What are the withdrawal symptoms?

Weed is only mildly addictive, as compared to nicotine, but it is still an addiction, and one which can rapidly run out of control, leading to poor life-decisions being made in order to get more of the drug. If you do find yourself under the thumb of the substance, meditation and self-hypnosis can help to get your body back under control and calm the irrational fears that the drug can cause. The withdrawal symptoms are not life-threatening, as those from alcohol can be, but they are severe enough for up to 70% of users to light up a joint to avoid their onset or continuance.

The severity of withdrawal symptoms is generally dependant on how long-lasting and how heavy the habit has been; generally worsening with more prolonged or heavy usage. These symptoms can include, first and foremost, a craving for the drug – including restlessness, aggression and mood swings. Headaches are a relatively common symptom, and these often cannot be cured by over the counter medications and simply have to be tolerated. Lack of concentration and poor sleep patterns can be an issue; and everyone knows how awful it is to have one or two restless nights: two or three weeks of them can be horrendous! Appetite can change, leading to weight loss or gain according to how it takes the sufferer and digestion problems can ensue, as can an altered libido; leading to a decrease in sexual drive. Cramps, dizzy spells and the shakes are all symptoms of weed withdrawal that are frequently seen.

As appalling as the above symptoms sound there is a reassurance in knowing that they are limited to two to three weeks, after which time you are ‘over the hump’ and will begin to actively enjoy a life free from marijuana.

How to use meditation

If you can, begin to practise meditation before you stop or as you reduce your intake of weed, and hopefully this will enable you to remain in control of the situation as you work through withdrawal. Indeed, meditation will help you make you mind up to stop smoking weed as you’ll wish to capitalize on the new found mental clarity.

Meditation consists of setting time aside each day, maybe two or three times a day, and focusing on your breathing as you rid your psyche of all the distractions and negative energies that may have accumulated, until you reach a state of near-empty peace and tranquillity. Not only will this process give you the strength to continue to give up and break the hold that the narcotic has over you, but you might well find that meditation actually supplies the sensation of peace and ‘one-ness’ which led you into using the drug in the first place. This new-found inner unity can safely replace the toxic bonds of weed; leaving you with the best of both worlds.

Continue to meditate as you work through withdrawal, and then continue, including new healthy and beneficial steps in your meditation until you are genuinely purifying your mind and body and living a new forward-looking life.

A lot of research into cannabis has been political, superficial and quick to point the finger at drug users. However these researchers were at pains to do the job right. They followed more than 1000 people from their birth to age 38 – the initial work was started in 1972.

People who started smoking marijuana as teenagers and continued into adulthood showed an average IQ drop of 6 points between age 13 and age 38.

My experiences

I remember back in the days when I used to smoke I seemed unable to connect with people. Others seemed to be quicker than me. I was always making mistakes at work. “Mistakes?” I would say to myself, “everybody makes mistakes”.

To be honest I was becoming very vague and less of an “alpha male”. Did I realise this at the time? Yes and No.

Yes, in my heart of hearts, I knew this was happening to me. But, as I have explained before, I was in a bad place. And when you’re in a bad place, you lie to yourself.

Weed smokers are often in denial

When they are questioned about the physical or mental effects of smoking weed they’ll usually react quite angrily and rattle off the same old tired arguments … it’s only a weed, man!

Maybe they’re right. What do I know? I’m not a scientist. I haven’t done any research.

Dealing with roadblocks

But I do know this: when I was regularly smoking marijuana life was a struggle. I was constantly running into roadblocks when I was trying to get on.

I remember trying to get a website up and running and even paying people to get it done for me. The problems that came along seemed insurmountable and, I’m ashamed to say, even though I’d paid money I ended up giving up. I thought it was all beyond me. Too difficult!

A few months later, after I’d stopped smoking weed, I tried again. This time I did it on my own. I came across a few roadblocks and problems but, after a bit of concentration, I did it.

I managed to get a website up and running. In fact, I’ve been the director of a web design and marketing business for the past 6 years now.

But, much more than that, I’m so much happier now than I used to be when I was smoking weed.

