Stop Smoking Weed Now

Quitting Cannabis

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:36:17 +0000

Quitting cannabis was the best thing i did certainly this year and i’ve been thinking about how I can celebrate the day when it has been 1 year since i last smoked weed! The old me would probably celebrate by rolling up a huge joint, kicking back on the porch and sipping on an ice cold beer to help with the after-dry-mouth effect of the joint! hah!

The new me wants to do something physically challenging, like a mini-triathlon, or running up a mountain, or doing another sky-dive!! Any suggestions out there, please send me a comment! I would love to get some ideas – I want it to be something exhilirating adrenalin pumping – something that makes me feel ALIVE and helps me to acknowledge the great work i’ve done this year to stop smoking weed.

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How To Stop Smoking Pot

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:05:36 +0000

If you’re wondering how to stop smoking pot, consider this. All you need to do is think about ‘why’ you want to quit weed. Once you have answered this question for yourself, the ‘how to’ will become clear and you can begin to take the steps necessary to quit smoking pot once and for all.

There is a distinction here between ’stopping’ and ‘quitting’. In my 20+ years as a marijuana addict, I had stopped many times…but i had never quit. Why? I believe this is because I never asked myself the question ‘Why do i want to quit weed?’. Instead I had just jumped right in to taking action steps to ’stop smoking weed’…and ofcourse these actions gave me results…but not long lasting results.

It’s all about the ‘Why?’…

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Help Stop Smoking Marijuana

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:32:34 +0000

If you think you need help to stop smoking marijuana, my suggestion is to firstly get clear about why you want to stop. Until you figure this out for yourself you will find it near impossible to quit smoking weed. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but it is my truth, and I speak from experience of mire than twenty years addicted to marijuana!

My single clear reason for quitting was for my son, who was only about 3 months old at the time I quit. I didn’t want to be a drug addict parent raising this magnificent being of light! I wanted to quit weed so that I could put the best me forward to parent my son – he deserved it and so did I. Hid birth gave me the opportunity to step up in a way I had never before experienced. I am so grateful.

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Stop Smoking Naturally

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:18 +0000

I was able to stop smoking naturally by combining a number of methods and taking massive action. It all started with mindset, and I suppose if I go a little deeper, it took me going into my heartspace to find out what it is I truly desire. I discovered what I knew to be my truth – the freedom that I sought from smoking weed, had turned on its head to become like a prison entrapping me in a cycle of desire to change my state daily through using pot. I was in a constant state of dis-ease with myself – always wanting to move away from the here and now. In discovering this, I realised that what i truly want is to be free of my addiction to marijuana, and to feel truly free in my natural state.

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Quitting Smoking Pot

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:02:07 +0000

Have you ever stopped smoking weed? In my 20+ years as a pothead, i had stopped many times. The length of time i stopped for varied from a few days, a few weeks, a few months, and even a year once (i think, though my memory is still a bit hazy). Quitting smoking pot however, is a different ballgame alltogether.

Imagine never having to have thoughts, cravings, or put out any more energy around how to score, when your next smoke is, how red your eyes look, trying to straighten up to meet people who are straight! Imagine being completely free from your desires, your addiction to pot.

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Quitting Pot Smoking

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:41:38 +0000

Quitting pot smoking is the single greatest action i’ve ever taken in my life. Period! The more distance I get from my life as a marijuana addict, the more I reflect on how incredible it was that for all those twenty plus years smoking weed, I never realised I was an addict. As I was able to stop for periods of time – a week, a month, even a year at one stage i think – I didn’t believe that ‘I was one of those addicted people’! Far out! How wrong I was! At the same time, it was an immense relief to me to have the realisation that I was addicted to weed. It was at that very moment that my life changed – it was a sweet gracious moment that I will be forecer grateful for.

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About Smoking Pot

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:44:52 +0000

My nephew recently asked me about smoking pot. I told him ‘yes’ i had tried it. He asked me what it was like. At this point internally i was kind of freaking out. I didn’t want to promote it or make out like it was a great thing, but at the same time i needed to offer him some truth of my experience. I said to him that it could be a fun thing to try with your friends once or twice, but that for some people who like it too much, they could end up addicted to it and unable to live without it. I said I had also seen some friends go from smoking weed to trying and using other harder drugs regularly, and that this was very sad for me to see my friends wasting their lives away.

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Effects Of Quitting Weed

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:06:27 +0000

There are many positive effects of quitting weed. Here are just some of the physical effects I have experienced;

1. Clear headed – especially in the morning.
2. I can breathe easy – no coughing.
3. My throat is no longer sore – I think I just got used to having a sore scratchy throat and then continued to self medicate through the day (by smoking weed!)
4. Energy levels – are just UP and going through the roof – probably helped by the fact that I’m now working out 4 or 5 times each week. I seem to have more energy when i expend more energy – which proves what I read once;

“Energy is maintained by exertion, not lost by it.”

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Addicted To Weed

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:52:33 +0000

I never understood that i was addicted to weed, until i did some online research and got to reading the twelve questions on the Marijuana Anonymous website. It was when i answered ‘yes’ to almost all these questions that i had the gob-smacking realisation that i was addicted to weed.

