r/QuittingWeed

Hey folks, I had just recently joined your community. To give a little context the state I live in is not a legal state. This forces me to either drive hours to grab weed or buy delta products. About a week ago I bought a baggie of d9 edibles and was taking around 300-400 mg a day for around a week. But after around 5-6 days of doing this i decided to take a 500mg dose. I did this because I’ve smoked daily for years now and didnt really think anything of it.

After taking that larger dose I’ve had horrible anxiety that literally forced me to take a couple days off work. I tried smoking to fix it once but it did nothing and I just felt like shit. For the first time in my life I’m scared to smoke and havent for around 5 days now. I’ve quit before and experienced the insomnia and zero appetite. I was mostly looking for some guidance or to see if anybody else has experienced like horrible anxiety after taking a large dose of edibles. I’m definitely getting better but I was mostly curious.

I feel hopeful for the future now and I’m excited to join the community. Thank you all!

My partner of three years admitted he is addicted to weed 6 months ago. He admitted to his family for the first time at his addiction for four years as well just recently. I thought it was just at social gatherings since I knew he dabbled in it a bit but I was wrong. It’s been six months he has been improving and went from sometimes daily to weekends. He has his rough spots just like last week he smoked for a week straight while I was gone to visit family. He got stressed he was gonna cave in to the point he got stressed he reached for weed. It’s been six months and I honestly don’t know how much to wait since weed is a dealbreaker. I am desperate to suggest him new things to try to see if it would work. Cause we both know if he doesn’t quit this relationship won’t work which unfortunately probably doesn’t help with him quitting. But when he smokes at work, driving, and hides it I can only put up with so much, I am not willing to get married until it gets solved. I’m torn cause I get mad at times when he smokes and hides it but I am slowly getting better at being supportive. He tried therapy but complains it’s all talking about the same emotion thing over and over again then he’s left with nothing, no steps to take, he feels directionless after. He is going to see a psychiatrist to see if there is something more to this that he doesn’t know. For those that have stopped their weed addictions what are things that helped? Is weed a thing that people quit but often relapse and do again with it being literally everywhere you go? Those that are supporting partners struggling with this how long did u give them? Did they ever succeed in quitting? I’m feeling clueless on how much time to give him to get better obviously id want to give him eternity but unfortunately i know i cant be with someone who smokes 24/7 and have to move on with life. Any recommendations or advice would mean the world to me :)

I was a heavy smoker, got up to 2oz / month at one point. Most recently was smoking about an oz a month. I halved it over two months and then quit 23 days ago.

I am trying to accelerate my weed withdrawal process. I am feeling more clear mentally, but I am not feeling so great physically. I am struggling to eat, because I have relied on weed to get hungry for so long now.

Any tips that anyone has to accelerate weed withdrawal process? Has anything helped you with sleep?

I need to gain weight and feel hungry again. I would be less irritable. I would like to have less mood swings and anger. I would like to get my memory and cognitive ability back.

What helped the most with weed withdrawal symptoms? What helped make the withdrawal go away faster & have you test clean sooner?

I need to be clean by the start of august. i took a little test on my own just to see how things are 😭 and man that shit turned positive real quick (was a chronic smoker) i’m feeling a bit paranoid now…. anyone have any methods or tips to try to get this out of my system???

I doubt this is an original thought but it feels that way to me…

Everyone says weed is not physically addictive in the way heroin, alcohol etc are, and doesn’t produce physical withdrawal symptoms. It’s a psychological addiction.

But I have to disagree.

I am done with weed, I don’t like its effects and I don’t wish to smoke it. I am ready to face my demons and I’m ready to go through psychological hell to beat this. I’m looking forward to it. I feel better when I’m sober than high. I hate it with a passion.

But I smoke it daily.

I have been at this point for a couple of months now, but I’m still smoking it. Why?

Because I have to sleep.

I have a job that requires me to be fully present mentally and high energy from 7am in the morning. It is both hard physical labour and intense mental pressure at the same time. I am the leader of the place, I have to show up on fire ready to go. This is actually (and I know this is a contradiction) the reason I want to stop smoking this horrible plant. Weed itself kills my edge and makes me sleepy/lazier than I otherwise would be. I make it through on red bull and espresso. But 4 red bulls a day to keep me high energy is killing my stomach.