Back to the research

Friends and relatives of the target group were consistently interviewed during the course of the research. They often reported that regular marijuana smokers had attention and memory problems.

Of all the people that the researchers surveyed, the ones who said they were “dependent” on the drug showed the greatest decrease in intelligence.

Intelligence, memory and life

What is intelligence? This is a very difficult question to answer and IQ tests have their critics. However, it’s no secret that those among us with the greatest intelligence can expect to live longer, enjoy good health, earn more money and, I would say, be happier.

Memory and the ability to grasp complex abstract notions are two of the capabilities that are assessed in IQ tests. And, we all know that marijuana can negatively affect your short term memory.

Of all our abilities and attributes, intelligence, I believe, is the one that is most vital. Intelligence, more than physical strength, will protect you against the rigors of life.

However, if you have used marijuana too much in your adult life, you can certainly get that intelligence back by stopping now. Indeed, you may be able to improve your mind after that.

If you’re interested in giving up weed and opening your life to new possibilities and new opportunities, please sign-up for our free e-book below this article.

Prolonged marijuana use can make you sad

You will find that taking a holistic approach is the best way to achieve success – where success is measured in no further relapses of marijuana use and the enjoyment of a happy and fulfilling life.

What is a holistic approach?

It is one, which, deals with both treating the symptom of marijuana addiction and the underlying reasons for engaging in the addiction. The latter is what constitutes the actual cause of the addiction. A holistic approach takes the actual individual into consideration, and focuses on factors such as:

• Personality type
• Social background
• Medical illnesses

I’m addicted – what now?

The first step you must take is to treat the symptom.

Once a person has learned to deal with their underlying emotional pain/stress by engaging in addictive behaviour that behaviour takes on a life of its own and compounds the problems the person faces. It is imperative that the symptoms are dealt with immediately.

Aversion therapy to treat addictions:

People who do not suffer from a drug addiction have a natural aversion to the use of narcotics. Those who suffer from an addiction have had that natural aversion broken down. The natural aversion, necessary to resist drug use, can be repaired in a short amount of time.

• A skill known, as ‘aversion therapy’ will instil in the person, a resistance to marijuana use.
• An individual will require smelling salts or ammonia capsules to successfully complete this form of therapy. Then, when the person feels a need to smoke marijuana the person will go to a quiet room and speak out loud identifying the stress that is provoking them into desiring marijuana.
• For example, if the person feels like smoking marijuana after fighting with a spouse, the person would say, “I just fought with my spouse and I am feeling stressed. I want to smoke marijuana. I am taking out an ammonia capsule and breaking it open while calling out the word: switch!”
• The person breaks the capsule and then smells the capsule placed under his/her nose.
• The person will experience an immediate strong reaction and must express their exasperation out loud. For example, “Wow! My nose is burning!” or “my throat is burning and my eyes are tearing up and this is because I wanted to smoke marijuana. Switch!”
• The keyword ’switch’ is how the person will resume their description of the desire to smoke marijuana.
• For example, the person might say, “I move my left leg to arise from my chair and head to my stash of marijuana. Switch!” The person then smells the ammonia capsule again and repeats their description of their reaction out loud.
• The process should take ten minutes and involve at least five ‘switch’ sessions of smelling the ammonia capsule.
• The key is to break down each minute step a person physically takes up to but NOT including smoking marijuana. After ten minutes, the person will execute a final “switch” and describe a positive mental image how they expect to feel after kicking the drug habit.
• This treatment should be executed three times a week and when tempted to smoke marijuana.
• In around two weeks’ time, the individual should develop a strong natural aversion to smoking marijuana. The usage of foul smells and other deterrents creates a negative mental image of marijuana use, which begins to tone down the addiction. The symptom of drug use is now overcome.

Why do people become addicted?

Marijuana addiction, like any other addiction such as alcoholism, pornography, cocaine, etc. is used as a means of sedating one’s own emotional state to manage emotional stress or pain. The type of stress spoken of here is not merely job stress but the stress that comes from deeper issues such as unresolved past abuse, a bad relationship with a loved one, feelings of failure, poor social status etc.

