Adapting to Quitting

[Dutch Pimp]

I've been smoking weed since December, 1967. I stop when I have to ..and I start up smoking when I can. I enjoy it.

Dutch Pimp Reviewed by Dutch Pimp on 04-02-2008. Adapting to Quitting I've smoked weed for 5 years now, and for the past two years I've smoked weed almost daily (all day, every day) with a few 1-2 day breaks in there. It's come time for me to quit and I've gone 3 weeks already with no problem. I've experienced minimal withdrawl symptoms, mainly just heightened anxiety. Over the past week or so I've been noticing some symptoms of depression. I've been depressed before (before I started smoking weed) but it was nothing major. I was wondering if this is because Rating: 5

[boaz]

. . . I stop when I have to ..and I start up smoking when I can. I enjoy it.

yeah, that sums it up for me, too. :jointsmile:

[boaz]

Okay...so it's been almost 5 weeks. I am not sure how long it's going to take for me to pass a drug test administered by a workplace. I used to smoke very potent weed on a regular basis (All day, everyday for almost 3 years). I've heard anywhere from 1-3 months. I want to buy a home drug test like from Walgreens, but I want to know if it will be as effective as the one I'll have to take for a job. Does anyone know anything about this?

i ordered the test strips off the internets a few years back and they worked, they are prolly the same. i started testing myself about month 2 and kept on until i finally tested clean, almost at month 3 . . . :rastasmoke: i took a pre-employment screen about a week later and passed.

as far as feeling anxious and depressed at first, i did too a little, i think that is normal. what really helped me was to just be outside, hiking, riding my bike, or just going for a long motorcycle ride always did the trick. good luck, bro.

[boaz]

I guess one good thing that's coming of all this is that I stepped on the scale today and lost a few pounds...I guess all those late night munchies were catching up with me after all!

yeah, i hear that . . . i almost forgot the best part about quitting, for me, was that apparently weed causes you not to dream that much so when you quit they come back with a vengence :stoned: i had a bunch of lucid dreams, where you, at some point in the dream realize that it is a dream and you just go with it. those are really cool. is that just me or has anyone else experienced dream rebound when they quit?

[KattyG]

my older brother is destroyed because of smoking marijuana all the time throughout his teens and most of his 20s-30s he has massive skitsofrenia ( bad spelling soz ) and it has ruined him, he has lost his child and cannot hold a job. he turned into my worst nightmare and i cant have contact with him now. marijuana can have very bad effects, it has been proven and shown from alot of people who have developed mental disorders but only if smoked throughout every day for every month for a lot of years.

[silkyblue]

aint it about choice?
no one puts that bag in your can but u!

how much? its only numbers

I hear ya kattyg


my bro drinks like a fish
hes lost his wife,
son, and 5 year old daughter bcoz of booze

a persons either a happy drunk, black out drunk,
or a sad drunk

I used to drink I quit

yep Ima pot smoker
come get me

Ive quits alot


its the mind

the mind

no one dies from withdrawels, might b fugly for awhile, but
no one dies from withdrawels

yeah I cry rivers that lead to oceans bfd when I dont [rare] have herby

but the feeling when I have herby

out weighs all of it


I'll b the poster child for mj
you betcha



It helps me cope with this shitty ass world

:rastasmoke:

[Bond]

yeah, i hear that . . . i almost forgot the best part about quitting, for me, was that apparently weed causes you not to dream that much so when you quit they come back with a vengence :stoned: i had a bunch of lucid dreams, where you, at some point in the dream realize that it is a dream and you just go with it. those are really cool. is that just me or has anyone else experienced dream rebound when they quit?

If never heard of this.... Now i want it to happen so bad.

How long was it when you started having these dreams? I'm currently at about 1 month.

[chrons]

If never heard of this.... Now i want it to happen so bad.

How long was it when you started having these dreams? I'm currently at about 1 month.

The lucid dreaming only happens for some, I know a lot of my friends who have quit smoking, did not have any change in their dreaming, but I did, and it was very wild!

About a week after I quit smoking, and as hard as it was to sleep, when I did get there, my dreams were very intense and extremely vivid. I would wake up WANTING to go back to sleep to re-enter my dream world. I loved every second of it, and I do also believe dreams come back with said "vengeance" because I didn't dream once during my pot smoking days, but used to a lot.

It slows down though, my dreams have somewhat returned to normal, the initial shock of dreaming again is what's fun.

Enjoy every aspect of smoking, even the withdrawl :stoned:

It will always get better :thumbsup:

[KattyG]

aint it about choice?

I hear ya kattyg

etc

It helps me cope with this shitty ass world

:rastasmoke:

cheers man, sorry for ur bruv man.
drink can be some nasty shit.

and isnt that the reason why everybody smokes?
but now i dont have any herb, my link has gone MIA!

[HerbalConfusion]

Just so you know that study was done on rats last time i checked we were not rats but humans so maybe you should back up your statements with a study done on HUMANS.