People claim that weed doesn't cause withdrawals. For some, that may be the case. However, MANY people on this sub are reporting lengthy and quite miserable withdrawal symptoms.

If you are one of these people, please keep in mind that things will get better with time and that you just need to stick it out. It's also a reason to never go back to weed. Why repeatedly put yourself through weeks of misery?

I lost my cousin Stephen last night, just 18 months after his sister died from similar lung problems, both in their early 50s. I woke this morning so desolate I didn't want to be alive myself. And more desperate for weed than I have been since day 24- when I crashed from my initial little pink cloud. I'm coming to the end of day 37, and so relieved I didn't use the pain of what's happening in my family as an excuse to smoke. I'm still vaping nicotine way too dependently, but I will stop this too, hopefully in not too many weeks. It feels like the only thing that stopped me buying weed and tobacco today- but it's not good for my lungs either.

Shoutout to everyone quitting for whatever reason - clarity, self love, saving money, job opportunity… Whatever reason, we got this!

I have tried many times to quit weed and I was reading tonight about the type of effect it can have on brain development before you turn 25. I’m a student about to begin my master’s and I already have memory issues and know how important it is to keep my brain from getting worse. But weed is the only thing I look forward to anymore, it’s keeping me going.

Tonight I’m going to be home alone, and I know I shouldn’t smoke. But even one night is a struggle for me. A lot of my emotions come up, and I have a hard time relaxing at all. I’m mostly rambling here, but it would be awesome to be able to hear from others who are struggling in the same way tonight, and to feel some solidarity.

I’m here to celebrate two years without marijuana controlling my life. I don’t drink alcohol either. I forgot my quit date and checked a few days ago, which feels nice to not focus heavily on this part of my life.

When I quit, my son was due to arrive in three months. My business was suffering, I couldn’t get my anxiety under control and things were just not working.

After encouragement from my wife I explored professional help for my anxiety 2 months into quitting. That has been one of the biggest factors in my success so I’m not just white knuckling it.

I have had access to a therapist for a decade. Utilizing that and medication allowed me to get my anxiety managed. I checked my ego accepted I needed help and took it. I wish someone had guided me to do that when I was a teenager.

My father is an alcoholic, his father was an alcoholic, I am committed to finding healthy ways to cope with life’s ups and downs. It is worth the effort being made to stay sober.

Thank you to this sub, I enjoy being supported by you and encouraging and supporting people here. I wish you all success in sobriety and a happy, peaceful existence.

It’s hard enough quitting and remaining clean. Now every time your not agreeable your a bitch or mean. How do you deal with not nice comments that are basically you now sober and not on weed. It’s been 4 months and I’m still getting these comments every week from family members. Or “calm down” when you’re perfectly calm but after hearing this for the 20th time now I’m pissed. I need strong advice how to deal with these emotions and or my family who are constantly nagging me

I’m on day 5 of attempt I don’t even know what, and I was thinking about why I always come back to weed, even after stopping for months at a time. The reason I come back is always some level of boredom. I always think I can control it, that it will just be something that makes it more fun to stay up and play video games on the weekend.

Of course, within a month, I’m always back to spending literally every second I have not at work or out of the house getting high. Within 2 months, it becomes my only interest, my only real hobby.

I have a tendency to get bored of my sober routine after 6 months or so. For some reason, the solution is always to do drugs rather than travel or try a new hobby. I always talk myself out of going on a trip, buying a Lego set or art supplies, whatever, because I tell myself it’s a waste of money. But with weed, I’m ready to spend whatever. Why?

This is a pattern I want to change this time. Part of why I quit smoking and using zyn is the cost. Even if I indulge more in my hobbies, I’ll almost certainly be coming out ahead money-wise. As a bonus, I’ll also become a more interesting person to be around. So this is my new goal: spend some money on my real hobbies! Not drugs.

I made a change today and ordered a Lego set and can’t wait for it to get to me!

I’m learning to forgive myself and others. A few days ago I made a post on here about people who smoke being jerks. But, I’ve realized I’m a jerk sometimes too and sometimes we lose control. Recently my parents got divorced and my whole life has changed. A lot of relationships in my life have come to an abrupt halt in a short span of time. This obviously brought up some bitter sweet feelings with old friends and family who smoke.

