LIFE WITHOUT WEED

A life without weed can be overwhelming when your life revolved around smoking pot. You’re coping with recovery and you still want to smoke marijuana badly. It’s a struggle to avoid relapsing and after quitting weed cold turkey or by tapering off. The marijuana...

Why Time Management Is Important When You Quit Weed Back in the day, when I was heavily into smoking marijuana, my focus was on either using weed or recovering from it. It was a simple life. Time wasn’t an issue. However, I grew tired of this bouncing from recovery to...

Sobriety means you must give up weed altogether. It also means you must drop your old weed buddies. You need real help to stop smoking weed. You need new sober friends who’ll keep you on track, and help you through the bad times. But how do you find these friends? How...

Ever find yourself doing something truly odd? Like crawling on all fours and meowing? That’s what one young friend started doing after taking a few grams of synthetic weed. But this drug will severely damage to your brain and body in a short time. You can’t reverse...

Introduction  With weed now being legalized across the nation, we are seeing more young people willing to get high. A subculture has been born in resistance to marijuana’s prolonged criminalization. If you’re one of the many who wants to know how to stop smoking weed,...

Drug dreams are common in early recovery. They may come almost nightly at first and even several years into your recovery, they may start up again. I’ve been clean for a while now but years back, these dream episodes started happening again. They were vivid and...

It’s not unusual for you to feel angry, aggressive and irritable when you’ve quit weed. These feelings have always existed in you, but you buried them under your weed addiction. Now with the weed gone, they’re back in full force and made much worse by the marijuana...

The Stages of Sleep and Marijuana Withdrawal If you’ve just found yourself figuring out how to quit marijuana, you’ve probably had some sleepless nights. This is one of the marijuana withdrawal symptoms ex-users report to feel. The reason being that THC plays a very...

Psychosis often results in crippling mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, where the mind is out of touch with reality. Today I want to talk mainly about a growing body of evidence that points to a strong link between heavy weed use and...

Introduction When quitting marijuana, an important factor to consider is anxiety. This is for three reasons. 1.) You may smoke pot to relieve anxiety. 2.) If you quit, you may feel as though your anxiety levels are increasing. 3.) On the contrary, smoking marijuana...

Introduction to Weed Quitting Supplements & Herbs We’ve all been there — those times when we’ve stated categorically, “I quit smoking weed for good”, only to find ourselves right back in it, yes, another relapse unfortunately. The pull back factors are usually the...

Discovering that your child has a weed problem can be shattering. Research shows that many youths going into rehab list weed as their first choice drug. Since 2007, weed use among eighth, tenth and twelfth graders has been going up yearly, monthly and daily. This...

Weed Money. What’s the Cost? After a long day at work, you may find it relaxing to light up a joint. Your muscles need to ease and your mind wants to stray from the stresses of the day. Throwing some hard-earned cash towards this sort of pleasure seems like an...

As a former weed addict, I like to keep abreast of developments in the addiction field, so I can guide others on how to stop smoking weed.  Lots of people have asked for my help with their weed addiction. More and more of them are hooked on weed each year. The...

Can Addictions Transfer? Our goal is to teach you how to quit marijuana.  The last thing we want is for you to take another substance as its replacement.  Alcohol is the most accessible substance around.  It becomes a consistent threat to anyone who’s attempting to...

When’s It Time for a Weed Tolerance Break? Smoking weed is not a bad thing, if you do it responsibly. That is, if you smoke just enough to improve your mood, or ease your painful medical condition. But many of us don’t know where to draw the line. I didn’t. I took it...

Marijuana in the Media - Valid Reasons Not to Smoke Weed or Nonsense? In a previous blog post, I wrote about the dangers of dabbing. Now I want to shift gears. I started this blog so that I could provide you all with good reasons not to smoke weed. However, I don’t...

