It’s only been 48 hours. I’ve used for 5 years. I cannot sleep and these headaches are getting the best of me. I just feel like crying but also overwhelmed that I don’t have anything right now that can help me feel better.

Seriously any tips? What do I need to do?

Bad:

• Cant concentrate enough to work
• Zero motivation (I was very productive while using)
• Deep shame that transforms into anxiety
• My gums feel weird and my saliva glads are swollen. This is what really bothers me.
• I cant eat more than 1k calories
• My lifts at the gym are going down
• Tired all the time but dont sleep well

Good

• I worked too much so maybe a break is good

• I am 20% body fat and want to be below 12-15% so weight loss is good

• My lifts are down, but I can do 22 bodyweight dips now. Maybe because I weigh less?

• My relationship with my girlfriend is improving

• I started making small talk with people again

• I feel at least 50% human

• Surprisingly no nightmares this time

Besides the deep shame this is easier than I anticipated.

I think it is easier because Im fully committed to quitting. "Committed" isnt even the right word because I already identify as a non-user. I dont have to try. I'm resolved. I know it's true because I had the same feeling when I quit cigarettes 5 or so years ago, I had cravings but no temptation.

I'm an addict but I'm a non-smoker. I just have to ride it out now. Hopefully I will get fully well soon.

All the other withdrawal sypmtoms have seem to gone away accept my sleep isn shit

I’m 21. Yeah I know, I’m so young I’ve got my whole life ahead of me etc, but my cognitive function has diminished immensely. I was a regular user from 2020-2021, got cancer and beat it, and what do I do? Fall right back into addiction like a piece of shit. Made it into law school and then completely fucked that aspect of my life up. Tried to make an academic comeback this year but once again, got involved with the wrong people and screwed my courses up again (didn’t fail but didn’t do as well as I should’ve). Was in a constant haze of addiction and depression, spending my days rotting my brain from weed, short form content and social media.

Got my wake up call two months ago, finally quit after so many years wasted. Took a break from uni because I was just wasting money. Picked up more hours at my job. My short term memory is a shadow of what it was. I mix up words whenever I try to memorise sentences. I sometimes completely forget details of things which I was intently focussed on only a couple of minutes earlier. My range of vocabulary has shrunk. I can’t think critically like I used to. Can’t even read a book because my comprehension has gone to shit. I’ve become a recluse because I’m so ashamed of how my life has turned out. I’ve grown a belly after months of working hard at the gym because I’ve just completely stopped going. Too scared to catch up with my friends cause I’m both scared and ashamed. I can’t have conversations like I used to. Im not completely awkward but whenever the conversation goes further than surface level stuff, my mind turns to mush. I provide nothing of value to society. Idk if it’s a mixture of the depression, weed use or screen time but I just can’t do anything that requires intellectual effort anymore.

Does anyone have any advice? Is this recoverable? I was a bright kid but I lost sight of my ambition due to my addiction. Became a lazy fuck. Became stupid. I spend centuries looking for the right words sometimes. My brain hurts whenever I try to think. All I have is self loathing. I beat cancer just to end up like this. All the effort my family had put into me, the love and care that they’ve gave me has been thrown in the rubbish.

Used my connections to secure an interview with an accounting firm in two days for a summer job. I don’t know how I’m going to explain anything at all if my brain has turned to mush. Probably not gonna get the job but I’ll go anyways because I need to get out of my comfort zone.

It sure seems so. When I go to a dispensary, I see mostly guys too.

