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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: Asante] 3
#27355751 - 06/19/21 09:50 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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I usually intermittently quit every year for 1-3 months, just for cleaning and gearing for next smoke sessions. I guess im here to say that I need to level up in life and weed isn't helping. Feels like ive been stagnant for quite some time. I really want my financial life and social life to improve. I need to undo what years of cannabis has done. Ive always belittled myself when comparing myself with past friends, they have a family life, social life, stable career. Sick of this self-denigration. Cannabis contributed to my shit way of viewing myself. psychedelics have taught me lessons and insights but never followed through completely on them, quit the forward motion just when things get better then i fall back into old patterns. Anyway, Im amping up for a final disconnect from cannabis smoke. I will update this thread down the road.
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: Kinshino] 2
#23259659 - 05/22/16 08:51 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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I have not been smoking for about 3 weeks now. I do miss it, but I'm discovering how much more present I am in my life without it. Weed has made me complacent in my life for some time now. Over the course of 7 years, I have slowly dissolved my social life because I have been able to hang with my room mates and smoke all day. I am making more of an effort to reclaim the friendships and re build connections with people I miss now and it feels easier.
Marijuana has put me in my my head for a LONG time! Weed clouds my ability to communicate effectively. It comes through in the words I say. My body language becomes introverted and I sort of just slip in to a void where I cant give my full attention to the people in the room.
When I am high, I mostly feel like relaxing and being left alone. I think this has constricted my relationships, I wont answer my phone calls, or text back in appropriate times. I believe that weed has been responsible for crippling my relationships just simply because I'm not as interesting and I become stationary and mindless. I do not go out as often and I do not have the deep conversations that I used to have. I believe I come across as harder to approach because I simply am just too blazed to carry on much talk or banter with others. I usually will keep it short and simple or just laugh things off and drop the convo.
Obviously, quitting has its financial benefits. Which I cannot wait to reap from as time goes by. I hope to become more physically active in my free time. I hope to be more approachable and more engaging with others in my life.
In the last year I quit going to school because I sort of lost my vision of the path I was pursuing. I dove in to the work life and I was okay with doing 55 hours a week and just staying stoned. And then get faded afterwards with a 6 pack.
I have recently decided I am going to go back to school and pursue environmental science. I truly am a hippy at heart and I need to find a way to mix passion and work. I have these cravings that I hope I can find a way to satisfy by going down this path.
Because I feel I am rambling. All in all, I LOVE weed and I recognize all its benefits it has had on me over the years. Its time to take my life back and become the go getter I know that I am. Thanks for making the thread because recently this has been my world. Of trying to break this mold that I have placed myself in!
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: LittleDaddy] 2
#23259922 - 05/22/16 10:22 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've been smoking weed pretty much daily since I was about 14 (18 years ago). I gave up only once, at 20, as the skunk was starting to more and more frequently cause intense paranoia and panic attacks, and became a cokehead for 2 years. After 2 years getting heavy into that shit, I had a sudden moment of clarity and decided I'd be better off smoking weed again than I was with that shit!
So this time I started back up smoking only Thai (which is a reasonably mild, pure sativa strain). That's been my constant companion for the last 10 years of my life (daily), and 10 days ago, as I went on my first retreat, I made the commitment to break my daily habit. I'd only smoke a little bit, twice a day (midday and before bed) but I felt it was making me feel kinda dumbed down. Memory was affected.
It's been a bit of an up & down ride since quitting. I work nights often and I've seen that it really helped me to have a solid 7 hour sleep when sleeping in the day time. My sleep has been very broken in its absence, and dreams have returned with a vengeance. I've also noticed a bit of an emotional rollercoaster going on inside me due to having my 'crutch' removed.
I don't intend to become entirely abstinent, but certainly need to give myself enough time to recover from the 10 year habit.
I'll ask a mod to sticky this thread, since we already have one here for Alcohol abstinence support. Just in case you look for it and don't spot that it's moved to the top of the thread listing.
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 2
#23509640 - 08/04/16 01:38 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Great input RJ. I'm still smoking for now, and whilst I'm not dealing with cravings to any kind of extent as you mention in your prior post, past experience has taught me that if I drop the weed I'm just gonna find myself attached to something harder. With a big life change on the way it's on the back burner for now, but I'm looking forward to having a crack at dropping it again when I swap my concrete surroundings for wilderness..
Good luck to all in this thread.
