quitting weed after 5 years of daily use/abuse

wait, wait, wait! now it is five years later and you are out of high school and have not accomplished a lot and lost a lot of friends and think the pot is the main culprit?

step 1) enroll in college
Step 2) attend all classes, apply for fafsa upon enrollment
step 3) dont quit the pot just use with responsibility. Motivation is not the biggest weak link here it is the lack of motivation due to seeing your friends leave you behind at the end of high school. I dont see how pot has anything to do with this because this happened to all my friends and none were really into pot during those firat five years out of high school.


Ya get out of high school and it is kinda a cluster fuck. People leave the area to get away from family and even friends or exgfs/bfs. I think in your pot haze you were looking at this from the wrong angle. Moderation as some others suggested. But anyways, why not enroll in some classes, meet new friends! even if you have no intentions of using the degree, or even getting a degree. The years after high school are, without a doubt, the most tumultuous. If you spent them high it might be easy to blame the pot but those friends might have been long gone either way.

Well, here is one problem for you: you started smoking in high school. So that, what, makes you 23 at the most? You shouldn't be smoking every day simply because of your age. Your brain is still developing. Let it alone until you're 25, then smoke again. And try sativa, rather than indica, strains. Indica sticks you on the couch; sativa opens your mind.

AND you are NOT addicted. Marijuana is NOT addictive. It is HABIT-FORMING, but it IS. NOT. ADDICTIVE. You do not have physical withdrawal symptoms of any note. If this were true, America could be full of people running around in absolute pain every time their supply ran dry for three or four days. Addicts will commit crimes and let other people put their stinking penises in their mouths for money.

Have you ever contemplated sucking a 300lb man's cock in a parked car in a garage or some shit?? Have you contemplated beating an old woman's head in so you can maybe get enough money for a bump?

No? Then you are not addicted.

Have you been wracked with bone-breaking bouts of shivering, nausea, cramps, paranoia, anxiety, asking God to kill you? Fevers, diahrrea? No?

Well, then, you just have a mild weed habit.

You are not on a "path to recovery." Don't pity yourself and think that quitting weed is anything like quitting painkillers or crack or heroin. Pot heads don't "recover," they simply quit. Anyone who has gone through rehab would read your little story and laugh until they had shit stains in their pants.

Sorry for the harsh response. But kid, you're just a weed smoker, pot head, crispy critter. No different than tens of millions of others who've gone down the path. Quitting pot? Go ahead. But don't blow your pot problems out of proportion.

Really? So I must assume you don't believe in tobacco addiction either? Even though its one of the biggest killers, and even when people are dying and struggling to breathe they often still can't quit? Yet it produces none of the effects you describe, so therefor its not a legit addiction?

Get off your high horse and stop trying to belittle other peoples issues mate. You sound like a pretentious elitist.

I always wonder,
What do you try to think of while sucking dick for money?

Good luck, pick up an alternate hobby to fill the void.

Exercise is the best alternative, however - to each their own.Your biggest problem is going to be idle hands...

48 hours

It's been about 2 days so far since I smoked. Been offered to smoke countless times already and just keep denying the offer. This part is pretty difficult. It is so readily available that I can't distance myself from it, I just have to remain strong in my resolve to quit. I let my friends know its the weed I'm trying to get away from, not them. Some have taken it personally, like I don't accept them anymore or something, while others don't take offense to it.

I noticed I have an abundance of energy now. Crazy bursts of rage and anger. I just want to scream to let it out. I've started lifting weights again whenever I get these surges of power. I lift for awhile then feel defeated almost and then I find something else to do.

Also have a ton of time on my hands. The house is already 10x cleaner then it was before. Been walking the dog and visiting my family.

I suck at video games now. I can't sit around and play them 24/7 anymore. I get bored of them much faster then before, I can maybe play for a hour or so before I have to get up and do something else.

Appetite is sort of gone. Only eating one large meal a day. Asked my friends about this and they said it will return soon enough.

Been thinking about how I have lived my life the last several years and really re-assessing things.

Anyway that's all I have to say, Hope this helps someone out there.

Quit it,

but let others know what good it helped you with.
how it did heal your depression stress and everyday pains, and how you don't get it anymore after 5 years of being on the weed medication.

Tell them how the herb medication works.

If they all knew it were a medicine then they would be you family and friends. But because thinking weed is bad, makes your whole life bad.

Weed is Good, and Heals your pains faster than other chemist drugs. Weed should be used by more people to see what they missing. As for me, I don't smoke weed, as it healed what multiple doctors could not cure.

So to help other suffering an illness,

Smoke WEED and be Free

You guys are seriously pathetic...

Wanna know what has been exponentially more harmful than the weed you have been smoking?

THE GUILT YOU PUT ON YOURSEL FOR DOING IT.

Crack heads, speed freaks, and heroine junkies "lose" their families, not fucking pot smokers.

Also, from what I can see of these posts here, if it wasn't weed, it would have been something else.
"Something else" being some other obsessive and/or compulsive behaviour you would have found, instead of weed.

That lack of self control is what has poisoned your mind, self respect, and perceptions. In your ignorance though, you are now blaming a fucking PLANT for your problems and failures, and not the thing actually responsible... YOU!

You need to figure out why this pattern of behaviour exists in your life and especially why you, a grown ass man, doesnt have the testicular fortitude to not feel guilty about the things he does.
Because I have sad news for you, quitting weed will not fix your problems. Without figuring out the root cause for your patterns of behaviour, you WILL only end up replacing weed with something else. It might be a shitty relationship that sucks your soul out or another type of addiction.

The temporary happiness you feel after u quit smoking grass will vanish after the void it leaves behind goes unfilled. You'll then fill that void with something else unconciously, and the guilt and self loathing will return, only now you'll be blaming beanie babies, world of warcraft, fatty foods, or the shitty relationship your stuck in.

You guys are seriously pathetic...

Wanna know what has been exponentially more harmful than the weed you have been smoking?

THE GUILT YOU PUT ON YOURSEL FOR DOING IT.

Crack heads, speed freaks, and heroine junkies "lose" their families, not fucking pot smokers.

Also, from what I can see of these posts here, if it wasn't weed, it would have been something else.
"Something else" being some other obsessive and/or compulsive behaviour you would have found, instead of weed.

That lack of self control is what has poisoned your mind, self respect, and perceptions. In your ignorance though, you are now blaming a fucking PLANT for your problems and failures, and not the thing actually responsible... YOU!

You need to figure out why this pattern of behaviour exists in your life and especially why you, a grown ass man, doesnt have the testicular fortitude to not feel guilty about the things he does.
Because I have sad news for you, quitting weed will not fix your problems. Without figuring out the root cause for your patterns of behaviour, you WILL only end up replacing weed with something else. It might be a shitty relationship that sucks your soul out or another type of addiction.

The temporary happiness you feel after u quit smoking grass will vanish after the void it leaves behind goes unfilled. You'll then fill that void with something else unconciously, and the guilt and self loathing will return, only now you'll be blaming beanie babies, world of warcraft, fatty foods, or the shitty relationship your stuck in.

I have left my friends family and life for weed and am now on the path of recovery. I have tried to quit before and relapsed multiple times. It all started out of curiosity of why do my friends use it? It was almost like a science project at first in that I wanted to know why. Now I understand how hard it is to quit and I feel that it is time to begin healing myself and others. After over 5 years of use, it is time to HEAL.

It's a psychological addiction

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