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.

Marijuana use can undoubtedly cause agoraphobia

Many people can be found on the internet desperately searching for help for themselves or a friend because prolonged use of cannabis has caused “cocooning” as well as severe problems interacting with the outside world.

There is a theory that the active ingredient in marijuana, Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), depletes your body of dopamine which then produces anxiety.

It doesn’t sound a very cool thing to say but I am sure that dope causes reduction in the memory, intellectual and social capacities of certain individuals.

Too much of a good thing can cause young people with seemingly everything to live for to be withdrawn and have problems interacting with others, especially those who do not share their marijuana habit.

Listen to this:

I started smoking in school aged 15. Right before that, I was making friends, dating girls, doing “normal” things. Then, after I started smoking weed, everyone I knew was a pothead, and my life would revolve around cannabis.

At first it was fun all the time, but I soon became extremely anxious when high. I’d also become very self conscious, and I would basically be like a statue when really stoned. Eventually, I started feeling depressed when I wasn’t messed up.

Sound familiar?

Many smokers are actually in denial saying things like:

“It depends on the individual. I can handle it.”

“I smoke everyday but I could quit anytime”

“Smoking weed is good for you. It doesn’t have any negative effects.”

“The government doesn’t want us to smoke because it wants to control our minds.”

Whereas the sad truth is that no-one is more brainwashed than a pothead.

Marijuana matters

Smoking can reportedly help you if you have cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinsons or a host of neurological deseases. But if you don’t have any of these deseases, smoking weed everyday is likely to do you more harm than good.

Please be aware that this site is not a place to persuade people against cannabis use. We are happy for everybody to make their own mind up about the drugs they do take and do not take.

If you want to carry on smoking weed – go ahead, do it!

However, a lot of people smoke cannabis everyday and are NOT happy about it and they are the ones we have created this site for.

Years of chronic cannabis use can affect you. But listen to this from the same person as above:

After about 5 years of denial, I quit smoking weed, and its amazing the difference you feel after a couple months of abstaining. Your brain starts to “correct” itself, back to the state it was intended to be: sober.

There does seem to be a “denial” problem with many weed smokers. But, online one is anonymous and free to search or read anything at all. For this reason, it is interesting to see that hundreds of thousands of people search online for information about the problems of cannabis and how to stop smoking weed.

If you have a problem with weed, you’re not alone and we’re here to help. A lot of people will say that it’s impossible to be addicted to cannabis – maybe it is, maybe it isn’t.

One thing that we can say for sure is: there are a lot of people who are worried about the amount of weed they take and are looking for ways to stop or to cut down.

If you think you may be smoking too much weed and you’re not enjoying it then feel free to pop your email in the box below. I will send you some stuff that will help.

Communication is key with a loved one who has a bad marijuana habit

The answers are quite different from the advice you can get here about how to stop smoking weed.

Don’t play the self-righteous card

Don’t warn your loved one of the hazards of smoking reefer. The chances are that most cannabis smokers know that it:

• is bad for their health
• causes short term memory loss
• elicits fear, panic attacks and intense feelings of paranoia
• can have an all-round long term detrimental effect on their life

The problem is that they know that and they already have decided that, despite the negative effects of smoking pot, they still want to light up joints and get high.

In order to continue with an addiction, you have to lie to yourself, ignore the evidence of your senses and carry on indulging in a negative activity regardless. The chances are that your loved one isn’t stupid. They know. It’s the contradictions in human beings that make us all so interesting!

Communication

It is very important that you try to talk to the smoker about their habit without arousing their suspicions as to your motive.

Try to ask questions about the benefits to them of smoking weed. Even this subject may antagonise them sometimes. If it does, let it go.

However, some smokers may agree that they need to stop smoking weed, in which case you can try to talk to them about what is bad about it.

Either way, the conversation should be more about listening than it should be about talking. The power of argument and reason is severely limited in this area.

Persuade by example

There’s no way you can tell someone to stop smoking weed. But you can show someone to stop smoking weed.

If you read some of the articles on this blog about how to stop smoking cannabis, you will find that I used self-hypnosis and meditation to stop. This new positive habit led me to a virtuous circle of exercising more, eating better and taking up more constructive hobbies.

All of these new experiences made me feel better and therefore the chances of me relapsing were severely reduced.

These life-changing positive habits don’t have to be confined to those battling with addiction! You can try them as well.