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 2
#23607230 - 09/03/16 08:40 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've decided to stop smoking weed after years of use , it's been about 3 days and I'm somewhat content. I always had excuses for using .. it was either because I was riddled with heavy anxiety , depression , depersonalisation , self -pitty and hopelessness which have been the story of my life for the last 10 years ... Maybe I just need a girlfriend... But wait I don't know how to hold a conversation or be funny so the cycle continues . I always thought I felt that way because there was something wrong with me but could never figure it out ! I feel somewhat normal why can't I have a normal conversation with people ? .. then about 3 or 4 days ago I got offered a bowl of some of the dankest weed I've smoked in years.... It was too much for me I literally felt retarded , wanted to jump out of my skin type of anxiety and was extremely quiet and disconnected from the group.... Right then and there I realized what was causing my shitty circumstances it was the poor choice of indulging in weed when all it did was make me more of a loner more introverted and the cycle continues. I will never smoke weed again it's easy for me because I turn into a zombie and I get very anti-social with a foggy shit memory . Just started taking SAME-e. And will start working out today , I actually am proud of myself for making this decision I have failed at everything else in life....
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 2
#23805070 - 11/05/16 10:51 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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RJ Tubs 202 said:
A stoner for 25+ years, I'd debate being stoned is a "mind-expanding" experience.
But does being stoned really "expand" one's mind, or dull and constrict it?
They say "astonishment" is the root of philosophy. Therefore, a first time user who had been conditioned by his society, might, through cannabis use, have novel experiences with astonishment (that he might otherwise not have) and this sense of novelty and astonishment gets linked with expansion, and maybe it truly is. However, i can see how astonishment might become an addicting mechanical cycle, and so it is easy enough to see that there is a degradation of ones's character (person becomes too easily amused, simple-symbol minded, no interest in anticipating other peoples complex needs).
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: Anonymous #3] 2
#24151944 - 03/10/17 04:57 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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ChemicalSpark. Any prolonged exposure to a substance can cause you to feel it when it isn't even in your system. It's just psychology. 2 types of things stick in our subconcous memorys'. 1) Extremely traumatic experiences. We may think we're over them and then one day have a panic attack out of nowhere, your brain reliving the feelings of the experience.
2)Prolongued feelings, whether intense or not. If you have a feeling or thought for a long, long time all the time, it is no surprise that you would feel that feeling even when the cause is absent. That's what I think is going on with you.
Metabolites don't get you high, the metabolites of marijuana are the remnants of THC, what your liver turned the THC into to neutralize it's effects. However THC itself will get stored in your lipid cells, and released over time, which should feel as though you are kind if high the day after you quit, and slightly less so the next day and so on. Ie not what you are describing.
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: LittleDaddy] 2
#24153093 - 03/11/17 04:30 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hello,
I second with the thoughts shared here. I love weed and it makes it harder to quit. At times iv had my mind run on the grand theatre and it was so much fun. I don't know if those were different stuff or my mind was different. However, its not the same anymore, its depressing, forget oneself, you get slow, there is social withdrawl and a hell lotta things i dont want to be.
I was engrossed on a project one day and forgot to tke a smoke break, the moment i realized i dint take the break, i wasnt feelin mch like smoking so i thot il prolly smoke later but i dint as i had to submit things before deadline and then run for home and its hard to find fags around where i stay, i went home and slept, the reality of the project result was too much for me that day. so that one day was completely smoke free and that motivated me, if I had a one day smokefree then there could be so many number of days i can be smokefree. so i made it into one year.
One day smoke free followed by a three weeks of coughing my systems clean. It was like my lungs were tired of coughing and somebody put a lid to this gutter! lol
With weed, it was the company, my friend went to NZland and so had no company to smoke so i thought lets try not smoking. that went well.
I had quit ciggrattes for an year and weed for around 4 months. It felt good, one thing for sure was that i was so confident about sex.
Everytime i feel an urge, I let the urge get into me completely like il go for a smoke in sometime but before that i enquire it as to why is there a need to smoke/act in this way that i need to smoke, and im taken to another place the urge comes from and the urge is not to smoke but to cover something by smoking, its something else than im avoiding. most of the times its boredom, sometimes its sex, regret, guilt, sometimes its cramps in my stomach that im avoiding. prolly every reason i dont wanto be myself i feel
I love weed tho, being a creative person, it shows my amazing things, but its not the case anymore. I feel sore brain sometimes, like the trips in my head but i cant feel it, theres no grand theatre. sometimes i think i dont feel into it but when i do, its a trippy feeling alone not really how it shoudve been. So i used to smoke anytime in week, any opportunity i got and on weekends for sure! after this episode of weed being so weird, i started to make it only on weekends. then i realised i was so heavily relied on it that it took me 4 days to come off weed and feel myself! so from one week i made it two weeks. if you smoke weed after two weeks it feels great actually, but i was motivated for a larger break and better trip, but then i got addicted to it and started to smoke again. your brain kinda bores off from it, tolerance built and then it starts going negative. reminds me of economics theory of diminishing marginal utility.
