quit smoking pot

I’m going to wait until I hit a 1-month mark until I officially consider this a success but I am pretty sure that it is a success. I went skydiving this weekend and realized that being high on life is much more fun than being stoned out of your mind. Good luck to you all in everything that you do!!

Today is day 25 of my soberness and… well, this is not getting easier.
Pot used to make me lazier, which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. “Lazy” for me is defined as working 40-60 hours a week while going to school full time. Right now I am on “vacation” without pot, which means that I got bored out of my mind the first two days here and I have been working 10-12 hours a day remodeling our vacation house. I am still fairly edgy and it’s not getting easier or better.
To prove the point on going nuts being busy I will give you my today’s breakdown:
9:00- Wake-up (I have been sleeping in here since I can’t go to sleep)
9:30-12-30- Organizing my “work site”, giving shit to people at Home Depot for screwing up my order, then kissing some ass at Lowes and lumber yards to get my materials located and delivered the same day (boy, I am good at that.)
12:40-2:20 Dentist appointment (one of my crowns came off)
2:40-10:00 Tearing out kitchen ceiling, putting in new trusses
10:30-now: doing some desing breakdowns, organizing my music (all 6,000++ songs, I am to a letter G now.)
It is almost 1, I won’t go to sleep till 2:30-3:00 and then be up at 8:30-9:00 doing it all over
Did I mention that I am on VACATION?
Bottom line is, I think that one of the reasons why I started to smoke so much pot is because I started to burn out from my craziness.

Of course, there is a great deal of positive things from not smoking as well. I have a clear mind, I am motivated to accomplish a lot more. I am finally getting things done on my list of “Things before I die.” I haven’t gotten a tattoo yet (to honor my late friend) because I know that I will piss quite a few people off. But I am going water skiing as soon as weather gets decent enough and I am going skydiving on Saturday (already paid for and scheduled), hopefully other things will get done as well. In a week or so I’ll be able to pass a drug test, which will be nice.
I am going back home on 23 and I know that I have a big bag of really good stuff left. It’s going to be hard not to break down and I think that there is a good chance that I’ll let myself smoke a bowl. I just don’t know… this is tough

It’s day 13 and this is not getting any easier. Last two weeks have been pretty stressful but I am still thankfull for not smoking pot and/or cigarettes.
I got my Bachelors degree last couple of month ago and I have been struggling find a job that would give me an opportunity to grow and use my degree (and make good money while I am at it.) It’s proving to be difficult and somewhat disappointing but I am sure something will work out (they always have.)
I have been nicotine-free for over two month and pot-free for almost two weeks yet I still feel “side effects” from quitting both. I’ve come to a realization about an hour ago that my efrustration and agitation is the worst side effect. I can confidently say that I am one of the nicest people you will ever meet yet I have been a total dick recently. I just yelled at my beloved Mac laptop for… well, no reason. I decided to remodel a bathroom at my friend’s house while on vacation (go ahead, call me a workaholic) and have spent the last two days bitching for no reason (keep in mind that the guy is one of my best friends and have spent thousands on my college education among many other things.)
I hate being mean, it just sucks. I will try meditating tomorrow and implement self-control. We’ll see where that takes me.
Keep me updated on what’s going on. All of your entries make me feel responsible (?) for making sure that I don’t fail and don’t let ya’ all down.
Peace

Hi everyone. This is proving to be much tougher than I imagined. I anticipated this to be easier since I have taken myself out of the “stoner environment” but that seems to be kind of impossible. Being on vacation a thousand miles away seemed like a safe call but it certainly doesn’t seem like it now.
I like to meet people and I’ve met quite a few people today. Unfortunately, a good friend of my friends down here that I met happened to be a pot smoker. It doesn’t help that he is an “old-school” smoker (my favorite kind to blaze with) and the fact that he showed me a huge bag of his stuff that smelled well-beyond incredible. He also told me that he smokes because of pains that he gets from cancer and he has no one to smoke with.
You get the point. I know for a fact that I will be running into this guy constantly for the rest of my vacation, so the accessibility of pot is all of the sudden not an issue here (he told me that he can hook me up with as much as I “want” for free.) This just got that much tougher and it will be interesting to see what’s going to happen.
On the bright side, tomorrow is going to be a week since I smoked for the last time, something that I couldn’t imagine just a little while ago…

This is the first time I am trying to quit pot and the first time I am posting on this website. For the past year I have been trying to improve myself and quit or cut back all of my bad habits (smoking pot, cigarettes and alchohol.) Alchohol has been the easiest to let go (I’ve gone from a binge drinker who could easily polish a 12-pack in a night couple of years ago to drinking less than a 12-pack in last two month.) I quit cigarettes two month ago and now it’s time to turn to pot. I have smoked for the last six years and for the last couple of years I have smoked every day (I would guess around a 1/8 a week.)
At this point I feel like pot is having a very negative impact on my life. My entire life people have been telling my how smart I am and I feel like I am wasting my potential. I feel like I am getting dumber and dumber, with my life becoming more and more bleak. I have a sense of urgency: I need to stop now or I’ll never be able to kick the habit.
I haven’t smoked since Saturday and that gives me hope. Considering that I have been batttling quite a few demons recently, it has not been easy but it hasn’t been imposssible either. I quit pot on Saturday because I went on a vacation with close friends of mine who don’t smoke pot and I love and respect them too much to do it around them. I have decided to avoid my usual “pot-smoking” environment until I am ready to deal with it (it’s a cowardly move, but a necessary one for me.)
I’ll see what happens but I want and and will succeed.
Thanks everyone for your posts, they really help.