any tips on quitting weed

More likely you're addicted to the nicotine in the joints.

when i smoke i smoke every day, about 10 zoots a day, strictly monk, wouldn't touch anything rubbish, so i can sympathsise, i gave up nicotine a while ago so i know jarlr is talking shit, fags are the easiest thing to give up in the world, weed is much harder. i never thought twice about smoking fags again cos THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING!

my advice-
1)stay by yourself. if you're like me all your mates smoke so you have to avoid them. be a recluse, read write go on long walks.runs/bike rides to get rid of excess energy which is driving you crazy

2)the first 2 days are hell, crying, writhing around, losing your temper, shouting, throwing things (non smokers, no i'm not exaggereating) but it does get easier after that, as you adjust back to a normal metabolism. actually you should feel charged with energy almost as if you've smoked some crytal meth or something, try and thnk of that as yr buzz, just being insanely manic

3)where it gets hard again is when the manic phase stops and you're normal and bored again. thats when you remember why you started bunning in the first place

um, thats it, nothing that helpful because it is genuinely difficult and some suffering is inevitable, good luck, if you're like me you'll be saving about £90 a week, so that should help yr motivation!

It's more the behaviour than the drug, probably. Here's how I "kicked" after high school, when I knew I only had my wits to fall back on and couldn't afford to deaden them anymore.

Stopped hanging out with my tokin' buddies.
Read books that required concentration.
Drank a lot.
Chased girls.
Went on an adventure.

Really only the first two mattered, the others were sorta incidental, though moving to a relatively isolated community where a dimebag costs 4 bits couldn't hurt.

1. Whenever you feel like blazing up, take a look at ODB's teeth.

2. Take the money you would spend on weed and buy yourself something nice. Snoop bought Okalahoma.

3. Donate your remaining stash to a worthy cause, e.g. a rehab center

4. Uh, I forget the rest. . .whatever. You gonna pass that or just sit there and let it all burn away? Damn viper. . .

I think the hardest part for me was getting away from "Oh, I wish I were high for this." For a long time, certain music would trigger a desire to get high. Actually that still happens sometimes, but it's much weaker now.

Maybe find a new, natural, high that doesn't have any associations for you with smoking pot? It may sound corny, but I have been off weed for about as long as I've been salsa dancing, and I think discovering that way of turning on naturally was helpful. (Granted, no, it's certainly not the same high. You don't get the sensory weirdness, but the effects on mood can be dramatic.) Meditation, yoga, martial arts, dancing, sky diving?

I don't think drinking more is a good idea, but I have to admit that when I stopped getting high, I went through a period of drinking more heavily than I had been. Alcohol never really has had the same attraction for me as pot though, so that faded away without any effort.

He was able to rename it Snooplahoma.

That would be the deathbed confession to end all of them.

The third picture is my fave. A classic Chick "WHA?"

it's only dutch round here, ha!

Seriously, you don' quit weed, you just kind of lose touch with the kind of people that sell it and then never really care enough to try to find other ones, or you move somewhere new and the crowd you fall in with doesn't really smoke, or whatever. That's the whole thing about it, it's not physically addicting; after a while you'll just find that you simply don't care enough about it to go through all the trouble and expense of getting more.

Its what got me hooked on cigs tho, I think that says a lot.

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unless that's how you got started...

Um

i just have to sing, like to be happy, so smoke isn't good ;-( it's really tough cuz it's like some of my best stuff ws written cuz of smoking. but i just have to pay attention to the law of moderation. also all that tar can't be very good, right?

i mean, i used to be a TENOR 1. i do NOT want to end up sounding like joni mitchell by the time i'm 30.

my tip is not to buy or smoke weed.

get a vaporizer!!!