This is when my life changing (oprah ah-hah) moment! Fro this point i was able to then seek some help and begin to make changes to support my desire to rid myself of this addiction and live my life free from addiction.

Until you have your own ‘ah’hah’ moment when you accept yourself as addicted, you will never be able to make the shift for good.
I truly wish you love and respect your choices.

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I Quit Weed

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:44:45 +0000

It’s been almost ten months since i quit weed. I was speaking to a close friend this morning and she congratulated me and told me she had stopped smoking weed two weeks ago. I feel so happy for her even though she is at the start of her journey…

At the same time i felt so proud of myself for having these ten months between my old life as a marijuana addict and now. I cannot rave enough about how great i feel to be free from my pot addiction. On the outside nothing has changed…but on the inside I have a real sense of freedom – the freedom that i sought from smoking pot over twenty years ago. How ironic!

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Quitting Marijuana Smoking

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:36:03 +0000

There are some things to mull over before quitting marijuana smoking.

Begin to ask questions of yourself without judging your answers. Here are some questions to think about;

1. what does smoking weed give me that i don’t get from anyone or anything else?
2. how much time does smoking weed take up of my waking hours?
3. have i lost any friendships through needing to get high every day?
4. am i really over having to pretend to be straight when i see family or others who aren’t high?
5. have i lost any motivation in my working life cos i would rather stay home and get stoned?
6. am i being a good role model for my kids/nieces/nephews? (this one is a killer)

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After Quitting Weed

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:30:49 +0000

After quitting weed I started working out to get rid of my ‘pot belly’. I had heard that THC (the active ingredient in weed – the stuff that gets you high) gets stored in the body in the fat cells. I looked down at my muffin top and renamed it my ‘pot belly’. Kind of cute but it had to go!! I’m ten months down the track now after quitting weed, and my pot belly is definitely shrunk in size. I’m gonna continue to work on it with the plan of looking hot this summer in my cozzie (thats aussie for swimming costume)!

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Quit Marijuana

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:25:50 +0000

When I decided to quit marijuana, i began researching information about smoking weed and how to go about quitting. I’m talking about really quitting, getting to the point where I no longer think about when my next joint might be, looking forward to getting to that time – wishing away the hours in between, missing out on ‘life’ and making the most of each moment!

It’s strange in a way as when I started smoking weed it gave me the feeling like I was slowing down time and making the most of each moment! I would usually smoke with a friend, or friends (in the early days), take time to prepare the mull (either for a bong or rolling up a joint), then we’d pass it around getting high until we’d all giggle, vague out, start jamming, and inevitably run out, pig out and then crash out!

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Stop Smoking Support

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:25:11 +0000

There a multitude of stop smoking support avenues for you to access, once you have decided to quit weed. My greatest support came from a group of people i had never met before i started going to MA – Marijuana Anonymous. It is based on the 12 step program of AA and i can tell you that is a pretty rude awakening to go to one of these meetings and listen to people’s stories of addiction. It really got me so thankful and grateful that i had not really f**ked up my life with drug addiction, as I witnessed other people who had. Though we all came from different backgrounds of culture race social-economic etc.., we all shared so much in common through our experiences of weed addiction.

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Marijuana Side Effects

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:14:46 +0000

The obvious marijuana side effects include fuzzy head, drowsiness, clouded mind, scattered thoughts, inability to string thoughts together in a coherent way. Then there’s also short term memory loss and lack of attentiveness. When i was smoking weed (pretty much daily for 20+ years) i was always either in a pre-smoke state thinking about when i could next roll up a spliff and smoke, or in the ritual of my pot addiction (ie. mulling up, mixing with a bit of tobacco, rolling a joint then finding a nice chill zone to sit and smoke it up), or stoned from the joint i had just had, or in the post-stoned haze in a kind of in between state wishing i could straighten up or deciding if i should roll up another…always in a state of flux…never comfortable in the present moment.

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Help to Stop Smoking Marijuana

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:20:22 +0000

There are so many programs, methods and pathways to help you to stop smoking marijuana. The first step is to DECIDE that you want to quit pot! Once you have have made this decision, all the next steps will fall into place, one by one. I truly believe that once you decide to quit smoking weed, the universe will manifest for you all the help you need to stop. Whether it’s in the form of a counselor/therapist that magically appears in your life, or a ‘group’ to join like MA, or a program you come across online that resonates…

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Stop Smoking Weed Now — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:10:20 +0000

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Quitting Marijuana

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:59:53 +0000

For some people quitting marijuana is like losing a lifelong friend. A friend that has been with you for many years, through the ups and the downs, the good times and the bad. Always there for you, always constant consistent and never let you down. In fact, i really saw smoking weed in this way. What began for me as a way to get variety and instantly change my mood by getting high, came to be a habit that gave me certainty and consistency every time i smoked weed!
So back to my ‘lifelong friend’ analogy….sometimes we outgrow our friends and our friendships become toxic! It doesn’t mean that we don’t love our friend anymore – its just that there comes a time we need to move on…

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Ways to Stop Smoking Marijuana

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:26:36 +0000

There are numerous ways to stop smoking marijuana. I can only speak of my own experience. I set a date to stop (at the end of a holiday) and have a break as i had done so many times before. This time was different as a month or so earlier i had seen a flyer for MA on a community notice board. When i returned from my holiday, i researched MA and read their list of 10 questions. It said ‘if you answer yes to any of these, you may have a marijuana addiction.’ I answered yes to ALL of the questions. This was the first time i saw myself a s a drug addict, and it was a really scary freaky concept. The next steps became apparent, and i have never looked back!