So read more challenging books, go out more, take more exercise, indulge yourself in different hobbies that interest you. Why? Because these are the things that weed completely robs from the people who have a bad cannabis habit. If you smoke all day in a way that is very negative, the first thing that goes is your spirit of childlike inquisitiveness, your spark of life, your joie de vivre, your ability to get up and go and try something new!

How to get someone to stop smoking weed

Your loved one is more likely to see what they’re missing if someone shows them rather than tells them!

What do you think?

Do you live with someone who has a weed habit that is detrimental to their health? What is the best way to help them achieve their potential?

Weed can be psychologically addictive that quitting it can be challenging

Weed may not be very physically addictive – there are none of the acute withdrawal symptoms you get with quitting heroin or alcohol – however the psychological addiction to cannabis maybe even more of a challenge.

I’m not lecturing, by the way. If you like smoking weed – that’s fine by me. But, if you’ve had enough of rolling up spliffs and getting blasted everyday, here are some ideas on how you can attack the cravings and live a happy and successful life without weed.

Work out how much a year you spend on weed

Be honest! How often do you buy the stuff? Every week? How much do you spend? About $50? That’s over two and half grand a year – you could have bought a car with that. OK, maybe a not a decent car, but it’s a substantial amount of money.

Write a journal

When you encounter a big change in your life it’s really good to get your ideas on paper. You’ll be outside a comfort zone for a while and it’ll be important to keep grounded in some way and writing some from of diary is a great idea. Better still, set up a free blog at WordPress.com and do it digitally!

Write down the advantages and disadvantages of cannabis

And, while you’re in the writing mood, it’s a good idea to jot down the reasons you started smoking weed and why you continued to become a regular user of cannabis. This will help you discover why it became a big thing in your life and how you can get on without it.

Then write down all you hope to achieve in the months and years to come. Picture yourself in the future being free of having to smoke weed everyday – what will you be doing once the marijuana haze has gone?

Discover new hobbies

As you have found out – taking away cannabis can leave a large hole in your life. You’re going to need hobbies – lots of them. I don’t mean stamp collecting and needle point but you will find your mind opening up without pot so there will be room for more interests in your life.

And the more you practice these pastimes, the less likely you are to start smoking weed again. So, get creative! Remember some old forgotten hobbies you enjoyed before the weed habit took over. Get sporty! Exercise is the very best thing you can be doing. It releases endorphins, makes you feel better about yourself and it’s healthy! Get cooking! Your taste buds will come alive (because of giving up smoking, not because of munchies!) so you should experiment with healthy cooking. Discover new whole foods that you’ve never tasted before and savor the time you spend eating. Enjoy every mouthful, every chew!

Read! After a few days without marijuana you will find that your concentration improves and therefore your interest in books will increase and you’ll read more and learn more.

Relax with meditation and self-hypnosis

After giving up weed you may be a little on edge. Meditation can help you quit smoking weed. You can try yoga, breathing exercises, even self-hypnosis. Spending time healing your mind instead of ingratiating your body is a great thing to do.

Realise it’s not your fault!

Just because you’ve spent months smoking weed everyday doesn’t make you a bad person. You may have encountered panic attacks and paranoia from smoking weed and you may be feeling down generally. We’ve all been there. But all things must pass. You are an amazing person and you will see that soon!

Find a support group

There are more and more groups in communities all around the world dedicated to helping people with problems with weed. If you can find one in your local area it may be worth hooking up with them. You’re not on your own and it’s great to meet people in the same boat as you.

You may also like to consult a doctor about it if possible.

Spend time with people who care about you

Most people have loving family members that offer unconditional support. Spend time with these people and try to avoid friends you used to smoke weed with.

Online courses

There are a couple of good downloadable audio courses to help you stop smoking marijuana. Investing in one of these will prove to yourself that you are serious about this. I particularly enjoyed Gary Evan’s The Cannabis Coach and the Mighty Oak Inner Strength Guide.

What do you think?

Have you ever quit smoking weed for a long period of time? Has this been useful advice for you? These are the things that benefitted me on my journey – but everyone’s different.

There are plenty more things you can do that you can find out at this blog. Underneath this post you can find out about my FREE How to Stop Smoking Weed e-book and FREE Relaxation MP3 – you could download them and give them a try. Again, I would love to hear what you think.

