Questions to people who have quit smoking pot

When did you know it was time to quit? What brought on the decision? How are things since you quit smoking?

 

I knew it was time to quit when I started getting paranoid as hell, suspecting everyone around me was against me and plotting somehow.
It took me awhile to realise it was the pot, but since I quit around a year ago, I've been totally fine.

 

I never really "quit" but I take breaks because I can feel myself getting angrier when I'm not high. Like the past few weeks, I've smoked almost every night and every day, during the day, I feel extremely angry

 

thats my story EXACTLY
went to a BBQ a couple of weeks ago and some was being passed around, took a couple of hits just to see and WHAM instant paranoia, couldnt do shit after that,
totally ruined my evening. immediately jumped on my bike a rode home, scared to death the whole way, suckiness

 

I'm currently smoking but i've had times where i quit for several months. Mainly because my tolerance had become so high and i want to clear my lungs out and fatten my wallet.

I've never took long breaks from paranoia though, thats a problem in ones mind, i've never worried about that kind of thing and it never seems to happen to me.

Though money is usually the biggest reason, sometimes i need to save for something big and not spending so much of the ganja is a good thing.

 

I never was heavily in-to smoking pot, but about three years ago i decided to stop for good, even casual use. Pot makes me exceedingly uneasy mentally. No other drug fucks me up like Cannabis. I can't even begin to function while high on it. The de-realization I get from it is horrendous. I can take psychedelics without feeling miserable, but not good old Mary Jane.

I don't even know why I started occasional use. I did, however, immensely enjoy the effect it had on reviewing music, and i will always treasure those memories. It is just a shame that the side effects are so harsh for me.

 

as i got older i had responsibilities - instead of being carefree, i was often a little more stressed or preoccupied than when i was a teenager

and alas, the paranoia became much worse because of this. it was, by the end, a terribly pointless drug.

 

i used to be a real pothead, and i used to say that i would never ever quit.
then i fell in love with a guy who was much more addicted to drugs (by that i mean that he was doing hardcore drugs and it was a serious issue). he got into rehab and tried really hard to quit doing any drug, went to NA meetings, stayed out of parties and bars etc. i wanted to support him so i quit toking up. i had absolutely no problem with that, as i was madly in love with him and i would've done anything to help him.

im no longer with that guy (we stayed good friends though), and sadly he relapsed several times and he's been in and out of rehab. but i never smoked again, cuz i realized i dont miss it that much.
the main problem i used to have with weed/pot is that smoking it was truly incompatible with being good at my job (for me i mean). i'm a teacher and i love it. half my work is done at home, and when u're high u can't focus on your homework, and the other half is in front of kids and requires a solid concentration.

i remember that i had to arrange a complicated time schedule so i could get high while not putting my job at risk (basically i'd only smoke when i didnt have school time or homework and when i knew i was gonna have enough time to get down or nap afterwards). i really don't miss that particular detail.

 

I quit for twelve years and only recently started again. I fit every negative stoner stereotype when I smoke and I was getting way to lazy so I thought I'd take a temporary break, and the break lasted far longer than I intended it to. I've come close to quiting again since I just don't like it the way I used to.

Smoking too much is seriously

I get major anxiety, depression and very lazy when I over do it, and since I have such a low tolerance now, it's real easy to over do.

Now it takes me 3-4 hits to get baked without smoking to much, and I keep my tolerance low by only smoking once or twice a month. I enjoy weed so much better this way.

 

I had to quit cause the joint went out man..

 

Several things told me it was time to quit, It didn't seem like I could catch my breath as well and my lungs felt congested. As a youth I had a relatively hot temper, that I had gotten under control and I noticed that I was getting angry again when not smoking. Neither of them did I want to continue.
Also I was smoking and taking LSD to "expand" my mind and as a learning experience and both the "expanding" and learning, from drugs, had stopped or at least greatly slowed and they had become mostly entertainment. So I stopped.

As for how I've done since, once you take one road it is hard to say where the other would have lead, so it's hard to compare the two. But it's been over thirty years and I truly enjoy my life and have no desire to return to drugs. The wonder and newness that drugs once gave me, I now realize I don't need drugs to have and may have never needed them but I do have some fond memories of those days, the people I met and experiences we shared.

Hope this is what you had in mind but if not just feel free to ask again.

PS I've heard that it takes at least a year to get totally clear of the drugs effects, maybe longer.

 

How did that turn out for you?

 

Hell yeah! You're a true stoner:ssmokeit:

I quit smoking for a year and a half once...I like myself better when I smoke, it chills me out and helps me to cope with my anxiety.

