Cannabis Withdrawal Symptoms

[Dave Canvey]

Hello,

I'm 23, smoke cig's and weed - about 20 cigs/day and about a gram a day of weed.

I haven't smoked a joint since Saturday night, I'm a heavy user 4-8 spliffs a day, say .25 grams per joint during the week and then anywhere between 1/8 oz and 1/4 oz on the weekends. I haven't been without weed since about september last year, during that time I had the same problem as what I'm about to describe.

Last night (Monday night) I was getting hold and cold flashes, sweating and felt very nauseated. Every time I laid down to go to sleep I would get so hot that I would have to go outside and cool down. Strange, but when I was sitting up I wasn't getting as hot. A couple of times I got really hot, sweated quite a lot and then was very very cold. I went for an hour long walk at 6am because I couldn't sleep, I got back and I was still getting the hot and cold flashes and wasn't able to sleep. I was feeling nausea and eventually was sick. I eventually passed out rather than went to sleep at around 8am or 9am. I'm still getting the hot flashes as I type this message.

Last time this happend it passed in a few days. Now I'm seriously wanting to give all this up, but I don't feel like I have the power too. I wonder if anyone else has had any experiences like mine. A mate of mine who I smoke with on a regular basis says he hasn't had this happen to him, but he doesn't smoke as much as I do during the week, he does at the weekends.

I went to my doctor, but he didn't seem to care or be able to speak very good english so thats pretty much a dead-end.

I've read about a few symptoms of withdrawal from cannabis and a lot of other stuff saying there isn't any withdrawal symptoms associated with cannabis. I'm wondering whether this is a way for my body to "flush out" the toxins that it couldn't do while I kept topping up my THC. I've read that other drugs cause these types of symptoms.

I've also been getting quite bad chest pains for about 6 months - all this should make me want to stop, but it doesn't - I don't feel like I have control.

Does anyone else share these experiences or have any advice, I feel lost and I don't know what to do.

Thanks.

[buddymyfriend]

Find something else to fill the time you would've spent smoking, failing that why not try crack? Jest kiddin, go back to the quack and demand some answers/help!! The first few weeks will be the worst, but once you hit 2 weeks it's easy street from then on!!

Peace n Good Luck:thumbsup:

Buddy

[Bong30]

Quit the cigs, and keep the weed..........

[Inferius]

This is your penance for being a no-good dirtee' rotten' stoner!
heh. Nah. Action Re-action.
Look here: http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_effects.shtml
Scroll down to Withdrawal symptoms.

[BloodAngel]

I personally have never had any withdrawl symptoms, other than being like "damn I wish I could smoke right now"

[yoda]

when i havent smoked....im a little more edge, and i cant sleep right. it only lasts a few days though.

[Skink]

I had a dream last night that i started smoking ciggs again... IT WAS A FUCKING NIGHTMARE!!!

[phytokind]

Yeah you're quitting the wrong thing, definitely quit the cigs and keep the weed, didn't you see that study that said that smoking weed doesn't cause lung cancer? But cigs will do all kinds of nasty things to your health.

[zephyrinne]

I say what everyone else is saying.. stop smoking cigs. They're horrible for you. It's easier to stop now while you're young. Definately worth it, though it may suck at the beginning.

But anyways, I have never met anyone or talked to anyone that has had the problems you described.. except when something else was wrong not weed related, such as a cold, mono, etc. I'd find another doctor.. if you're a student, try your school's health clinic. But definately get that stuff checked out.. chest pains aren't normal.

[Skink]

I've lived with chest pain for like 4 years now... For me living with it is better than going to a hospital and have them fuck U up for life... JMHO

if I watch my BP and get some cardio excersize,, in like pushing my lawn mower around my yard,,,"people think I am nutz for cutting my grass so much...LOLz" and no more ciggs,,, I can controll the chest pains to almost non existant,when truly focused...

[TheBudBuster]

chest pain could mean asthma if you dont already have it. plz cut da ciggies woots the point if they dont get you high and give you cancer.Just put a wee bit a feg into your spliffs.eventually no feg.

[FeastonThisSHITT]

I get cranky like a motherfucker. I can't sleep.

[homestar]

cranky...yeah that's an understatement for me, i can be an asshole without pot. it's why i must keep smoking!!

[FLORIDA MON]

I smoke every day and often stop for up to 2-3 days at a time.

No withdrawls as far as I can tell.

But, when I get ready to go again...I just can't wait!

[MaryJaneintheCloset]

I smoke every day and often stop for up to 2-3 days at a time.

No withdrawls as far as I can tell.

But, when I get ready to go again...I just can't wait!

Hey FloridaMon- I think you're pretty close to me, I just saw you went to a show at the Amp. I'm in the Tampa area, how about you?

If you want, you can email me at [email protected] It's always nice to talk to people in the area! :)

[WeedFaerie420]

I also smoke on average a gram a day but there are definetly a lot of times it's more than that. The rare times I couldn't smoke weed for a whole day or more, I got withdrawal symptoms like you did. I got hot and cold flashes. I was very nauseus, had no appetite and was irritable. Mental addictions can cause physical symptoms of withdrawal. Don't get too worried, just realize what you're feeling will go away if either...1. smoke weed again , or 2. you go through with at least a week or more of sobriety. I like choice 1 personally, but you do you :thumbsup:

[Jay Matix]

when i smoke for a few weeks straight and then stop smoking for a few days i get irritable and it's harder to go to sleep. But that only lasts a couple days... but then again i'm not a heavy smoker.... i limit myself usually and go on breaks.

