can anyone help me quit smoking marijuana?
i have been smoking marijuana for about 3 years every single day, multiple times a day, and i feel like im getting dumber and less social< i know a lot of people think its easy to quit but my family has a history of addiction and im certain i have a mental addiction, and am almost certain i have a physical dependance because if i dont smoke i go into withdrawals, and i lose my appetite, get really depressed and just feel like shit overall< about 4 years ago i quit for a few months because i went to rehab, but couldnt stay away from it< im wondering if anyone knows how long it will take for the withdrawals to dissipate, the depression to go away and for my brain to be functioning at full capacity
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I don’t know, but I do sympathize with you. It must feel beyond frustrating, I know I’m trying to quit smoking cigs. Just hang in their and try doing the things they taught you in rehab
well youre going to have to endure the withdrawal
if you cant, you really should get some proffesional help…
its really gonna hurt if u take the first option, but its worth it if you really do want to stop
Nobody can do it for you, support only does so much. Basically, you’re on your own (even in rehab).
People are beginning to take marijuana abuse a little more serious these days:
http://addiction-dirkh.blogspot.com/2008/03/feds-fund-study-of-marijuana-withdrawal.html
Poke around on the internet, that article has a few links. Learn what you can, there’s quite a bit of info out there; try googling “withdrawal and depression”.
I quit speed on my own years ago and it was tough, but doable. Later I attempted to quit alcohol using AA and that didn’t work at all for me. Actually, I had already quit, but tried using AA to stay stopped. They kept telling me I was doing it all wrong, I needed to pray with them, confess, and sit around talking about alcohol every day. I couldn’t stay sober that way.
Once I realized I didn’t need them, it got a lot easier. Keep out of NA/MA/AA. Their numbers don’t justify their great PR.
The Effectiveness of the Twelve-Step Treatment
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html
This program was great. Thank you so much.
I had smoked for about 34 years. I never really tried to quit smoking before, I tried this program and it was really easy for me. I smoked about 1-1-1/2 packs of cigarette’s a day.
I would recommend this program to anyone. It is worth for every smoker who wants to quit this slow suicide habit, this is your last chance to get rid of it eternally.
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raysny has a solid idea.
and he is right, aa na any of them can’t help if you aren’t convinced within yourself that you want to quit.
I think that is the biggest tool, because if you don’t want to quit, no one can make you.
I had a good experience with aa for awhile, but I am connected to a god other than the one aa pledges to.
good peeps, and it did me alot of good to hear their stories, but in the end, you wake up with yourself.
any time one wants to halt a habit, it is going to be really difficult for them, BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE.
I think if you let yourself know ahead of time the misery you are going to ask yourself to walk through, and think it through to the end, you may find yourself better equipped to face the discomfort.
In my own experience I have found that anything I want to achieve has to start in my head first, and I have to stick with it no matter what. Once i accomplish that just once, then its all downhill, (bumpy, but downhill.)
think it over with you ahead of time, and tell yourself it is not going to be fun, you’re going to miss the social circles it took you to. the high is just delicious, but it costs too much lately.
If you put you first during the initial week of quitting, and really allow yourself to succeed, then I think you can do it.
You’ve said it the problem of why you’re smoking is the very writing you’ve wrote above.
Look at enquiry: You’re full of self guilt and self condemnation.
Well my friend, STOP condemning yourself and STOP the self guilt that has run in your family history.
Just because your parents were smokers does not necessariy equate to you being one.
If you STOP telling yourself you’re “getting Dumber…” then you will start to realize that the effort that got you here tells me otherwise. YOU’rE NOT GETTING DUMBER.
I swear anyone who can get up and do something like this on the web write about their problems is on the track of repairing their life and in the process of turning it around. You’re on the track of repairing that which you have damaged…
The aim of quiting is not to see how long the withdrawal symptoms are going to stay or disappear.
What you should do is change some of the circumstances in your life. It is ones lifestyle and circumstances that propell us to do things with our body and mind. It does not matter if that may be smoking marihuana. The very life we are involved in leads one to withdraw within oneself and try to numb the mind and body from the responsibilities of life one is living in.
The only way I see anyone to fight any addiction is to come straight out the hole they have dug and say “NO MORE, I AM THE CREATOR AND THE KING OF MY DESTINY…”
You have created that which you are living. So be the creator that once you were and change the life you have now to a life that you wish to go toward. You’ve created this life that which you live now … perhaps it’s time to change it toward what you’re perceiving the new life ahead for yourself to be.
We create our circumstances and we live it. So put the motion of creation into your mind and live the new life you have thought about.
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Nothing is ever too late.
All things can change.
It is first in the mind
then in the making.
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Oneday, you will become a role model for those who walk your path and you will help them to quit. The teacher who has lived is more powerful then the teacher who teaches from the book. You’re are teacher who has walked the path and talked the talk. There is nothing you cannot do now since you have been touched.
Go my friend start your new life … the person in you has had enough of the experience and wants to change.