 

Honestly, there were time when I smoked when my ability to focus was enhanced; I would imagine how the mind could work and I would see like a 4d image of how it could be described... I love the spatial ability weed sometimes gave me; It made everything so vivid as though I were looking at 3d model animation.. Honestly, I sometimes miss it because I can never get that sort of focus while sober. But I had to quit because it ended up making me feel depressed.

Whenever I was high I would focus on the saddest little things, it is difficult to describe but it's bad vibe city.

And aside from what I said about greater focus, after a while that ability was diminishing and I had the opposite effect. It would be difficult to focus and I would miss the point of things (a lot more than I do now :O )

I ended up being in a fog most of the time.

I did have some great times with it. Playing online games with a close friend on mine (like counter strike) was pretty intense and incredible entertaining.

One of the bad things though is I stopped eating real feed and ate mostly candy and cake. I ended up getting lumps all over my body, lol.

Some strange reason though, weed made my skin extra healthy and vibrant (before candy binge), it was odd, or at least I think it was from that.

After a while though, the fog and the bad vibes would come on a lot more than the fun stuff and eventually I decided that weed had run it's course. But I'll say that smoking outside near the water is such a great feeling.

Aside from loss of Spatial ability, it makes up for it in other areas of thinking, so afterwards it was better for me than before.

 

I haven't quit, but I know I need to rein in on it. At the moment I haven't lit up for over a week, but for the past couple of years I've been smoking more and more heavily. I'll even be a little stoned at work sometimes - just a few puffs at lunch time - but it's really not good, seeing as how in my job, I am responsible for people's safety.

I don't want to quit, but should moderate myself so that it enhances my life instead of taking it over. I also find that as my tolerance builds up, it's more of a habit and doesn't really do much for me except make me sleepy.

 

I haven't really quit, will still have a toke of someone else's joint and I very occasionally pick up an 8th...

Up until May I had been dealing for nearly 2 years. I decided to "quit" because a gang of chavs kicked my door in in the middle of the night, hit me with a bat and took about £1200 worth of weed. Pretty shit. I just couldn't be fucked with the whole weed world after that. I had grown tired of supplying people who just did brainless shit while high, anyway. Even if they were great people and I was a great dealer, I had begun to see at as facilitating people's desire to basically do nothing of value. Not that most sober people do anything of value.

All these people talking like weed makes them paranoid or depressed, honestly it's your head that does that, not the weed. Though the weed can intensify those feelings. I smoked 4/5 joints at least pretty much every day, waking and baking included. I would smoke if I had work (full time commercial decorating on and off), if I was playing, relaxing, whatever. I would still train hard, long and intense. I would still complete lateral thinking puzzles, cryptic crosswords, maths puzzles etc. I never became paranoid about anything, sometimes depressed but I would easily get depressed through most of my life and even now I consider myself more depressed than ever and that's without regular weed consumption. Me and the funky skunk had a real symbiosis going on!

Without weed, I dunno. I guess I cough less but my aerobic fitness isn't any better (was still good when heavily smoking). Really nothing has changed except I don't have anything habitual to help me relax. And now when I smoke I get super stoned!!! Even just a couple of drags will hit me like a mofo! And it still has the same effect, makes me kind of active, wanting to do things and a bit more laughy.

I must request that people don't blame the herb for problems in their own head. There are exceptions but not many.

 

i stated exactly that and i agree - it would make me 'paranoid' because it heightened further trepidation i faced simply by getting older.

clear mind, clear high. simple as that.

 

I quit smoking pot on a few occasions but never for good, so I guess those would just be considered breaks. The biggest break I took was when I was 30 days but that was because I was in rehab so I didn't really have the choice. The longest I've gone voluntarily would probably be around 3 weeks. That was mainly done out at my camp and it was a nice break and it made me more active.

Right now I smoke quite a lot of pot but that's mainly because I just quit an expensive OxyContin addiction and pot's definatly helping me cope with the withdrawls. The way I see it, even if I smoke 40 bucks worth of pot in a day, it's still cheaper than spending 80 bucks or more on pills. It's just been over a month since I quit using everyday so the urges are still there, but pot helps me chill and get rid of them.

Someday I do plan on cutting back on pot even more but seeing as it's helping more than it's harming right now I don't have much motivation to do so.

 

I knew it was time to quit because I still live with my parents and my dad kept threatening to kick me out if I kept smoking weed.
I finally decided to quit because I was tired of my parents bitching at me to quit :/
Ever since I quit smoking I feel fine I guess. The first month was like, "Damn, I wish I could smoke" but I got over it. I'm also much more withdrawn from society now that I've quit smoking and I've gained a little bit of weight :/ Smoking weed really brought me out of my shell. I've also started smoking cigarettes ever since I quit smoking weed, I just felt like I needed something to look forward to each day.
I also quit my job but that was because of other reasons