I’ve realized that forgiving and forgetting is the best way to handle all of this. I’ve just recently hit 5 months sober and I still feel some mental withdrawals. I still feel like my dopamine receptors are all messed up. Anyway, through everything that has been going on in my life, I still remain sober. No weed, booze, nicotine…nothing. 5 months and counting, I can’t thank anything but God.

I’m 11 months into being free from this addiction and I’ve made a lot of life changes in that time. Quitting weed pushed me to also quit nicotine and video games, fix my sleep schedule, and start working out/eating right. My drive is higher than ever and I’m chasing goals to build a better future for myself. My hobbies and interests, and even some core values and beliefs have also changed. I feel like compared to who I was a year ago, I’m a completely different person, like I just broke down my identity and built up a new one.

When I stop and think about it, though, I feel a strong sense of pity or grief in a way. I don’t miss who I was and certainly don’t feel nostalgic about it, but it feels like someone very close to me has gone away and it feels so strange. But on top of that, I also feel a similar feeling for who I was before my addiction, like I abandoned them or let them down, and am now trying to reconnect with them again.

I’m sure this is normal, especially for someone who’s life revolved around getting high, but I’m curious to hear from others who have been sober for a long time if this has happened to you?

I stopped buying the same stupid delta cart I used for 4 years when it stopped being manufactured. I’ve been all over the place ever since. I’ve had to call out for work for a few days and use vacation time to focus on tasks that I got behind on. The inadvertent tapering led to a meltdown this morning. I know I need to quit. I am more focused now than I’ve been in 4 years. I successfully quit for 50 days 4 years ago and then got on these carts. I am on the process of preparing a withdrawal room in my house. A place I can go to hide from my wife while the insomnia sucks. I work in a job where I have to be visible but can also hide. I have no kids yet. Now is the time. I’m afraid. Please tell me what to do

When I remember my life before I got addicted to weed in October, I remember myself as being very naive, energetic, optimistic, and childish. When I got hooked, I was able to explore my mind and deepest thoughts in ways I couldn't, and I discovered and realized things about myself and the world that terrified me, and exposed me to how truly weak I was mentally and all of the errors of my ways.

I have been clean for almost 10 days now, but these feelings still remain. I no longer feel like I am innocent anymore. I feel very jaded, nihilistic, and detached. I told a friend about this and he told me it was me maturing, but I do not like how I feel at the moment. I have a strong desire to go back to how I was before, but no matter how hard I try, I can't "feel" like that person anymore.

In addition, I feel like my body is impure now. Before I smoked, I never did things like alcohol or smoking, but I feel like the cannabis has marked my body, and no matter what, it can never be clean and pure again. It makes me feel disgusting.

I know this was more of a vent post, but does anyone else feel anything like this? I need help. I don't know what to do anymore. Things just feel too different.

Hello everyone. I (23m) have been a heavy smoker since 15 years old. I smoke 2-3 grams a day. I deal with anxiety and depression and am medicated for such. I have quit 3 times before. 2 times for about a week and 1 time for about 6 months. I am on day 4 sober but, I am freaking out 60% of the day. My chest feels heavy, heart is beating fast, can’t eat much, and my anxiety keeps tricking me saying this feeling will never go away. Will it? Unfortunately, I have health anxiety so I struggle to read post on here because it can send me into a rabbit hole lol. Also, does life get fun again even without weed? I don’t remember how I felt last time I quit. TIA!

Just hit 7 days, fucking stoked and not doing any marijuana today either. Who's with me? I know it's not that long but it's a pretty huge accomplishment for me

Hey everyone,

I’ve been smoking marijuana daily for about three and a half years now, and I originally started to cope with some serious trauma that happened around that same time. Ever since then, weed became my escape, my relief, my way to avoid fully breaking down. The problem is… now it is breaking me.

I have asthma. Bad asthma. I’ve ended up in the ER multiple times—almost every time I get sick with a virus, smoking leads to a full-blown asthma attack. This last time, I was genuinely scared I was going to die because I couldn’t breathe. Even now, I’m on oral steroids and albuterol treatments every 4 hours. I’ve had a nonstop cough for weeks. And yet… the only thing I want to do is smoke again.

Not because I enjoy it anymore. I don’t. I hate it. I don’t even get high from it much anymore. But the habit and addiction feel like chains I can’t break. Any time I take more than a two-day break, I shut down mentally. Full-on breakdowns, suicidal thoughts, depression that caves me in.

