i hate/love my weed addiction

it's so fun to blaze but having my dopaminergic system stimulated in the same way sex and eating does every time i smoked has led to me becoming psychologically addicted to weed. i like always want to smoke constantly.

it could be worse, i could be hooked on heroin or something, physically NEEDING the drug. but psychological addiction is still annoying, even when i am forced into not being able to blaze i'm still psychologically addicted to the act of smoking anyway.

but fuck it, addiction ain't shit, i'm gonna get high. i believe as long as you know and accept that you have an addiction you can control it to a reasonable level and function normally in society.

 

You know I went through this same thoguht process the other night while high... almost led to paranoia and a bad trip... but it's very true.

Psychological addiction is just as bad as physical addiction imo, physically needing it or mentally needing it is practically the same thing. I know you don't mentally "need" it but craving it all the time having it provoke the same response as food and sex might as well be needing it.

I gotta cut back on my smoking, it's like food I guess, you gotta have self control and put yourself on like a weed diet. Gotta control your desires to improve yourself, same with masturbation too. Save it for when you really need it.

 

It's not hard to beat the addiction. I realized on my own that getting high is a trip from being sober, but if you're never sober then what's the point? You gotta balance that out.

 

If you really believe this, then you've never been addicted to cigarettes.

 

though i've never been physically addicted to anything, in my theory i think psychological addiction would be harder to beat than physical. if you REALLY want to beat a physical addiction, you will, because your willpower for something you really want can overcome any fever/irritability. but once that spreads to your head? how can you determine if you really want to quit something that's addicting your thoughts/feelings/way of life? it's like a portion of your brain LOVES your psychological addiction, and the other part wants to quit. which side do you listen to, and which side is true? it's all in your head :S

 

i know what you mean man i can't stop smoking either. i can still function pretty well in society and stuff but it can be a hassle when i stoned all the time. oh well i can't/ don't want to stop i just like it to much

 

getting over an addiction like weed is toughest for the first week or so. after that, once you've learned to cope with sobriety, the difficulties really ease up a lot. so as long as you manage that first week, it's all down hill from there.

 

Will Power man, if you want to feel fresh and clean, eat good fresh foods, drink lots of water and smoke less and less.

 

Word I have been smoking weed for 2 years. For the first year I smoked from 3-5 times a day. I am 13 days sober now and probably wont smoke for another 5 weeks. If you can't smoke or want to stop just live your life like normal just without the bud. It sucks for a week but then you focus on other things. I am a musican so its not to hard for me. Put down the bong and pick up some bach to learn.

 

in my experience with people hooked on hard drugs (particularly meth) psychological addiction and physical addiction go hand in hand. ive never seen one with out the other. thats the reason almost every single addict well relapse while their on the pink cloud, psychological addiction. that being said i believe a physical addiction would be much worse than a psychological addiction. also i have several times gone several months with smoking around 6 times a day and stopping cold turkey and have never noticed any withdraw syptoms accept for not being able to go sleep

 

Nope never have. I've smoked cigarettes, cloves, cigars, hookah, etc. but never to the point that I was addicted. i just found it never gave me enough of an effect to make it worthwhile. Weed on the other hand...

 

your right that the mental addiction is worse than physical, not really for weed though which is really easy to quit. with drugs like dope and opiates, you can ask any addict, getting sober is easy compared to staying sober. boredom kills sobriety, also having a bad day and wanting to escape. once you know that you can kill the pain anytime, its easy to go back.

 

I had a strong desire to smoke for the first couple weeks after stopping, but it wasn't bad. No worse than really wanting a certain kind of food. After that it got much easier. Sometimes I think the brain does get addicted to cannabis... that our brains stop producing happy feelings/reward without weed.
Maybe that's why people become potheads.
I don't enjoy myself anymore really. And it's been 6 months since I last smoked. Sometimes I think taking a toke might help, but then I know I'd probably get a panic attack.
This is only my opinion and I mean no disrespect to cannabis which I know to be a spiritually mind-opening sacrament. I just know I for one wasn't meant to smoke weed.

 

I always think about this kind of stuff... As someone metnioned above its hard to not smoke when you can so easily just fix a bad bay and escape to happiness with the clikc of a lighter... i could quit weed for a month or two but i dunno if i could give it up compltely, i love the stuff i genuinly think it makes my life better but to each his own...

Also when talking about mental addiction its hard to tell if you are indeed mentally addicted... I always take for granted that i can quit whenever i want but i just dont need to at this point as im keeping up woith my life so i never have the motication to quit.... I dunno its weird shit man

It comes down to this imo

Any good feeling thats easily acheived is addictive in some way. true for food, true for booze, true for weed and true for harder drugs like coke and meth although they also some times come with physical addiction... Control and moderation

 

If you first start smoking because you want to solve a bad day with just a click of a lighter, then everyday will become pretty much a bad day if theres no click of a lighter. I understand that weed is psychologically addicting but not physically addicting, but that doesnt mean its not an addiction either. I always thought that because of that, I can smoke for so many days straight and when its time to be serious, I can just stop no problem. I couldnt have been more wrong. I realised that on days where I dont smoke, everything is just so damn boring. I lose all motivation whatsoever.

I have seen a lot of people treat weed as if its an addiction. One time, it was pretty dry around my area and one of my friends msged me saying "hey can you find any weed? I dont have any and Im pretty desperate right now". Im really considering taking a break from weed after 4/20 because I feel that I need to.

Im not gonna lie. I fucking love getting baked, I really do. Its just that sometimes when I take a look at myself, I see that I'm pretty much a burn-out. Reality checks are important, I have to say.

 

im definately mentally addicted. i LOVE weed. i become a happier person just thinking about weed. BUT i moderate myself alot. its pure will power. overindulgence is never good. i limit myself to weekends and then just blaze my face off the entire weekend

 

you know cig phyical addiction last 3-5 days? the rest of the addiction is purely psychologically, the relapsing, all that shit. psychological addiction is serious and is hard to beat, i definitely haven't and don't see any point in doing so.

 

i for one will know if i'm psychologically addicted once i run out of weed. and there's no way that will happen so...

 

I disagree that psychological addiction is worse or even as bad as a physical addiciton. It's all in your mind, will power easily trumps that. When you're physically dependant to the point where you become ill if you don't take the substance, then that's way worse. You can't compare cannabis addiction to heroin or crack or meth, it's farcical.

 

Yeah marijuana is undeniably mentally addictive, in a purely behavioural way even, thankfully it's relatively benign as a substance.

I personally find the best way to get those 'reality checks' and control over myself is to take a 1 month (or however long you want) break every couple of months. Just take a break for a few weeks. If you can do that, you can enjoy marijuana even more when you get it, because you don't feel like you're cheating yourself or being controlled or something.