I am hooked on smoking weed. I’m going to an addiction councillor, and we have made some strides, for example that it is just my boredom making me want to smoke it, my association and that it helps my anhedonia. But I need to stop because it makes the meds not work the best, reduces my motivation even lower. Also sucks that the girl I like, also a childhood friend, uses it. Any one else have a hard time quitting weed?
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I quit when I was first hospitalised. I had smoking all day, everyday for 7 years before that. I think the hard bit when back home was filling the time I used to spend smoking. The actual withdrawal was ok.
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I quit for like 4 months after a hospitalization. But I spent all my time alone during those months since my best friend and one of my only friend smokes. So I was so bored, so I picked up some weed. Ended up in the hospital, but once I got out I am was smoking it. But I’m hoping my nurse finds activities that will introduce me to new people and fill my schedule a bit.
Last time I smoked I started crying and read the bible. I guess it effects everyone differently.
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I’m having a hard time quitting alcohol, which is just as bad, if not worse, than weed. There’s no telling what I did to my liver by my drinking.
I would say it’s worse there is psyical addiction involved, my addiction is just mental.
Weed is not physically addictive. However ANYTHING can be psychologically addictive. You can watch an episode of the show my strange addiction to see that.
I almost feel that a psychological addiction is worse than a physical one. A physical one can be hell to break but after that your body doesn’t need it anymore. You can’t ever permanently break a psychological addiction, you can only learn how to become strong enough to not give into it. Even then it will still tempt you for the rest of your life.
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@Anna Yeah the only thing that helps the cravings is distraction for me. But I have anhedonia and avolition along with concentration problem. Those problems make it hard for me to have the motivation to distract myself, because I just don’t enjoy or concentrate on things that would distract me, let alone quit. I just feel like I’m letting my support group down by smoking pot.
Both are bad, but alcohol is probably worse, not so much for its addictive quality, but for its incapacitating effects. Every year there are tens of thousands of deaths on U.S. highways because of drunk driving. Pot is nothing like that.
@crimby yeah I feel sad for all the people who are killed on the highway by drunk driving. I also feel bad for the people who drink and drive, just wish they would have thought about the consequences before they drive inebriated.
Alcohol is probably worse than marijuana because it so destroys your judgement. Most people are mostly decent, and they wouldn’t deliberately endanger someone else’s life by driving drunk, but when they get drunk their judgement goes, and they climb into a car and go a hundred miles an hour down the highway.
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@crimby Exactly I once met a guy that would drive around drunk speeding. He would brag about it and I’m just like wow, you’re sooo cool. . . Not.
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Weed makes me in a spiral of negative thoughts, so I can’t get addicted to it 
When I was quitting weed something that helped me was having chocolate or any sugary food when I got cravings. Still not healthy but better for us than weed. I haven’t smoked weed in a year
@Sherriff good on you for being clean for a year. I find having a cigarette helped with cravings for the short while I was clean, but I will try your technique when I quit again.
It still takes a bit of will power but I found it helps. But be careful and watch your symptoms when you’re coming off it as well, my doctor said that after about 3 months being off weed you can go into psychosis which is what happened to me although I wasn’t taking meds at the time either
Yeah that’s my biggest thing I don’t have much will power. Okay thank you for the warning never heard about that before. Hopefully I will not get that since I’m on meds.
weed gives me panic attacks and makes my voices so loud that I’m unable to understand any real sounds, haven’t used it in over a year but I was addicted before I would spend all my money on it so I could smoke every time I didn’t feel high
I quit and I’m glad. In high school I was a daily smoker, I smoked it before school, I smoked it during school, and I smoked it after school. I hate to say it but it was fun 90% of the time. But after I got diagnosed it was never fun anymore. It made me self-conscious to the extreme and paranoid and a host of other bad things.
But every time I smoked it and had all these bad things happen to me, I still clung on dearly to the hope that THIS next time it will be different and it will make me feel good like it did in high school. But I was fooling myself. My friends girlfriend had a name for it: “chasing that first high”. Always trying to recapture the old feeling.
Anyways, I quit all drinking and drugging in 1990 and I am a much happier person when I’m clean than I ever was when I was high.
I believe I’m addicted to marihuana. I haven’t had any for decades, but I believe if I had one joint, I would continue to smoke it again and again.
Much like @77nick77 it started out a lot of fun, but the drug turned on me.
Jayster
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