help?

[cole11]

I've posted on here before concerining the amount of weed i smoke, and wondering whether it's a problem. it's probably been a couple of months since, and now i can safely say that i do have a problem. I've found myself selling my stuff, other people's stuff and moving money around just so i can buy weed. i smoke about a draw a day, but can go with less if needs be, but either way i will always find a way to smoke every single day. it's getting to the point where i don't even particularly enjoy smoking it anymore, it's just routine, and i wanna stop. but at the same time, whenever im straight headed i feel like absolute crap, i get down so easy and all i wanna do is run away and escape it all. i dunno whether that's because of an underlying problem or whether it is directly related to how much i smoke. if anyone has any advice, it'd be greatly appreciated.

[BlueWolf]

From my understanding, weed is not actually physically bad for you like a lot of the other drugs such as meth. So if your concerned about quitting cold turkey for health reasons, don't. I advise, that if you really want to quit, try to do it slowly. The dangers of weed, is as you already know... obtaining it. What makes it bad is the desperation for it. Such as selling and stealing to get it. That is a huge problem.

I think your probably trying to stop all at once. Start by doing less and less each day. Then try to skip a day and see how it works. Try to do something in place of smoking. Chewing gum or some other hard candy will help. I hear about this all the time for people trying to quit any type of smoking. Take things one step at a time, and you'll get there, especially if you want to bad enough.

I hope this helped.

[trigmynig]

Originally Posted by cole11

I've posted on here before concerining the amount of weed i smoke, and wondering whether it's a problem. it's probably been a couple of months since, and now i can safely say that i do have a problem. I've found myself selling my stuff, other people's stuff and moving money around just so i can buy weed. i smoke about a draw a day, but can go with less if needs be, but either way i will always find a way to smoke every single day. it's getting to the point where i don't even particularly enjoy smoking it anymore, it's just routine, and i wanna stop. but at the same time, whenever im straight headed i feel like absolute crap, i get down so easy and all i wanna do is run away and escape it all. i dunno whether that's because of an underlying problem or whether it is directly related to how much i smoke. if anyone has any advice, it'd be greatly appreciated.

you might be the first person that has ever gotten addidcted to weed.. lol.. the reason you feel bad when your not smoking is, you have came back to reality to see what your situation is, you must not like you situation so you get high to get away from that problem. quiting weed is realy easy to quit.. its just a life style you have right now, its wut you do, and wut youve always done.. simple way to quit smoking, get a job, work lots of hours, you will find you have no time to smoke when you have a job. you say you dont like smoking any more, and you also say your selling other peoples stuff.. this is bad, you are dependent on weed, and are willing to sell ur own stuff and others... get a hobby, right now weed is a your hobby, work out go to the gym, play sports, paint, read, write, play games, GET A JOB? all things you can do, also set some goals for your self.. they dont have to be hard goals, just somthing you want to do, but never have.. somthing easy to get you started....

once again weed is easy to stop somking, find a new way to fill your time.

[OMFG!You'reActuallySmart!]

Weed addiction is like a computer game addiction, both are psychological addictions meaning if you quit, you will not have any cravings or other physical withdrawl symptoms. I think the addiction is enforced because of your chronic feelings of "crapiness". Weed provides a non-physical escape from those feelings but once the effects ware off, you're back to feeling down. I think the key to quit your addiction is to address your chronic negative feelings, which is a psychological or psychosocial route.

Quitting the weed is not the same as quitting cigarettes because they have a psychological and a physical addiction, so the effects experienced are different.

[plxplxkthx]

Originally Posted by BlueWolf

I advise, that if you really want to quit, try to do it slowly. The dangers of weed, is as you already know... obtaining it. What makes it bad is the desperation for it. Such as selling and stealing to get it. That is a huge problem.

I think your probably trying to stop all at once. Start by doing less and less each day.

wrong im afraid. you can quit weed straight up. it has no physically addictive properties. i've been smoking since i was 12 (7 years) and i know that it seems impossible to just 'stop' but shit, i went from smoking at least an 8th a day to just not. personally i moved onto drink which is another matter but it's definitely not hard to move on from cannabis as long as you have something else to distract yourself with, whether that be smoking or drinking or painting or whatever.

[Ngikhona]

Just for the record, replacing one bad habit with another isn't really a good idea. At all. I think it'd be good to try to replace smoking with something else, though. You can replace it with pretty much anything that you enjoy and is safe.

[Twisted]

I know how you feel I also get that feeling of wanting to run away and crapness when I don't smoke weed. I've also tried cutting down and stopping slowly but it never works I always end up smoking the same amount. Our situations are different because I was looking to cut down from smoking every day to just weekends instead of quitting fully. But maybe this is something you would consider? I enjoy smoking a lot more now I only do it on weekends and that feeling of routine goes away completely. You cab also set yourself a budget for the weekend and keep spending under control.

Anyway I just did it cold turkey, and that's what I did when I took breaks from it as well. Like others have said having something to distract yourself with especially for the first week or 2 helps a lot. You could try finding a job, seeing friends etc. I used my iPhone a lot playing games and stuff to pass the time when I didn't have anything to do.

Also if you smoke your weed with tobacco you may be having withdrawal symptoms from the nicotine. Try nicotine patches if you don't like cigarettes. They worked brilliantly for my boyfriend. Some of the feelings you may get when you don't smoke may be from the nicotine as opposed from not having weed and if you can combat the nicotine addiction it will make not smoking weed a lot easier. Hope I helped, good luck.

[cole11]

thanks a lot for all the advice, i'm having to cut down now (this week at least) as i've blown all my money already! i will try to find a hobby to replace it, but the thing is weed was my replacement for drink, and i'm worried that if i stop bunnin, i'm gonna start drinking heavily again, which is not an option! regards the nicotine, i smoke anyway, but find when im not smoking bud i can smoke anythin from upto 50 a day, which is appalling! however, im sure i will find a way to get through the week somehow, and will hopefully look forward to next weekends session more than usual, thanks for all the advice again!

[you'rebeautiful]

It looks like you might have a bit more to deal with than weed alone...
A substance or action doesn't need to be 'addictive' for someone to be addicted to it, if that makes sense. If this is something that's affecting your life in a negative way (and from what you've said, it seems that it has)...& if you really want to stop, it might be a good idea to think about seeking some professional help. Things can be hard, and sometimes... that's just what it takes. I would suggest having a chat with your doctor about how you've been feeling, and about your using. It might help<3.
I hope that everything works out.
<3Ada.