Marijuana can cause mild paranoid feelings, intense confusion, feelings of self-worthlessness and panic attacks

There has not been much research on the subject, but Italian scientists have found that low doses of the psychoactive chemical in weed can be calming while large amounts have the opposite effect.

Hearsay evidence certainly points towards the fact that most people who’ve smoked weed – if they’re honest – will have experienced paranoid feelings.

The range of paranoid feelings that weed can induce is huge. They include mild paranoid feelings that can be laughed off, through intense confusion, feelings of self-worthlessness to extreme paranoia. Many marijuana smokers report having had full blown panic attacks – either while smoking weed or at some other time.

Even though, these feelings may be mild, the stronger paranoid feelings are extremely unpleasant for the individuals experiencing them and, amazingly, online health forums are full of weed users asking: “how can I smoke weed without getting paranoid?”

The answer, of course, is to stop smoking weed.

But it’s not always that easy. I know that weed, even though it’s obviously not doing you any good, is still difficult to give up.

If you think you may be experiencing negative emotions as a result of smoking weed, and you are interested in trying to quit, then you may be interested in downloading my free e-book and relaxation MP3 to help you stop smoking weed.

What can you do about paranoia?

Unfortunately, not a great deal. You just have to give up smoking weed. You can try the relaxation and breathing exercises outlined in the above-mentioned free e-book and MP3, but as you will be stoned whilst you are experiencing this paranoid feelings this will be of limited value.

If you are experiencing paranoid feelings when you haven’t even been smoking then there’s plenty you can do. You can concentrate on your breathing and try to make sure you are conscious only of your breathing and try not to think about anything else.

This is easier said than done but, believe me, it does work!

If you have any recurring paranoia that is worrying you then the best thing to do is to consult your doctor. Don’t be embarrassed. Don’t worry that you’ll be labelled as a pot smoker or that they will think you are wasting their time. If you are really worried about your mental balance you should always seek professional help.

What can you do about panic attacks?

Similarly with the above advice about paranoia, if you are really worried about panic attacks then you should consult a professional.

However, a simple panic attack will actually never harm you. A classic case of panic attack is caused by a slight increase in heart rate (caused by smoking or something else), you feel mild anxiety over the feeling in your chest, your heart rate increases still more, you get more anxious, your heart rate increases … so begins the vicious circle.

It’s good to know, then, that no one ever died of a panic attack. In fact, there’s nothing wrong with you. If you stop smoking weed you’ll probably not have one again.

Again, concentrating on your breathing and trying not to think about anything else will help. Although, if you are really worried you should talk to your doctor.

What do you think?

Have you ever had anxiety, paranoia or panic attacks due to weed? What have you done to counter-act them?

Taking moments to heal your mind and relax can help you with all of life's difficulties

You can find this free relaxation MP3 together with a free e-book at this website.

This relaxation technique helped me quit weed and cigarettes, stopped me drinking too much and turned me from an introspected and depressed person into one that was outgoing and happy.

I don’t claim to understand everything about meditation and happiness but I do know that every human culture across the millennia of history have all practiced meditation or “followed their breathing” in order to calm their thoughts and enter a realm of peace and understanding.

How to listen to this Relaxation MP3

Try to do this at the beginning of a day. Do not do this when stoned or inebriated in any way. It will only work with a clear mind.

Sit on a chair with your legs in front of you. You may have them standing on the floor in front of the chair legs or stretched out but keep them uncrossed.

Find a way of sitting that allows you to feel most comfortable and eventually close your eyes.

Pay attention to any tension in your body. Observe any areas of your body that are tense and relax them.

You should be comfortable but your back should be straight. You should be relaxed but your mind and body should be alert.

Observe your breathing for a moment. Breathe as naturally as possible. Take long, slow, deep breaths. Focus your attention on your breath for some moments. Feel the sensations of your breath on your nostrils or your mouth as it goes in and out.

If you find your mind wondering to another subject, observe it, don’t scold yourself for doing this, and just gently put your observation back to your breathing.

If you find yourself falling asleep – this happens sometimes – just wake yourself up and put your observation back to your breathing. You may find your concentration improve shortly after waking up.

Meditation and Self-Hypnosis to stop smoking cannabis

I made this video of the relaxation method.

Make sure you download this free relaxation MP3 you will find it a useful resource.