What will be the root cause of the stress that gives rise to a superficial need for smoking marijuana will vary from person to person but it must be dealt with in order to promote a healthy lifestyle, which has nothing to do with marijuana use.

Self-hypnosis technique

Here is where self-hypnosis plays a pivotal role. The practice of self-hypnosis allows a person to:

• Quietly engage in meditation to still the mind of all thoughts, relax the breathing patterns, and then redirect thoughts on images of peace and light.
• The regular self-hypnosis is a healthy style of behaviour that will fill the void created in a person’s life when the marijuana use is overcome.
• Yoga and yoga meditation such as Sahaja meditation involves very similar concepts to self-hypnosis and is designed to re-build a person’s self-esteem.
• It is important to find other healthy activities that will balance a stress to promote long-term sobriety. These skills become “life tools” in order to deal with problems in healthy ways that promote balance and serenity.

Cognitive Therapy

This form of therapy aids an individual to identify cognitive distortions (psychological parlance for a “lie”) that they tell themselves to engage in negative thoughts and behaviours that nurture depression or anxiety.

Anxiety or depression then drives the person to seek relief via drug use. It’s important to work at identifying the process many individuals’ undergo to undermine their own emotional stability.

In order to promote long-term sobriety, it’s worth the investment in time & money to seek professional help to identify and overcome dysfunctional behaviour.

This is a guest post from Micheala Connolly.

Prolonged marijuana use can cause a lack of self-esteem and isolation from the outside world

I used to feel great while I was smoking it – at first. But, as my smoking habit increased, I found it harder and harder to speak to other people while I was stoned.

Lack of self-esteem in certain situations

I’d say to myself, “oh, I can’t get on with these people because they’re not my type”. But I was kidding myself.

This didn’t seem much at first. You go through life and people travel through it with you. Some stay for all of your life and some for only a short time. But then, I started to realise that I had jettisoned quite a few good friends who weren’t smokers and most of the people I was spending time with were smokers.

When I was with other people (non-smokers) I was always worrying about what they thought about me.

• “Did he look at me in a funny way?”
• “What does she think of me?”
• “Those people didn’t seem to want to be with me!”

These and other thoughts would crowd my mind causing me to seek further refuge with other weed smokers who, I thought, shared my world view.

The opposite of sex

This situation was made worse when I interacted with the opposite sex. I was useless at talking to girls.

First of all, if I had been smoking I’d be anxious talking to people anyway. That was bad enough. Women want to talk to a guy who’s nice and relaxed.

Then if I did get talking to someone I was attracted to and it didn’t go well, I would become more anxious and things would get worse. But, even more worrying, if I was talking to someone who did seem to like me, it would also cause me to become more anxious and it would never lead to anything!

Problems in life

Lots of people will judge you. Everybody has disagreements. And bad things happen.

When you’re already isolated and when you’ve already built your cocoon, you are less able to cope with hard times when disaster strikes.

You are more likely to develop a sense of persecution as you have less of a support structure than you would have if you hadn’t closed yourself off so much.

That’s what happened to me. I cursed my luck and raged against the world for putting me in this bad place.

The funny thing was, it wasn’t the world that put me there. It was me!

This was the weed causing paranoia which made me want to isolate myself against the outside world. This is never a good option. We are all part of the outside world. The two things are indistinguishable.

It wasn’t until I stopped smoking weed regularly that I could see clearly how much my life had been effected by it.

If you think you are smoking too much weed and you are interested in giving it up. Please sign up for my free e-book and MP3 below.

About 10 years ago, I was living on my own in an apartment in London, UK. From the outside everything probably seemed fine. I was working. I could support myself.

But that was it. No wife. No kids. No girlfriend. Nothing. I used to look forward to evenings and weekends where I would drink and smoke weed. Since I pretty much only had myself to think about, and I really only thought about getting high.

I hit a low point

One evening, after having a few drinks I’d got home and, out of habit, started to roll a joint. I’d done this many times before. I’d usually be smoking weed while I was out but on this particular occasion I had only been drinking.

