Addicted to weed!

the thing is i could care less about getting caffeine. actually i hate the effects that caffeine gives me, especially in high doses. when i took caffeine pills back in the day they made me nothing but VERY irritable. but i just love COLA! ...diet cola, although it has no caffeine is NOTHING much in the taste department! but i can do without the flavor.. mentally I'm pretty strong. Ive given up meat for the past year and a half.

caffeine headaches are killer! but i don't plan on going cold turkey off of caffeine. i will def try weening with 1-2 caffeine drinks a day for a while and ill see how it goes.
I'm not really a tea fan unless I'm sick, but Ive just started liking coffee a lot though i will def do without except for special occasions.

 

hehe, u know... it's funny.. for a summer i think i was addicted to aspartame, i must have had about a liter of diet coke every 3 days, like a year and a half ago before i started smoking... lol, i think i ended up running out of money and went cold turkey for a couple months

 

you dont become addicted to aspartame. maybe that was a joke ?

 

nah, i used to freebase aspartame all the time back in the 80's. ya get hooked pretty quickly.

 

just give u and smoke weed.

 

I believe most stoners go through the same conundrum at one time or another. I believe I am addicted to weed. That's the first time I've ever said it to anyone but myself. I also believe, however, that I enjoy being high, and if being addicted means I love being high, so be it. I love being high as much as possible too. That's the funny thing about weed, it's not physically addictive, but it's so easy to do, and function somewhat normally while on it, it's sometimes hard to not do it as often as I like to. I see it as very similar to cigarettes, in terms of usage, but with a much more worthwhile effect. MUCH MUCH more worthwhile than cigs, which just make you nauseous and lightheaded for less than 5 minutes, as opposed to a 2/3hr high and effect you can feel 5+ hours later. but that's my 2 cents. Yes, I'm addicted. Yes, it had affected my life. No I'm not going to quit. I love being high way too much to quit lol.

 

yeah thats what im saying i just love being high. its kinda like sex dude, you arent addicted but you want it when it is available, and if its available all of the time then you will take it

 

my friend tried to get me to quit for a month. i know i could do it, but i just don't want to. like you guys said you love the high too much. anyways he made it 5 days.

 

i believe that alot of people on and off this board are addicted and think they aren't. i bet a VERY high majority of daily smokers are addicted. i bet that a Very large amount of people who smoke before bed are addicted. i bet alot of people who use marijuana after stressful events or when there angry are addicted. and they don't think they are. but its easy to develop a habit, especially in the situations i mentioned. "they" say it takes 21 days to break a habit. i bet a very high majority of stoners could not/would never consider taking a break for 21 days. myself included. but why stop as long as i can afford it and still get really high off of a bowl. moderation is a better idea! if you don't want to stop and don't want to get addicted, if you want to ease your habit, just moderate.

moderation really is the key!

 

Well duh, you would physically die from lack of oxygen.(kidding around)

 

Hmm..........maybe i'm an anomaly here.

I've been smoking daily for years, however, I sporatically stop from time to time.........sometimes for months, my wife is the same way. Somtimes I stop for a reason, sometimes I do it to reset my tolerance...........sometimes I just dont feel like it.....I know quite a few other people like this too. Maybe its an age thing.......I dont know. However i'll be the first to admit that when I do smoke, I usually smoke 4-10x a day.................I don't really think this makes me an addict.....I can handle having nuggz in my home without smoking them (sometimes for months at a time), I don't use cannabis to fix problems, and I seldom ever feel the NEED to smoke..(and if I do, its directly relative to my anxiety <chronic anxiety/panic disorder>and yeah i've heard all that B.S. that it increases anxiety........maybe in lab rats but not in me, its usually a pretty good coping tool, much better than poppin alot of Kolonopin.)But I will admit, I smoke more than the average person......maybe i'm in denial but I tend to doubt that i'm an addict if I have no problem stopping at the drop of a hat, and have done so time and time again........(as a matter of fact I haven't smoked in over a week.....just been too busy)

thoughts?

 

this is sort of the thing I was saying... you can stop smoking for whatever reason, but you know that weed will be back in your life eventually, am I right? doesn't it reassure you knowing that? give ya a nice warm, cozy feeling inside? That you can take a break from it, a long one at that, but you know that you'll never really remove weed from your life... even when you want a break, with a reason or not, or are simply tired of it.

I dunno, it's just really hard to explain what I'm trying to say, cuz everyone will be like "I anticipate weekends, am I addicted to weekends", "I look forward to eating cake, getting paid," yadda yadda.... I understand it's difficult to grasp, maybe even be in a bit of denial.... and maybe it's not addiction as we know it (think cokehead or something), but my definition makes us (at least me) realize that we're addicted to it in this way, and so what? if you're happy and comfortable...

 

I understand what your saying. but just because you would be upset about losing a constant doesn't mean your addicted. Marijuana is more than a high. The marijuana culture embodies the experience of the high, but also the paraphernalia, the lingo, the deals & dealers, the LOOK of the sticky green tree, etc. you can MISS these things over time, but it doesn't mean your addicted. you just miss them, like a friend you once knew, who moved away. Are you addicted to your friend because you'll never see him again? no!
though i don't dispute the fact that marijuana is addictive... but just not in this way. in my opinion if you can give up weed for a month than, in most cases, you aren't addicted, even if you understand the fact that weed will be there in the future.