How did you stop smoking?

[FootballFirst]

Now I realize that some of you never have stopped smoking, and kudos to you, I would love to be in your position. I need to stop because I know I have a drug test coming up in 2 months. I am a relatively heavy smoker, 2-3x per day, and I need to stop 1 month before being tested. I started smoking in 2005 and the only way I have stopped in the past were, a significant life changing event and lack of supply. I grow my own and really don't want to throw everything out to create a lack of supply because after the test, it's open season again. I've tried to stop before and it's just freaking unbearable, lol. I quit for 2 days a couple of weeks ago just to see if I could do it. I'm going to need to develop some self control over weed because there will be times in my life when I cannot permit myself to smoke for certain jobs. Btw, I've lost potential jobs in the past because I couldn't stop smoking.

Any advice on how to develop this self control is greatly appreciated

 

[cheechako]

I thought this was about tobacco. I tried a few times - patches and all that. Last time I tried to quit, I just went cold turkey. Been about a year now without tobacco.

Weed - never had a problem quitting that when I needed to for work or whatever. I'm out right now. I miss it. I want it - probably get some next week. But I don't know what to say - quitting tobacco was hard, cutting back on coffee was hard. Quitting weed was always easy.

 

[Zaehet Strife]

I agree, just start drinking more alcohol if you are the type of person who needs a high all the time. If not, quitting cannabis for a while is as easy as not drinking pop for a month.

 

[Da Almighty Jew]

The way i stopped smoking cigarettes is by starting dabbing oil.

 

[Total Head]

i don't know if it comes down to chemistry or psychology or what, but i've never had a problem quitting weed, and i'm someone who smokes a good 8th a day of good shit, and have for the past 13 years or so. ciggs and caffeine have always given me trouble to cut back on, but weed is pretty easy to just choose not to smoke.

benadryl and melatonin to go to sleep at night. a few days into the break you start to just get used to not getting stoned. it's almost like a high in itself. i'm starting week 4 of a break myself and for the first time in forever i can actually remember my dreams when i wake up. my memory is coming roaring back. i haven't lost my train of thought in 2 weeks. i still laugh at the tv, i still have fun with my mundane hobbies. it's not a big deal, i promise.

plus, whether you realize it or not, starting a new job during a break is a good idea. for me, the clarity is very noticeable and learning the ropes at a new job is much easier for me. once the job starts to eat at my soul (usually a month or so) i know it's time to hit up ol' mary jane again.

the last job i took a break for was so fucking stressful i started drinking a 6 pack a night because i still wasn't smoking yet. it scared me a bit because i'm generally a casual drinker at home, but it was better than nothing at all. the weed does a much better job at balancing my mental state, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

 

[Rancho Cucamonga]

Is it a regular urine test? If so there is synthetic urine at many places ie-head shops/truck stops. For swabs there is a mouthwash but those tests are very unreliable and many employers that use them to save money ignore results sometimes because they are so unreliable.
Another option if it is a urine test is the cleansing drink, GNC and health places have them. They work but you need to drink cleanser along with a lot of water a few hours before test, you will be pissing all day into the next day.
If you are at all over-weight there is no way you could pass a urine test if you use homemade remedies like drinking tons of water, acidic drinks, juices ect. THC stores in fat cells so the more fat you have the longer it stays in your system.
So marijuana is addictive, who'd of thought? lol

 

[FootballFirst]

i don't know if it comes down to chemistry or psychology or what, but i've never had a problem quitting weed, and i'm someone who smokes a good 8th a day of good shit, and have for the past 13 years or so. ciggs and caffeine have always given me trouble to cut back on, but weed is pretty easy to just choose not to smoke.

benadryl and melatonin to go to sleep at night. a few days into the break you start to just get used to not getting stoned. it's almost like a high in itself. i'm starting week 4 of a break myself and for the first time in forever i can actually remember my dreams when i wake up. my memory is coming roaring back. i haven't lost my train of thought in 2 weeks. i still laugh at the tv, i still have fun with my mundane hobbies. it's not a big deal, i promise.

plus, whether you realize it or not, starting a new job during a break is a good idea. for me, the clarity is very noticeable and learning the ropes at a new job is much easier for me. once the job starts to eat at my soul (usually a month or so) i know it's time to hit up ol' mary jane again.

the last job i took a break for was so fucking stressful i started drinking a 6 pack a night because i still wasn't smoking yet. it scared me a bit because i'm generally a casual drinker at home, but it was better than nothing at all. the weed does a much better job at balancing my mental state, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

thanks for that.

btw, quitting the cig habit was easy for me, i just love the high from weed so much.

my test is for a job in a hospital so i'd just rather know i'm clean instead of depend on synthetic urine which doesn't hold up under close scrutiny.