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Ways To Quit Smoking Weed

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:44:36 +0000

There are so many ways to quit smoking weed, like going on a retreat where you have no access to smoking weed, going cold turkey, going to group therapy or one-on-one counseling. I think we all find our own way that suits our personality and lifestyle. Once I decided to quit weed, i set a date at the end of a holiday – thinking i’ll smoke weed as usual, daily on my holiday…and then then last night i’ll smoke my last joint and give whatever weed i have left to a friend who i know will appreciate it. so thats what i did and i tell you those couple of days afterwards on the drive back home, i really pity my partner…cos i was a b*tch…but thankfully i didn’t have any pot to smoke and so began my new life as a non-pothead!

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Help Quit Smoking Pot

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:18:43 +0000

Once i decided i needed help to quit smoking pot, the pathway forward just seemed to appear, each step just as I needed it! Firstly I happened to see a small note on a notice board for a MA group meeting in my area. I went to about 6 meetings and they were so helpful in my start to quitting weed.

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Dangers of Smoking Pot

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:34:30 +0000

The only dangers of smoking pot that I have experienced are when I have combined smoking pot with taking other drugs – no its not what your thinking…I’m talking about caffeine – the world’s most widely used and legal drug. A number of years ago I suffered a number of severe anxiety attacks when I combined coffee with smoking pot. I would find myself unable to talk, my heart beating loud and felt like it was going to burst out of my chest. I had a dry mouth and my thoughts raced away from me where i just felt like i couldn’t breathe.

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Benefits of Quitting Weed

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:42:57 +0000

I have experiened so many benefits of quitting weed that i wonder why i didn’t do it sooner.
To start with i feel like i can breathe easily. I don’t think i realised cos i was just in it, but smoking 2-4 joints a day, with tobacco also, really did effect my lung capacity. Once i quit smoking weed, i started regular exercise and as time has gone on, feel that i have regained my big lung capacity and have cleared out my lungs, which i am sure took a beating over the years.

Another benefit from quitting weed is my level of motivation. I am amazed that i achieved so much during those years of being addicted to pot.
Now that i quit smoking weed, i feel like i have all the world of opportunity open to me again – its indescribable!

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Quitting Weed Side Effects

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:35:32 +0000

I never really experienced quitting weed side effects. Because i used to smoke weed with tabacco, i think i did experience some withdrawal from nicotine.
But, i think that mostly there are little or no apparent side effects from stopping to smoke weed.
In my opinion (and i’m no expert only an ex-pothead) the only side-effects if any from quitting weed, are psychological.
When I was in my weed addiction, i was always looking forward to the time of the day when i could roll up a number, go sit on the porch, gaze into the horizon and get stoned.

So once I quit smoking weed, i needed to find other activities to do to replace that routine. I chose to do stuff like take my dog for a walk…which worked really well to combat the physical side effects too.

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I Quit Smoking Pot

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:30:17 +0000

I quit smoking pot after more than 20 years of smoking weed almost daily.

There were periods in between where i stopped for weeks and even months at a time. In fact, i think i remember a time when i stopped smoking weed for over a year in that period of my life.
But each time i stopped smoking pot, i never felt like i had quit my addiction to it. I think the reason is that i never admitted to myself that i had a marijuana addiction.
This was the 1st step along my path to quit smoking pot. The acknowledgment that I was addicted to pot!

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Stop Smoking Weed – October 5, 2009

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:34:33 +0000

12 (Twelve) Step Programs: Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, etc..What Are They?

October 5, 2009
- The 12 step program is not for every one considering quitting weed. But there’s only 1 way to find out if its right for you…it can be very confronting but may change your life and help you to stop smoking pot.

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Ways To Quit Weed

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:11:22 +0000

There are a number of ways to quit weed, from cold turkey to hypnotherapy, and every-which-way in between. Now thankfully there are a number of online how to quit weed programs, which we will be reviewing on this blog.

Before you try any of these, just begin thinking of how your life will be when you no longer need to smoke weed daily!
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Why Quit Weed

Stop Smoking Weed Now — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:07:48 +0000

Why quit weed when you are able to do everything you need to do in your everyday life and smoke some weed to relax?

This is a question that most marijuana addicts ask themselves from time to time. I know I did! I was able to function fully (or so i thought), fulfill all obligations like work especially.
In fact, as I work with computers – i would typically smoke a joint (or 3 or 4) at night and work late into the early hours of the morning.
But was I really working as effectively as I could have?

I think i had convinced myself that smoking weed was just a part of my life, like eating sleeping and even breathing!

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