Although this has been prepared for those who wish to give up smoking marijuana. It can also be used by those who wish to give up smoking cigarettes or who have any other unwanted habits in their lives.

If you continue to use the relaxation technique everyday you will find that the stresses and strains of everyday life will gradually reduce and you will start to live the happy life you always wanted!

The free meditation is here. I wish you all the best.

If you are worried about your cannabis use help is at hand

Many people wonder, after a while smoking marijuana, that the harmless herb isn’t a more problematic substance. Have you found yourself wondering if you’re smoking too much? Is it affecting your moods? Is it diminishing your ability to get on and interact with people?

Despite what “experts” may tell you, the only person can really answer these questions is you. If you take our test below and answer the following questions honestly there maybe somethings we can do to help.

1. Do you smoke nearly everyday?

Fairly obvious question to start with. Is it more likely than not that you will have some sort of marijuana during the course of an average day? Even if you’re likely to smoke 5 days or more of the last 10 then you need to answer “yes” to this question. If you have answered “yes” to this question then your cannabis use is more than just a recreational habit and more deeply ingrained into your life.

2. Do you end up smoking more than you intended?

Do you ever confront situations and tell yourself “I’m not going to get too wasted” or “I’ll only have a couple of tokes” and end up getting much more stoned than you wanted to? This seeming lack of will power may start to annoy you.

3. Do you find it hard to imagine having a good time without drugs?

When you think of things that you want to do in the future – does marijuana come into it?

4. Do you choose friends, associates, partners based on their cannabis use?

Of the people you know and associate with by choice, are more than 50% of them weed-smokers?

5. Do you do less that you used to?

This is a difficult one to quantify. It’s very hard to notice how weed surreptitiously takes your drive and love of life from you. You may have to think way back to when you’d just started smoking, what were you doing at the time? Did you have any hobbies that you can’t be bothered with now? Did you aspire to be more than you aspire to now? Had you just engaged with certain projects with a long term goal in mind that you no longer think about? Marijuana has taken that away from you.

6. Do you continue to take marijuana even though you know it’s not good for you?

Have you smoked weed at a particular time when you absolutely knew it wasn’t a good idea? Before meeting someone? When you’ve been ill with a cough? Before or during work?

The results

If you have answered “yes” to any of the questions above then it is quite possible that you are addicted to weed and you have a problem with it. However, don’t worry, you are not alone.

A "harmless" recreational pastime can turn into a full-blown addiction

Weed addiction can cause health problems, a reduction in earning potential and serious turmoil in personal and family relationships. But there is an answer. If you have identified the problem you need a plan of action and then you will succeed in improving your life to be happier and healthier.

There are several articles on this website with help and advice on how to stop smoking weed.

You could also seek the advice of professionals, not only within your community, but there are also audio programs you can buy like those by Gary Evans, the Cannabis Coach, who offers a holistic guide to how to stop smoking weed with reduced side effects and anxiety.

These programs have been positively reviewed here and elsewhere and also offer a 2-month money-back guarantee so you can’t go wrong!

However, any work you do with an audio program must be backed up with a strong desire to improve your life and a willingness to move away from weed addiction.

Cannabis can turn from recreational pastime to a downward progression away from our hopes and dreams

Marijuana is not evil, we thought, it’s a herb, it’s soft, people have smoked this stuff for centuries. People don’t smoke cannabis and immediately go out and rob old women or hold up a liquor store.

All this is true, of course. However, thousands and thousands of people smoke cannabis everyday and are seemingly trapped in a painful cycle of loneliness and boredom. It seems that “cannabis addiction” does exist – and it’s very unpleasant to experience and difficult to conquer.

What is Cannabis Addiction?

No one will ever be able to tell you at which point their life changed.

At what point did we stop smoking weed recreationally, once in a while, when we were with certain people, when we where in a certain mood? And at what point did our habit start to control us? When did we become lost inside ourselves, trapped by our inner voice which tried to normalise or justify our behavior?

I smoke weed because life makes no sense. Because I can’t get a decent job. Because of the fact that my wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/husband doesn’t understand me. Or because I don’t understand why I don’t have a wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/husband. That’s why I smoke.

Cannabis addiction comes at the point when we stop using weed to enhance an already enjoyable situation and start using it to escape from the world.

Some of our friends stop smoking weed, form new relationships, move on and flourish. Many of us, however, remained trapped in the endless cycle of getting high all the time – cocooning ourselves with cannabis, music, television, meaningless conversation and endless hours of fighting boredom.