The Dangers of Dabbing When I tell people that I write for a blog that helps people quit marijuana, they usually think I’m a Reefer Madness-type fanatic. They tell me that marijuana is not nearly as dangerous as alcohol or tobacco, to say nothing of harder drugs like...

Are the Benefits of Quitting Weed Worth Losing Your Friends? Human beings are social animals. We're hard-wired to be members of a tribe, and that's a good thing. None of us can make it in this world by ourselves, so I understand if you feel like you're torn between...

The Benefits of Smoking Weed Vs. the Benefits of Quitting Weed If you’re familiar with this site, you already know how passionate I am about the benefits of quitting weed. I’m hoping that you’re leaning towards quitting smoking weed. I'm also hoping that the articles...

What is the Best Way to Quit Smoking Weed Without a New Year's Resolution? 2017 is on its way. If you're trying to figure out the best way to quit smoking weed, you might be considering the "New Year's resolution" route. There's just one problem. According to a study...

Quitting Weed During the Holiday Season Let’s face it: quitting weed can be difficult, no matter what season it is. However, the holiday season presents a unique set of challenges because it dredges up a lot of emotions. In this article, I'll explore two major aspects...

Should I Stop Smoking Weed Simply to Please My Significant Other? My former girlfriend hated marijuana, but I didn’t discover this until after we’d started dating. That put me in a tough spot. By that point, I was already a chronic smoker. I didn't even know how to...

How Does a New Trump Administration Impact Your Reasons to Stop Smoking Weed? If you’re looking for reasons to stop smoking weed, here’s a big one: on January 20, 2017, Donald Trump will become the next president of the United States. Once Trump takes control of the...

How to Stop Smoking Weed in a City Where It's Legal While many of you are trying to figure out the best way to stop smoking weed, or at least how to stop smoking weed everyday, America seems to be moving in a different direction. On Election Day, four states voted to...

There are a lot of myths around smoking weed, and a lot of misconceptions. Depending on who you are and what you believe about smoking weed, you may consider it an illicit "gateway drug" or a medicinal gift of nature. When it comes to weed, perception is good...

You’ve Decided to Quit Smoking Weed – Cold Turkey or Gradually? That alone is a reason to celebrate! Take it from me: it’s not easy to admit that your marijuana use has become a problem. Deciding how to quit smoking weed cold turkey or gradually, could very well be...

My friends know that I used to be a heavy pot smoker and that I eventually gave it up. Those same friends still smoke pot, and every once in awhile, one of them will ask me, “Should I stop smoking weed?” When they ask me this, I feel like they either want me to give...

When I smoked weed for the first time, I was with my friends. They were all veteran pot smokers, and they were more than happy to show me the ropes. A lot of people report that they don’t get high when they smoke weed for the first time. I didn’t have that problem. I...

If you spend any time in the marijuana addiction forums, like the one at Reddit, you’ll see there are two terms that get used somewhat frequently:  depersonalization and derealization. These are clinical terms describing psychological phenomena but they are also terms...

This is not a political blog and I certainly don’t intend for it to become one.  However, I am about to use the words of a candidate for President of the U.S. to make a point about marijuana use. The person I’m referencing is Gary Johnson, Libertarian candidate for...

Does frequent marijuana use dumb you down?  Mind you, we're not talking about recreational smoking, we're talking about multiple times a week smoking. The scientific research seems inconclusive but overall suggests the possibility that frequent weed smoking can lower...

What do you think about the most during your last couple of hours at work each day?  Going to the gym?  Playing with your kids?  Getting ready for dinner?  Getting frisky with your significant other? Those are all perfectly good and healthy thoughts to have as you...

We’re in a major election year here in the United States, perhaps the most interesting in recent memory, and not just because of the presidential race.  In November 2016, up to eight states will be voting on the legalization of recreational marijuana use:  California,...

Whenever I have easy access to marijuana, I’ll smoke it. This is why I can never have marijuana in the house ever again. Now if you can have marijuana stashed away in a drawer somewhere and you can go for many days without touching it, even though you know it’s there,...