Not minimizing the suffering of the women-quitters here, but why does this seem to be an 80% guy issue?

i’m two weeks clean and sober and have been struggling. tonight i went to a meeting, but then after i drove to go buy weed. i sat in front of the vending machine for almost half an hour, deliberating. and then someone i knew walked by, and i lied to them about why i was sitting outside the restaurant (it’s near the vending machine). there was a very large animatronic halloween decoration on the roof of the restaurant—a vaguely devilish/reaper-like figure who was literally laughing his robotic laugh at me every couple of minutes. i don’t really believe in the devil, but i thought “geez—even the devil is laughing at me.” then i decided that i’d buy a pack of cigs, instead, and went home.

not sure if that’s a win. but that whole experience was so emotionally draining. i feel how you feel after crying or having a tough conversation. one day at a time and all that…

I quit smoking roughly 2 months ago with no plan of truly quitting for good, but I stayed sober for a little over a month before I decided to treat myself. Every time I’ve tried to smoke since I either get absolutely horrific anxiety or panic attacks, which was a shock to me considering I never once gotten anxiety from smoking during the 4 years I was smoking everyday. It’s definitely changed my point of view on weed and made me decide that I don’t want to pick the habit back up ever again. Has anyone else experienced this after going back to weed?

Wish me luck. I relapsed many times but I will never quit quitting.

Today is day 1- November 4, 2024.

I'm on day 10, I wake up with an almost oxytocin-like sense of well-being that is very new to me. It may be a placebo effect, since it takes a lot longer for the dopamine to re-up, but I'll take it.

I quit and then immediately went to a yoga retreat, That means no caffeine, booze, sugar.

I'm also meditating 3+ hours a day, going to bed at 9, eating super-healthy, and being around very sober and positive people (95% are good-looking women, which may also be be helping my dopamine uptick).

I have been air-dropped into a dopamine spa/dopamine boot camp. Most quitters won't have my luxury or luck.

There's a lot of constructive dialog here about whether or not you should just focus on quitting weed and being forgiving of other vices while you wrestle weed to the ground.

My unique experience is that my other abstinences reinforce each other. I'm not fit to give anyone advice, BUT leaning gently into ANY positivities currently in your life or that you can create will def give you a little momentum.

I will be stronger when I leave the yoga bubble.

I AM ANGRY OVER NOTHING! My husband walked in front of me in the kitchen and I got pissed. Some lady didn't go through the roundabout properly and I got pissed. Actually I kind of had a right to be irritated about that lady but not as mad as it actually made me. I fully know I am being ridiculous but I can't stop. If anyone has tips or tricks to stop the absolute rage I would gladly take them. I just want to not fly off the handle over everything! 😢

Quitting after 1.5years of daily smoke.

Still depressed, still fatigued to be honest. I was hitting 90% THC pens and while they did take me a couple weeks to get through it still messed with me a LOTTTTT. I just want to feel normal again lol I am tired of the vivid dreams that leave me exhausted waking up and feeling like my brain doesn’t work anymore

I quit smoking over 1 month ago. My sleep quality has not been good at all. I go to sleep and get at least 8 hours of sleep. Still, the quality of my sleep sucks, plus I have intense dreams. What gives?

I’ve been having trouble deciding if my motivation to quit is internal or external. When I first stopped smoking I did it to land a job I really wanted. I’d been an everyday smoker for the previous 15 years— since I was about 15.

The withdrawal was more intense than I’d expected. I could not eat, sleep, have sex, or focus; but it got better and the newfound clarity began to feel like its own sort of high. My self esteem also increased. I used to be ashamed of being stoned all the time.

That sobriety stint lasted several months. I got the job, never got drug tested, and things were going well. Then I went to my good friend’s wedding in New Orleans, got too drunk and wound up smoking weed again.

That pattern of a a few months sober and a couple weeks of guilty indulgence continued for the last year. Now the stakes are higher though. My wife just had a baby and I want to be present as a parent. I also just got my CDL, so I can look forward to random drug tests from the DOT with career ending consequences if I’m not clean.

I slipped up a few times in the last month and am now back at one week weed free. I’m getting a lot of inspiration from reading this sub and thought I’d share my experience; hoping it could benefit others and keep me motivated.

I don’t know if I would have chosen to quit smoking if it hadn’t been for external job factors but I like the person and the parent that I am now more than the person I used to be when I smoked weed all the time.

