41 and smoked since I was 15, I love weed, it’s my best friend and I love how I feel when high, everything is more tolerable and deep. I’ve been a very productive stoner in life, but I worry how can I continue, will I be 60 and still puffing away. I worry for my lungs mostly, that’s the only reason I need to stop or at least stop having it be an everyday thing. It’s so hard to imagine yourself away from something that is such a part of who you are. I feel sad thinking about it, but I feel sad thinking I’m risking my health for weed. Anyway, here I am, good to know I’m not alone.

On a trip to visit in laws on the east coast and only have a disposable cartridge for when my frustrations get too crazy. With the jet lag I get no night sweats, yet. Appetite has reduced quite a lot. Been trying to get rid of blunts for years but I just love the ritual too much. I smoke at least one every night after the baby goes to sleep. When I was single I would burn 4/5 blunts a day. This trip has been a welcomed change. Hoping to ween off more and make joint flower smoking for weekends only in the future. Trying to keep it low key and not build it up. This sub has helped tremendously and I seriously appreciate all of you. Thanks for listening.

Stopped smoking 45 days ago. Just came down with shingles. Anyone else have this happen?

17m trying to quit and i can’t i have weed with me but even when i do it im just getting panic attacks and stomach pain from not eating and my stomach eating its self i have no appetite what’s o ever and my stomach hurts so bad i keep getting anxiety and heart palpitations aswell this is my third time quitting both times i quit in the past i did with medical help like meds n stuff but i wanna avoid that this time what can i do at home to sooth the anxiety insomnia and stomach pain and nausea this is a cry for help

Well actually it’s day 103 today.

Didn’t even realise about day 100 till I randomly checked my quit weed app today - which says a lot in its own right.

Humble brag as I can’t brag to anyone IRL. I’m proud of what I’ve achieved and how strong I was in all the times I wanted to throw the towel in.

Life is so much better with a clear head.

Anyone reading wanting to cave, don’t do it. Do it for me, do it for you. Just make it to the next hour, or till the end of the day. It gets easier I promise.

Stay strong friends, this sub is incredible.

I (38f 20yrs chronic, 3 months free) went out for a few drinks last night, walked home in a light spring rain and when I got home I was just dying to smoke one with my husband out on our anarondak chairs and have a heart to heart like we used to before we quit. I still have the stash in the basement and we were so, so close to caving. Just one will be fine right? It’s a Saturday night and I’m an adult. It’s all good… then I thought about how hard the first few days were, how I’ve thought I could keep to the weekend before and never succeeded, how I’d have to come on this Reddit and say I was back at day 1 (no shame in that) but I’d rather wake up today continuing my clean streak instead of starting over….or struggling to start over…

So glad I didn’t do it. I. Just. Didn’t. Do. It. 🖤stay strong out there Peeps.

I hit 60 days yesterday from 4.5 year or mostly daily smoking/vaping and I feel like my motivation is at an all time low. I just don’t want to do anything. I’m doing my best to stay busy with my hobbies (running, biking, gaming) but very few things are keeping my interest for long. The thought of starting another work week tomorrow sounds absolutely exhausting. I quit because I felt my headspace was very cloudy and I had low motivation, and I guess my head more clear now but the motivation definitely got worse. Still going strong with no plans on smoking but it definitely doesn’t get easier for everyone. Just venting. Stay strong out there.

For the heavy use( quarter or more a day smokers) who smoked daily for 10+ years how was quitting cold turkey? How were the withdrawals? How long did they last for? What helped get you through the first few days ,and any other useful tips he could give me ? TIA

I’m so proud of myself after literally trying to quit thousands of times and not getting past day 3 ❤️

I quit two years ago for a period of 10 months. I remember it being really hard but exercise and therapy got me through it. Within a couple of weeks i got my social life back and even got a girlfriend. The relationship ended quite badly and I went back to weed to ease the heartbreak. Since then I have not stopped and went back to my old ways. I moved back home to go to uni and my sister became my stoned buddy. I wanted to quit but knew with her smoking still I did not have the self control to quit again. I gave up but my grades and life have been falling apart. She finally said we should quit. I went back to therapy and got my meds refilled. I quit before going on a week long trip with a friend. Cravings was alright but now that im back home I have been getting cravings again. Im currently 7 days sober and I do feel i can make it this time. I didn’t realise how much i missed being able to study (or do anything else) at anytime cause i don’t have to wait till I get off my high. Wish me luck!

I've been a long time lurker here! I took the plunge to stop weed after my ex broke up with me. The first month was actually pretty easy because it felt like something clicked in my brain i guess, knew i needed to sort my life out after smoking for 6 years and losing myself to this drug.

However, these last 7 days I have essentially been in a state of depression. I've got counselling in a couple of days in an attempt to figure out all the stuff I used weed to medicate from, but this is genuinely the lowest I have felt in about 8-9 years, and I'm kind of wondering if it's normal at this stage or whatever you'd call it?

Any info would be helpful, I exercise 6 days a week nowadays after quitting and go on walks twice a week, but I don't really know what else to do whilst trying to stop honestly. I don't really crave it as much as I thought I would which is nice, but when my mood is this low, I would be lying if I said I didn't have intrusive thoughts to smoke so that I don't have to think about my stupid mistakes, and the depressing relationship stuff I've been through for the last 2 years.

Thanks in advance and thank you for having such a great community!

