hereforsupport
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Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:34 pm
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| Day 6 Quitting... Insomnia is horrible... |
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Hi everyone. I am new here. I would greatly appreciate some suggestions.
I have been smoking weed daily (6 - 8 joints a day, 7 - 14 grams a week) since I was 14 years old. I am 23 years old now
Weed has helped me gain so much insight into life, and it has in a way, helped me find a path that I would like to pursue my life down. I know that I can't walk down this path that marijuana has showed me, as long as it is in my life. However, here is my problem.
I got my job back (very intensive labor 9 and a half hours a day) on day 3 of quitting weed. Prior to day 3, not being able to sleep was okay because I didn't have to work the next day. I am okay with the negative thoughts, and feeling like dying, because I really don't mind it, because it shows me a neat perspective on life.
However, I now have been getting 3 or 4 hours of sleep, because I HAVE to wake up the next morning to go to work and can't fall asleep until 2 or 3am. I wake up during the sleep in horrible sweats. My apetite is great now because of the labor I do. However, this lack of sleep is making my days the absolute worst moments of my life. The combination of the lack of sleep, and spontaneous thoughts I have of positive to negative is just draining me.
I work 6 days a week at the place I am working. Tonight is the only night I get to sleep in...
What is going through my head at this point is, okay. I will go and get a gram and smoke it tonight, that way I will be able to sleep for 12 - 14 hours and catch up on the sleep that I have missed out on. I feel a part of me is just trying to justify smoking, but another part of me, just wants to not feel so tired and drained.
At this point, I do feel that I have the confidence to smoke the gram, and continue on with my quitting. I believe in that, because I can see much more clearly. I think about my future more. I think about my family and friends more. I feel more social (at brief times) I have been getting a glimpse of what it will feel like to feel like a productive, happy, fun human again. I have had much more vivid dreams as well, which I have always loved inducing lucid dreams, which is much harder when you are a pot head. I meditate nightly, and meditation has not helped me with clearing my mind.
Originally, it was my conscious mind that was keeping me up. The racing thoughts of things that don't matter. At this point, I am so tired, that it is my subconscious mind keeping me up. I close my eyes, and over and over, I see images, of me in very uncomfortable situations, that keep preventing me from sleeping. I jolt out of the situation. I start to doze off, and next thing I know, I am seeing images, and emotions are being created from these images, and are preventing me from sleeping.
I am thinking to myself though. I could go out and grab a case of beer, and drink too much until I pass out. Please, can you tell me what I should do? |
super47
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Sun Jul 25, 2010 1:14 am
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Look man, I know it sucks... I've been there. You've just got to tough it out. Drinking or smoking yourself to sleep will just delay the problem til another night, your mind needs to get used to sleeping sober. At 6 days in you are not far away, it took me about 2 weeks before I could get a good night sleep. Drinking lots of water throughout the day will help a lot with the sweats at night, and excersise can help with the insomnia. But mostly you just have to be strong, suck it up and tough it out. Better days ahead but only if you can keep going and beat this.
Good luck and take care |
hereforsupport
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Joined: 24 Jul 2010
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Sun Jul 25, 2010 6:22 pm
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thanks for the response. After I wrote that, I felt like I didn't need it anymore. I ended up getting a case of beer. I only drank 4 or 5. I passed out, slept for 12 hours. Now that I managed to stay away from my habit, I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER!
Its so crazy how much better I feel. I dont remember all of my dreams, but i do remember that I had a crazy dream as well. I keep having these crazy dreams where all the people I knew from high school are in. Like 50 - 100 people. Its very intense.
I find the hardest part, is when you feel like you have nothing to do, that's when I would usually smoke. I am replacing smoking with tea and reading. It seems to keep my mind preoccupied.
DAY 7!!! feeling much better! |
noganja
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Joined: 07 Jul 2010
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Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:15 pm
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hereforsupport. good to hear you're feeling better.
Don't give up. The first week is the hardest.
I'm on week 3 after a 28 year habit. 1/2 oz a week for last few years!
I too am having crazy, vivid, apocalyptic dreams. |
eye liner tears
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Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:43 pm
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Do not smoke or drink that will just make it worse it WILL NOT fix your problem or make it go away. LOL. When my husband and I were quitting we would have slip ups and then we we would so mad at ourselves we hated it. SO do not do that. You can do it try a 12 step program or Maritox for support or try both that is what we did. This will pass. |
super47
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Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:24 pm
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If you are getting drunk, you aren't getting any further ahead. I don't think weed smokers need rehab (although others will disagree) If you want it bad enough, you will quit. If you fail, then you didn't want it as much as you need to.
Studies show that 80% of alchoholics and drug addicts who successfully quit do it on their own.
Beware of AA or NA where they will basically tell you it's not your fault, that you have a "disease" and you will be an addict for life. That's all crap. We all make our own choices in life. |
Nelson80
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Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:33 pm
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| L-theanine |
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Drinking beer or smoking weed certainly would put you to sleep - but also put you back to using again. The sleeping part really sucks, it seems to happen to anyone who was a heavy user and stops. Get yourself to your health food store and look for, or ask for either tryptophan, or l-theanine. Both of these are amino acids. They are quite safe, non-addictive, non-intoxicating. You can develop tolerance to these but it will take a while, from my experience at least. L-theanine was what I choose when I was quiting. It really helped to relax me and help me sleep. Now perhaps this was just a placebo effect - but placebo or not it worked. Just a thought, maybe it will help you. Worth a try. Good luck and hang in there the grass certainly is greener on the other side. In a week or so hopefully you'll develop some better sleeping patterns. Something obviously drove you to stop toking weed and my guess is that it was way worse then the suffering your experiencing now. |
stayinpositive
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Joined: 01 Jul 2010
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Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:54 pm
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Here for support, You're very lucky to have a labor intensive job, exercise & physical activity go a long ways in helping with the sleep. You may also want to try accupuncture, I saw my mom's long time doc yesterday and told him everything, and he gave me a treatment which he said would be like "pushing the reset button" on my system. I am on day 5 now, and finally got a decent night's sleep last night. I gave up alcohol too as I was abusing that as well . . . but bottom line is stay strong, talk to your friends, put supports in place for yourself, and take it one day, one hour, one minute at a time. |
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so great to sleep sober and not stoned! I have found that meditation helps with getting to sleep, been sleeping better in fact and not worse than when I had a J before bed.. Stay strong and soon you wont even notice the difference I'm sure - advice to self too.. Good luck