Thanks for reading!

so i was sick 4 times in a row in october and therefore quit smoking weed and nicotine (i mixed both in a joint) exactly 10 days ago.

first couple days were fine, little trouble sleeping, some anxiety, brain fog, feeling shaky.

i had a reall good day 7 but when i went to bed, i had racing thoughts / vibrating brain and brain jolting when i was about to fall asleep, i suffered heavy panic attack, got the chills and shaky legs, hot and sweaty at the same time. thought i‘m about to literally go insane and suffer psychosis or smth. it went on for 3 hours before i could finally sleep.

day 7-10 were somewhat okay, i calmed a little bit, got myself some herbal stuff to calm my nerves.

day 10 i woke up feeling extremely off, just tired and weak (i slept for 9 hours thinking my sleep is family coming back tho), dizzy and blurry vision, brain fog, heart racing, heavy tinnitus. i managed to eat half a pizza, i felt okay.

now as i type this i have chills, feeling of having flu, hot at the same time tho, heavy anxiety / panic. i‘m nauseous and have racing thoughts again. and maybe some kind of kidney pain ?? also my right lung hurts from time to time.

what is going on, i‘ve the feeling for every good day i get a even shittier day after that. when will i start feeling better, what were your journey when quitting nicotine and weed together ?

i read smth about 2 weeks and then it gets better, is it true ?

About two months ago I started smoking delta 9 carts about once a day. Last week I decided to stop because I have a drug test coming up and because I didn’t really like the way it made me feel anymore.

Now it’s been 9 days and this has been some of the most miserable 9 days of my life. I can’t regulate my body temperature and I go back and forth between overheating and freezing. I’ve felt achey and horrible. I had insomnia for a few days and now all I want to do is sleep. And for the past three days I have been profusely vomiting and can’t keep anything down. Does anyone know anything that might help the nausea and vomiting because as I write this I am parked on my bathroom floor and I am so miserable.

Been on this sub for a while. I went from smoking every night to deciding to cut back, struggling a little in the process, and then successfully being able to go weeks without weed or thinking about it. Not gonna say my usage was the worst but I was noticing a pattern that I wanted to stop.

I just moved to a new place and have been doing manual labor almost everyday the past week and a half. My body’s been sore and my brain has been scrambled from all my to-do lists. Yesterday I decided to go to the dispo for something low % and chill. Nothing sounded more relaxing than having a few puffs and watching a movie in my new place.

It was disappointing to say the least. My tolerance has definitely decreased from the lack of use which is good. But the few puffs honestly just made me drowsy, unable to focus, and honestly quite headachey. I didn’t beat myself up too much for smoking cause I don’t personally feel like I’d relapse into daily use. But damn, it was like…meh.

Additionally, I hadn’t been to the dispo in a long while and apparently I had “points” rack up from my last purchases so I got two more pre-rolls for free. Now I have 2.5 joints I don’t want.

Anyway, same story, different font I guess. I used to really enjoy the smoking and all but now it’s just like…idk. Lame.

I’m 21 and I’ve been smoking weed since I was 16. At first it didn’t start off that way. I first started smoking weed with my friends, I fell in love with the high feeling. It eventually turned into an everyday thing. I hate that I have to smoke everyday to feel ok with life, I hate how much this plant has taken over my life. I’ve spent so much of my money up to my last dollars, I’ve sold my games, clothes and other shit to get high and I’m tired of living this lifestyle. I want to go back to the old me who was passionate about the hobbies I was into but didn’t care enough to because I was high. I’ve almost been fired from jobs because I would smoke so much and the next day I didn’t have the energy to get up and go to work the next day. I’ve tried countless times to quit and the longest I’ve gone without it was 6 months, I felt a lot happier at the time but I always find someway back to it. I just smoked my last joint and I’m finally ready to quit.

