Benefits of quitting cannabis

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This may be long, nonsensicle and at times seem like I am all over the place…but I am sure as time goes on I will get better. Sorry for the length as well but it feels good to ramble.

In order to help this site and the wonderful members I will be keeping a daily log of my W/D symptoms good and bad. So here it goes some of you such as Pete and Grams already know some of my story as I unintentially hijacked their threads. First time I ever smoked I was 12/13 went to my sisters college dorm and got drunk and smoked. From there I didn’t touch the stuff until high school a year or two later. That’s when it all began at first I thought people who smoked alone were losers and could never see myself doing it. Until I met my old friend Charlie (don’t talk to him anymore as he seriously went off the deep end) well Charlie was very into smoking by himself and although I had been opposed to it he talked me into doing it while on the phone with him. I would be at my home and he was at his. This continued for years after school we would get home call eachother up and begin the sesh laughing and talking on the phone for hours. (no I’m not gay I have a girlfriend  trying for a little humor ) So this went on for years (weekday and weekend smoking) and the next thing I knew it was time for college.

Right before college I got into some minor trouble with the law so I quit for a bit but sure enough guess who was big into smoking. My new roomate! Excellent well here we go again back to smoking day in and day out. Now I am going to fast forward again to graduation. I was being eyed by an Information Assurance firm for a security analyst position which I assumed would require a drug test so I quit for three weeks and went through the interviews until I was cut on the last round. Well I still have my consulting gig and I know they will never test so literally minutes after I got the call saying I was cut I had a bag in hand and boy I remember being happy. Also good to note I didn’t have as bad a WD symptoms then not sure why maybe it was the motivation of my dream company. Funny how this stuff works.

For the next year or so I smoked but I started to notice it wasn’t as fun anymore and not only was it not taking my anxiety away but sometimes it caused it. Also forgot to mention I dabled with other drugs but none of them ever took a hold of me like the weed. Then there was this past weekend I was in atlantic city (it’s like a mini vegas on the east coast ) with friends smoking and drinking as usual and my friend broke out some coke and I did it . The next day I decided that all this needed to stop as I was far too accepting of drugs in general (even though it was maybe my fifth time doing coke in over 4 years) So here I am now ready to change my life! No more drugs wether it be something as “supposedly soft “ as weed or something as “hard” as blow. The hard stuff will be a breeze as I never got addicted to them and only did them on very special occasions…the weed on the other hand….hmm well see.

That’s all for now my next post will actually define my day by day experience from day 1 but I figured this was already enough to make you go crosseyed.

Ady - since you are on the U.S. east coast I hope you are sleeping your way into DAY 4 - TRULY the worst is behind you.  The sweats will continue for a while and the dreams will surely come - but it's nothing you can't handle.   And stay away from the coke!!  that's one that won't let you go.  Not saying weed is going to be a walk in the park - you'll have times when you want nothing more in the world than a toke - but the urges will pass more quickly as time goes on and will be less strong.

YOU CAN DO THIS!!!  And, BEST OF ALL - it will be worth it!!! 

Just be determined not to go back to DAY 1 - every day will make you stronger.

HAVE A GREAT DAY 4!!!

Grandma