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any tips on quitting everything else but weed

-don't buy them
-don't do them
-no half stepping

p.s. the answer is you do want to end up sounding like joni mitchell no matter what age you are

if only i could. :-( alas i'm more like tiny tim.

but anyway i'm making some hash brownies as soon as my kid has stopping sucking tit.

that's my new years resolution yall.

weed is absolutely psychologically & physically addictive if you smoke it every goddamn day

this helped me get through the tough times:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/717ZiWlad4L._SY550SX411_SY550_CR,0,0,411,550_PIbundle-6,TopRight,0,0_SX411_SY550_CR,0,0,411,550_SH20_.jpg

weed is a rare treat for me, but i often think if i actually knew how to get it more regularly (or lived in a state where it was legalized) i'd be in trouble. (it should be legalized everywhere anyway, of course)

I found a full quarter bag of weed while I was out walking my dog a few weeks ago. It's been a blessing and a curse really:p

enjoy it! I still have a bud or two from the quarter I bought in august 2014

im out of weed (well i think i have a couple of roaches in the cupboard), my wife is out of town, and she is the only one with a card for the dispensary. what kind of saturday night is this going to be without getting baked as f? :'-(

I made chocolate that tastes like ass (tried to sub stevia for sugar to keep it 'healthy') but will fuck you up. Two pounds is going to last me about a year at the rate it can be eaten.

i'm not addicted to cigs imo and never smoke them sober and find them kinda nast but i smoke weed m/l every day and i _love_ to smoke a cigarette when i get high... need to break out of this gordian knot of addictions

Yeah puffin, outstanding posts from the past like these really encourage me to open up:

Weed is not addictive. If you have a problem with quitting, you have a separate problem from pot.

lol sorry, that’s like 10 wrong thread posts in one week. good sign to quit lol

I ran out two nights ago and I'm not going to buy more... for a very long time I think.

I smoked daily: morning noon and night during the week when the kids are in school.

Today I had an awful headache and my temper is getting very very short. This coincides with my 13 year old daughter entering her "I have to have the last word" phase. At times I've been gritting my teeth so hard I'm scared I'll crack something. It'll get better though! A couple of weeks and this won't be so hard. Quitting drinking was nothing but this is a really big adjustment and I'm struggling. I feel like the guy in Airplane. "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking/amphetamines/sniffing glue/etc"

Good luck

I guess I'm lucky that I have never liked the effects of weed. I can't function properly when I'm high. Can't concentrate, can't read, have no sense of time. I suppose for some people that's a feature, but it just makes me uncomfortable. And yes, good luck with quitting.

best of luck Cow_Art, especially during the first few days.

Yeah I’ve known people who have definitely struggled with quitting or cutting back. A lot of it is the psychological instinct to get a little buzz to “take the edge off,” but in the short term especially there’s just the dopamine depletion effect, which just has to recover on its own.

^^yep

gl cow_art

Thanks, everybody. I'm going to start riding my bike in the mornings to wear myself out so I'll sleep better at night. I'm used to going to sleep in a fog and it feels strange to try and drift off with so much... clarity.

Yes, falling asleep I think is the tough one, for me anyway - I've always suffered from insomnia, related to anxiety issues, and so the combined anxiety ("will I get to sleep?") with the actual reality of my body being less sleep is a recipe for failure. Are you taking CBD at all? The only place I knew that produced good CBD has been closed down, the stuff I have now feels like so much snake oil.

I'm trying to cut down with a view towards quitting within the next six months, good luck!

I occasionally use valerian root capsules for sleep, and they do seem to take the edge off

here we go

time passes

exercise, green vegetables, comic books, gently simmering irritability

<3

I bought some gummies and cut them to gradually smaller sizes and used a pill caddy to keep it organized.

The last time I quit cold turkey and I was miserable. Wife demanded that I wean myself slowly this time and it was definitely better for me.

smart smart smart. abstaining for an externship screen next month, not even sure if it'll be out of my system in time. i make great life choices!!

i quit cold turkey october 2020 and never looked back. after some previous half-assed failed attempts, it was surprisingly easy once i just did it. best of luck brimstead

my one piece of advice is not to try to improve your life in too many ways. like this

exercise, green vegetables, comic books

sounds amazing, don't get me wrong, but in my experience getting into the habit of exercising regularly is waaaay harder than losing the habit of smoking weed regularly. maybe you're already an exercise god but for me fusing the two would've been too hard. when i quit weed i gave myself the treat of a subscription to the nyt crossword app and became a crossword person for a while. i felt it was a nice compelement to the boost in cognitive function you get when the weed brain fog lifts

nice, thanks, flopson, appreciate that advice.

