ive been smoking every day for almost 2 years and want to take a break.I also have a piss test in 2 1/2 to 3 weeks. I was wondering what I should expect in the first couple of days as far as withdrawals and ways you occupied your mind from smoking weed. How long have your tbreaks lasted?
I take breaks now and then because it's pretty necessary. Wish I could say i had a run like Reefer's, but my longer breaks are usually 4-8 months tops.
That being said... it's really not hard to let go of physically... it's all psychosomatic... if you really want to let it go and you find other things to occupy your time, you won't notice a HUGE difference. The biggest differences that are hard to let go of psychologically are usually how it affects your: a) appetite, and b) sleep.
My advice is, don't go to bed until you're tired. Stay up trolling the internet or whatever. Eventually, you'll be so tired it won't matter that you didn't smoke. Then you'll still sleep easily. If you try to go to bed when you normally would, you'll probably find you have a lot of extra energy and it can be hard to settle down. Unless you're filling your extra time with a lot of cardio workouts, which will balance everything really well.
As for food, just eat when you feel like it. It's okay to fast sometimes. Taking a break from food will help you appreciate your food more if you are used to smoking before eating. After nit-picking about food for long enough, your body suddenly goes "WOOOOSH gimme lots of food." That's your appetite returning.
Again, the same applies to food, if you want to nip both problems in the bud, (no pun intended) just do a lot of exercise. You'll be starving and sleepy before you know it.
The rest is all bullshit psychologically stuff that's pretty easy to handle if you REALLY want to take a break. You have to really want it though, or you'll just come up with some mood swings or some bullshit like that to convince yourself you "need" to smoke, when in actuality you simply don't have something to do and aren't coping with boredom well. So, fill your time, somehow. Video games if you don't feel like being active, for instance. It's good to pick up a new game with an engaging plot or something.
But I can't stress enough that the best cure for boredom, lack of appetite, lack of sleep... it's all exercise. Do something physically active. Stoners are used to taxing their body through smoking. Smoking makes a cardio activity out of sitting around. We just don't think about it that way. But it is. Think about how much more you breathe, and how much more heavily you breathe, due to coughing the shit out of your throat hit after hit. That is a lot of exercise. So just keep giving your body what it wants, find another way to exercise.
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P.S. All of the advice is coming from someone who has been on a break for the last two months, roughly. Waiting for my crop to finish, and I live in a remote place now, don't have any local connections.
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