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Rukus
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fractadactyl said: I also quit smoking weed. I love it, don't get me wrong. It helps me sleep, eat, and manage stress, but also causes all those problems too. I love weed but my life is better when I'm not smoking every day.
You nailed it. I'm can be such a contradictory substance. I pretty much restarted smoking weed a few years ago to help me sleep, but it ended up making me sleep like shit and not able to fall asleep without it.
The super high THC stuff also would give me heart palpitations and shit, no chill.
Only old school afghan style hash would actually chill me out, but if I don't need it I don't mind saving the money.
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Re: I quit smoking weed [Re: Rukus]
#28662440 - 02/16/24 03:28 PM (4 months, 7 days ago) |
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I've been sleeping like shit and am irritated today.
I always sleep like shit though. But now I can't even fall asleep.
But yeah, irritated with the board. Irritated with shit going on in my life. Irritated with the country I live in.
lol.. really tempted to go buy some weed.
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Re: I quit smoking weed [Re: tree frog]
#28663344 - 02/17/24 04:54 AM (4 months, 7 days ago) |
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I went from smoking a few Oz a week, to not smoking at all. I got to where my urine was clean, and took a job that required intake UAs and randoms. During the cold turkey phase I was extremely irritable. I couldn't sleep sometimes for a few days in a row. I wasn't eating, and I wasn't hungry. I got really skinny. If I did sleep I had very vivid nightmares.
I worked that job for maybe 6 months (worked every day for 6 months) and then I took a month off when my wife committed suicide while I was out of town at work. I smoked like every other day during that period. I think it genuinely helped me during that time, to sleep, to eat, to feel OK. I waited for my urine to be clean again (only took a week from last j by self testing daily) Then I went back to work. I noticed the trouble sleeping, the nightmares and stress came back full force for about a month while I was at work I worked for a month and then I took 2 weeks off, and would smoke every few days again. Same thing happened when I went back to work. So I realized the anxiety, lack of appetite, and sleep issues were directly related to the weed, because every time towards the end of a work period, the issues would go away, until I went on days off and started smoking again. So now I just don't smoke at all. There's days when I REALLY want to though. I still have probably a half lb of super terpy, super dense nugs vacuum sealed just waiting for the day. I hope it doesn't come though, lol.
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tree frog
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Yeah, I slept like shit again. Four and a half hours sleep last night and the night before.
Fuck man, so sorry about your wife. My first gf died from suicide about a year after we split up. The next few years were very dark for me. Started shooting meth and Ritalin. I wasn't even 20 yet. Still a pup honestly.
I confess the weed feind cleaned the bongs. Yesterday was my real day one and the shit was rough.
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fractadactyl
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Re: I quit smoking weed [Re: tree frog]
#28663418 - 02/17/24 07:03 AM (4 months, 7 days ago) |
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Yeah I'm still kinda in a really dark spot. I'm sober, but I have insomnia, like clinical insomnia. I totally get the sleep issues. I was awake for 3 days, yesterday i passed out at 9am and woke up at 3am today. I'm tired I just can't sleep. I'm sober, I don't even drink. But I guess you already know from experience how dark a spot I'm in. I'm just trying not to make it worse lol. The weed is definitely harder in the beginning. It kind of reinforces itself on you with the stress and sleep. I'd just try not to be too hard on yourself about it when you do smoke, but go longer between each time you do smoke, if you can. Idk if you work out or anything but that definitely helped me.
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tree frog
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Wanting to work out and get in shape to see if it helps my pain issues this year and the weed has made it really hard to get motivated to do that.
So yeah, that's the plan.
Fuck man, now I'm crying. Feeling the pain of your wife dying. I do know the hole suicide leaves in things. It's a really difficult thing to process. Leaves so many questions.
I ended up processing her death in a men's group about twenty years later. Cried with five brothers and let all of it out.
The lack of sleep... feeling emotional right now and this conversation is bringing things up in me. Not in a bad way. Compassion for you, her, your family, her family, myself, and everyone affected by suicide.
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fractadactyl
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Re: I quit smoking weed [Re: tree frog]
#28663452 - 02/17/24 07:37 AM (4 months, 7 days ago) |
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I shouldn't have said anything about that I had kinda just woke up. Don't cry. I've done enough of that for everyone involved. Anyways yeah go to the gym. I hate the way pre-workout makes me feel but for the days I'm lacking motivation, it really helps to at least get in there After I've gone consistently for a few weeks and built the habit, then it's just routine and I actually WANT to go, and instead of feeling like I'm forcing myself to go, I'm happy about going. Except on leg days. I always dread leg days.
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I'm already working some of the dopamine cycle out this morning. Stepped outside for a bit (it's cold as fuck, so this was like a cold shower). Did some Qi Gong.
Actually feeling my energy levels up already. I'm also quitting smoking today.
So, day one tobacco. And I'm on day two with the weed. Generally, my dopamine receptors recover pretty quick when I let the drugs go. I'm an anxious/high energy person that likes to jog up and down the stairs as I work on projects all day.
As far as the tears. It's all good. I don't mind crying. And it was as much for my pain of losing someone that way as it was for you. I could just relate to what you'd been through I'm saying, and it hit me on an emotional level.
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Re: I quit smoking weed [Re: tree frog]
#28663654 - 02/17/24 09:55 AM (4 months, 7 days ago) |
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Lol. Good luck with the tobacco. Tobacco and weed at the same time, you're strong. Hope you get some sleep tonight brother.
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Yeah, I kinda have too. The smoking makes me want to smoke weed. The weed makes it harder to be mindful of the smoking. Plus my lungs want to breathe. That's the main thing.
Thankfully the tobacco habit energy isn't strong. I relapsed over the summer and have been cutting back for awhile.
Maybe I should switch to edibles and it's really the breathing smoke and instant gratification I need to look at.
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Re: I quit smoking weed [Re: tree frog] 2
#28664879 - 02/18/24 04:05 AM (4 months, 6 days ago) |
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I quit 20 years ago viral. Confuses emotions, not a good drug imo. Good on you for finally getting out.
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tree frog
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Start of day 3. Still sleeping terribley. Irritation was too much and I bought smokes last night, which is fine.
I'm committed to quitting both but the weed is priority right now. As it kills my motivation to quit either.
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Re: I quit smoking weed [Re: viraldrome] 1
#28669108 - 02/21/24 03:27 AM (4 months, 3 days ago) |
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Thats Great viraldome!
My best friend also quit the weed. He did it for the health benefits as weed was causing many different issues for him. Sounds like you are on your way to long-lasting soberness
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Asante
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'i quit cannabis in 2002.
still very happy that thats over.
It was not worth it and i felt forced to smoke it.
22 years later still happy with having quit,
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Re: I quit smoking weed [Re: Asante]
#28678845 - 02/27/24 07:35 PM (3 months, 27 days ago) |
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That's really hardcore Asante. Congrats! Especially with your experimentation. I want a toke often with other substances.
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