Without weed, I can’t go to sleep. No matter what. I managed one days work on an hour sleep, but when I get home I feel shattered but not tired and still can’t sleep. The moment I smoke that J my eyes start drooping. I physically cannot manage my work without sleeping for 2 days.

Over the counter sleeping pills don’t help. They are just antihistamines. Codeine helps but I won’t touch it again. Holiday would help, I was supposed to be on holiday this week but got cancelled due to an important work visit. So now I’m considering seeing a doctor to get prescribed a temporary dose of some hella strong sleeping pills that will actually work.

But all this story is to say - if I’m going to a doctor to get a pill, because the absence of a drug means I physically cannot sleep - how is that not in the same category, albeit more mild, as so many other drugs that are known to be addictive?

Just wondering if anybody out there is successfully able to just smoke one or two days a week consistently without relapsing to a daily thing for the last two Fridays I've smoked and that's it thoughts?

Made it this far, and I STILL ponder from time to time if a puff would make me feel better, but I remember how I felt and what made me want to quit

I was a stoner for years from 19-31, and I don’t want the ruminating thoughts coming back. Intrusive thoughts, terrible anxiety, bad sleep, and paranoia

I just wish every thought of still wanting to do it sometimes would go away

I’d assume alcoholics have it like that when they’re at an event and think “oh one drink would be nice right now” but how destructive that 1 drink can be

I've started a list of things I'm really enjoying being sober. I was a stoner for 30 years, been sober for 7 plus months now. What things does everyone enjoy being sober? Add yours.

Sharp memory 

Wider vocabulary 

Smooth executive function

Thought space 

Recognition of emotions 

Ease of self care 

Waaay better dental hygiene 

Being able to save $$$

Having control 

Eating healthy and sticking to it 

Clarity in decisions 

Keeping a promise to myself 

Highly detailed dreamscape 

Motivated 

Clean lungs 

Better quality sleep 

Clearer skin 

Brighter eyes 

Calmer disposition 

I gave up smoking carts about a month ago (on day 29) and my neck often still feels kinda weird and just sore. Has anyone else felt this way?

Today I’m 3 months clean which is the longest I’ve ever gone and as a chronic user who smoked all day everyday for 20 years and failed to quit multiple times and I’m here to tell you that it is possible, even if you fall off the wagon.

I’m feeling better then I’ve felt in years, my mind is clearer, my sleep is so much better and I’m enjoying the things I love in a way that I haven’t in over two decades.

Before I was just enjoying things in a numb sort of way but now I’m understanding why I enjoy the things I do, instead of just watching a movie or playing a game and going through the motions I’m seeing things that I never used to and I’m actually thinking about them in a completely different way.

It’s hard to understand unless you’ve been in this situation but if you’re thinking about quitting I can promise you it’s worth the effort. I finally feel like the person I was before all this. Good luck friends.

I stopped smoking carts 2 days ago. I was smoking every night and on days off sometimes all day, a 1g cart would last a few weeks. I’m in grad school for social work and I have an internship this fall with a police department. I figured they’ll have to drug test me so I stopped 30 days exactly before I have to go in for all my onboarding paperwork/ fingerprinting (I know it’s cutting close but they reached out and said let’s just do the paperwork soon).

I. Can’t. Sleep. Oh my god this is the WORST. I thought I had sleep problems before, literally had a sleep test a few weeks ago, but this is next level. I’ve been groggy, napping most the day, and barely sleeping at night. It’s a chore to move my body, my limbs feel like cement. And it’s been 2 DAYS, it hit faster than I thought.

Lots of ppl are saying exercise to sweat it out but rn we’re in a heatwave plus me on SSRIs= overheating so I’m taking small walks but sweating like crazy. Anything to help with the sleep? Vitamins? Melatonin?

It’s currently 6 am, I went to “sleep” at 1 am after napping 4-8 pm last night and I don’t think I actually slept. I had my sleep eye mask and I just kept tossing and turning, maybe micro naps but who knows.

