Lost after quitting smoking weed

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Ive been wanting to quit smoking it for a while now and after my third nervous breakdown,all which have been pretty silent(people knew,to what extent i dont know)its was doing the opposite effect ,it was no longer calming my anxieties and actually making it way worse so i figured it was time to quit.
I smoked obsesively for 15years,and now its been almost a week and im lost,nothing i used to do interests me anymore,it seems as if it has unbloked many emotins i havent felt in a long time.
Was it a major interest of mine,before growing a single plant in my room i did three months of reaserch to make sure i knew as much as possible.i guess it was.
Just letting you know that was many years ago and no longer grow any ,my parents eventualy got paranoid from the smell,so i had to stop.

Was wondering if anybody else out ther has gone through similar issues with quitting smoking weed.

Not weed but it took me multiple attempts to quit smoking tobacco. Stick with it, your body is going through all sorts of weird stuff as it fights off a chemical dependency, but you WILL feel better.

Thanks,i am totally committed to this and tobacco is next,thats gonna be harder though its more of a physical dependancy.
Any tips on quitting cigs,i feel the inhalers would work better than the patches,theres kind of a oral dependancy to it .in school i would always chew on pencils,pens,pen caps and such.
I haven't tried yet.i figured id go one step at a time.

I can't say that I have a completely different set of interests, but I do have some interests that excite me only when I smoke and some that excite me only when I don't. I never could sustain an interest in college when smoking, but now I have maintained a 4.0 GPA for 3 years. I don't have as much interest in playing music, but if I smoke a little on vacation, then I will probably play the drums for a while.

You'll have to try some different things to find out what you like in your new state of mind, and if you can find a new interest then you won't think about smoking as often.

I have been trying to keep busy,biking ,yardwork and stuff .it still gets to me a little when i smell it,there are a lot of people around here who smoke.il get used to it in time.

When I quit smoking massive amounts of weed (back in '97), I found that boot camp really helped me resist the temptation.

As for cigs, I have tried many times over the years to quit. I am actually trying again now. I have gone 6 days so far. No sleep, angry all the time, craving alcohol (which I have managed to avoid for years now), nausea (which tends to hit me whenever I have to deviate from routine). The physical effects have already decreased, but the mental ones are just as bad as ever.

Wow 6 days ,thats pretty good.dont give in especialy to alcohol(never been a fan,i dont like what it does to people,makes the most get verry loud and egotistical)
Im gonna bust my ass to make a little cash to get something to help with it.ive been smoking more cause im super stressed lately.the weed would suppress my dreams(always so vivid)and with out that there back in force.sometimes there comforting sometimes there depressing as they remind me of what i dont have.(been alone for a long time)

Tried patches, didn't work. Tried gum, didn't work. Tried going cold turkey and nearly went crazy after which I went back to the doctor for some help. "OK", he said, "let's try hypnosis"

He sent me to the other side of town to see a registered hypnotist, in other words, the genuine article rather than a showman. The last thing I remember was him taking his pen out of his jacket pocket, after that the next thing I remember was walking out onto the street. I've never smoked since, that was back in 1985.

Wow ,i didnt think that stuff really worked.not something i would try though.I admit a lot of the dependancy is in the mind and habitual.though I could see how it could work by subcontiously changing someones point of view about it.

My concentration dropped dramatically after I stopped smoking the plant. To be honest, it's very useful to me. Puts me in a better frame of mind, makes me feel calmer, the effects are quite positive. My only problem is paranoia, but that's not *when* I'm high.

Paranoia is more when I feel a bit burnt out the next day. Which is remedied by smoking more, then I feel ok again. But it isn't really possible to have a steady supply to keep me out of my brain for the entire day to be honest.

I prefer Sativa during the day because Indica just makes me want to veg out and sleep. Less of a "high" and more of a "stoned" feeling.

" In CO and WA where it's legal they use marinol and other pot-based meds to help smokers cut down ......"

Wow. Are you sure of this? Following a car accident and recovering my wife had lost weight and had no appetite and the doc. prescribed marinol which helped quite a bit. But thank goodness it was paid by their insurance because the Rx was thousands per prescription. This was about 8 years ago so prices must have come down incredibly.

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