How do you adjust to not toking?

[Mad Hamish]

I've got one more week to wait till I have dry bud again. Been quite some time now not toking at all. I've even invented little games to tally up a number of bong-hits for that first session. Going to get so stoned my grandma will have red eyes. The first few weeks were OK but I think I'm slowly losing my mind LOL.
It will be a total of 6 weeks not toking by the time I hit the first LVBK bongs. I thought it would be pretty tough but it was actually quite easy, all I did was to not sleep much. It's almost like smoking in the sense that at least your head moves at a reasonable pace during the day, and when you DO go to sleep you sleep like a brick.
So if you ever have to live without herb for an extended period of time, how do you cope with it? Have you found ways to keep to a 'stoned' state of mind or do you just let your brain go apeshit? I kinda enjoyed the latter for a while but it's probably getting quite annoying.

 

[mr sunshine]

When i stop i workout alot more and really look forward to dreaming. After youget passed the not sleeping phase the dreams are so vivid and fun!

 

[Mad Hamish]

Holy crap, THE DREAMS! Man I've had the most vivid dreams that's for sure. All sorts of mad stuff, like exploring underground tunnels or driving a truck up ridiculously steep and narrow mountain passes. It's like my dreams were bad action/suspense movies. Ending up in sticky situations like the truck starting to slip off the side and waking up pumped with adrenaline. Must say some of them were quite epic.
I have this recurring one where I managed to lose a huge bag of herb. Then I spend the whole dream looking for it. I'm always SOOOO upset at it too. The worst part is being offered joints in the dream. Dream Weed doesn't work LOL. The last 3 nights I've been dreaming of trimming huge piles of bud and that's where I said 'enough now'. Waking up to no bud to trim gets old real soon ROFL.

All I can say is, I think I'm pretty much going to SWALLOW the first bong.

 

[Skuxx]

It seems like you're already passed the hardest part. For me the first week is the hardest. I cope by being in a terrible mood, and bitching at everybody and everything. And those damn dreams.... dreams about smoking. They kill me.

 

[Mad Hamish]

It seems like you're already passed the hardest part. For me the first week is the hardest. I cope by being in a terrible mood, and bitching at everybody and everything. And those damn dreams.... dreams about smoking. They kill me.

Nah I've succumbed to the bad mood this last week. It was all good, then something random and BAM! One grumpy mofo right here LOL. Like a bear that sat on an anthill. I've been trying to dilute the grumpiness with good humour at least. Kinda works.

 

[kinetic]

I should get the list of side effects of withdrawal someone wrote for a class Im taking. its really comical.

 

[beuffer420]

Once the mind breaks the routine of smoking it becomes easier to not want to smoke or feel like something is missing. More than anything cannabis is mentally addictive. Don't let your mind get the best of you.

One of the best things I learned, and it took me many tries to understand is we relapse in our minds first then indulge. If you can control upstairs you can control what you do.

 

[srh88]

id be fucked without weed

when you get those vivid dreams its the worst thing ever if your locked up. youll have some badass dream about a chick or about the herbs, anything really.. one of those super real dreams. then you wake up facing a concrete wall and your covered with a real itchy blanket and sleeping above you is some dude snoring

 

[dirtsurfr]

The only time I've been w/o is jail/prison and parole....other than that I don't

 

[srh88]

The only time I've been w/o is jail/prison and parole....other than that I don't

i smoked all the way through parole. my PO always said its only weed and im always employed so i was paying my fines. so she was pretty cool with it, until i got hit with a new charge, then she got me.. read off alllllll my dirty tests. 13 violations and a new charge. so i went to rehab for weed because i didnt want to max out lmao. the court gave me a free ride, didnt pay a dime. much better then what i was going to get. they wanted to pull my "street time" and max me out. i did 3 weeks lol then rehab for 90 days.. ate good food and played guitar and sports all day haha

 

[tip top toker]

If i don't have any, i don't have any. I stick a film on, grab a bottle of something to drink, and make me some noodles. I only smoke during the evenings so it's not really an issue for me for the majority of the time. I think the issues arise due to the break of routine. You're so used to having that joint before your bath or the joint after dinner, that we suddenly feel lost without it and are unsure what to do about the situation.

 

[beuffer420]

To me this is why cannabis is so special! After days and days of repeated use then stopping the repeated use your not left in the hospital or hugging a toilet sicker than a dog and barley able to hold yourself up.

instead your able to do all that u did while using, just with a little perception difference.

 

[srh88]

something to help out with weed withdraw

 

[ebgood]

I tell everybody to just gimme some space. ill be ok

 

[Mad Hamish]

All I can say is, when this is over, it will be OVER. I will be vacuum-sealing and hiding little bags in a few places. It's already Clone City over here. It's definitely not as bad as a lot of things I can think of, but it sure is a fuktonne better when one can have that phatty after a day's worth of graft that's for sure.
Booze is no replacement, I got a bit smashed and hit the forums a while ago. I can't believe the shit I said ROFL...

 

[Indagrow]

work, gym, hot tub.. sleep. i find that its much harder to sleep right after you quit if you have been using it as a crutch to hit REM. So i just make myself as tired as i can mentally and physically and i get over it pretty quick.

 

[kinetic]

My favorite above is the "shaking and dizziness accompanied by a craving for more marijuana..." Does anyone else get a picture in their mind of Reefer Madness with that line?

 

[Sunbiz1]

My favorite above is the "shaking and dizziness accompanied by a craving for more marijuana..." Does anyone else get a picture in their mind of Reefer Madness with that line?

loss of the sense of humor

This one is rather amusing, for one it's true...at least for me.


However, the statement in itself implies that cannabis gives one a better sense of humor...which is also true.

 

[Someacdude]

loss of the sense of humor

This one is rather amusing, for one it's true...at least for me.


However, the statement in itself implies that cannabis gives one a better sense of humor...which is also true.

I dont think it gives us a better sense of humor, more than we can see things clearly without the anxiety or emotion that would otherwise cloud our perception. One things for sure, it sure does make us better people , who arent afraid to look inside.

 

[Mad Hamish]

I dont think it gives us a better sense of humor, more than we can see things clearly without the anxiety or emotion that would otherwise cloud our perception. One things for sure, it sure does make us better people , who arent afraid to look inside.

I don't know if it makes me a better person, but it sure as hell makes me more tolerable LOL... Actually I think reefer blunts my sense of humour a little. I'm a pathological piss-taker and prankster. Most people prefer me when very stoned indeed