Hello everyone, I just signed up to these
forums...I was a daily pot smoker for the
past 4 years and I truly feel I dug myself
into a hole, I ended up doing plenty of
other drugs ranging from meskaline to lsd
to cocaine. I haven't touched anything
but weed for a couple months though, and
just recently (4 days ago) I decided to
give up smoking weed for my health and to
save more money.
However, since then, i've been having what
I can only expect to be severe withdrawal
symptoms. I don't feel sad, but I just
don't feel myself. I anaylyze every
little ache in my body, I constantly worry
about my mental health, I just feel really
anxious. I've been staying around the
house mostly and I notice i've become very
withdrawn, not willing to talk a lot at
all. But what scares me most is thoughts
of suicide invade my mind.
Now, I have no intentions of killing
myself, especially not now that i'm on the
road to recovery. I'm by no means
suicidal. I find it extremely frightening
though that these thoughts come to me, and
all I can do is chalk it up to anxiety. I
guess i'm just looking to see if anyone
has gone through the same thing? Anybody
abruptly quit smoking weed after daily use
and end up completely down? Is it normal?
How long will it last?
Hoping for your support and knowledge,
absolutin it
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Crazyness24
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 179 Location: Jersey
Posted: 02-02-06 12:07pm
I smoked for awhile too my boyfriend an I
and when I stop I don't seem to have any
withdraws someone told me that you cannot
get addicted to weed I dont know I
believe it though
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gonz
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 3 Location: venezuela
Yes Dude You Are Right Posted: 02-08-06 09:19am
Hello i'm gonzalo and i've been a pot
smoker for many years, and man, you are
not wrong, withdrawal symptoms are true, I
did lsd, cocaine, mescaline, heroin.
Ectasis and many more becuz of the pot,
since a year and a half I only smoke pot,
and since only four days I havent smoke it
and I feel completly bad.
The people who dont feel withdrawal
symptoms are just becuz they dont smoke
enough as we do, but on this four days
clean I have come trough a very hard
anxiety, very weird dreams (when I sleep),
and I just have four days without
smoking!, I dont know what to do, today is
my fourth day, and I feel bad, nervous,
restlessness ,non sleeping nights,
depression, and very anger dont know
against what, but I just feel like that.
I cant say that I will not smoke again,
but I have the will to not do it, if I
relapse i´ll try again and again, but
dude, you are not wrong, the symptoms are
true.
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rinsha
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 305 Location: Alabama
Posted: 05-22-06 18:11pm
I don't feel like I have any withdrawl
symptoms and neither does my boyfriend.
We both have health issues we are dealing
with and trying to be healthy :d
other than a little headache I seem to be
fine.
Good luck to you :!:
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seazer73
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2
Help Am I Dying? Posted: 05-26-06 09:30am
Help!!!!!!!!!
I have been smoking weed for the past two
years everyday allday and about 5 days ago
I just stopped. Now here comes the bad
part. I never thought you can go through
withdrawl from weed but I was wrong. I
cant eat anything, I cant have a bowel
movement (when I was smoking would have a
bowel movement every morning) , I keep
throwing up this yellow looking stuff,
feel very exausted at times, get the
chills, and feel bloated in my stomach.
Before I stopped smoking everything was
fine but when I stopped thats when all
this started happening. I cant give my
wife and my kids the attention they need
because i'm feeling so sick. Now after
the first two days it then clicked in my
head I was going through withdrawl. I was
smoking a ounce of weed every 2-3 weeks by
myself(i'm the only one who skoes in my
household). Shouldn't this withdrawl be
over with by now? Although I stopped
smoking the 3rd day of these symptoms were
so bad that I called my weed man and
instead of getting the usual ounce I only
bought a quarter of an ounce but I didn't
smoke it. I only bought it because I was
thinking if the pain is going to be this
bad maybe I need to smoke a little to ease
the pain because maybe my body needed it.
But I still have it on the shelf. I find
myself now sleeping most of the day away
feeling sick and having a very very short
temper. The funny part about it is that I
dont have any desire to smoke the weed I
have but why am I feeling like this.
Please someone how long is this going to
last????????????
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seazer73
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2
Posted: 05-27-06 13:52pm
Any suggestions
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Tamadrummer
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 710 Location: Zephyrhills,Fl
Posted: 06-02-06 17:35pm
It takes alot more than 3 days to
withdrawl from drugs of anykind. Mj for
sure will take at least 2 or more weeks.
Cigaretts are about 3 days for the
nicotine but shoot man, it is a daily
challenge to stay away.
You will get better each day as far as the
sickness and general flu feeling goes, you
will crave for a long time. It is will
power that will get you through.