So im on the quit mode again, its been 11 days and sometimes it feels like i cnt live without it. Right now music feels great, and there is nothing inside that stops me from being me, so im here for REAL! 8-)
Also everytime theres an urge like i cant live without weed/fags, i tell my brain that i dont need it, an attempt to reprogramme my brain neurons, works most of the time, the urge fades a bit.
One can be utterly intoxicated and awake/alert at the same time, that some inbuilt mechanism of brain! so we our brains are really great, need to figure it out!
hope my posts helps you all when you have an urge that says you cant live wo it! its just temporary, stay there! let it pass, you will then be glad you overcame it at that moment!
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: ChemicalSpark] 2
#24416992 - 06/19/17 06:58 AM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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The other day my new boss literally told me he bonds better with people when he smokes with them. I couldn't say no. I told him that it was the only time I'm going to. I felt like shit for doing that. I felt dirty after and went for a real long run. Damn I was baked.
I am disappointed in myself but I'm not craving it or thinking about buying more. Back to day 2 but I'm not having those "withdrawal" feelings. I've read from some that they felt irritable for at least a month after. My sleeping is a lot better as well. Now I'm trying to quit alcohol. I'm ready to be healthy again. I'm feeling very optimistic. I hope everyone has a good day.
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: Cory Duchesne] 2
#25121336 - 04/07/18 05:01 PM (5 years, 9 months ago) |
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I hope everyone is doing great with their goals. I was drawn to this thread by a good brother on here and felt like chiming in. I quit smoking cannabis for 15 years after many years of daily smoking and I didn't consume any alcohol, psychedelics, or any 'drugs' whatsoever during that time. I did a tremendous amount of interpersonal work on myself during that time and it gave me the tools to create, and witness, a beautiful life- free from anything that would constrict me. A few years ago I turned to cannabis to help alleviate some physical issues that I was struggling with. I was in a lot of discomfort- to say the least- and smoking helped alleviate the symptoms in a big way. But, in short time I was smoking all day long and barely getting my things done. My personality had changed in a substantial way and I created some damage in my personal life as a result of it. I could not see myself as others saw me. My perception of everything had become clouded and I was becoming nuts- especially when consuming sativa-heavy edibles. Flash forward to today and I am 16 months free from it, again, and my old self is back. I have to say that at 90 days without it was a transcendent 'high'. I would experience insights, gifts, and 'coincidences' as if I were on a mushroom trip. I still have many 'highs' that are incredible. I love the plant and it is tremendously helpful to so many, as it was to me, but I have resounded to idea that I will smoke again but it will have to wait until retirement and I have quite a few years to go until then. Thinking that I will quit anything 'forever' seems unattainable, as it should, that's why I keep everything in the day. Today, I didn't smoke nor do I care to. I think that this is a great thread and I think that anyone that is quitting or abstaining for personal reasons should be applauded. The personal growth that is around the corner is always worth working for, I believe. Hats off, everyone!
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 2
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: Eywa_devotee] 2
#25325277 - 07/14/18 02:25 AM (5 years, 6 months ago) |
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Let's be clear. Reality is not depressing. In the face of reality, you choose to depress.
That's your decision. You have that right . . . But don't blame reality. It's all on you.
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First I wanna say thank you to everyone in this thread. After several years of smoking daily ive finally got to the point of quitting. It's been 10+ days and only getting easier as my neurochemicals rebalance themselves. This thread is especially helpful as every time I start contemplating smoking I come here and it reassures me that marijuana is addictive and there are negatives from abuse.
I'd like to offer what other things have helped. Anxiety, depression, and insomnia are common withdrawal symptoms. First insomnia. Marijuana causes an increase in melatonin so Im assuming in its absense theres some initial lower melatonin production. This is remedied by melatonin supplementation. Also the vividness of dreams is a nice reward. As for anxiety, meditation and cardio seem especially helpful. Both of which increase neurogenesis (as well as omega 3s) which helps the brain recover, lowers anxiety, and depression. Turmeric increase neurogenesis and serotonin, lowers inflammation (which maybe marijuana was doing) and its recommended to take black pepper to increase the bioavailablity. Black pepper as well as cocoa activate the endocannabinoid receptors which should help ease withdrawal. Cocoa also boosts neurogenesis. Caffeine increases glutamate and dopamine similarly to cannabis as well as helping with the low motivation. Tea additionally offers theanine (increases neurogenesis) and Egcg which synergistically lower anxiety. Coffee is a mild maoi which increases serotonin and dopamine. N-acetylcysteine improves dopamine function, lowers inflammation, modulates glutamate, and breaks up mucus so coughing stuff out of the lungs is easier and since glutamate abnormality are linked to addictive behavior its been studied for marijuana addiction and was reported to show improvements also increasing neurogenesis.