Full disclosure I’m like the poster child for weed addiction.

First off, there are ways to beat those tests. I haven’t personally done it but multiple folks have told me there are commonly available supplements that you take shortly before the test, presumably you drink a shitload of water, and you pass the test. Do your research but beating it is doable for sure.

I’d take care with valerian root. Probably even more addictive than weed? If you’re having sleep issues then a supplement known as 5-HTP is the thing. It’s a serotonin precursor and that’s what’s causing sleep issues. Take it in the daytime it’s like you’re tricking your brain into thinking you got high and it really helps!

What Cow_Art said about rationing dosage is spot on. But again if you’re just worried about beating the test (and the dream disturbed sleep or insomnia isn’t seriously impacting your quality of life maybe you don’t want to draw it out too long).

Have been told that edibles affect sleep more than smoking and I personally made the fatal error of habitually combining edibles and liquor when I had trouble sleeping so I got that synergistic (1 + 1 = 3) effect that comes from mixing with alcohol since THC is not water soluble but is soluble in alcohol even in your bloodstream. This led to me having permanently fucked up sleep.

Thanks all

Curious to see where this leads, it’s quite a different landscape. Feels like ice skating or something.

Well, moving a few years ago to a place without easy access to legal weed kinda forced my hand, but I found going cold turkey to be not as difficult as I expected. I did start vaping for a bit, and started taking a variety of stuff to help me sleep (everything from benadryl and melatonin to ativan - not all at once!)

Now, if only someone could point me to an adderall alternative, I'd be all set (not because of addiction but because of shortages, general hassle of filling scrips)

Just a note (for posterity): if one doesn’t have access to supplements like 5-HTP that I recommended, rather than valerian root some folks recommend melatonin to help with sleep issues.

I’ve heard it is effective but actually can make dreams more intense and weird though so personally I’d rather tough it out if necessary.

some folks recommend melatonin to help with sleep issues

I've heard melatonin is ok to use occasionally, but can start fucking with your mind and maybe your heart

https://time.com/7332560/melatonin-and-heart-failure-sleep-supplement/

melatonin always gives me very weird nightmares but sometimes the need for sleep wins out

Wasn’t aware of that study, thanks Sire Grasshopper. Couldn’t actually read the article cause of all the pop up links haha but here’s another decent-looking source:

https://meassociation.org.uk/2025/11/prolonged-use-of-melatonin-supplements-to-aid-sleep-may-lead-to-adverse-health-effects-preliminary-study-suggests/

A preliminary study to be clear but definitely a good idea to take care for now.

What really works best for me is very deep breathing or meditation combined with progressive muscle relaxation. (Not mindfulness/vipassana Buddhist meditation though which I feel a strong personal antipathy towards — if it works for you then great). I have been verging on hyperventilation at times lately when I do this forced long breathing, surely not medically recommended but weirdly effective for me.

Relating hard to Anthony Bourdain's quote about strategizing ones life to avoid and outwit the guy inside you who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch old movies. If you follow me on Letterboxd, you can see how successful that strategy has been working. Nevertheless after a year+ of self-medicating to get through job loss, unbearable grief, being a family mediator, nearly losing everything in the Eaton Fire, and turning 60 years old somewhere in there I just stopped. Cold turkey.

I suppose I really did f-up my dopamine levels because what followed was a month of some of the worst depression and anxiety I've experienced - and I can manufacture a lot of that. Last night was the first time I've had any dreaming, lucid or otherwise, in over a year. Merry Christmas to me. Apparently my subconscious has been as constipated as my "Saved Drafts" email folder and my fearsome, multi-page, hoarder house-level "Current Projects" list.

