I think coffee is worse to quit than pot. A day without coffee is a day without sunshine.
Coffee is proof that God loves us and wants us awake.
I’ll always remember my mom telling dad “Drink your coffee, there are sleeping people in Europe.”
I can only speak for myself here. When I first quit smoking pot it was hard, about the same as cigs. After about a month without I gave in and took a few hits. Opposite affect from cigs here. The few hits seem to kill my desire for more, cigs I would have been right back to smoking. I quit smoking pot 24 years ago with maybe 1/2 dozen cheats in that period. I retired recently and started taking a few hits here and there each week, doesn’t seem to be getting out of hand.
I did have severe insomnia for several weeks after quitting.I was a daily toker for a period of 13 years. During the early part of that stretch, an impending outage was a time of some anxiety and topping off the supply became a priority. But finally I ran out and took no notice of it. For some reason, it had simply not become important anymore. I still don’t know the explanation for that but it was almost like the thoughts in my brain had become sufficiently entertaining without artificial enhancement.
There were no physical ramifications of note.
Now retirement looms and I am once again looking forward to a little weed to help fill the days. Surely the old opponents will be gone by the time I hang up the briefcase, won’t they?
Define “regular”? FWIW, I’m from Alaska, and when I was in my teens, early 20s pot was the next thing to legal. They’ve toughened up the laws a teensy bit since then, but not much. Even so, employers were getting hot and heavy with the whole “Operation Gold Stream” thing, so I just quit. My use was pretty much recreational, and never, at any point got to be a daily thing. Maybe 5-15 times a month, depending on the social scene.
It was not hard at all. I just quit, bam…never looked back. Having a good job is so much more important.
I smoked for 25 years. Always the regular ‘dry spells’, but then, I was a pretty serious pothead and had damaged a few relationships because I insisted on smoking at the wrong time and place on several occasions.
Quit when I separated from my then wife 10 years ago, because we were getting it from her cousin and he didn’t want anything to do with me after that. Was difficult at first precisely because I was so heavily psychologically addicted. It was a huge part of my identity and self-image. Pretty much never got any after that because I didn’t know who to get it from and/or never had the money. Eventually I got jobs where I got regularly tested and of course, had no real interest at that point in potentially compromising myself (in more ways than one) to get my hands on what I couldn’t afford anyway.
Can afford it now, wouldn’t mind getting my hands on some, but in truth, I have absolutely NO interest in going back to the kind of person I was then, or associating with the kinds of people I associated with then because they had pot.
I smoked regularly at one time. I love marijuana. It has a different effect on me than most it seems. I don’t get lethargic I become energetic and creative. It doesn’t make me overeat. It cures me of cravings for alcohol and tobacco.
There is no withdrawal. It is not addictive.
Fuck the war on Drugs. Fucking stupid big government assholes. These fuckers need to be brought down. Congress is filled with liars and cowards. The only way they will be brought down it through amending the constitution through the state process outlined in article V of the constitution. Term limits for congress. It’s the only way marijuana will ever be legalized.
Hey,
I smoked daily for 8 years. I had liked the idea of quitting for quite a few years but it wasn’t until I started getting panic attacks after smoking that I actually quit. I havnt smoked for 8 months now.
I definitely miss it everyday. It became a part of who I am and I like to think that I have been able to take the positive parts of it along with me. I wouldn’t say that it was easy to quit but it was a necessity. I think that is the thing with kicking weed addiction; when a person is 100% sure then they can do it. Maybe your friend was not/ is not quite sure?
I think it all depends on why a person smokes, how much they smoke, the benefits and the costs that they perceive from smoking as to whether they can smoke occasionally or whether they have to stop completely. I think if there is some sort of underlying issue that has influenced their choosing to smoke then it is helpful to deal with that first.
I don’t know if that helps at all