[Storm Crow]

Been toking for 40 years and the only withdrawal symptoms I have is a slight increase in profanity. (I'm usually a sweetie). Everyone's biochemistry is different, so I guess some folks might have actual withdrawal symptoms. I'd just treat it like a hangover. Extra "B" vitamins(they perk you up), lots of liquids (flush the system) and a couple aspirins.

[NextLineIsMine]

you could also have just gotten a virus, smoking hurts your immune system significantly. I used to literally never get sick but now I do a few times a year

[Green Love]

excessive tobacco use, lol.

[2600]

I also smoke on average a gram a day but there are definetly a lot of times it's more than that. The rare times I couldn't smoke weed for a whole day or more, I got withdrawal symptoms like you did. I got hot and cold flashes. I was very nauseus, had no appetite and was irritable. Mental addictions can cause physical symptoms of withdrawal. Don't get too worried, just realize what you're feeling will go away if either...1. smoke weed again , or 2. you go through with at least a week or more of sobriety. I like choice 1 personally, but you do you :thumbsup:

So someone else admits it too. Hell yes you can have all of those symptoms and more, though of course not everyone does. The psychosomatic factor you mentioned is a legit possibility (as was someone mentioning the potential that the OP just had a virus). I'm just not completely certain it's purely psychological. Nausea can indeed sometimes come from nothing but pure nerves; so it might be purely psychological in source, but regardless of the origin, hot flashes and nausea feel pretty phuckin physical to me, and no amount of assuring me "don't worry- weed is only psychologically addictive" will convince myself that it is in my head (or makes me feel better). That said, w/d from alcohol, tobacco, and coffee are probably more, if not intense, then at least more universal (at least judging by how RARE it is that one seems to suffer w/d symptons from weed), and possibly even more debilitating (longer term and more impact throughout your whole day- weed w/d does generally effect most peoples sleeping and eating anyways the first few days, assuming they were smoking alot).

Also, as growers' (un)natural selection continually reinforces the strong strains, while at the same time "weeding out" the least preferred, herb just becomes more and more potent- not only higher %'s of THC, but possibly the thousands of other chemicals in herb as well (many of which are also psychoactive).

Agree with everyone else who advised you to quit cigs though. Interesting topic. Thanks for sharing Dave (&WF).

[Reefer Rogue]

It's obviously the tobacco.

[Kn1vez]

Hello,

I'm 23, smoke cig's and weed - about 20 cigs/day and about a gram a day of weed.

I haven't smoked a joint since Saturday night, I'm a heavy user 4-8 spliffs a day, say .25 grams per joint during the week and then anywhere between 1/8 oz and 1/4 oz on the weekends. I haven't been without weed since about september last year, during that time I had the same problem as what I'm about to describe.

Last night (Monday night) I was getting hold and cold flashes, sweating and felt very nauseated. Every time I laid down to go to sleep I would get so hot that I would have to go outside and cool down. Strange, but when I was sitting up I wasn't getting as hot. A couple of times I got really hot, sweated quite a lot and then was very very cold. I went for an hour long walk at 6am because I couldn't sleep, I got back and I was still getting the hot and cold flashes and wasn't able to sleep. I was feeling nausea and eventually was sick. I eventually passed out rather than went to sleep at around 8am or 9am. I'm still getting the hot flashes as I type this message.

I've read about a few symptoms of withdrawal from cannabis and a lot of other stuff saying there isn't any withdrawal symptoms associated with cannabis. I'm wondering whether this is a way for my body to "flush out" the toxins that it couldn't do while I kept topping up my THC. I've read that other drugs cause these types of symptoms.

I've also been getting quite bad chest pains for about 6 months - all this should make me want to stop, but it doesn't - I don't feel like I have control.

Does anyone else share these experiences or have any advice, I feel lost and I don't know what to do.

Thanks.

I know that the carbon monoxide in cigs (and there is also some carbon monoxide in weed) causes your lungs and blood to be low on oxygen. Carbon monoxide takes up all the space that oxygen would have in your blood. SO your heart has to work harder. If you can smoke les cigarettes, get on the patch, get a friend to help, you will be a lot better off.

Combine quitting smoking with a healthy diet. You eat more fruits and vegs, get vitamin c, orange juice, and drink lots of water. (There have ben cancer patients who felt better and were healthier off of vitamin c versus chemotherapy.)

The more natural your diet the better. Eating less junk food and getting more home cooked food also helps a bunch.

The key problem is the anxiety you get after not smoking cigarettes. To deal with that, if weed doesn't help, you will have to try the patch and maybe get a "lets quit smoking" friend who will help you.

[TheBudBuster]

Excellents thread.. alot to learn here... back when i joind the forum. i would smoke anything..but now its just greeen..i do feel better i dont smoke as much.. but yea the damage has already been done..i will most like ly die or get Sick (cancer) because of the breif period that i smoked ciggs. terrible... the goverment has make it clear just how healthy they want us.all this alco and tobac and chemical drugs are bringing the western world down. sorry the govt are bringing us down...
CA N the people not overthrow the goverment or would the army come in and gun the people down.......

[Reefer Rogue]

I think my biggest cannabis withdrawl is wanting to smoke more cannabis.