I must have been quite drunk as I packed it full of some quite strong weed. As soon as I had smoked a bit, the room started spinning round and I began to feel quite ill.

I remember desperately trying to get to the bathroom but ending up on the kitchen floor unable to move. Well, I’ll spare you the details of what followed, but as you can imagine, I’d reached a low point in my life!

Why am I telling you this?

Good question. It’s not something I’m proud of, that’s for sure!

The honest truth is that this wasn’t the only time something like this had happened. This actually happened again and again.

But the point is this: each time things like this happened my confidence would get a huge knock. It was like a huge kick in the guts.

How could I do this to myself? Who would have any time for someone who ends up like this? These were the questions that were going round and round my head.

And, questioning yourself like that leads to a lack of self-confidence. And my self-confidence was extremely low at the time anyway.

Lack of self-confidence and marajuana

We’ve all had our good times with marijuana. But we’ve had our bad times too.

I’d worked out that it was, above all else, the weed that was contributing to my lack of self-confidence.

What did I decide to do about it? Well, nothing. I probably rolled up another joint the next day and tried to put it out of my mind.

But, I did do something about it eventually.

I found out with self-hypnosis and meditation I could look at the world in a different way and overcome my problems with confidence and insecurity.

I eventually stopped smoking weed as well.

If you would like to find out how I did that you can read about it in my free e-book and listen to a free MP3 I provide if you sign up to my newsletters. But I’ll be writing more here about it as well. So stay tuned!

And keep well!

This is an extract from an email from Franco de Stefano (name changed) who wrote to us recently about his problem with marijuana and pornography.

While not physically addictive – weed and porn create a heady cocktail that is hard to give up

“I have been smoking weed since I was 16. At first it was just once or twice a week. But it soon became more regular. Nowadays, it’s pretty much all day every day and I get through a frightening amount and it’s starting to get expensive.

I started looking at pornography regularly a bit later at 18 but this was when we got wireless broadband and I had a laptop I could take to my room. I think I used porn to cope with the bad feelings I feel or the negative emotions. Marijuana is exactly the same, it’s something to lift me up when I’m feeling down. However, I think I have used these unhealthy ways of dealing with bad things a bit too much.

And then when I was 18 I started going with prostitutes. I sometimes see a prostitute once a week but I try to cut it back to once or twice a month. It’s still something I feel bad about but it’s something I don’t seem able to stop. I don’t go out much as I don’t like to go outside when I’m stone as I get paranoid. But I manage to overcome the paranoid feelings in order to go with prostitutes.

I’ve dropped out of one college since leaving school I’m trying to get into another college and hoping to hell that going back to full time education is going to sort me out once and for all.

I will start at 10 smoking joint after joint and watching pornography and not stop until 10 in the evening.

I’ve broken up with two girlfriends, one after a 2 year relationship. I would love a girlfriend right now but I don’t feel capable of going with anybody while I have these habits.”

We would like to thank Franco for writing in to share these experiences with us.

What weed and pornography addiction can do to you

As we have repeatedly written on this site – we don’t want to tell anyone to stop smoking marijuana. We are here for people who want to give up weed. We also don’t want to get embroiled in the arguments about whether weed is addictive or not. Certainly for some people it isn’t. Certainly it isn’t physically addictive like alcohol or other drugs.

However, for certain people, weed does seem to be psychologically addictive and can quite quickly cause very depressive and repetitive actions to take hold and be extremely hard to quit. The watching and use of pornography for sustained periods is an example of one such action.

Again, we don’t want to be embroiled in an argument on the rights and wrongs of pornography. However, it seems certain that prolonged and repetitive use of pornography for long, long periods of time is bad for any human being’s self confidence.

Something that comes up again and again in the emails we receive is a lack of self-confidence or a lowering of self worth. This is usually expressed by young people at the prime of their lives who are frightened to go outside and lack the most basic of social skills for no other reason than a recreational drug habit.