What we considered at one time to be a boredom-reliever becomes the single cause of boredom, stagnation and unhappiness – cannabis.

We end up blaming everything for this crisis. We blame our families, we blame our friends, our jobs, ourselves, everything. But we never blame cannabis.

Some of our friends leave cannabis behind and flourish as individuals

We try to change our jobs, we try to change our lifestyle, we try to change the people we are hanging around with, we even try to change our methods of getting high. But we deny having to change the one constant that has got us into this mess in the first place.

How can we fight Cannabis Addiction?

You need a plan to stop smoking weed. It’s not something that you can just decide to do one minute and do the next. It’s best to seek help from other people. You can download an audio course on the alleviation of cannabis suffering which I found very useful.

Or you could download my e-book called How To Stop Smoking Weed which you can see under this blog post.

The first week without cannabis is all important and is when most of the relapses occur

There are many things you should do once you have decided to stop smoking weed. You need to have a plan before you even start your new life without cannabis. But, in the first week there are a number of do’s and don’ts that can help you stay off pot for good.

Out of your comfort zone time passes by so slowly

Once you have stopped smoking marijuana for at least 24 hours after a lengthy period of getting stoned everyday, you will start to notice many changes.

You will experience the time pass slower than before. This will be especially noticeable around the times you used to smoke weed – if you were an evening smoker, you will experience this towards the end of the day.

Weed, for some people, is like a comfort blanket, a warm and familiar covering without which life seems difficult.

However, the experience of time passing more slowly and the fact that you are now outside your comfort zone will be the cause of some beneficial changes in your life.

Time can be the biggest killer when you've just quit cannabis

The sudden increase of time with seemingly nothing to do will cause you to find new ways to occupy yourself.

How to relieve the boredom

You should try to indulge yourself with any hobby that you can. You may like to resurrect old pastimes that you’d given up or seek out new avenues of occupation. Either way here are some ideas of what to do with this new found time:

• Visit your local library. Libraries give us power. They’re not just for nerds. There’s something else that’s great about them: they’re free. Try out books and subjects here that may interest you. You don’t have to read them, just have a look at the first few pages rather than buying books on Amazon.
• Take up a new exercise routine. I’ve talked a lot about how exercise can help you overcome a cannabis addiction but you may find it more useful to start a martial art or yoga. Karate, Judo, Tai Chi, Pilates, Capoeira, Boxing, Weight Watchers, Boxercise, Circuits, Body Combat, Kung Fu, Ju Jitsu, Aikido or just jogging – are all fantastic ideas at this stage.
• Use the internet and social media to find people to meet up with in your local area with similar interests to yours.
• Cook a meal that is both delicious and really cheap. See if you can cook a meal for two with ingredients that cost less than $5. This will put you on course to discover the joys of eating fresh vegetables and other healthy foods which is essential to keep your strength up during this trying time.

These are ideas of what to do on your own but, of course, it’s essential that you also think of things to do with your partner or family.

• Organize outings with your loved ones. Pick a place of interest to go to explore, take and packed lunch and go for a walk. This is an activity that can be great fun and won’t cost much more than staying indoors.
• Play games. Get out some old board games or playing cards. This is a great activity you can enjoy with your loved ones.

If many of these suggestions may seem trite I apologise as I don’t want to appear corny. Different people will find different activities to take the place of the weed. The trick is keep looking for things to do to fill the gap and know that eventually these bad feelings will pass.

Avoid your triggers

Just in the same way you need to find hobbies or ways to fight boredom, you should also avoid all situations or people that used to be triggers for you to smoke marijuana. Avoid certain groups of friends you used to smoke with and avoid certain situations where you know cannabis will be freely available. It makes sense not to put temptation in your way during this stage.

The first week is absolutely critical

You are most likely to relapse in the first week of quitting cannabis so the most important thing is to be on your toes and find a solution quickly to any feelings of boredom or unpleasantness that could result in a desire to start smoking weed again.

Many of these points and more are discussed in the Cannabis Coach Audio Program – a series of MP3′s you can download that will help you stop smoking weed and keep you clear of cannabis during the first week and beyond. If you’re interested there’s a link to the course’s page below this post.

And further below that is where you can sign up to receive my free e-book and email tips on quitting cannabis.