Good luck,
brian
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Gab_Vitality
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Adelaide, Australia
Marijuana Addiction Posted: 06-22-06 14:21pm
U are all so rite...I stopped smoking
about 3 days ago I think and right now I
feel so sick! I feel so nauseous,
restless, irritable, headache, stomach
pains and I have the chills...I am so
freaking out that I am almost thinking of
going to get more to end this turmoil...Ok
so I know there are worse things and that
this is my own fault but I never thought
it would be this hard...Ive been smoking
for about 5 years and I dont think I would
have ever started if I knew back then. If
anyone else can think of ways to stop this
crap, please let me know xox :(
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Tamadrummer
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 710 Location: Zephyrhills,Fl
Posted: 06-22-06 14:32pm
You are the only one that can stay the
course. If you keep the fight going, it
will end in a few more days. If you end
up needing to get some more to help with
the withdrawl symptoms, please don't get
more than maybe one joints worth. It will
help with the symptoms but it will not
help with your being totally clear of the
thc.
No one says you have to go cold turkey
except you, if you cannot make it cold
turkey and you decide to go back it will
not get better for you and it will become
harder to quit the next time. Do yourself
a favor and taper or titrate your use down
to a point where you are not jonsing so
much and then you can stop but you cannot
just go from smoking a nickle or dime or
more a day to nothing and not expect of
suffer some pretty severe withdrawl.
Chin up, you can do this, you choose the
way and then stick it out.
Good luck,
brian
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BridgetC87
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 38 Location: California
Posted: 11-07-06 22:05pm
Seriously, I think u are fine. I smoked
for a very long time and then just quit,
actually very recently, about 2 months
ago. At first I didnt really feel
"right." but when you think about it, its
just that space of time that you were
doing it and now you arnt. Well thats how
it was for me anyway. But I didnt have
any other symptoms except that I was kind
of bored. But if you have questions that
cant be answered here, I would seriously
go to he doctor. They cant do anything to
you except give you advice and answers to
your questions. Everything you say to
them is completely confidential, no matter
what! Just something to keep in mind.
And also, if you dont want your primary
doctor to know this about you, go to a
different one of a one time only kind of
thing.
Hope this helps.
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Makoto
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 263 Location: Japan
Posted: 11-08-06 08:42am
The withdrawl symptoms are just or almost
the same as nictoine withdrawl symptoms.
They are mostly mental, and even if you do
go through about 5 days of feeling bad,
look at the gain of your freedom when you
come through.
I would suggest two things. Dont be a
wussy. Yeah, that is right a wussy. So
what if you cant sleep a few nights well,
or you get strange dreams, and have some
mystery aches. Thing of the long term
gains you will get once you quit. Plus,
when we are stressed we all get strange
dreams, and if we want can worry ourselves
into having mystery aches etc.
Next, it is all mental. Your withdrawl
symptoms are mostly in your head. You
should think of these things as good
feelings. The feeling of that monkey on
your back dying little by little. You
should enjoy that you are on your way to
freedom. You should not be looking at it
as a sacrifice, or doom or gloom. Your
stresses are in your head, and it is
something that should not be seen as a bad
thing. You made a decision to quit, not
be happy with that decision. Letting the
withdrawl symptoms be a negative thing is
giving into the monkey on your back. You
might feel a void, because you have given
up a regular activity, but that will be
quickly filled with other more healthy
pleasures and past times.
To end, the feelings you have should be
seen as a good thing. It is your body
overcoming the monkey on your back. Next,
remeber that we all have strange dreams,
lack of sleep, etc when we are stressed
out. Lastly, most of these withdrawl
symptoms are just in your head. They are
not real. That is why a number of people
said they felt no real withdrawl
symptoms.
Good luck, enjoy life, and enjoy the next
few days.
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NickVellios
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 55
Posted: 11-29-06 18:06pm
You'll get over it. That doesn't sound
like "severe" withdrawl symtoms to me.
Watch a heroin addict go through
withdrawls, that is severe withdrawls. I
smoked pot in highschool and when I quit I
got the same symtoms. It's no big deal,
just don't try to drink to get rid of the
feeling or you'll end up just switching
addictions.
Sounds like you did a good thing by
quiting, stick with it and you'll be on
your way to a better life. Potheads are
idiots, you are one step closer to having
a brain.
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Belief96
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 3
Posted: 02-08-07 17:13pm
I don't think anyone can get addicted or
have withdrawls from weed. Unless, you
try really hard.
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selfillusion
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 2
Posted: 02-09-07 01:10am
I have been a frequent drug user for 6
years. As someone who has stopped
smokign and seen many people stop smoking
weed, there are no physical withdrawal
symptoms. The only one I have ever seen
or heard of is a reduced appitite. There
are no phyiscal withdrawals, because there
is nothing that makes you physically
addicted to pot.
Mentally, you are breaking a habit so you
may have some withdrawal style thoughts.
Find other things to do and bring yourself
away from places you would normally smoke.
If you're really struggling, try keeping
a journal. It emptys your head and makes
it easier for you to focus on other
things.
Good luck.
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ddwolff
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Israel
Marijuana Addiction Posted: 05-30-07 11:19am
I have been smoking for about 4 years, at
varying levels. There are times when I
would smoke every day for a few months,
then not more than once a week. But I
think that once a week was my minimum. If
I didn't smoke for more than that, I would
start freaking out.