Franco feels alone. He feels, understandably, that he can’t talk to his family about his problem. Like a lot of heavy weed-smokers he is gradually distancing himself from his family.

He feels stuck in a horrible repetitive cycle of depression and self-disgust.

What you can do about porn and marijuana overuse

You must first realise that this may be a slow process. You can try to just wake up one day and stop smoking weed and stop watching porn but it’s likely that your endorphine and serotonin levels will be so low which will cause depression from which you will seek an anti-dote – more weed and porn.

Try to wake up each morning and, before smoking that first spliff, sit down and spend some time alone with yourself for 5-10 minutes. Close your eyes, breathe deeply and learn to love yourself again.

Count your breaths from 1 to 10 and then start at 1 again. Try not to think of anything else but the breathing.

Then, when you are at your most relaxed state make positive and loving affirmations to yourself.

If you would like to know more about this then please enter your email address into the form below and I’ll send you some more information about meditation and self-hypnosis. Or you can read more here about using meditation and self-hypnosis to fight porn addiction.

It can be easy to quit too. If you follow some simple tips and are willing to make changes, you can stop smoking weed and get back to living a healthy, happy and weed free lifestyle. There are a range of varied methods you can utilise to help you quit and you can find the benefits of some of them outlined below.

Planning

Before you begin, plan out what you’re going to do to help yourself quit in a journal, note pad or wall chart. If you set yourself visual goals and tasks, it is more likely you will be motivated to achieve them. Just as with structuring any goal, structure your approach to quitting marijuana, you’ll find that achieving the goals will give you a great sense of self worth and accomplishment, a feeling you may’ve lost touch with.

Meditation

Quitting weed can leave you feeling very stressed and seeing as this is often the cause of relapse, finding ways to neutralise this feeling is essential. Meditation is a great way to relax and centre your thoughts. There are many different ways to meditate including with music, so you can easily find a method that suits you. There are a variety of guides online to meditating or if you’d prefer to have some guidance, many gyms, health centres and community programs offer meditation classes.

Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis

It is hard to treat a mental addiction in the same way as a physical one, there is no marijuana patch to help reduce your cravings. Hypnosis and self hypnosis can be the answer to marijuana addiction. Many professional clinics offer a session or series of sessions where a professional will provide hypnotherapy, regarded by many as the most effective form of psychological intervention. If you feel you would rather try yourself, there are guides online that can help you, so research all you can and then see which method you think is right for you.

Hobbies and Activities

Quitting smoking weed will undoubtedly leave a large time gap in your life and you’ll need ways to fill it and keep boredom away. It’s likely you’ll find that once quitting you have a renewed interest in trying new experiences and hobbies. Try taking up a sport or craft you’ve always wanted to learn; exercise is especially good as it is healthy and causes us to release endorphins. Pick up reading again, without weed clouding your mind you’ll find you can concentrate for longer and enjoy soaking in information and entertainment.

Support Groups

Meeting and talking with a group of likeminded individuals can be of immeasurable help, just knowing others who are going through the same problems as you can help motivate you to keep weed free. Search for local community groups that deal with addiction and find one that is right for you.

What you can do now!

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Meditation has innumerable health benefits and you don't have to sit in a funny position to do it!

Stress manifests in many different ways. Whether you feel tension in your joints, whether you have an emotional outburst that you immediately regret, whether you seem tired even after a full night of sleep, your endocrine system is telling you that it needs to be soothed.

Oftentimes, this will have you reaching for a bag of weed or to phone your dealer. But next time, realise there is another way – and it’s cheaper!

Hormones released by stress, especially adrenaline, are meant to improve physical performances and overcome obstacles, but if you do not allow a vent for this stress is takes a toll on your body. In moments of stress your adrenaline will increase blood pressure for more muscle capability: great if you need to run quickly or lift a heavy object, but harmful over a longer span.

Meditation serves as a means of reducing the stresses upon your mind, which in turn exert less demands from your body. Meditation is not the same as REM sleep but is similar to the moments of relaxation after intense exercise: you find your blood pressure dropping and the tension within your muscles feeling better. The change is not only physical: you notice more details as your pupils take in more light, while the increase in oxygen to the brain gives you a positive sense of mind.

