LSD helped me quit pot

Not intending to quit permanent. It started as a whim. I've been smoking daily since the 70's. I mean, first thing when I get up at 5-5:30 AM...I go and take a hit. Then around 9 another, then after lunch another, around 3:30-4 another with a beer. Then after dinner another. Sometimes even more than that. I've always wanted to be one of those guys who can smoke whenever but not all the time. I mean I know some guys who smoke once or twice a week. Me? If I start smoking I do it all the time. I could never quit all these years except for the time I was in basic training in the army just outta high school. Then I started smoking right after and consequently got kicked out.

Recently, several months ago, Lucy came to Hawaii to visit me via a tourist. I took this opportunity to use her as a tool for self improvement and taking control of my life. Even though I have weed and money, I decided to put it away for a couple weeks to see if I could. Other than some initial irritability and lack of appetite it's been much easier than I thought compared to past trials.

I'm planning to try smoking again but not sure when. I want to be one of those guys who can smoke once or twice a week. Heck even one hit after work would be cool as well.

This has been the first time I used acid to make positive changes in my life.
For me it's working so far.

 

I find that if I don't smoke for about 30 days, then I could go another year if I wanted to. But those first couple of weeks after I've smoking daily are tough! I too often fall into a daily routine of smoking and it most recently cost me my job!! I haven't smoked for over three months now, but after I get a new job I'm most likely gonna burn one.

 

thats kinda weird usually the the acid heads who never smoked pot to begin with really started after their first trip-------

 

lsd helped me grow way better pot

not really, but I feel like I get more out of it. I don't need to smoke as much and I have much more influence over how the high is than before.

 

I only smoke when I'm depressed anymore, I used to be a 8th a day pothead.

 

I find that if you can make it through the first week, you can make it through a year. It's just those first few days of "WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO!"

youre so used to structuring your day around cannabis, that when its removed you dont know what to do with yourself. this is a habitual problem, not a substance problem. it would be the same if you masturbated 5 times a day and wanted to tone it down, same difficulty . . . what do you do in the time that you would normally spend masturbating/smoking?

i suggest physical exercise. explore nature on foot.

 

have you ever thought about being a drug therapist? i seriously think that would be a great career for you

 

Just to zoom back a bit, which is always helpful, the whole trick with substances, life, love, haha, all this, is balance. How can you expect to go from "John who smokes 5 times a day" to "John"? This is truly difficult. You are ripping from John one of the best parts of his day. Are you giving him anything in return? If you dont, you will find that John is not pleased with your decision to remove Johns toys and he will begin throwing little psychic tantrums, breaking down and reupping, feeling the edge and feeling terrible when hes sober. The trick is to take with one hand, and give with the other. Tell yourself, "Ok, I will no longer smoke pot daily, HOWEVER I will now go and do x". Obviously dont make x something like cannabis, ie dont start doing coke lol, but hell, if going to a strip club every night for the first bit of your quitting helps you keep your mind off the habit, and helps you fill your day, then DO IT! Do anything you love to do. Enrich your life as you take from it the riches of Cannabis. Dont make yourself poor in this decision or your soul will never agree to it, it would be like cutting off a finger.

 

i swear to god this is what lsd showed me my first time i dropped

 

The first week of no pot my beer intake shot way up. :cheers2: I went from one or two to a six pack and more a day. This past week I've toned it down a bit on the beer...deadhead is right...you should be a rehab counselor. "So how does that make you feel?" "Tell us about it"

 

yeah.........i know........hahahaa

 

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for me the first week is really hard, the second and third are easy but the 4th week is what gets me. Then i seem to start smoking HEAPS to make up for the weeks that i missed out on.

I say to my mates "hey man wanna smoke a 4 gram joint?"

 

haha! I remember that pic you posted of that baseball bat (or cricket bat) you called a joint! Musta been one of those times! :sifone:

 

In my experience with overdoing pot, I find the high just get's kinda plain and boring and the negatives just seem to be overbearing after a while. When I first started, smoking just a half a joint or even just a rip or two off a bowl or bong would have me set for hours, and not even really wanting more for the rest of the day. Not to mention the high during that period was incredible. And whenever the high would pass I'd be fine.

When I started to smoke about an ounce every 2-3 days with my friend, smoking blunt after blunt after blunt, the high just got too overplayed. My tolerance was way to high, and the buzz in general wasn't really even all that great anymore. Sure I was smoking about 5-6 more grams a day than what I used to, but it just seemed that smoking at that rate was more of a waste than a benefit. Not to mention the whole damn day gets centered around smoking weed, lol, while also having to put up with headaches, nausea, no appetite, and boredom when not stoned.

But yeah, 2C-E / LSD can be really beneficial. It's helped me make the habit back into a "choice" again many times. I can finally just walk away when I want too, but like you, whenever I start smoking again, it's like a full time job. IDK. Haha. I think it just takes commitment and having other hobbies. Not having the mindset of just chasing some buzz/high. Working out seems to help. Being on the computer seems to help. Hanging out with friends who still like gettin high and trashed all the time doesn't seem to help. Lol

My .02C

 

lol, it wouldnt leave u any time to be sober. no wonder it got overplayed.

 

You said it! When I don't smoke daily, only 1-2 times a month the high is much more psychedelic for me. When I start daily I need to smoke just to reach normal, thats bullshit. Not to mention the fact that I feel like a complete loser when I realize I just spent $500 in 6 weeks on weed that should really last me 6 months!

 

I spend 460 an ounce that lasts 2 months or so. But yeah, being a daily, hourly cronic is bullshit. Your right, it was all about being "normal" to be stoned all day long.

That's why I turned to Lucy to help change my psyche! She's so wonderful!

thanks Lucy!

 

LSD just makes me want to smoke weed more. I have started to train myself to stop smoking weed daily, i can actually do things without thinking "man this would be way better high" which is how i used to be. I think i trained myself to not care as much because i smoked so amazingly much, that i don't feel as tempted now that i got it out of my system. When i'm on lsd, i get the full effects that i would want by smoking, so that is when i feel the "man this would be better with weed"Because it is a fact. Everything is better with weed especially lsd.

 

gah I don't think I've ever smoked literally all the time. the guys I know who did were either silent all the time or really moody. I remember a friend said he got a quarter and smoked it in an afternoon and I was stunned. the most I ever regularly smoked even with friends partaking was an 8th in two days, or a half O every week