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Re: 27 days sober from weed [Re: Northerner]
#27967747 - 09/25/22 03:28 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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My weed use had gotten out of control over Covid, so I can relate.
I smoked for 20 years and never had it run my life as it has over the last two.
I miss it. And I also don't miss it.
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I only smoked for 8 years. I don't miss it at all and never really have.
I had a shocking methcathonine habit for 4 years, I still miss it from time to time now even though I haven't touched it for more than a decade. Addictive stuff. Dreamed about it for years after I stopped. If it was in front of me I'd struggle to say no still. fucking stuff
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Re: 27 days sober from weed [Re: Northerner] 1
#27968067 - 09/25/22 07:34 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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I feel ya. Used to shoot methamphetamine. Thankfully I haven't touched that stuff since before my first son was born 12 years ago.
But... I had dreams about it for a long time.
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0 days sober from weed    1 month sober from alcohol  
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Re: 27 days sober from weed [Re: Double]
#28080027 - 12/02/22 05:29 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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0 days sober from weed    almost 2 days sober from alcohol  
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0 days sober from alcohol  0 days sober from weed
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Re: 27 days sober from weed [Re: Double]
#28083679 - 12/04/22 06:06 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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on my 4th day no alcohol 
and as for the weed, well..
"aye-yay, aye-yay. smoke weed every day."
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Back to day 8 with no alcohol.
Really had a bad bender the other weekend. When I fall off the wagon I really go for it. Woke up on the couch with a pile of empties laying around me. 
Stomach is sore again now and will take a long while to heal. It has no more tolerance for alcohol. Keeps me sober. Hopefully this time forever. I'm sick of the whiplash.
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Re: 27 days sober from weed [Re: Northerner]
#28083967 - 12/04/22 08:24 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Congrats to all taking sober time. It's good for ya. I'm on day 222 for weed and day 453 for booze.
Didn't intend on quitting weed as well, just kinda happened.. got sick of it. Take care
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Re: 27 days sober from weed [Re: Mystikal]
#28084948 - 12/05/22 04:34 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Make that 0 days for weed. I'm fukcin baked, took four big hoots of primo after so long without.
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Re: 27 days sober from weed [Re: Northerner]
#28129240 - 01/07/23 12:32 PM (1 year, 21 days ago) |
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I know exactly what you mean Northerner, been there plenty; especially lately during the holidays.
5 days sober from alcohol  0 days sober from weed  
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Re: 27 days sober from weed [Re: Mystikal]
#28129244 - 01/07/23 12:35 PM (1 year, 21 days ago) |
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Mystikal said: Make that 0 days for weed. I'm fukcin baked, took four big hoots of primo after so long without. 
hot damn son, after 222 days without weed.. fucking props. Enjoy
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Re: 27 days sober from weed [Re: Double]
#28131097 - 01/08/23 05:56 PM (1 year, 19 days ago) |
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I'm going for 3 months no weed. I started two days ago? So if I stick to my resolve, I'll see ya April 8.
I don't want to quit alcohol at the same time but I'm hoping to reduce that slowly.
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CreonAntigone said: I'm going for 3 months no weed. I started two days ago? So if I stick to my resolve, I'll see ya April 8.
I don't want to quit alcohol at the same time but I'm hoping to reduce that slowly.
I wanted to add this reflection. There are people who argue that weed isn't addictive, or doesn't cause dependence. That's very wrong. Or they say it may cause psychological dependence but not physical. That's not true either, cannabinoid receptors are involved in a lot of things in the body so quitting weed has a very physical effect: insomnia, naseau, spasms, etc, if one is wholly dependent.
When I quit weed in the past I experienced these things. I think I am less dependent now than I was, but I am still somewhat. And now 3 days later I'm getting characteristic effects, the rebound nausea and inability to sleep. I hope I have gone through the worst of it.
This dependence can trap one in a cycle, as using weed convinces a person that it is solving some issue but really one is just feeding a habit. In that respect it doesn't differ from other drugs of abuse.
I will say, however, that I haven't had any in 3 days and even in the few days before that, I just used small doses. I am experiencing withdrawal effects. But also, a profound clear-headedness. I feel better overall than I did when I was using cannabis. It was just eating at me physiologically, I had become dependent on it, and no drug is good under such conditions.
For the first time in a long time, I don't have any desire to have any more, in fact a strong aversion to it. That is a good sign; it means I can maintain this, maybe longer than 3 months, and see where it takes me. And I have less a desire to drink the less I take edibles.
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I smoked every day for years and then developed an aversion to it... haven't smoke for >20 years now. When it's over it's over.
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Re: 27 days sober from weed [Re: Northerner]
#28133177 - 01/10/23 05:44 AM (1 year, 18 days ago) |
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Northerner said: I smoked every day for years and then developed an aversion to it... haven't smoke for >20 years now. When it's over it's over.
Right now, I'm definitely at an aversion. Even a small amount would send me into a very bad headspace.
I don't want to go back here again, but if in the future I could smoke a joint every now and then, 2 times a month, without bugging out, I would enjoy that. But I actually couldn't do that if I tried right now, I wouldn't enjoy it and I wouldn't be able to control it. My receptors and brain chemistry are wired to have bad outcomes to it right.
Whether that's just for now, and a long break will help things, or whether weed is just not for me, I don't know.
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As time went on I just found my life was better without weed. A curtain had been lifted from my life.
I have had a few puffs over the years. Literally count them on one hand though. I never want to go back. Why would I want to do something that makes me feel bad in the hope I'd feel good? Seems a bit silly really. No need to force that.
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Re: 27 days sober from weed [Re: Northerner]
#28134452 - 01/10/23 09:07 PM (1 year, 17 days ago) |
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Northerner said: Why would I want to do something that makes me feel bad in the hope I'd feel good? Seems a bit silly really. No need to force that.
In some sense that is the essence of addiction, pursuing something one well knows is harmful in the hopes that it will end up good. And it still perplexes me that a tendency to addiction seems ingrained in some people's genes, perhaps human nature.
I think it is an attempt to avoid something worse, because there are in fact worse things than being blasted on drugs, and that is why so many who have such traumas or are homeless or destitute turn to drugs.
I recall the study, in which rats did not get addicted to cocaine in nice environments, yet did in closed cramped conditions.
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Yeah humans are weird. I've had my share of addiction issues throughout my life. Much of the time I was actually happier with substances than not, but the physical toll was always the issue.
Being trashy has always been so much fun, though my hedonistic tendencies can be irritating for other people.
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Re: 27 days sober from weed [Re: Northerner]
#28134478 - 01/10/23 09:36 PM (1 year, 17 days ago) |
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Northerner said: As time went on I just found my life was better without weed. A curtain had been lifted from my life.
I have had a few puffs over the years. Literally count them on one hand though. I never want to go back. Why would I want to do something that makes me feel bad in the hope I'd feel good? Seems a bit silly really. No need to force that.
this is me at least 1/3rd of time i smoke weed. i still enjoy it. i get too high and feel like im dying but i know its just weed and ill be fine lol
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