comfort from weed without having to get high?

ok so just a little background, I took a break from smoking about 3 weeks ago. I had been smoking pretty much everyday for about 4 or 5 years. Now the first couple of days i was just really irritable but nothing too bad, after that I didn't even have cravings to smoke but i just felt like something was missing. This weekend i smoked like 4 blunts with my friend and ended up getting a dime off him, just to have when i really want to get high, because I find it's way easier to not smoke if i have it. Kinda weird but i feel safer knowing that if I really want to smoke, I can. If I dont have it, then it seems like I want it even more, but anyway what I was getting at with this thread is that since it was a dime i didn't really feel like putting the whole sack in my grinder so I've just been breaking it up by hand. It seems like when i break it up with my hands, its exactly the craving that I was looking for when I was taking a break, if that makes any sense. For example, I was thinking about smoking a bowl a few minutes ago and after I broke it up and packed the bowl I realized that I didn't even want to smoke that much, I just needed something to do with my hands and its sort of relaxing and almost ritualistic when you break up the weed and pack it all nice into the bowl or roll it up into a blunt. Anyway, I just thought that was kind of interesting and thought i'd share it with you all :jointsmile:

I sorta feel that way too. I found that I enjoy the actual process of packing up a bong and smoking it with some mellow music playing more than I enjoy being high. Its just such a relaxing process.

people who smoke ciggarettes often say one of the addictions is just how you handle/play with the ciggarette as you smoke it.

with weed im kind of the same way. i enjoy the entire process of smoking weed, not just the being high part.

Yeah,I like to just roll a joint,I aint perfect at it,but I just like grinding and then rolling,lol

Man... a friend of mine had said it, and it also happens with me... the mere fact of touching the weed and de-seeding it gives me a slight feeling of being high... its very relaxing and comforting... and surely it would help a lot if i were in a break and were craving to smoke... i would handle the weed, and the craving would go away...

i know exactly what you mean, i quit 3 weeks ago temporarily and this weekend i was at a party and rolled 3 blunts for my friends cuz i was craving it but after i rolled them i didn't even feel the need to smoke... also i felt kinda high :wtf:... coulda been from licking the tobacco leaf tho?

i LOVE grinding weed and rolling joints!!

yep :hippy:

yeah me and my friends have talked about it before, its knowing you dont have it and cant just blaze a toke whenever you want. Then when you get a bag you can put it off for so long cause you know its there

:thumbsup:Thats why I always roll as many joints as possible when I get a sack. It's just plain really fun to do.

Yea i can totally relate with that i love sitting down listening to 2pac and chopin up and stuff it is a truly beautiful process then i hav bongs which is just as good :bonghit:

Couldn't agree with the notion more.

I'm actually taken back by all of this because you really wouldn't think that breaking bud up would be just as fun as smoking it. but cygnustaxt brought it to the table and yes, the feelings are mutual. I used to smoke about 3-5 Ls in one sitting with 4-5 friends and I'd do all the grinding and separating since I don't enjoy rolling Dutches. It was like waiting for brownies to cool, you know the yummy goodness is coming soon.:) But after a year of getting stoned and always couchlocked, it bored me to death at times. So now I decided that I'm only smoking when I feel like getting a little high on my own terms.

After taking a few months off of chronic smoking, it's easier to get high off of 1 spliff or L. So now I get an 8th of some good bud and make it last. Since I haven't started to grow until this year, bud has been getting more ridiculously priced around my way so spending $30-50 a day wasn't working for my budget. My 8th's range from $45-80 depending who it's from. So buying one myself and only sharing a few joints with my good buddy, it lasts me about 1-2 weeks. It's been working out because I can now say I'm happier with saving the extra doe. Just thought I'd share my reality with you fine folks. Enjoy toking however you please :jointsmile: take care.


gmorning

very theraputic

Well im "addicted" to cigarettes.... and it really sucks.. but ive noticed that same thing!

If I dont have any cigs on me and havnt had one for a while... I crav it like a mutha ****er!.

but when I do have cigs on me... I feel like I can quit no problum!


but this is kinda off topic

I get a lot of the feelings and sensations that some have mentioned. I wouldn't go as far as saying "packing a bowl or rolling a j is better than getting high". Come on now. But still, I understand where you guys are coming from. There's just something amazing about grinding your bud up and rolling a blunt or joint. The same can be said about bowls, but moreso j's and b's.

When I haven't smoked for a couple weeks and I pick up a sack for the first time in a while, just the sight and even the touch of the bud gives me that 'high-ish' feeling. And don't even get me started on the smell.

i understand what you mean. ive wanted to smoke sometimes, and when i go to smoke ill usually take a long time to prepare, especially with my bong. Like ill usually give it a quick rinse. Clean out the ashes from the previous bowl, that kind of such. Then ill take a meticulously long time to pack it, almost playing tetris with each weed bit going to a certain spot, not that it even matters to me, but it gives me something to focus on, then ill finish packing the bowl, and set my loaded bong down. And watch tv or even do something not weed related for several minutes, pretty much ignoring the fact that i just pack a bowl. Then ill take a single hit. And relax for the next 10 minutes, and take another one, and then i realize, i packed more than i really wanted or needed, and sometimes, ill even let it set while i go to work, or have it ready for a wake n bake in the morning, though i usually pack up another bowl after finishing a started one and smoke it completely.

And i also know what you mean about not smoking. Lately ive been broke as ive ever been, and i have smoked all of about 2 times in the last 3 weeks myself, which helps cause im looking for a new job. But i remember the few days after smoking would always be centered around my want to smoke, not even cause it was addictive, but cause it is something i do when i get bored, i live in podunk nowhere, and i get bored a lot.

but i plan on buying an 8th before i go visit my pops this weekend, maybe get some travel smokage in, you never know, i may hit the headshop up in morgantown while im there.