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any advice for stopping?

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
<IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt; I've just stopped smoking pot after 1 year of constant drug abuse. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be, but the battle has still not been completly won.

At first, it was my friends who persuaded me to stop because they were worried about my mental and physical health. They really helped me through the hard times, but now I have no motivation. The main reason why I started smoking pot was due to my parents who are incredibly strict and amazingly tight. I suppose that I wanted to rebel against their tight regeme. I have literally just finished arguing with them and I feel like I need a joint to calm me down, but I know that my friends will be very dissapointed with me. Please help!

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    U just have to keep in mind how your friends feel about u doing it and remeber that they only care. U obviously valuie their oppinions and as much as I know how hard it is to keep off stuff u really just have to concentrate on doing it to make your friends happy. Really u should be doing it for yourself and your own health but I know what it is like and often its easier to do things when ui r doing it for another person.
    I just have to add that this is a prime example of being addicted to puff...and mental addiction is just as hard to break in a lot of ways. I hope that u manage to get yourself togather and be happy coz thats the most important thing at the end of the day <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    dude i don't think u have anything 2 worry about its only pot. i used 2 be addicted 2 cocaine and i used 2 sell it as well but i got this really shitty attitude so i decided 2 stop, just like that and i can't even remember what coke feels like anymore.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I think the motivation you need to keep off it is not only your friends and your own health but the fact that you've got this far. If you start again all the effort will have been wasted and you'll have to go through all the giving up and withdrawal again if you ever decide to stop again. Maybe if you think of that every time you feel a 'craving' or whatever it might be enough. Good luck!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Its cannabis, the worst that happens, if you have an addictive personality is you get withdrawral for a few weeks.
    if you want a joint take a joint if you dont dont.
    just because something is illegal does not make it wrong, dangerous, big or clever.
    dont just do things to make everbody else happy or even to rebel, do what you like for your reasons, if you dont want to smoke dont.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Fat_Mike:
    dude i don't think u have anything 2 worry about its only pot. i used 2 be addicted 2 cocaine and i used 2 sell it as well but i got this really shitty attitude so i decided 2 stop, just like that and i can't even remember what coke feels like anymore.

    Sorry but u r very wrong in saying its nothing to worry bout just coz its pot. Ive seen people messed up on this and it may not be considered as serious as cocaine but its still a drug and still has the abillity to fuck up your life...anything can it has nothing to do with what it is!

  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    your friends have just been brainwashed by the authorities- pot isn't bad for you. I bet they dink alchohol don't they? and achohol is worse for you than pot. and more addictive. get them to give that up.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i used 2 be a right pot head for about 5 years, but it just got boring so now i just smoke a bit but not all the time.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Fat_Mike:
    i used 2 be a right pot head for about 5 years, but it just got boring so now i just smoke a bit but not all the time.

    Same happened to me mate. Now I hardly evr smoke it through the week and save it for after Raving, Cubbing, Pubbing.



    Forwards ever, Backwards never - Skive
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    edited.

    [This message has been edited by Fat_Mike (edited 29-06-2001).]
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I wouldnt be able to tell you. LOL look at my name. I'm a pothead for sure. I been smoking for 6 years now.. an average of 3 times a day. You probably think im dumb as a doornob heheh. Only real effects its had on me is im a little more forgetful and I have "chinese eyes" all the time.

    Anyway, I work at a full service computer company. I am the manager of the web design department and do my job very well..at least
    I think so, as well as my customers <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

    In fact, I know for a fact that pot makes me more creative, it seems to open my mind up. I remember one day I was having the hardest time coming up with a layout for a website (not stoned). Still hadnt come up with anything by lunch time so I go home toke up and I got all kinds of ideas! So in a way it actually helps my business. haha

    Anyway, I think the only real danger with pot is getting busted for it because it is, unfortunately, Illegal. I don't plan on quitting smoking but my intake is very high.. too high.. and I WOULD like to cut it down some. Like only weekends or something, but after 6 years of constant smoking it will be fairly hard....