I've smoked for 20 years, 18 of which have been daily. For the last 3 months i've been waking up nauseous in the mornings and I suspect I'm developing CHS. I know I need to quit and I want to quit, but in a weird way it feels like I'm losing a close friend. A shitty friend, but dependable one. Weed was something that helped me cope with difficult times and to see things in a new perspective but ive learned all that i can from it and need to move on. I know it's killing my creativity and motivation. I don't have any dreams for the future because I've been living one toke at a time. My life isn't in shambles, but I'm just empty. Here's to day one. Thanks for listening

More and more I understand this quote, 7 days clean and I feel amazing. So much sharper, motivation is back, mood is good, more assertive, more present

Smoking makes you extremely comfortable with not doing anything uncomfortable, makes you absolutely content no matter how bad your life actually is. I wish i could be one of those people that could smoke once every few weeks and have it not affect my day-to-day life but it is what it is.

After 10 years i think its time to finally let go

35M, have been smoking for 20 years, and I've decided to quit weed as a new year's resolution.

Unfortunately, I still smoke from time to time, and whenever I start smoking again, I smoke very heavily.....

I'm always getting into this loop, whenever I start to feel a little bit better, I start to smoke again, and then everything starts again.....I'm unhappy with my job, I'm unhappy because I feel lonely and don't have any friends in the city I'm living in (Munich) neither have a GF, I'm unhappy with my progress in life, I don't go out, I don't try to push myself to socialise or join groups to socialise, I'm always overthinking of how unhappy I feel, I'm disappointed at myself for not continuing to workout to get to my goal.....

Does anyone has the same issue? Always returning when they feel better or think that smoking again would be harmless? And if you have this experience, how did you unwind it?

Thanks! I'm just here to vent...

While there are people who can take or leave weed, ie, use it occasionally, just at parties, or here and there with minimal issues, for those of us who love it, moderation means dealing with withdrawal symptoms immediately after it wears off.

This why attempts to moderate even after a long period of abstinence, rarely work. There is simply too much discomfort between periods of use.

Let's say you plan to use only on weekends. As soon as you wake up Monday morning, you are immediately dealing with withdrawal symptoms that you must simply fight through each day until Friday comes along. They'll usually peak around Wednesday and then discomfort kind of subsides late Thursday only to be rekindled after a weekend of using again. The discomfort usually leads to breaking into pockets of use during the week.

Or maybe you start rationalizing using only in the evenings. Then you are dealing with withdrawal symptoms all day long! Pretty soon you are waking and baking again!

It's true right?

I STARTED WHEN I WAS YOUNG SO YOUNG IN TRAVEL AND FROM THAT DAY TO YESTERDAY I SMOKED IT WITH NO MERCY. THATS MAKES TO ME SO MANY PROBLEMS AT MY WORK MY LIFE AND SO LAZY ACTIONS AND DECISIONS. HOPE EVERYONE IS ALRIGHT AND I WISH THAT ALL PEOPLE QUIET VERY SOON. TOGETHER STRONGER

I (29F) went to jail at 18 for weed in 2015. Like, three times in a year (stupid, I know). As far as I’ve been concerned since then, you can pry the THC from my cold, dead hands. When I got off probation at 19, I started smoking again. By 2018, it was legal in my state so I never really had to stop.

However, I’m becoming a social worker, going to graduate school, and I work in child welfare. I’m doing a drug test for a state position and I need to purge the THC out of my system. Like, fast. But I was doing dabs, pens, flower, edibles…. Every day. All day. All the time! I use it to socialize. I use it to study. I use it to function. I am physically and psychologically dependent upon THC. It makes me feel normal. I don’t even get high for real anymore. My baseline is FUCKED.

I’m just trying to keep myself busy and distract myself but I feel like shit. It’s 12:38pm and I stopped smoking yesterday around 11pm. This is the longest I’ve gone without smoking in a decade. I’m ashamed of myself for letting myself become so dependent on a substance. But I am trying to be strong and put mind over matter.