Hi all,

I’m in early days of sobriety after a decade of daily use. I find that as long as I’m keeping busy, staying sober isn’t nearly as bad and it keeps my mood up - sitting bored for too long and I’ll just want to smoke and/or feel bad for myself. To that end, I wanted to share a list I made of activities to do other than smoking. This is obviously pretty customized to me, but though that it might give some inspiration to anyone else feeling bored/uninspired/etc.

I’d also love to read about any other activities y’all are doing to stay on track.

Proud of us all and grateful to everyone here supporting one another :)

Outside

• Take a walk
• Go on a hike
• Walk the dogs
• Walk by the river
• Go to the museum
• Go to the library
• Go thrifting

Body connection

• Stretch
• Myofacial tennis balls/ foam roll
• YouTube Breath work exercises
• YouTube yoga class
• Yoga nidra
• Self massage
• Cold plunge
• Take a bath
• Meditate

Mind stimulation

• Anxiety skills workbook / fear book
• Easy way to quit smoking
• Learn about your astrology chart / Gene Keys
• YouTube addiction Tapping videos (EFT)
• Read
• Write a Gratitude list
• Craft/ make art
• Journal

Spiritual/ personal connection

• Visualization
• Mantra meditation
• Listen to inspiring podcasts (my favorites: Michael Singer Podcast, Do You F*cking Mind, Deja Blu, What’s the Juice, share your favs below!)
• Pull a card / tarot reading
• Dance
• Chant
• Sing

Food

• Make tea
• Bake something
• Meal prep
• Grocery shop

Around the house

• weed the yard
• Clean the floors
• Clean out closet
• Clean your car
• Water plants

Relationships

• text a friend
• Call your mom / dad / grandma
• Have sex
• Attend an MA Meeting
• Watch interviews of sober people / read Reddit posts / sober TikToks

23 male, smoked extremely regularly from 15 until now, 8 months clean from every thing and through the physical symptoms. Can’t seem to focus on anything, staying engaged or motivated feels impossible. Working out regularly, started college as a freshman and am studying hard and doing my best, probably going to fail most courses. Work 20 ish hours a week bartending and this is the worst performance I’ve had ever in my life since working from 16, have huge short and long term memory issues. Does this go away? Is my brain permanently fried? Really feel like the South Park quote where pot made me grow up and find out I’m not good at anything. Just feel lost, any advice appreciated.

Back in April, I managed to stop smoking for 5 months after years of daily use. In my years of smoking I always managed to take breaks but never really went past the one month mark. This september I went back smoking to try moderation and after two months of smoking every evening, I realized it wasn’t worth it even if the loneliness, the boredom and the illusion of creativity is what made me go back smoking every night. Moderation doesn’t work for me, or maybe I don’t want it as a solution because today I realize I don’t want to be that person(34m) anymore. Like everyone is saying on this sub, you really have to find a way to substitute weed with something else and you have to enjoy being sober, even though the emotional instability and bad thoughts are a daily struggle. For everyone trying to quit, I wish you the best.

Stopped yesterday, don’t really know when I’ll use again. been feeling hella foggy and low energy lately. I know it can take like 8months-1year to go back normal but honestly it’s all I’m craving to (jus not feel so dead). Kinda just found out I’m autistic as well, not so sure how that’ll play out. Just wanna share what I’m thinking, have an amazeballs day!

and i think it’s from weed. heavy smoker for the past 4 years. i feel too young to have a memory as bad as mine and i keep messing up sentences. it’s scary and the brain fog is real. i also feel like im in a constant state of dissociation and my brain runs a mile a minute. i’ve tried quitting so so so many times but keep coming right back. i become a monster when im trying to quit. i feel like im just wasting my life away but sobriety is so hard. any advice? what was the biggest thing that helped you get sober?