When a person is in a deep state of meditation, their body begins to go through a natural healing process of putting more oxygen through the bloodstream, rather than simply increasing the rate of blood flow. Oxygen is the key to every aspect of human life and the more of it that our body uses, the healthier we are. Deeper breaths create an efficiency in the circulatory system that cannot be matched by anything short of high-duration cardiovascular exercise. As your breathing deepens, it also slows, as it would while falling asleep. Yet unlike falling asleep, the brain is not shutting off: you should be able to perceive details, such as the sound of running water or the feel of small air currents. At this point, stress hormones begin to drop due to the abundance of oxygen. After as little as ten to fifteen minutes, they may fade entirely from the bloodstream. At this point, the body relaxes fully.

Eliminating stress hormones creates a wide number of benefits. The health advantages of meditation go as far as helping to lose weight, given that the elimination of hormones like cortosol will keep your metabolism in check by consuming outer layers of fat for energy. The system, furthermore, keeps a person in a regulated system as they want to return to continue their meditation practice. With the calm feeling of meditation comes better mind, soul, and body.

If you want to find out more about how to use meditation and self-hypnosis to quit smoking weed – or for any other reason – please enter your email address in the box below to receive a free e-book and MP3. Namaste!

The Mighty Oak Training Program to Stop Smoking Marijuana

98.7% Success Rate!

All successful training courses have one thing in common – testing. This course has been painstakingly researched and tested on real people with real weed addictions.

After endless changing and tweaking the course currently enjoys a 98.7% Success Rate! And there are some glowing testimonials:

“I was smoking weed for 10 years … but I couldn’t stop. I had tried other methods to stop smoking weed but they didn’t work. Your program helped me discover the reason behind my marijuana addiction and then taught me new ways to deal with them.”

“I felt like I needed weed all the time. It was ruining my life and I just couldn’t stop on my own. Until I found your program.”

These are heart-wrenching stories that I am familiar with. I get emails everyday from desperate people who want to quit marijuana but don’t know how. It’s great to finally read some success stories!

Mighty Oak Stop Smoking Marijuana training course

The training course is offered by one William Jones, a life coach with a history of marijuana addiction, drug busts and numerous failed attempts to quit. He had even tried Narcotic Anonymous’s 12 step program and, although he’d felt uneasy during the treatment, he’d still successfully quit cannabis for 9 long months before relapsing, again!

William Jones finally succeeded in his quest to stop smoking weed after having contacted Ben Gladden, a certified addiction treatment specialist.

It was Ben’s advice, plus research into other 12-step programs, that gave William the information and education needed to be able to create the Mighty Oak Stop Smoking Marijuana program.

So, what’s in the training course?

The training course consists of three main modules: Introduction, Principles and Training.

Introduction

The introduction focuses on will power, being a combination of self-control and self-discipline. And these two elements can be further sub-divided making four quadrants: self-reliance, self-determination, self-regard and self-respect. And these four personal qualities have a symbiotic relationship. Strengthening one area can lead to an increase in an other. And one must nurture all four quadrants to improve one’s will.

Principles

There are many courses within the personal development scene that put an accent on having a plan and the second main module of the course sets out some rules and principles that will give you a plan of action.

One of the main keys into unlocking an addiction is monitoring. I always like to write about the importance of watching one’s thoughts. Huge breakthroughs can be made when one watches the thought processes that lead to positive or negative assumptions.

The course explains in great detail how the wrong assumptions can be reached due to lack of information or how incorrect feelings or actions can come about as a result of the wrong stimuli. The course teaches our minds to become aware of negative and dangerous stimuli that can cause us to contemplate succombing to our addictions. This is practical and actionable advice that will be of great benefit to the long-term weed smoker.

Training

The third module of the training program is where it really comes into it’s own. This is a day-by-day, week-by-week breakdown of what you must do in order to stop smoking weed.

