quit marijuana

I’ve been looking at this blog for a couple of days now and have decided to step up my desire to quit. I have been smoking pretty much everyday for about 5 years now and have seen my life come to a somewhat standstill. I am now 27 years old and battled with pot addiction between 14 and 17, making a right ‘hash’ (excuse the pun) of my GCSE’s and then didn’t really make the right choices once i’d finished College. I found martial arts in between 17 and 22 and started to smoke again after an injury forced me to stop training. I am now really wanting to quit but haven’t been able to for about 18 months, each time I slip pretty quickly back into a regular smoking routine; which is not inhibiting me develop the creative potential I have in my other interests – interests which I’ve had all the way throughout my smoking life. I’m really glad there are people out there like me – and I would like to tap into some ideas about what has helped others quit. Its been like looking into a mirror – hearing of others on this site that have seen a large part of their life just pass by them, and I really don’t want to see any more of my life waste away – with me, standing by there doing nothing about it. I propose I quit on Monday – today is Friday. I would like to start martial arts again and have put the plans in to start again on Monday. I get anxious about smoking now before i smoke during and once i have smoked because I accept it is not conducive to my life. I feel I am really not contributing to my life and this HAS TO CHANGE. The hardest parts are when I have pot (almost always) and I think I want to change my habit – I smoke twice as much to get rid of my stash – and as soon as its gone I get headaches and an urge to numb these…. with more pot. I then buy or get some off a friend and feel bad about it once i’ve lit up. This vicious circle… its a joke! I am held back by the thought that I can’t remember what its like to be clear headed or without withdrawal for even a day. I read that the symptoms won’t last though?

I’ve been smoking weed for over 10 years now. It’s gotten to a point where even the act of smoking has become so zombified that I don’t even know I’m doing it.

I very rarely use any other drugs and can use alcohol as much or as little as I like, rarely more than 20 drinks a month, but sometimes it’s 20 in 1 night. I wish I had this control over my marijuana use, but it’s completely different for me. It has seeped so deep into the cracks of my daily routine that I’ve just gotta snap a bowl before I do anything else. Working, playing games, watching TV, internet, after I eat, which is always, before the next episode, during half-time, about to open a new aspect of my project, a song comes on the radio…. It’s endless and relentless and it’s gotta stop!

I gotta get out of my stuffy little world of video screens and get my fat ass into real life. Im 28 and still in college, im getting good grades, working hard, and about to graduate very soon, but I still feel behind in many aspects of life. I know that I would be even more focused and motivated, and be putting the pieces of my life together more efficiently than I have been, if I hadn’t been smoking weed my whole adult life. In a way, I’m almost afraid of the person I would be without weed. Even though I know he’s more tuned into to success and reality, would that person be me, or just some square with a family and a nice lawn. It’s a wicked paradigm that Im caught deep within.

I’m glad I found others who have the same issues with this as I do.
Let’s all become the clear focused people we’ve always wanted to be!

Had my first joint at 13yrs now 23 and wanna quit!!!!!!!!

ive been an avid weed/pot/whatever you call it smoker for the past three years. i am a junior in highschool and i seriously regret taking that first hit in eighth grade. For the past 2 years ive been dealing with mild depression and have not told a sing soul. I usually coped with it by smokin and letting myself relax. However, lately i just feel spaced out and awkward whenever i smoke. ive said i was going to stop before but never made a legit attempt. i feel that weed is the biggest problem causer in my life right now and its time to focus on more important things. btw ive constantly stole money from my dad..failed drug tests..and done a lot of other shit

Three years of almost daily HEAVY pot use (up to an eighth per day by myself) has come to a crashing halt as of four days ago. Originally, I thought I would just quit until I found a job when I graduate Respiratory Therapy school, but what I’m going through right now makes me think I might just quit permanently. Throbbing headaches, violent thoughts and outbursts, a strong painful and productive cough, along with suicidal thoughts and depression have me thinking that pot may be more dangerous to my body and mind than I ever imagined. Now, anxiety and rage are something I have dealt with since I was a kid, but like others on this board have mentioned, I don’t know really know myself as a sober adult. I’ve been using pot and alcohol for twelve years total (I turn 28 on Friday), and just got my alcohol use under control in the last year and a half. I’d like to see how I behave when I don’t wake and bake every morning. Especially once sobriety doesn’t leave me a miserable hypochondriac.

