i usually smoke weed at night the most and before bed. And tonight i am craving it so bad. I dont know why.I dont know what else to do so i came here and am posting this. does anyone have any suggestions? PLEASE HELP!!!
Thank You,
first realize that marijuana is not a terrible physical addiction and you can actually do without it and get to sleep that night. i speak only from my own experiences, (and those close to me). Last night I was laying down before bed and doing some reading and I was grateful that my head was clear and I was having a conversation with my wife and I was thinking i wonder what she thinks of my those other night when i was stoned, i hid it from my wife.
i don't really get the munchies like a newbie would, but when i was smoking i would always like to go to be for a full stomach and i would often pig out after 9:30, i don't know how i didn't get fat and i don't think it is really healthy to eat so much etc right before i go to bed. but almost always, i would lay down and fall asleep very easy and i could hardly even read by late evening and for sure could not retain very much. i never had any sleeping problems while a stoner.
now i get to sleep but my conscious mind is alive and sometimes i wake up in the the middle of the night with the worries of my life crashing down on me. that is one of the prices i have pay for being alive right now and not deadened by chronic marijuana use.
if you are trying to get straight, focus only on the immediate future, you don't have to go for this rest of your life crap, you will probably relapse anyway, sometime, so just play the game for the immediate future, like today or the next few days and keep the planning at that. the days add up. 3wks for me today.
a new bedtime routine helps. you are going to have to consciously start new habits and get into new activities that give you a good feeling. of course, it isn't going to totally replace that feeling of being straight and doing a nice bowl, now that is a great feeling, but when you stop weed, new things will/should happen in your life. hopefully you will recognize that being straight is what your soul/life needs and it is the best thing for those around you.
we are all part of this great society and what we do affects those around us. as a human being we have a responsibility to ourselves to be the best person we can be. but for most people, non-addicts included, we do things to screw up our potential. this makes it less for everyone.
like now that i am straight. i know that the relationships that i have with other people, in my immediate circle and otherwise, are much richer without me being so stoned. my mind was deadened by pot. now that's funny, I sometimes thought i was smarter on dope and had insight. and i really, actually, honestly think that their is some positive, enlightenment benefits to pot. But the trouble is, there is no free ride. pot is a very mentally addictive drug, the people who end up over here on this board instinctively know there is a problem with themselves.
the human craving to be all we can be, tells us we are doing wrong. now that is not the case with everyone. and I am always surprised when in the dope world that i talk to stoners that never seem to grasp the concept that they might be a different and better person if straight. most of us have been like that but that tiny voice keeps a calling, is this right for me? then when you can't stop, you know something has to be wrong.
i am quit now, but i have a VERY difficult time in quiting. I am listening to these tapes on "synchronicity" and what they say is we should look for these coincidences in our life, recognize them as opportunities and then act on them. that is what is did, i knew i was in a terrible trap and i couldn't stop, but i kept it close to my heart(higher power, soul, god, whatever - that deep voice inside) and i said to myself when i get the chance to quit i am going to take the opportunity.
so i never had the "willpower" to quit on my own.(that's why i'm a marijuana addict) but a few things negative things happened directly due to my marijuana use, and eventually I reached this tipping point and my my mind was screaming "i am not going to take this anymore" so loud, louder than the other voice in my head that said, be stoned, sleep stoned, numb those feelings, feel good to be high, go for a nice walk, etc etc.
besides all that, when you are ready, clean up all your gear, take it somewhere else, i can hide mine in the woods, give it to a stoner buddy etc. at least get it out of your immediate reach so you have a chance. also, maybe you are going somewhere on a trip for a few days where it would be hard to smoke, i have often used trips as an opportunity to quit for a few days and i could see it wasn't that hard. (i always quit for our family vacation at the seashore) so at least i already knew it really wasn't going to be that terrible to not smoke - thank the pot gods for that! i could bear it. (now why did the pot god have to make it so that it showed up in our urine for a month, he played a big joke on us, didn't he, ha ha - no ones knows your smoking, but tell that to the drug testers at all these big good paying corp jobs)
good luck and godspeed, hope to see you in my world soon.