Solidarity with everyone who has this thread bookmarked. The struggle is real.

i'm just starting to cut back. i halved the twice-a-day edible dose i was taking. feels good to be a little less high tbh. would like to cut down further to once a day. my main issue is the $. but i think i'm starting to see that the added mental and spiritual clarity will be nice too.

i think rituals need to change and evolve over time. everything else changes, so why not those? stubbornly clinging to one when you're in need of something else can throw things out of balance i think.

Not at the point where I can talk about things yet, but the solidarity and the stuff shared here is really affirming.

That bourdain quote just sucker punched me enough to comment.

I only smoke like one joint a week but have been considering quitting. That combined with booze/food mirrors some of the behaviour mentioned above, though bit by bit I have been managing to shake myself out of not doing any of those current projects thing (not doing any of them for years I mean, besides fiction writing).

It's p weird and a bit pathetic when like cleaning a small cupboard gives you a rush of relief at managing a small piece of change.

Will take January off weed/booze and see how I go from there.

Maybe we should have ‘what’s on your current projects list’, alongside this thread, and ‘what are you doing with time and gifts etc ’ one.

i don't know if this is what anybody reading this thread needs to hear or anything, but i do just want to put it out there that our current society's demands for individual productivity are absolutely insane and generally way too much for human bodies to handle and i would hope that for anyone cutting back on or quitting weed it would enable them to rest better and with more intentionality instead of just allowing them to do more stuff every day.

By current projects I meant like basic living tbh

I'm not considering quitting, but I am considering cutting back. At some point after legalization—and starting to vape rather than smoke—I became a daily user. In the past, when I was living paycheck-to-paycheck, getting high was a treat with a specific reason: I was going to sit in the dark and listen to some album or go see that trippy film. Now it's become a default after work activity. It's not causing problems—aside from sometimes feeling thick-headed in the morning or exacerbating my forgetfulness—but I'd like to be more mindful. There's been occasions where I've picked up my vape before watching some random TV and thought, "Wait, why am I going to waste a high on this?"

100% co-sign the previous post.

I've wasted so many evenings because the shitty TV was just good enough after a vape to be worth sticking to...

I cut back beer and weed from daily to half or 1/3rd of the week and it's made both of those things much more fun when I actually do. "T Breaks" are totally a thing. It's obvious but I have been more productive on my own projects and around the house, etc.

getting rid of my vape earlier this year was a meaningful step for me in setting some boundaries specifically around weed and work/the office. weed that leaves you odorless and can be smoked inside without mostly anybody noticing and/or caring *is* an amazing invention however i think i need some of the barriers inherent to smoking flower

There's been occasions where I've picked up my vape before watching some random TV and thought, "Wait, why am I going to waste a high on this?"

Yup. When I got to the point of "let's spark up and iron some shirts" I immediately realized that my habits weren't serving me

that's interesting about the vape, jordan. i've been considering getting one as tho i don't smoke more than a joint or two a week, obv smoking isn't good for us. but that is what has kind of concerned me, that it'd make it way easier to smoke anywhere/everywhere.

lol Elvis

LG, that was my experience with a nicotine vape - suddenly I was just doing it all the time, because I could (teleworker, lived alone) and the experience lost some of its luster.

The above is an interesting turnabout.

When I was young, weed could be scarce and procurement was uncertain and risky. Sometimes folks in my circle (including me) felt some pressure to make the most of each high.

Like, hypercare was put into listening to an album or going to a concert, or watching a movie or playing music or having sex or painting or writing or whatever. Which can yield to multi-option paralysis: dude you've spent 27 minutes staring at the CD rack, maybe just pick something?

For me one of the welcome changes in the current legal sitch was _not_ having the pressure to make things optimally groovy, and having it be okay to just vibe in a hammock or, for that matter, fold laundry.

But one can also see (as upthread) that the pendulum can indeed swing too far in the opposite direction. If the answer to "what would make this stretch of time more tolerable?" Is always "weed," then it's not a special treat.