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How Do I Stop Smoking Weed-How Did I Do It?

Posted by on October 5, 2010 at 11:53 pm. No comments

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Hey, Jake here,

If you’re looking for the best way to stop smoking weed, then I’m glad you’ve found this site and I strongly suggest you keep reading…

This is my uncensored story of how I stopped smoking weed to help you figure out on your own, how do I stop smoking weed? I’ll give you the ups and downs, what didn’t work, and finally, the one thing that got me to quit smoking weed for good.

When I first started out smoking weed everything was fine ( and I had A LOT of fun). But eventually, the lifestyle started to drag me down. I would smoke before (and sometimes during) work, I couldn’t communicate or connect with people very well, and I started to become overall very irritable. I was spending any money I could find on weed, and during my free time, all I did was smoke weed. My life was going nowhere, and I decided to make a change. I decided it was time to quit smoking marijuana.

At first, I thought that I could handle quitting cold turkey. This turned out to be a disaster. Without a proper plan, I did not know any way other ways to get rid of the crazy urges to smoke, other than smoking weed. I tried to completely remove a large portion of my life, without having a proper way to restructure my life. I quickly relapsed.

I had such a hard time trying to quit smoking initially because I had no idea how to fill my life with activities that fulfilled the same areas as weed did. See, the reason that weed, or rather THC, is psychoactive is because this chemical mimics a chemical our brain produces naturally. We have literally millions of cannabinoid receptors scattered throughout our brain (one of the reasons marijuana has such a wide range of effects). We can make these areas of our brains light up in two ways: by actually lighting up, or by doing activities which promote the release of natural cannabinoids.

After relapsing, I discovered a guy called the cannabis coach. He teaches about these types of things, and shows you how to learn to live without cannabis. I was able to stop smoking weed for good by learning how to get the same fulfillment out of life which weed gave me through more productive methods. Click here to see what I mean. Of course, the program does take some work, but it’s work that makes you feel good and charged up after doing it. With this program, I was able to get rid of my cravings, regain my drive, and actually start going somewhere with my life. I really don’t know where I would be without it.

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A little Comedy To Help Stop Smoking Weed

Posted by on October 5, 2010 at 9:37 pm. No comments

Hey, you might have to quit smoking weed, but that doesn’t mean you can’t laugh.  Huge television stoner personality, Kevin Nealon actualy doesn’t smoke weed.  Weird, right?

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How Do I Stop Smoking Weed-Roadmap

Posted by on October 4, 2010 at 1:33 am. One comment

I was thinking of ways to help people with the question how do I stop smoking weed when I remembered when I was back in those shoes, trying to discover a way for myself.  Thats when it dawned on me.

I remembered seeing on of those quit smoking sites, where they had this section that detailed certain landmarks, like after a few hours your lung capacity begins to rise, after 3 days the physical addiction is gone, after a few months your lungs start to heal themselves, etc… and I thought it might a similar thing for people who are trying to quit smoking weed would be useful.

I remember that I had kept a pretty detailed journal of the experience when I quit smoking pot.

So here is how I experienced after I quit smoking marijuana.  for people wondering, “how do I quit smoking weed,” here is an answer.  Look at this chart of how your life will improve, focus on the landmarks, and set them as goals for yourself to help you stop smoking weed.  If I had had this when I tried to quit weed, it would have been a big stop smoking help.

24 hours: the acute effects had completely worn off

3 days: I could feel my thoughts start to get less crowded

1 week: My normal appetite returned

2 weeks: My moodiness and short temper had completely disapeered

1 month:  The cravings substantially subsided.

1.5 months: I began to learn how to have experiences and thoughts I once only thought after smoking weed.

3 months: I felt completely normal, I felt I had really made it over a big mountain.  Though I still wanted to smoke weed, as I would have with any activity I enjoyed, I no longer felt like I needed to.

So this is some major stop smoking help I wish I had gotten back when I was wondering, “how do I stop smoking weed?”

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Incentives To Quit Smoking Weed

Posted by on October 3, 2010 at 6:40 am. No comments

If you really want to quit smoking weed then read on.

One of the biggest things which helped me to quit smoking marijuana was giving myself the right incentive.  Now, if you read my post about the first steps in answering, “how do I stop smoking weed.” You would see that I consider one of the ways to stop smoking weed is focusing on long term goals.

This is because smoking weed really does improve your life, but only in the short term.   Quitting weed improves your life in the long term.

Failure to quit smoking weed can make your life worse in the long term.  These long term effects might manifest themselves differently for different people.  Personally, I began to lose an interest in life when I was not smoking weed.  When I was looking for ways to quit smoking weed, I considered how weed made me OK with being bored, so that I got less done.

Essentially, smoking weed made me feel like whatever I was doing at the time was really important, and was getting me somewhere in life- no matter what it happened to be that I was doing.  I did not want to quit smoking pot because it made whatever I did feel significant, even when it was not.

I knew I needed to stop smoking marijuana when I looked back at what I had accomplished in the last few months and realized it was mainly smoking weed.

This is what I mean about focusing on the long term for some stop smoking help.  If you feel the urge to light up, think about how smoking marijuana would make you feel as you inahale, 10 minutes after you smoke, 30 minutes after, 1 hour, 5 hours.  Imagine about yourself in each of these situations and try to see how happy each version of you was with yourself for smoking earlier.

Now extrapolate this idea long term.  If you don’t stop smoking pot, will yourself in one month be happy about it? what about yourself in 6 months, 1 year, or 5 years?

Thinking this way is helpful in getting out of the short term mind frame that leads to smoking weed.  It helps you get excited about the long term benefits after you quit smoking weed, rather than looking for the immediate rush of smoking weed.

That’s just one of the many answers to the question, “how do I quit smoking weed?”

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How Do I Stop Smoking Weed-First Steps

Posted by on October 3, 2010 at 5:55 am. One comment

Getting it.

That is the first step to answering the question how do I stop smoking weed? You need to make a firm decision before you are able to quit smoking marijuana.

What I mean by this is that you have to go beyond thinking about ways to stop smoking.  You need to stop figuring that one day you should stop smoking weed.  You need to stop saying to yourself that you think you won’t buy any more weed, just as soon as you finish your current bag.  You need to make a firm commitment, mark a day down on a calendar, and actually do it.

For me, this occurred one summer night, smoking a nice bowl out on a friend’s porch.  He used to be a good smoking buddy, but now was just a regular buddy because he had quit about a year ago.  He was telling me about his experiences with the process, and how it had affected his life.  he talked about it improving his relationships with other people, how he had more time to actually do things instead of smoking weed, and all the money it had saved him.  Of course, he was quite jealous watching me blaze right in front of him, but he knew that it was worth it not to.

This was right after I graduated college, and was going to drive cross country and start a new in a few days.  I figured it was as good a time as ever to quit smoking marijuana.  So, I asked him, “how do I stop smoking weed?”  we sat out there for a few hours (and a few more bowls) before wrapping up.

The point is, by the end of our talk I had gotten it.  I understood that, even though I did not want to, quitting marijuana was something I had to do.  It would not be fun at first, but in the end my quality of life would be better for it.  I had a reason, a date, and the right amount of willpower.  I had figured out my answer to, “how do I stop smoking weed.”

What’s your answer?

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