i don't really get the munchies like a newbie would, but when i was smoking i would always like to go to be for a full stomach and i would often pig out after 9:30, i don't know how i didn't get fat and i don't think it is really healthy to eat so much etc right before i go to bed. but almost always, i would lay down and fall asleep very easy and i could hardly even read by late evening and for sure could not retain very much. i never had any sleeping problems while a stoner.
now i get to sleep but my conscious mind is alive and sometimes i wake up in the the middle of the night with the worries of my life crashing down on me. that is one of the prices i have pay for being alive right now and not deadened by chronic marijuana use.
if you are trying to get straight, focus only on the immediate future, you don't have to go for this rest of your life crap, you will probably relapse anyway, sometime, so just play the game for the immediate future, like today or the next few days and keep the planning at that. the days add up. 3wks for me today.
a new bedtime routine helps. you are going to have to consciously start new habits and get into new activities that give you a good feeling. of course, it isn't going to totally replace that feeling of being straight and doing a nice bowl, now that is a great feeling, but when you stop weed, new things will/should happen in your life. hopefully you will recognize that being straight is what your soul/life needs and it is the best thing for those around you.
we are all part of this great society and what we do affects those around us. as a human being we have a responsibility to ourselves to be the best person we can be. but for most people, non-addicts included, we do things to screw up our potential. this makes it less for everyone.
like now that i am straight. i know that the relationships that i have with other people, in my immediate circle and otherwise, are much richer without me being so stoned. my mind was deadened by pot. now that's funny, I sometimes thought i was smarter on dope and had insight. and i really, actually, honestly think that their is some positive, enlightenment benefits to pot. But the trouble is, there is no free ride. pot is a very mentally addictive drug, the people who end up over here on this board instinctively know there is a problem with themselves.
the human craving to be all we can be, tells us we are doing wrong. now that is not the case with everyone. and I am always surprised when in the dope world that i talk to stoners that never seem to grasp the concept that they might be a different and better person if straight. most of us have been like that but that tiny voice keeps a calling, is this right for me? then when you can't stop, you know something has to be wrong.
i am quit now, but i have a VERY difficult time in quiting. I am listening to these tapes on "synchronicity" and what they say is we should look for these coincidences in our life, recognize them as opportunities and then act on them. that is what is did, i knew i was in a terrible trap and i couldn't stop, but i kept it close to my heart(higher power, soul, god, whatever - that deep voice inside) and i said to myself when i get the chance to quit i am going to take the opportunity.
so i never had the "willpower" to quit on my own.(that's why i'm a marijuana addict) but a few things negative things happened directly due to my marijuana use, and eventually I reached this tipping point and my my mind was screaming "i am not going to take this anymore" so loud, louder than the other voice in my head that said, be stoned, sleep stoned, numb those feelings, feel good to be high, go for a nice walk, etc etc.
besides all that, when you are ready, clean up all your gear, take it somewhere else, i can hide mine in the woods, give it to a stoner buddy etc. at least get it out of your immediate reach so you have a chance. also, maybe you are going somewhere on a trip for a few days where it would be hard to smoke, i have often used trips as an opportunity to quit for a few days and i could see it wasn't that hard. (i always quit for our family vacation at the seashore) so at least i already knew it really wasn't going to be that terrible to not smoke - thank the pot gods for that! i could bear it. (now why did the pot god have to make it so that it showed up in our urine for a month, he played a big joke on us, didn't he, ha ha - no ones knows your smoking, but tell that to the drug testers at all these big good paying corp jobs)
good luck and godspeed, hope to see you in my world soon.
Quit obssessing, take a hit (or two) before you go to bed, and soon you will find you no longer need it. Lack of sleep can be just as dangerous to our recovery as the drug itself. If you are determined to quit, you will quit. Which is where hardcharger started his post.
i wound up not taking a hit, i found it that i wanted a hit so bad that i decided to just go to bed and sleep. thats what happened. thank god i didtnt have any weed cuz i would have taken a hot or two like u mentioned. but the hard part is my boyfriend tooks some oxyconton pill (if thats how u spell it, i dont even know what it is) and now he has weed and is coming home, i am so mad about it.i am just going to be strong. i think he should have not told me about it at least. that way i would have been ok and not wanting it now.
Thank you both so much for your replies,
Thank you both so much for your replies,
even better, stay strong.
The only way to quit is to quit.
The only way to quit is to quit.
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