Posted by Paskeewookee on February 15, 2005, at 8:31:30
In reply to Re: I've got to figure out how to stop too!, posted by Eve1979 on February 13, 2005, at 1:50:26
Hi, first sorry for my poor english. I used to smoke weed and mainly hasch for about 20 years now. I evaluate my average amount of joints a day around 4 for this period, which means I probably smoked about 30000 joints in my life (I'm 37). In january I decided it has to come to an end and I think I'm about to succeed. To be concrete, here is my "method":
1) stop immediately, do not think there is a progressive way of stopping.
2) avoid to meet your usual pothead friends for a while (could be long). This is hard but mandatory.
3) take something before you go to bed: there are many infusions on the market for instance, it won't help you that much in the beginning but keep on doing and convince yourself it will finally help
4) practice some endurance sport: walking, running, cycling...and make it as hard as possible ;-)
5) always know EXACTLY how many time you have been quitting. When you want to smoke, think this time will be ZERO afterwards and that you have been suffering for NOTHING (some software could help to monitor it)
6) proudly tell people you stopped
7) enjoy your dreams, I personally remember my dreams for the first time in 10 years !!!
8) don't lose to many time figuring out why you began. With time you will figure out anybody has (and need) an addiction, just find some that is not as heavy to live with (sport, books, sex,music, sleep...could be addictive too)
10) Don't think non-smoking people are not anxious, Anybody is anxious nowadays.That's it ;-) What surprised me is that it really been really hard for a few weeks, today I'm still thinking about it but I feel ggod to have that will, this is now a more rewarding experience than smoking a joint.
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