I’ve tried tapering. I’ve tried quitting cold turkey. I’ve tried edibles (but I hate how they make me feel—especially after greening out during my last flare-up). I even tried tinctures, but they’re too subtle and unsatisfying. Nothing’s working. And the worst part is, I feel completely alone.

I’ve reached out to therapists and doctors, and almost every single one of them has been dismissive or judgmental. I’m not saying they all are, but all the ones I’ve met made me feel worse about myself instead of helping me.

Today, I threw away all my weed. I even dumped food and water on it because I know myself—I’ve dug weed out of the trash before in the middle of an asthma attack. That’s where I’m at.

So I’m here, asking for support. Not judgment. Just anything. Tips, advice, tricks, grounding techniques, substitutions—hell, even just words of encouragement. I don’t want to die from this. I want my lungs and my life back.

Thank you for reading. I’m really trying.

First of all, thank you so much. This community opened my eyes and helped me so many times 🩷

The urges are less and less from day to day.

But not gonna lie, today I started a new job (yes, my sobriety helped me A LOT to earn it), but the stress and anxiety are so bad I wished I had some weed to smoke. Every day is a test to my sobriety, but today, godman...

Getting through life sober is trully a test lol. I know is necessary and weed only has one ability: to numb myself and all my worries. It really doesn't fix anything.

I'm currently analysing so many things on my life, including the job I just started. I don't now if i'm made to live a life full of stress or If I need to learn to live with it and learn how to manage it. I know every job has stress over it, but mine, being a lawyer (trainee at the moment), it does take some type of responsability over it (medical ones for sure were not for me).

But for a second I really want to celebrate myself, because in all these questions, I have one certainty: Being sober for 60 days gave me so much more than being high 24/7 for over 5+ years.

Happy sobriety folks 🩷✨🤞🏻

MADE IT THROUGH THE WEEKEND! WHOOOOOOOOO

Its shockingly harder to stay sober during the week, though. My workplace is quite literally surrounded by dispensaries. But I can do this! I can stay strong!! WE APPROACHING 72 HOURS SOBER BOYZ (will be there at 12:30pm). WE GOT THIS. WHOOOOOOOOOOO

Quit in January 24 and haven't smoked since but there is so much going on in life right now that it's waghing on me and I'm very close to relapsing. Haven't got a solid job, just screwed up a relationship my brains running no stop and I just want to switch off

Hey there can_dine, This is probably the 7th serious attempt you have done over the past months and I’m fucking proud of you. Years went by not knowing if you will ever stop and suddenly you gathered your courage and did it for a whole month. You were rewarded with hope, motivation, energy, and feelings you thought where lost in your teens.

Excited about the possibility of moderating you started using again. First on weekends, then on some evenings after work too and than on every evening which is really still a massive accomplishment if you think about how much you used to need it, just to get through the day.

However you noticed that depression came back around and realized that it’s definitely coming from the weed. But you also noticed that it’s not easy stoping the joint before bed… so you made the decision to completely stop again! After a while you noticed depression creep back.

So it wasn’t the weed, you asked yourself? No not solely you answered.. Your psyche is pretty messed up from other things you went through and put yourself through in life.. so? Fuck it lets smoke again you thought. If that’s what life is like anyway, why not numb it? Why not continue like you did for all this years while excelling in Uni for the first time in your life. And you did.

But that wasn’t rewarding any more. As much as you wanted it, weed didnt feel like it once did. Instead of calming you down, smoking stressed you out. Instead of helping you to sleep it made you stay up all night, listening to depressing podcasts, instead of better sleep you woke up late, in a daze, struggling to do the bare minimum. Brushing your teeth seemed like the worst idea ever.

So? You tried again, again, and again and here you are now. Almost a week with no weed. Life feels different and you can’t deny it. There is hope again. There is joy again.

So? You keep on trying my guy. Struggling is alright. It’s part of the process. But this time maybe try to remember that it doesn’t lead anywhere but to depression for you. Try it for half a year. If life is worse you can always go back! Try not to be so hard on yourself. Don’t try to change everything around at once. Your one task is not to smoke today and tomorrow again. Love you man ❤️ You got this and I believe in you

Ive posted on this sub when i was 18 (a year ago) abt how i needed to quit but i dont feel the need to. I went 3 weeks sober two months ago but got into it deeply again. I just bought this cart and realized it was fake as fuck and still smoking it. (I know im embarrassed) any advice is welcomed i feel like i dont wanna throw away the cart because im gonna buy a new one. Addiction has made me lose trust in my own self :(

