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weed addiction!
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So i've smoked weed for about 10 years now. I really want to quit not only for financial and health reasons. It makes me lazy and unmotivated, also i tend to loose my trail of though mid conversation.
I have no problem with not smoking it, i genually want to stop. Although i can't sleep if i don't have a joint before bed. Insomnia keeps me awake untill about 4am, then i have to be up at work for 6.
This is a really big thing to me, i lost the only person i've ever loved because of smoking (a big part of it anyway).
Has anyone else suffered with this problem? If so how did you get to sleep at night? Please don't suggest sleeping pills as i dont' want to go from one addiction to the other.
Anyone that says weed isn't addictive is full of shit! :banghead:
I have no problem with not smoking it, i genually want to stop. Although i can't sleep if i don't have a joint before bed. Insomnia keeps me awake untill about 4am, then i have to be up at work for 6.
This is a really big thing to me, i lost the only person i've ever loved because of smoking (a big part of it anyway).
Has anyone else suffered with this problem? If so how did you get to sleep at night? Please don't suggest sleeping pills as i dont' want to go from one addiction to the other.
Anyone that says weed isn't addictive is full of shit! :banghead:
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'Addiction' and 'dependence' are two different things to me. So at the risk of being 'full of shit', I would disagree. It's not like heroin. Now THAT is addictive.
But going back to your query. Weed, as you say, can make one lazy and unmotivated. Also, your dependence on it gave you the necessary boost to pass out at night.
So you need to slap yourself across the face and get involved with something like gym, sport etc so that you can use up the energy to tire you out and induce sleep naturally i.e. get more exercise for a start.
It took me about 3 weeks to start sleeping properly again. Having said that, I wasnt smoking for as long as you.
No way around it mate, you have to put up with the insomnia, however it will get easier. Perhaps really hammer it in the gym late on a night, in the hope you will be so fucked, you just sleep.
I know whats its like though, trying to get to sleep for hours, thinking if I just have one spliff I will get some decent kip.
I have never personally taken or used drugs (except medication) so my advice might not help in the slightest.
Just make sure you don't drink coffee or any other high caffeine drinks and stuff.
Sorry I'm not much more help.
x Andy
You haven't stopped yet.
It can't be making you that lazy if you frequent the gym.
Try smoking tiny little ten pence one skinners ...they usually give you a lot of motivation instead of making you become part of the couch but ...your going to the gym ...your still smoking so don't know what it's like to not ...your not being very consistent here.
:yes:
I've smoked skunk now for 12yrs I would say and its strange because I'm the opposite when it comes to sleeping.... I find if I have a bifta too close to bedtime then my mind is constantly making up random stories which keep me awake, so I make sure I don't have one before bed if I want to sleep.
I do however suffer from lack of sleep quite often, usually caused by stress or if things are on my mind, whether its work or whatever and I struggle to switch off, once I'm asleep though I'm usually gone!
I've tried many things to help me sleep, I've had tamazepan prescribed and other sleeping tablets from the doctor which do the job, but I'm like you in the way that I don't want to become dependant on pills. So recently I've been trying herbal sleeping remedies and found them to be ok, they won't knock you out to sleep like the prescribed stuff but I find I have decent nights sleep when I take them, the ones I'm using at the moment are Valerium.
GF's mother also got me some Valerium based tea bags, add boiling hot water, leave for 5 mins take out the tea bag and drink, they seem to work ok as well and don't taste as bad as you might think.
No it's not like smack, Herion IS physically addictive. And the OP said never said anyhting about weed being specifically 'physically' addictive when talking about people being 'full of shit'.
I think youre overreacting.
Its weed, not heroin. Hes RIGHT. A lot of people just smoke weed and function perfectly normally. Given that hes gone through school and gotten his Masters, it doesnt seem like its negatively affecting him. Very few people I know that smoke have been negatively affected by it, and those that have been, didnt just smoke weed.
Let him live his own life. If he was actually screwing up his life and hurting other people like, say, having a heroin addiction and stealing from family to support it, than youd have every right to be worried and want to get him help. Smoking a joint a few times a day or whatever? Dont worry about it.
Yurrrr.
I know a fair few, certainly enough for concern. He not overeacting at all. People do develop genuine problems with weed.
Lavender is good for sleeping and a hot bath or shower then if you are lucky an orgasam. Good luck keep off it.