Quote Originally Posted by 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.

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.