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 2
#25539725 - 10/15/18 03:31 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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Smoked MJ for a long time with a thousand reasons as to why...
My findings were that t keeps you in a place of safety; there's much more to discover outside of the haze... one thing that was common was telling myself to stop. Then smoking more because I was constantly thinking stop. It made me anxious. I smoked for the anxiety. It became paradoxical.
Main things that helped: Move away from social influence. You are your own castle and can choose who enters.
Focus on good nutrition and plenty of long walks/excerciae to get your Serotonin levels raised and your body tired.
Put a reminder on the door you always open to remind yourself why.
Eat! Talk! Take a hot bath! Listen to nice music. Candle light. Camping.
Maybe you might be sleepless a few nights. Stick with it. Don't sleep then? Go for a walk, distract yourself. There's a thousand ways to relax... why not spend twenty bucks on a massage? That thing you always wanted to buy but didn't cause it's in the blazing fund.
The most beautiful aspect is that you will sleep better after a week. You start to dream again. You get out of your own mind and discover yourself again. Hell it works for some people... just goes down to moderation. I couldn't moderate. I stopped.
My life improved significantly; with clarity and yours will too...
It's a few days of groggy. Tired. Stressed whatever you want to call it. Best thing I was taught. Do the oppposite. Shout? Talk. Get angry? Laugh.
You can do it: it gets easier with everyday. I swear to god you won't miss it for the positive aspects that start to occur.... you will get there. You will find yourself again. Happier, healthier and a hell of lot wealthier.
Lord knows the mountain can be hard to climb. But the view at the top is worth it.... the walk back down? Wonderful.
You got it brothers and sisters. All the best to you all.... the road was rocky. But it was worth it in the end... hell I don't know need to remind you... and seriously. I love dreaming again... the best sleep you can have? Sober.
You got this. Easy. Consider it done.
Side note: I did make a THC oil so I could go from grams to mg. Slow and steady wins the race... take it easy on yourself. Your alright mate.... Peace.
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: The lurker] 2
#25906505 - 03/30/19 06:04 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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It has been over 3 months now!
really surprised my self as for a while weed was part of my identity!
I have been feeling really good and it has made me not want to touch the stuff again.
still hang out with my friends that are serious smokers and I can see how it effects them and reminds me that I was like that. pretty repulsive
had some great psychedelic journeys too! so much better without cannabis
to the people above, you got this!!
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 2
#27385611 - 07/13/21 09:17 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Niffla said: I used to drink daily. For years. Every single day I'd at least drink a 6 pack. Minimum. A lot of days I'd drink more than that. I went through many years where the days I went completely without a drink, for the entire year, was maybe a total of 2 or 3 weeks. These days occurred when I had absolutely no choice but to stay sober for whatever reason. Other than that, at some point that day I was having a drink.
In the last few years I have cut back dramatically. In 2019 I more or less cut that in half, in 2020 I got it down to drinking around 6 days a month, and now in 2021 I've gotten it down to 3 to 4 drinking days a month. So yeah, I haven't completely gone sober by any means, but it's night & day from what life used to be for me. Instead of daily it's maybe once a week, sometimes just once every couple of weeks.
But man, still, not a day goes by that I don't think about it. Everyday at some point the thought enters my head: "man it would be nice to go have some drinks right now". Now that urge is very rarely if ever strong enough for me to actually act on it, but still the thought doesn't ever go away. And like a true addict I am always looking forward to that next drinking session. Even if that session is a half month away.
Can anybody else relate? Doesn't have to be necessarily alcohol.

Niffla: I offer you a mindhack to get out of this. This actually works.
What you are suffering is that you fail to close an .exe in your wetware that keeps spamming you.
You can fix this easy as 1,2,3.
1) Think HARD and identify as many as possible VERY GOOD REASONS not to drink, then sift through these to find what yunites them, so you can strike more and more off that list as you consolidate them into more powerful reasons.
