about 2 months ago and never felt any symptoms. I used to smoke a lot (by my standards at least) and just decided to stop. I don't feel any better or any worse, just saving a lot of money. Like Ali said, it's a good icing, but don't make it the cake.

I smoked pot (and did alot of other things) for most of my teen and adult life.

I quit by changing the group of people I hung around with.

I would strongly recommend against taking things (like Kava as Braincase recommended) because MJ is habit forming (as opposed to addictive) and you could actually develop a dependence on your "replacement" therapy.

The biggest thing for me was realizing I could have fun and and still make other people laugh without being stoned all the time. The other thing was learning how to write songs without it.

The only reason it is hard to quit mj is because it makes everything seem more entertaining. Movies, Sports, and the old ladies stories about her day at work.

A half ounce a week is a pretty big habbit. I maybe smoked an 1/8 an .oz a week at the most when I was into that stuff.

Anyway life goes on and I predict in a couple more weeks you'll be totally weened off the stuff.
The only bad thing is when you get back to reality full time, you'll propably find your long term memory is in shambles. I remeber bits and pieces of a lot of things, but hardly the whole story on other stuff. Sucks!!

Anyways congrats for trying to kick the habit. I am sure you can do it.

ps. the first thing you will notice is when you are around someone who just got high, they reak like MJ strong, bad smell. All those times you thought nobody knew you had just snuck away for a joint and were able to hide it, guess again.

absolutely true. though i never really chewed, almost my whole day involved cigs one way or another. cup of coffee in the morn, cig. call a customer or supplier, cig. drive to a job, cig. need somethin out of the truck, cig. finish eatin, cig. almost 6 yr gone scince quitting, and yet there are still times when i think about it. not only was the physical withdrawl tough, gettin past the mental aspect of thinkin about smoking when i'd do some of the things that incorperated smoking before was tough.
a made up mind is most important to quitting. so is a positive network of friends a activities. again, good luck

:spock:

How long does it take for cigarettes to become addicting? I started smoking recently, but it's purely on "want" basis, there's no need yet. I've yet to smoke a cig by myself.

Good luck man! I've been considering quitting myself. I'm trying to get into law school right now, and I'm sure my LSAT score will be a lot higher sans weed. I'm going to try and replace it with strenuous workouts that get those endorphins shooting through the brain.

PMS is a BITCH!!!!

(NPI)

Post Marijuana Syndrome.

Depending on your wife's cycle, one of you should spend a few days out in the tee-pee.

Oh yeah, you will probably wind up needing glasses. I quit, and after about 4 months, my arms got WAY too short.

Try to figure out how to cop a buzz on something entirely new. Like making the perfect pie crust, or a larapin' pot (NPI) of red beans and rice. You're gonna need sumpm ta make ya hungry.

Dinny

i'd say after the 2rd or 3th month i was trapped.

Hang in there and try to find things to do around people who aren't getting high. Exercise is good, but I think the real key is to just make it for a month or so without smoking. At some point, you will quit thinking about it all the time and it won't really be that hard anymore. But beware that you might have trouble if you end up being around people who are smoking again. It's better if you can completely avoid it. Good luck.

What's MJ?

It will never again be as easy to quit smoking as it is today. That I guarantee you.

Stop. Now.

How old are you?

Never stop smoking MJ, it is your friend.

Yeah, that's just what you need Ace, one more fat Bowl. So how's your pussycat?

You aren't smart enough to escape cigs. You'll be a slave to R.J. Reynolds for the next 50 years if you're one of the lucky ones.

Phillip Morris Owns my Nutz

I'm 20.

And yeah, I think I'll stop after this pack. I'm smoking bitch cigs anyway, shouldn't be that big of a deal. It's just a social thing right now, where my rommates and I take a break from whatever and go smoke outside.

Narcotics Anonymous, (417) 866-7392

http://www.na.org/

Get your butt to a meeting.

What Ali C said.

Don't get caught up in the little stuff. Think big picture; long term.

hahaha

You're about to find out just how stupid of an idea that was to start.

i quit cold turkey after 10 years of daily. even though i started when i was 12.

sack up & be a man. weed is for lossers.


haha lossers.

I started smoking the devil weed in 1968. About 1/2 0z per month I'd guess. About 10 years ago, I quit completely for about 3 years due to a job I had that required testing. I had no ill effects at all and really didn't miss it much. But yes, life is more enjoyable with it. I'm guessing it isn't entirely lack of ganja causing your behavior.

FTR Skoal was alot harder to quit than the whacky tabbacky.

When you act like a prick 24 hours a day with or without it, it may be tougher to guage your behavior.

You are a bad test sample.

Why thank you. GFY