Yesterday I hit 30 days… and then I dislocated my ankle. It’s pretty bad, I’m not gonna be able to do anything for a while. All I really do besides go to work is exercise and I’m kind of lost with out that. So today I made a stop at the dispensary. I haven’t smoked anything yet but it’s sitting right next to me as I type this.

Day is almost over. Today wasn’t that bad, lots of cold sweat and nausea. Ate 2 solid meals, and plan on eating one more before bed!

My biggest obstacle is things remind me of when I used to use, my back yard, safe in my closet (where I kept my stash), and my neighbor who smokes every evening in his backyard we used to smoke at same time even though we’ve never met or had a conversation. I’m staying strong.

I’m fully expecting to get a mixed bag of responses to this post (mostly people telling me to harden up and grow a set), but I guess that’s just the nature of the beast that is Reddit.

I’m currently on day 5 of not smoking and I don’t think I’ve ever felt worse in my life. I’m an emotional wreck, can’t stop breaking down in tears for no good reason and am terrified that this won’t get better.

I’m 31 and have been a heavy user since I was 18, so it’s safe to assume it’s going to take some time to get back to normal. But at this stage, I don’t know how much more of this I can take.

I just wanted to make this post to see if anyone had any tips or advice for how to get through this part of the process?

I’ve been going to NA meetings, which has been great to be around likeminded, supportive peers. But that’s only helping so much.

Any advice or insight into what to expect would be greatly appreciated. I feel very weak and embarrassed that I’m resorting to asking reddit for help, but desperate is as desperate does.

I literally just can’t stop smoking. I always say I will and I try and then I don’t. It’s ridiculous and it’s causing me so many problems. I’ve just been going through such a hard time my entire life and finding weed two years ago was the first thing that made me let loose and have a good time. And now I can’t stop.

I’m one month sober from pot. I’ve been a stoner since I was 16, I’m 36 now. I’ve taken breaks before, and I know my addiction wasn’t as intense as others here, but it’s not a competition, right! Most recently I was dosing ~5 mg of an edible every single night.

My sleep is so much better and I’m more engaged in every day life.

I stopped for a couple of reasons. I have my first kid on the way and it just felt irresponsible. It also freaked me out that I was basing my happiness on escaping from reality. It became very scary that I may come back to Earth one day and realize that I don’t like who I am, where I am, who my family is. I didn’t want that.

One thing that’s been on my mind is that I’ve always identified as a stoner. I always felt like it made me “cool” and that as long as I was getting high on the sly, I was able to hold on to that part of my identity. I’m cooler than all these square people, right. What an egotistical way to look at the world.

So it feels like I’m turning a page in my life. I believe that I’ll use weed again at some point. But I’ve had my fun. It’s time to turn the page and enter a new chapter of my life. Honestly I’m feeling better than ever.

Kudos to all of you who are rethinking your relationship with this substance. No matter where you’re at in your journey, I respect you and what you’re doing.

I’ll leave you with a quote from a Neil Young song that sticks with me:

Some get stoned, Some get strange. Sooner or later - it all gets real. Walk on

✌️

Earlier today, I was left with enough weed for one dynavap hit, which is not much. I was deep cleaning my dynavap to make sure I got the best possible high for my last hit. I accidentally broke the filter while cleaning it. The thought of not having that last vape made me so irrationally anxious! I was somehow able to fit the broken pieces together and managed to get that last hit. I decided to take that as a sign to quit, at the very least, for the rest of the year. I've been meaning to quit for a long time but have always found reasons to start again. I'm out of weed and my vape is broken, perfect timing for me to stop.

Already, the thought of not getting high, especially around the holidays, seems impossible to me. But I'm somewhat reassured by all the relatable posts on this sub. Only after reading so many posts here I realised that so many of my problems stem from weed. I have to break this cycle of addiction.

I want to enjoy my life to the fullest while sober. I don't want to constantly think how much better this food/movie/drive/hike/whatever would be if I were high. All that only to be underwhelmed when I finally do smoke.

I'm done.