Quitting Marijuana Smoking
Posted by Stop Smoking Weed Now in Quitting Weed on October 28th, 2009
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)
After Quitting Weed
Posted by Stop Smoking Weed Now in Quitting Weed on October 27th, 2009
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)!
Quit Marijuana
Posted by Stop Smoking Weed Now in Quitting Weed on October 26th, 2009
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!
Stop Smoking Support
Posted by Stop Smoking Weed Now in Quitting Weed on October 25th, 2009
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.
Marijuana Side Effects
Posted by Stop Smoking Weed Now in Quitting Weed on October 24th, 2009
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.
Help to Stop Smoking Marijuana
Posted by Stop Smoking Weed Now in How To Quit Smoking Weed, Quitting Weed on October 23rd, 2009
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…
Posted by Stop Smoking Weed Now in Stop Smoking Weed on October 22nd, 2009
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Quitting Marijuana
Posted by Stop Smoking Weed Now in Quitting Weed on October 22nd, 2009
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…
Ways to Stop Smoking Marijuana
Posted by Stop Smoking Weed Now in How To Quit Smoking Weed, Quitting Weed on October 21st, 2009
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!
Ways To Quit Smoking Weed
Posted by Stop Smoking Weed Now in Quitting Weed on October 20th, 2009
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!