2) formulate 5 or 10 short slogans that in a positive way affirm these most important reasons. Dont say whats bad if you keep drinking, say what gets better and better if you don't drink. You are not lying to yourself and you know it. Shit improves for years to come as the damage undoes itself.
3) every single time you get even the slightest thought about drinking, state out loud your Top 5 or Top 10 reasons why staying quit gets way better and better.
Thats all, spam yourself like coca cola and mc donalds spam you, by repeating slogans over and over.
But these are HEALING slogans.
Now you give your brain a problem. It gets spammed shut every time it suggests a relapse even in the slightest. You march those slogans that are so meaningful to you in like its blitzkrieg. It systematically strips your brain's suggestion of all weapons and rank.
Your brain is not stupid: keep this up and keep strengthening your convictions, and your balance will tip and your brain's default will be to rather smash a bottle on the floor than to drink one drop.
See how low the tier, the investment is? Just those three things.
So, form your platoon of the best possible reasons to do whats right and march them in at the slightest queef of an implied relapse. And again. And again.
It will stop.
Thats how your biocomputer works and this is one way to program it.
Get your soldiers in the game!
THOUSANDS OF TIMES IF YOU HAVE TO 
You won't have to.
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Re: Marijuana Abstinence Support Thread [Re: LittleDaddy] 1
#23311313 - 06/05/16 05:34 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Stopped since 2 months and a half ago. Had been smoking everyday for 8yrs.
It was kinda easy for me since I was in a mental crisis, starting to have depersonalization.By stopping I also realized I had panic disorder too at about 3 days off first panic attack, the starting of DP definitly had something to do with my panic attack tho.
It was easy not going back since now with no tolerance I know I'm gon be super stone and with panic disorder it could get shitty. So it's easy to say no when the doobie is at my turn with friends.
Good effects it had on me: social anxiety almost completly vanished, I connected back with my family, I'm more coherent, less lazy, I like my job more and get less mad in general, started cooking instead of ordering food,
Bad effects: light sleep even after 2 months, 2-3 first week were 3x worst tho, 3 dreams everynight minimum, I eat a lot more proly because I'm more stressed, feel more miserable playing video games alone, feel more depressed in general cause the life I build while high is kinda shitty.
I plan on smoking a bit when I harvest my CBD shark shock I'm growing, 90% indica 1:2 thc/cbd. But that gon be in a while. I miss my wake and bake gaming Sunday lol and the good sleep ,the rest no so much really
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#23454825 - 07/19/16 01:23 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Anonymous said: Thank you
I try drinking beer every so often and i kinda like the stimulation from it but it doesnt last long and im not big on alcohol at all.
I want to be at a point where i only smoke every great once in awhile or just holidays or parties what have you.
But i know i need a good long break like really long break in order to rid myself of this desire.
Thank you i have an excercise plan i neglect to do anymore all the time
Just that first step is the hardest yknow
Wish me luck ill probably report back woth how its going in a month or so
I personally don't advocate replacing drugs with another as that doesn't address the issue of craving for the drug, it just addresses the superficial manifestation of the craving. Exercise is a great alternative. Many here find help in meditation, but if that isn't doing it for you there are plenty of other activities you can get involved in.
Pot made me really anxious before I ceased, so that motivated me quite a bit to stop as it interfered with flirting and other relationships. Now that I've quit, I've started seeing a girl somewhat seriously for the first time in years and I've made a bunch of new friends. Communicating deeply with other people is a feeling that beats out being high anyday and leaves a more extensive satisfaction.
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#23471335 - 07/24/16 03:27 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Exactly the same. Working 2 years and the best of the day was the J after worl wich kept me motivated to hard work.
I just was very happy when i finished work and could give a fuck to all those dumb people.
I feel ya .
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#23511299 - 08/04/16 11:22 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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They did not shun me. They respected my decision.
What I meant by that is that I have less reason to meet up with them. In fact I haven't talked to them or even met up with them once since, and I don't expect them to either. I've had some good talks with them, we shared stories, our hobbies...etc Pot was just a major influence. I am not sure if that means it's based on pot. I've had many meaningless friendships, and honestly I just let them happen cause I have no choice. I was never a people person.
Thank you for your kind words and critism, this is something that I need to evaluate myself 
For now I am focusing on other things, like today I attended Archery for the first time after a year haitus. I started to find joy in, normal things
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"The internet has one rule; use or be used" - Bjeldiablo ''there is no loneliness, only moments where contentment is fleeting'' SBJs "The Basics" 3iRiS9 "Cirque du freak" B+ BONANZA
Edited by Rosen_Rot (08/04/16 11:23 PM)
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