I haven't smoked in 2 or 3 weeks, and I am
not having any severe physical withdrawal
symptoms, but the mental stuff is
difficult. I too have found frightening
thoughts of suicide crossing my mind-- but
they are not dangerous, just scary. I am
bored and spend most of my time in my
apartment.
Physically the only problem I've been
having is fairly persistent headaches. I
hope they go away. I also hope that I can
recover the things that I wanted to by not
smoking anymore -- being less socially
paranoid (although this is not entirely
the fault of marijuana), and having more
energy for positive action.
I don't want to walk down the road of
drugs anymore. Since I became enamored of
marijuana I have tried many drugs, trying
to "expand my consciousness"-- DXM, acid,
ecstasy, coke, mushrooms. In the end I
just wanted more drugs. I imagined myself
doing heroine one day, and that scared me.
So I said enough, and here I am, with
pretty significant depression and
headaches-- but that's it.
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guitarmania
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 1
Mj Withdrawal Is True Posted: 06-03-07 20:12pm
K so for whoever says you dont get
withdrawal symptoms from pot .. well that
depends on a lot of things from what I
observed about myself.. I have a very
addictive personality in general..... i
play guitar 8 hours a day when my arm
doesnt act up and i used to surf full time
and used to just sk8 all day and then when
i started smoking pot I would smoke like a
dime a day sometimes double depending on
who i was with or w/e.. and one day i had
a sore throat and stuff and was worried(a
bit too paranoid lol) of cancer which i
went to the doc for and it turned out to
be an irritated throat form all the
coughing..(gettin rid of junk in lungs)
anyway so it freaked me out b/c a cancer
commercial came on with this lady who had
a sore throat taht turned out to be
cancer. anyway I went cold turky and drove
home to finish my stash b/c it was chronic
and i finished it that night and morning
threw away my bowl etc.. and since then I
have had some serious withdrawal
symptoms.. I cant sleep well at all... Im
jittery and my Head is pounding off and
on... So i firmly believe its all about
personality b/c my friend smokes as much
as me and he just went cold turky and had
no symptoms .. however he lives pretty
normally.. unlike me the extremist.. but
yah its been 4 days of withdrawal symptoms
but they are lightening up.. plus i
decided I need health so i started running
skating etc a lot which I havnt done in
months so that probly is making me detox
faster aka more withdrawal symptoms.
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nomocronic
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 1
Posted: 06-10-07 05:55am
i have smoked weed for along time and
withdrawals happen.it has been a week and
i have quit.if you drink alcohol you will
get the urge to smoke.i have quit in the
past one time for 2 years and i went
back.if you are an everyday user and quit
you cannot go back and say i will controll
it and smoke say once a week.the cronic
will get you back to your everyday
habit.live with the withdrawals for up to
4 or5 weeks or less depending on the
individual.believe or not but a good
laxitive will help.also jesus christ is my
way of helping during the
withdrawal.people who dont experience
withdrawals are not heavy chronic
users.this time i am staying off god bless
you all remember dont go back.once you are
full time chronic user you can;t go part
time
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Shady41
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 28 Location: midwest
Posted: 06-14-07 15:12pm
I used to smoke 5 or 6 times a day; if I
was awake, I was high. Anyway, after
several years like that, when I did
finally cut back significantly, I went
through 3 or 4 months of withdrawal. It
involved feeling anxious, restless,
agitated, irritable, unable to sleep.
Eventually the effects subsided. I think
it was mostly psychological/emotional.
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renegade
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 1 Location: south england
Withdrawing Posted: 06-25-07 09:21am
Withdrawing really sux, I have smoked for
about 10 years, but every day for the last
7. I never thought that I would get
withdrawal symptoms this bad as I only
smoked in the evenings and weekends about
2/3 joints a night. Reading other peoples
experiences is really helping my
determination to stop, although its odd
how some people dont have any phisical
problems. Not sleeping is by far the worst
for me, I want to tear my skin off in the
middle of the night and feel angry and
aggitated, probobly because my body has
been used to using mostly in the evenings.
I think that stopping drinking has made
it worse as my evening joints were also
washed down with an accompaying beer. I
felt I had to stop the drinking to give me
the best chance to quit the weed. anyway
thats my little blog done and off my
chest, good luck to all readers, I hope
you make it.
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gabi13
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 6 Location: SURREY, BC CANADA
Addiction to Pot And Withdrawal Posted: 08-04-07 00:36am
I am going through this the third time, I
smoked pot daily for years. I only cut
down (from 2 joints a day to 1/2) and am
feeling like I am dying. I don't know if
I should quit cold turkey like last time
or cut down to ease the pain. I have
nausea, headache, feel week and tired and
restless, sweaty and get hot flashes and
chills. I feel like I am getting the flu.
Nobody can tell me it is not addictive, I
am so sick I can't take care of my child.
I don't crave it anymore, I just feel so
sick. I woke up at night about 20 times
and had to vomit. Anybody have any good
suggestions? I don't wont to feel crappy
for the next few weeks.
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