I'm 45 days free of all thc products and I'm feeling great about it mentally and physically. My Quit Weed app says I'm completely thc free so I used one of the at home test kits from the dollar store and it showed a positive result. I'm pretty disappointed.

How long before I'm really 100% thc free?

I'll start: I would have a university degree today.

I've been smoking for over 10 years, I'm almost 6months sober, sometimes anxiety it's so bad my body decide to go into freeze mode and I have derealization episodes that goes away when i feel calmer, but sometimes when I'm in public and I get too anxious I just kinda dissociate, how much does dissocation last for you after quitting?

For the past year, I have been smoking weed on and off. Around December I decided to quit and was clean for 2 months until I decided to try again, thinking I could regulate it, which I learned very quickly that I could not. So I’ve been trying to quit again recently, well yesterday I smoked a pre-roll and had a massive panic attack from it. I was convinced I was going to die and that I had been wasting this past year smoking weed instead of trying to improve myself. I’ve never had a panic attack before and it was pretty scary. So, I know that’s my cue to stop forever.

I just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this? Today I feel pretty on edge, constantly worried about how I’m feeling and just scared it will happen again. I just want to know I’ll feel normal again.

I work in the healthcare space and will be applying to grad school which will require me to rotate in hospitals and work with patients. I’ll know where I’ll be going almost exactly 1 year from now and I know that schools will ask to submit a urine sample, however I do not know exact policies around weed, it could be based on state cannabis laws, though I’d rather not take the chance since I have been working towards this my whole adolescent/adult life.

I know that weed is not worth it, and it would be foolish to jeopardize grad school for it. But I find it to be an integral part of my personality.

I just need to grow up and drop it for a year right? I started smoking in high school at 16 and have pretty consistent smoke at least 60-70% of these days since. I am now 24. So I want to give myself a year to detox my urine and also have peace of mind that nothing will come back.

If you stopped for a similar situation, for career purposes, what were the mental gymnastics you played to convince yourself that you can stop.

I feel very isolated and sad. I use weed to plant me in the moment and help manage my anxiety and ADHD. It’s the only thing that relieves pressure and boredom. It’s confusing when something that is helpful becomes out of control. I have no appetite or motivation (something MJ helps with) and feel low. Hanging in there but not feeling awesome.

I have seen a lot of people here who relapsed and because it reset their day count to zero they felt really discouraged and lost all motivation. I understand counting days can be very effective in the beginning, say first 60 days or so. But at some point I also feel like it could backfire if you just relapse one single time. Maybe at some point counting like the total number of days / days relapsed would be more productive. For example: 145 days / 3 days relapsed. Any thoughts?

Damn bro I’m feeling like dog shit today. I woke up feeling mentally exhausted and nauseous. It feels good to have almost a week, I just want to feel normal again. I know I just have to push through I just wanted to vent.

Just wanted to share, I’m very proud of my past-self. If you’re struggling just know the grass is SO much greener on the other side (pardon the pun)

I know there are likely outliers, but I’m curious if many of us are getting to this point of realization at around the same age.

I’m 25 and started smoking senior year of Hs and weed has been around in some way daily since. Last time I quit for a month was 4 years ago and the moment I took a hit I rationalized going balls deep again.

This time i’m 3 weeks in, quit to get better REM sleep so I wouldn’t be overthinking some of the most mundane easy-to-rationalize shit.

I threw out my grinder and storage bottle last night and didn’t feel a thing. Feeling in control and a stronger mental is so worth the pain of no sleep and borderline panic attack anxiety for the first few weeks.

Hiii, so from around October til around February I would smoke every day pretty much, usually at night but sometimes after I woke up or thru out the day — my girlfriend is very anti drugs and stuff so I decided to try and quit, I relapsed like once or twice but currently am one month no weed, and it was fine for like a week or two randomly, I thought woohoo I’m over it now! But now the craving is back. It’s like I blinked and woke up and realized my shit was gone? I’m like angry about it, even though I’m the one that threw it away. It feels like I’m not a whole person without it, I feel more jumbled and mood swingy sober. It feels like weed is the only thing that helps my depression too, I’ve been in the trenches when trying to get sober. It’s absolutely awful. I hate it! I don’t really have a point to this I just needed to vent about it I guess.

Never really posted here before but I figured I’d give it a go as I’m now at a loss.

I lost my mum around a week ago to cancer, I realised shortly after her passing that this is something I need to process with a clear head and so I began the process of quitting.

It’s been about a week now, I’ve got from “very high usage of very strong things” in a week to using “a very little amount of prescription supplement” the last few days. The withdrawals seemed to be causing severe panic attacks so I started taking the supplement again after a day or so in an attempt to taper off.

(I’d love the elaborate but the auto mod won’t let me)

Now all that’s out of the way I’m so fucking confused right now, I’m not sure what symptoms are grief and what ones are from withdrawal. I feel so mentally unhinged constantly, I’ve been spending a lot of time crying in bed till I pass out then repeating the process. I guess I’m just posting here because I’m trying to make sense of all this the constant anxiety and brain fog feel like they are tearing me apart. I know that I’m dealing with a lot right now but it feels like there is no end in sight, I’m so terrified my weed addiction has given me a panic disorder and that I’ll be like this forever.

I’m terrified i will never be able to accept my mums passing because this addiction has broken me as a person, i just want to be someone she could have been proud of.