    *tokes up*

  • Girl-From-MarsGirl-From-Mars Posts: 2,822 Boards Guru
    fat mike, youd probably be wise not to publicise the fact that you deal drugs. even if it IS *only* pot.

    probably not wise at all since the police (sKum?) could read this board oh-so-easily... i happen to live with one in fact. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/tongue.gif"&gt;

    "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
    ~ Nietzsche
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    If the police saw that I'd doubt they'd go to the trouble. The amount Fat Mike's talking about (1kg) is just over a grand street value and it's only hash.

    I think that most people who do drugs have dealt it, in one way or another. Even sorting out your mate a smoke is dealing. I used to sell loads of hash and pills but I give that up. I used to spend all the money in my hand to easy, or tick ppl up when I was wrecked and then forget about it in the morning.

    After doing numerous sorts of drugs for a few years you realise that's it better to let other ppl take the risk and only buy what you want. If I'm going out with my mates I'll buy something to sort 'em out with but that's all.

    Forwards ever, Backwards never - Skive
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    anyone who says weed isn't a dangerous drug is a moron, sounds harsh maybe but the fact that something can't kill you no matter how much of it you take of it does not make it harmless (i realise that most of you haven't said this, i'm just generalising). i was smoking it for 5 years, and for the latter 3 of them it was every night of the week. i won't bore you with specifics, but i've lost 2 jobs, some amazing girlfreinds, and a alot of sanity because of weed. i also blame it for bringing me into contact with 'harder' drugs, which i'm sure i wouldn't be doing if i had never touched a spliff. i can't say that for sure, mind.

    i don't want to preach but i suggest a lot of you look at your lifestyles and ask yourselfs if it's what you want. if it is, ask yourself it you really think that or do you accept the way you are/what you do for fun because you just want to take drugs? i've cut from taking drugs 24/7 to now only at weekends, with a view to stopping altogether.


    and i've never felt as good <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    well i've never had a problem with weed and none of my friends have, i started taking harder drugs before i even knew what weed was and i have never smoked it every day, weed is the only thing that keeps me sane.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Heh, my life is fine. I have 3 jobs and I was high at my interview. Infact im rolling a spliff right now on my lunch break while typing this... HAH

    Anyway, no drug is safe we should all know that, but i think most of you will agree that Alcohol is much more addictive and dangerous than weed will ever be. And alcohol is legal?

    I have a question for you Zim...

    Did you smoke cigarettes before taking harder drugs?

    Or perhaps you went to school before taking harder drugs, or church? So maybe these things lead you to harder drugs? :P

    If anything cigarettes led me to weed then on from there to harder.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    oh ya, and how does losing a job or girlfriend make it "Dangerous"??

    That just makes you a loser. haha
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by thaistixx:
    Or perhaps you went to school before taking harder drugs, or church? So maybe these things lead you to harder drugs? :P

    <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

    i wasn't expecting any sense fom the kids on here

    yeah i did smoke ciggarettes before weed - but the reason i did that was a bit different, tbh it was only to look 'cool' in front of other people. intoxicants are a lot different really

    and since when does dangerous mean 'detrimental to life' or something similar? the social effects weed has are huge, and it's funny that only now i can look back on what i used to do - staying in/going to freind's houses and just watching TV or listening to music whilst caned - and think to myself how sad i was. fine, i was with freinds, but it aint much of a life.

    or maybe it is and i'm just the weird one, i couldn't give a flying fuck really - at least i'm getting my brain back <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;




    [This message has been edited by Zim zimmer (edited 05-07-2001).]
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Fat_Mike:
    well i've never .............every day, weed is the only thing that keeps me sane.


    I thinks you need a little more then Mike, coz it's not working <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/tongue.gif"&gt;
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    hehe, I support you 100% Zim and congragulations for staying off for this long. <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

    Maybe not Detrimental but seriously losing your girlfriend or your job is not considered dangerous. heh that just sounds ridiculous. Maybe giving your girlfriend your car keys.... now that could be dangerous <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    techniclly pot isn't addictive but if you've been smoking large amounts stopping completly can cause a bit of a shock 2 the system for some ppl and can result in deppresion and other kinds of mental distress. pot isn't dangerous and few ppl's personalities are seriousllyaffected by the drug, but, if you feel you need to stop i'd advise coming of it slowly. and once you are of it try 2 surround yourself with non pot smoking friends 2 avoid temptation. coming of pot in theory isn't hard. it does however become a problem when one's whole life style is based around it <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt; good luck
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