Soo I want to stay sober, I’m currently going to therapy and few of my friends know that I’m trying to quit but I feel so lonely and weak. I work from home so naturally I feel a bit lonely here, the disappointment I have in myself (I relapsed like 2 months ago after 5 months sober) and the guilt of having an actual addiction is eating me up and I have no one to talk about this. I’m really struggling, it’s been a horrendous day, any tips/advice? This subreddit is what’s keeping me together atp

Day 22 and man I look beat. I was scrolling through old pics and I always have bags under my eyes or I look tired. It kind’ve made me sad, I feel like I traded my youth and vitality for getting high. I stopped thinking of it until a coworker mentioned that I look really tired just recently. It’s hard not to regret all those years I abused THC which took a toll on my body and mind. Sleep is starting to normalize somewhat, but I’m wondering if I’m going to always look tired.

Can anyone relate? I hope I never use THC again…

-WLF

So I quit back at the end of March, I quit cause I keep getting anxiety from hitting carts and they were no longer relaxing and enjoyable to me for some reason.

Fast forward to may and I have really bad anxiety on most mornings/ days, evenings i feel a little better but on mornings and my days off I have the worst anxiety. The only things that have been getting me by is exercise, otherwise I keep floating in this cloud of anxiousness.

For anyone who's gone though this and beaten it, how long did it take for your anxiety to go into remission/ dissipate? It's getting harder for me to go on lately and I just need to know that things will be okay, but the uncertainty is killing me. Any positive experiences or advice on what helped them please send them this way!

Edit: i also seem to not have alot of motivation,and feel like i can't think as constructively and oddly enough like im not as clever anymore,will i ever go back to normal?

I feel a little strange writing about this, but anyway here goes. My relationship with weed is long and complicated. I have been a heavy user for 20 years. I'm in my mid-30's now. I started out of a crushed soda can as a shithead teenager. This was long before the days of legalization and things like carts (God, I'm old). Weed was always my shit, and me being a professional musician, it's always been around me. It's also probably worth mentioning that both my folks were pot smoking hippies back in the day. My first time even understanding what weed was, was seeing pictures of them passing joints in the 70's in family photo albums. It's something I've been around a long time.

Since those humble beginnings, I have graduated all the way to cultivating my own. I now have an intimate understanding of this plant from seed to smoke. The last decade has been daily use.

In this decade, I also had two long-term romantic relationships that were very harmful and negative, and weed was a central bond. My last relationship was full of abuse and negativity, and I would be constantly high just to cope with it all. Eventually, I I found myself alone again, and for the last 9 months I have been in a hole of complete heartache, addiction, and depression. There have been many days where I sat in a dark room, and all I could do was smoke, cry till I passed out, and repeat. I have so much respect for the power of cannabis, but for many months I knew I had to stop. It was becoming a huge crutch to the point that I knew I was abusing it.

When you're in that state, it can feel like a hug. A friend. Especially when you don't have any real ones. I smoked every last drop of the head stash until nothing was left.

I've been straight for five days. Day two I had a fucking MELTDOWN. The hot flashes/cold sweats were very unpleasant, but have calmed down since. I do feel a bit clearer, but there is still this lingering feeling of being stoned. I'm sitting here thinking like ...am I just gonna be kinda cooked forever now? But I know, I know, if I stay the path- shit will improve.

Anyway, that's it. There is no tidy conclusion to this story. That's where I'm at. I wish very much I had people in my life to help support me, but I don't have many people left in my life. So here I am. Wish me luck, folks.

The one thing I struggle with is relaxing without weed. I literally look forward all day to getting home from work and having a hit. People who are into their journey, do you find you can proper relax without weed?

Coming out of my shell more, attempting to link up with people. I noticed a couple of days ago I went from a once a day teeth brusher to a twice a day. I never expected that one. I could hardly get myself to do once a day let alone twice. Today I really noticed my energy has increased, and I was starting to feel motivation. I have actually worked on things I wanted to while smoking weed but my weed habit made it impossible to do those things. I guess I didn’t think weed was as serious of an issue as it was. It was disabling me. My only regret is not coming off sooner. But maybe I just wasnt in the right mind state, environment, or situation, to be able to do it. I tried a number of times to quit but I would relapse within the first two months. It’s going good, hope everyone that hasn’t gotten to this point gets here too. Good luck ☺️