Now present situation is for the last 8 years Ive been smoking everyday. The first 7 years I smoked an 8th every other day of OG’s and Kush. Nothing but the best; top shelf as we call it in dispensary terms. Im a top 500 weed reviewer on weedmaps. Ive reviewed over 26 dispensaries in orange county, ca. area.

The last six months I cut down to about 1-2 grams a day of top shelf OGs and Kushes.

Okay we got the history and its been day 6 and I did notice irritability, anger easily, but Im also on antidepressant meds so that helps. Ive had vivd dreams that were disturbing but not scary. Ive got six hours of sleep in 48 hrs but have always been somewhat of an insomniac. Hotflashes, sweating profusely, no appetite, slight headache, stomach just feels kind of nauseated.

My eyes are stinging right now from lack of sleep. That might also why I got a slight headache intermittently the last few days.

For me I feel its going to hit me more than the average based on my grade of weed and how long I smoked period. Before the 8 years, I smoked 1 gram every two days for 4 years.

And my stomach has always been sensitive as far as things making me gag easily, heartburn, loose stool, and burping, so combined with the weed side effects its going to be a dozy. Also since I already was the type who functioned with little sleep usually 2-3 hrs of uninterrupted sleep. I wake more than not in the middle of the night sometimes a few times because my mind races.

Anyway, weed kind of calmed me down but definitely made me lazy and not live up to my full potential.

Im not going to renew my weed license next month and quitting permanently, with maybe the occasional hit if its around. ANd even that probably isnt cool since I noticed when I quit a few times in the past for a few days when I smoked again I tend to get down and ofcourse that passed after the first blunt.

Anyway, the physical symptoms are definitely real.

I just got a new job and needed to stop for their drug test. I had been smoking fairly heavily for about a year or so (old job didn’t care) and had to make that “tough transition” to no more pot. The first day was awful, and I took some vicodin and soma (muscle relaxers) to take the edge off. I was also consuming quite a bit of alcohol (which I NEVER did while smoking). I would always smoke at night so when dusk finally rolled around I would feel unbelievably anxious and irritated. The first few nights as I mentioned before were undoubtedly terrrible; but no crazy dreams or anything, just really hard to actually fall asleep.

After about three days of this I started questioning why exactly I felt so out of it; I started doing a little bitnof introspection and found that the only reason I felt the way I did was not because I physically “missed” the feeling of being high, but because I was constantly telling myself that things weren’t as “fun” or “good” when I wasn’t high. Take a moment to really THINK about what I am saying; when you get high do you constantly fear coming down from your high? Do you even really attribute anything physical to the experience as a whole? No, because once your “there” everything else seems to somewhat fade away right? So, when your not “there” you constantly think about how much better it would be if you were. If you can come to understand that “there” IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE; and that “it” will be waiting for you with open arms if ever/ when ever you decide to return, you will realize you were obsessing over nothing… Yes, over NOTHING. Pot doesn’t actually DO anything to you/ for you other than what you ALLOW it to do. Some people HATE pot, because they feel extremely paranoid and uncomfortable when they go to “that place”. It took me a good 4 months to not constantly freak out after smoking, and the only reason I persisted is because I felt it had something more to offer me. If you look at your situation as being forced upon you then you will never feel netter, “it” will never get better. But if you look at the situation from a subjective standpoint you will realize that there is nothing TO get better, it is what it is.

VIVID DREAMS/ NIGHTMARES

As for this I will concur that yes; I too have experienced very odd/ vivid dreams after about 3 or 4 days since quitting. I am now 3 weeks in and they have begun to lessen in their intensity but still they seem to be quite weird nonetheless. The thing is though; I have ALWAYS had strange dreams long before I came in contact with any drug, so I suppose I was not as put off as others seem to be. However, last night was the 7th day in a row that I had one of these dreams and before I fully fell asleep I decided to try and see if I could manipulate the dream (since I was fairly sure it would happen again) by thinking about something specific. Now, I have never had a “lucid dream” so I am suggesting s method for this; but I will say that having one specific topic in my mind and allowing my subconscious to merinade with it until I lost consciousness seemed to actually work. When I woke up I actually thought I didn’t even have a dream, but after a few minutes I realized I did indeed have one and it had something to do with what I was thinking about before I went to sleep. HOWEVER for those of you having nightmares here is a tip for you specifically;

Think about the last nightmare you had. Delve into it as deeply as possible. Think about why the circumstances within it made you uncomfortable and try to regain (yes REGAIN) that uncomfortable feeling. Now, before you go to bed the next time imagine that same scenario but allow for yourself to mock it in some way. If you consciously seek out that fear I can promise you it will not manifest within your dream state. This is because if it were to indeed still happen, you would also manifest whatever odd or silly mockery you associated with it; and from there it no longer is able to hold the same “power” over you. It’s not easy, and if youre not willing to try because you assume I’m just talking s@&t, then of course it womt work! Believe in the power of YOUR mind, not me. Either way, best of luck to you all.