I am seeking tips, advice, insight, anything. I go to the gym, I have been cleaning and organizing to stay busy, I have my studies. But what motivates you to stay sober? What keeps your mind off the urge to use THC?

Thank you for reading if you got this far. I need help and community.

I’ve gotten so much good information and advice from Reddit that I figured what better place to share my story and maybe get some insight!

I’ve been a marijuana smoker daily for the past 19 years. Started at 17 and continued till 36. From the ages of 17 to 32 I was a heavy blunt smoker. I was constantly chasing that “peak” high you would get right after smoking. I wouldn’t even allow myself to feel the come down before I would be right back to the blunt.

At 32 I started feeling like I was actually creating anxiety smoking as opposed to alleviating some of it like I had been for years past. Not to mention being a backwoods smoker I was coughing constantly and it just felt like I needed a change. April 22, 2022 I stopped blunts completely and started only using a pipe. Most of the coughing subsided but the anxiety would only get worse.

I began thinking that the anxiety coincided with gaining more responsibilities throughout life. I started thinking maybe I was never anxious smoking as a kid/young adult because I just didn’t have that much to worry about when it came to real life. In 2017 I had started my career, was living on my own, handling all financial and extracurricular strain that a normal 27/28 year old male would usually have. It was around that time that marijuana seemed to start doing more bad for me than good.

Fast forward to 2025- my wife and I are blessed with a positive pregnancy test in October! Blessing. So I start looking for a bigger place so we can begin getting a home ready for our new addition. Long story short we get into a beautiful loft that doesn’t allow smoking. I make the switch from pipe to vape pen but start noticing that not only does my anxiety begin to get worse but also my heart starts skipping beats on a daily basis.

Finally the big day arrives. June 1st, 2026. The hospital calls and tells my wife they have a room available for us to go have this baby! I had just finished smoking about 15 minutes prior to this call and little did I know it would be the last time I would smoke.

I remember sitting in the labor room with my wife thinking about how special this moment is. How special every moment coming up is about to be. How I need to be present. Clear headed. Precise and accurate with everything I do for my baby. How being high around him couldn’t do anything good for either of us. How I would blur moments and memories that I should be able to easily recall if I was high. I made the decision to quit.

The first two weeks were really rough. Restlessness, insomnia, lack of appetite, losing patience, boredom. You know- the usual. I was already losing sleep obviously with a new born but even when I would be up for 24-36 hours I just couldn’t sleep.

Now I’m about to hit a month and I’m noticing I’m not finding joy in things I do like when I was high. I’m a huge gamer and have always used that to decompress after stressful days at work. Now my attention span has shrunken to the point it feels like I have ADHD. I’ll get all excited to get a session in, play for an hour, and end up doom scrolling on my phone for 3 hours instead. I’ll put a movie on, watch for 20 minutes, then want to do something else. My focus seems shot.

I write all that to ask this- is what I’m going through normal and how long till I start to see who I truly am off marijuana? I’ve waited nearly 20 years to meet the real version of myself and I just want to know when does the fog start to clear?

I appreciate anyone who read this is full. I know in the big picture of life and problems that people have going on with real drugs or alcohol that this isn’t a big deal but I just wanted some advice.

Thank you!

Hi all. Have been smoking weed (flower, dab, vape, and edibles) since 2021, daily with the exception of a few t breaks here and there. Never had any intention to stop.

Lately I have realized I was way too dependent on it, and it was actually starting to make my treatment resistant GAD, panic, OCD and PTSD worse. The paranoia and racing thoughts. Doesn't help I moved from a recreationally legal area to a medical use only area last year. For awhile weed was the only thing that helped, but things do change.

It took me awhile of being in denial, but I know now this was an addiction for me. I am 4 days clean and smokers cough is better, anxiety is better but I have been started on a med for that that I didn't want to interfere with the weed, so another reason I went cold turkey.

However - my mood has been ass. The cravings have been consistent, but I have been wanting to cry at every little thing and just feeling sad and apathetic and down. I have been under stress, so at first I attributed it to that, but now I am wondering if it's withdrawal symptoms? Has anyone else experienced this? I am spiraling but overall happy with my decision to quit. Thanks!