I was a heavy pot smoker for 2 years, I’m only 16 years old now and recently had to stop because of probation. At first i hated my parents and family for doing this because i though ” its only pot. why are they making such a big deal out of it” but now i realize, i mean it destroyed my life, i got into other drugs, and now i sit here with a broken collar bone, because i resisted arrest… my family is disapointed in me and i am disapointed in myself. I am forced to quit, yes, but i think that it is a good thing. my life was consumed by marijuana, thats all i would do. Smoke,School,Smoke, Sleep. that was my day. now my eyes are open yo the world. I have a job and am on my way to a happy life. I dont know if i will never smoke again, im not saying that, but while i am still building a life for myself i will stay clean. I hope that this entry helped some people trying to quit, because i know how hard it is, all my friends smoke and i feel like an outcast sometimes, but then i see what they are doing to themselves, and i see myself working, making money, and being happy, not blowing all my money on weed.

I have been a pothead for the last 3 years. I am finishing my last year of highschool right now. I have smoked everyday for the past 2 years. Regardless of where I was who I was with what I was doing etc. I bought it, sometimes sold it and at times even thought of growing my own because it was gettig so expensive.
But all of that is about to change;
Today I decided NOT to smoke, and I am glad that I did. It sort of opened my eyes to the world. REALITY. I have always defended weed, in class, in discussions, and comments. But now I realize I was getting further and further with every bowl…
It’s the sad truth.
I found this site after googlig “quit weed” and decided to read some story. You know what’s “trippy”? We all seem to have VERY similiar stories and REGRETS. Regrets of not knowing ourselves and our full potensials as adults. I am 18 now, and it has done no good for me except hold me back.sure it was fun and it made everything in the world more amusing but at times I felt so empty, selfless, and guilty for making family and friends sad by what I was doing to myself. I mean it’s not even fun anymore, my days are routined more than ever. Constant burn out and outcast. Every smoker has their weed years and I’m planning to make mine history. I realize it has held me BACK. In school, in society, in relationships… In life. I write this knowing there are many out there taking these steps with me. Let us hold our virtual hands and help ourselves.

Weed may not be chemically addicting, however it is mentally devistating!

My story is almost exactly the same as the poster a few posts up. I have been smoking pot everyday since I was 18, I tried to quit once when I was 25 and it lasted a bout 2 months until I caved right back in. I remember being so motivated for those months and thinking, “Why did I ever smoke that stuff anyways?” The comment that earlier poster made about not knowing himself as a sober adult..that really hit home for me..I feel like a decade has just passed me by while I was sitting around getting high. I still managed to be somewhat productive over all those years but it is finally catching up to me now. Im so lazy its sick..its like I dont even know why I smoke anymore. Now I have a fiance and a 5-month old baby boy and a mortgage payment to think about. I quit smoking a week ago today and its been very hard. Im starting school on the 23rd of Feb and I wanted to have a clear head. I feel like everybody goes through a weed stage, its just that mine went on for 10 years..I wont sit here and say I will never smoke it again but I cant let it continue to run my life for me. Ive already lost about 10 pounds in a week because Im not constantly eating..Ive even found out that I dont like some of the foods I thought I did…crazy huh? Im glad I stumbled over this site and saw other people going through the same things..I hope everyone can continue to stay strong..thanks for listening.

Marijuana… It can be written off as no more than a herb, like the rosemary I put on my potatoes. But is it only that? Of course not. So many lives are changed and even destroyed from its “magical” THC.

I started smoking when I was in High School. I was trying to escape reality just like many others. I went from a straight A student to a truant. All my friends and I did was worry how to get it, where to smoke it, who was going to pay for it?

Pot lead to Crystal Meth. For three years I was on that deadly roller coaster. Many days I do not remember, many things I wish I didn’t remember. It must have been divine intervention that saved me. Somehow, I outran Crystal, but I could not fly faster than Mary Jane.

I married a pot smoker. What the hell, I was a pot smoker too. Everything was all good until I turned twenty four. It was like a woke up one morning and thought “I’m better than this”. I will not be a slave to anyone or anything. I haven’t smoked but maybe three times in the last year. The last time I smoked I hated it. Paranoid and anxious, I sat in my room and got stuck staring in the mirror.

So here is the problem. My pot smoking husband still smokes pot. I know he resents me for trying to make him quit. Watching from the outside, I now can see the drastic mood swings and the volatile behavior. He can’t enjoy anything unless he is high and when he is high he does not want to do anything.

I know that nobody can be forced to do anything for very long. I can threaten, beg, cry and throw a fit but he is not going to quit unless he wants to. I pray that one day he will grow up and realize you only get one try, one life, one chance to make it.

I’ve been smoking weed since I was 15, I’m 24 now and feel like weed has held me back in so many aspects of my life. I feel like if I would of never smoked in the first place things may be different. Right now I feel I relate a lot with these story’s on here. I smoke just because it’s what I’ve been doing for so long, It just feel so natural to wake up and smoke a bowl and just be high all day long. It’s not really fun anymore and I feel like all the people I know..well that’s what we do is smoke. I’m going to try to quit now because I feel there is way more Important things right now in my life.It’s going to be hard, I know this but I have to try. Thanks for listening I feel better getting this out.