 

[blacksun]

thanks for that.

btw, quitting the cig habit was easy for me, i just love the high from weed so much.

my test is for a job in a hospital so i'd just rather know i'm clean instead of depend on synthetic urine which doesn't hold up under close scrutiny.

Pretty straight forward that if you don't want to use synthetic because of close scrutiny, you're going to have to quit cold turkey.

I would suggest a mask or even a cleaning agent, that way you could keep smoking up to a week or two before instead of a month, but you already said you're paranoid about "close scrutiny" with synthetic, and synthetic is a lot safer than any mask, IMO.

It seems like your only option is cold turkey starting soon...

 

[delvite]

try a pure oj vit-c system flush a couple of litres a day before your test, i did it for a week while still smoking and passed the brit army drug test
tip - ibuprofen can cause false positives so take a box along and say you take them for head aches (back up story)......................peace

 

[AltarNation]

instead of depend on synthetic urine which doesn't hold up under close scrutiny.

Are you just making up stories? Who told you it doesn't "hold up under close scrutiny"? Sounds like some gossip-y bullshit to me. I've used synthetic urine multiple times, and it works. You have to get the temperature right. It is unidentifiable as a synthetic, from what I've experienced and read.

As for stopping smoking... just stop. Suck it up and deal. That's my advice. I've had to do it plenty of times. I have an addictive personality, so I understand that it can suck to stop. But just shut the fuck up and deal with it. When you want to smoke, have a little talk with yourself. Say, "Self, you're being a little bitch. Now ACCEPT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR REALITY AND GO DO SOMETHING ELSE." That's my advice.

Also, exercise whenever you feel like smoking. Your body is really just filling up with extra energy that you don't know what to do with, because you're so used to sapping it on the extra system-load of being high and detoxing toxins.

 

[AltarNation]

Tips on how to develop self-control... that's like asking the internet to get the keys off your dresser for you. Dude, they're YOUR keys, and they're right there on your dresser. Fuck.

Edit: P.S. Sorry for being harsh, but it's the best way to get you into the gear you need to be in in order to deal with this situation. I am on a break right now, so maybe a little testy, but I'm rolling with it. The key is to realize that you've spoiled yourself with daily constancy and now you have to accept that there's an adjustment that has to happen in your psyche, and that will be a little difficult. Just accept the challenge, and face it.

 

[mandy1]

get an rx for chantix. tell your doc that you want to quit smoking cigarettes. it works for both.

 

[bowlfullofbliss]

just start doing blow. it only stays in your system for 3 days

that'll keep you busy for a while .

 

[dbkick]

if you're a heavy smoker you better quit before the 30 days, I know someone that was a heavy smoker and even after 80 days they showed trace.

 

[see4]

tobacco. I woke up one morning and said, "this shit is gross, I'm not smoking anymore." that was January last year.

pot. Haven't stopped. But I smoke far less than I used to.

crack. Never smoked it. Never will.

meth. Same. Never have, never will.

Any other smokable things. Can't say I have.

 

[Zaehet Strife]

They make fake piss you can put in the microwave with a temp gauge on it, wear some tighty wities and keep it close to your sac to keep it warm, just make sure you do it fast so the temp stays up, that worked for me once... that way you can go in that place blitzed as fuck.

 

[cues]

All in the head.

 

[AltarNation]

They make fake piss you can put in the microwave with a temp gauge on it, wear some tighty wities and keep it close to your sac to keep it warm, just make sure you do it fast so the temp stays up, that worked for me once... that way you can go in that place blitzed as fuck.

http://www.urineluck.com

Quick Fix comes with a glove warmer and a thermometer sticker. It's fool proof if you do it right...

 

[FootballFirst]

It seems like your only option is cold turkey starting soon...

today is day #1 and it sucks.

anyone smoked any of that "spice" or "k2" shit? that stuff doesn't come up on screens.

 

[FootballFirst]

Are you just making up stories? Who told you it doesn't "hold up under close scrutiny"? Sounds like some gossip-y bullshit to me. I've used synthetic urine multiple times, and it works. You have to get the temperature right. It is unidentifiable as a synthetic, from what I've experienced and read.

if they test for uric acid, that shit ain't in the synthetic. all the synthetic shit is stuff that is used to "calibrate" the machines. a true urinalysis shuold have trace amounts of stuff like mucous and white blood cells among other things. let's just say i'm pretty well familiar with what should be in urine when placed under the microscope and in a formal urinalysis. i work with this stuff day in and day out.

this place ain't fucking lab corp. this hospital system is nationwide and runs all of it's own employment urine specimens.