Here are some examples of exercises set out on various days in the training programme:

• look at yourself in the mirror and give yourself a compliment
• hold your head up and look someone in the eyes and smile
• drink plenty of water
• try to learn something new
• help someone

… and many more. These little tasks on specific days will all add up to point your personal calendar towards your first day without marijuana.

How to Stop Smoking Weed

The Mighty Oak course is extremely clever. I had to read it through a few time before I could spot the rhythm and the reason behind all the little hints and advices that William puts into it.

The course is aimed to subtly increase your confidence and happiness so that smoking marijuana becomes totally unnecessary and futile. You will actually not want to smoke another joint if you do everything in this course.

But there are extra stings in the tail! William introduces psychological framing techniques to allow you to face temptation and resist as a result of powerful visualisations. These methods are familiar to anyone who has been exposed to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming).

There are extra motivation exercises, extra willpower replenishers, extra distractors. No stone is left unturned so that you are 110% ready to face the world without weed.

What else is in the course?

This isn’t all! There is also a toolkit that contains coping strategies, distractors, questionnaires, etc., these are referred to in the main body of the course and are helpful life-hacks in their own right!

Would you recommend the course?

Yes, I would definitely recommend the Mighty Oak Stop Smoking Marijuana course to anyone who needs help quitting weed.

It is extremely thorough, well-thought out and painstakingly well-researched. If I’d found this course 20 years ago, how different would my life be now?! Well, it’s no good thinking that now!

All I can do is to recommend it to you guys! Get the course as this will give you some much needed structure to your efforts in quitting weed!

As always, I welcome your comments about this review in the comments section.

If you would like to quit smoking weed writing it down on a piece of paper is sometimes helpful

Here is a typical email I’ve had from a visitor to this site:

“I can’t seem to quit weed. I’ve tried the breathing exercises but unfortunately they don’t seem to last longer than a few days. Then I get really stressed out and I really need to smoke.

I just can’t seem to get past the first few days. I’ve stopped before for a week with hypnosis but got really stressed and went back to smoking. It’s really starting to worry me as I am not enjoying it anymore but just can’t seem to get away from it.

Do you have anymore tips that may help with my addiction?”

Yes, we can help you!

First of all, you’re already half way there!

There are a number of clues in the above email that confirm that this individual is already well on his way to leading a happy, straightforward, weed-free life.

• He has obviously gone for extended periods without weed on a few occasions – if he’s done this once, he can do it again, each time making the quit last longer until he frees himself from the habit
• He has obviously stopped enjoying it – this always happens before someone quits smoking weed, they stop enjoying it. The paranoia, the isolation, the agoraphobia – it’s just not fun anymore. The novelty has worn off. Time to move on. Time to quit weed.
• He’s trying hypnosis. If you would like to try my method to stop smoking weed sign up for my free e-book and MP3 at the bottom of the page here.

If you’ve already quit weed and relapsed that’s a good thing!!! Don’t stop now. You’ve proved to yourself you can do it, even if it was for a few days, now you can try again and see if you can make it for a longer period.

In the meantime, all these episodes of reduced cannabis intake will help you quit the next time and you are much more likely to be successful. So, don’t give up quitting!

Keep on keeping on!

The problems our friend is describing above are extremely common. The great thing is that he has a desire to change. This means that the real person inside him is fed up of smoking and wants to quit. It may require a number of attempts to push him “over the hill” onto the other side where things will be easier.

What he needs is to experience a positive result from his efforts. If he gives up for a few days again and starts to notice some good things happen – which they will, it just takes time – this will give him the encouragement he needs to keep going.

So the next time you give up weed, try to fill the void with something you like doing, eating, music, reading, exercise, anything. Eventually your conscious mind will understand you’re better off without it and then you will stop craving. This breakthrough can be quite sudden – you just don’t know when it’s going to happen.

You just have to keep at it. No one ever succeeded the first time. And it’s different for everybody.

But meanwhile these episodes of quitting will do you good.

What about you?

Have you quit smoking weed for a few days only to relapse and beat yourself up about it? If so, don’t be so hard on yourself.

I would love to know what you think. Please let me know in the comments section below.