Anyone have any experience with going cold turkey on something..

[UglyCasanova]

Okay, so I've gone about 48 hours without smoking any pot or taking any kind of pills, and it sucks bad. During the daytime yesterday and today both I do fine, I think because I keep myself busy. But once it gets dark I guess some kind of craving kicks in in my head, because I start to have this really off feeling. It's a real uncomfortable feeling, like everything is just...off.

Anyone ever quit anything cold turkey, and if so is there anything I can do to get rid of this feeling? I've smoked a BUNCH everyday for going on 4 years now, and I've been using pills pretty heavily for maybe a year. There are various reasons I am quitting, but I have to get out of this whole scene. It has caused me to really get in a rut that I can't get out of, so it'll be for the best. To anyone looking into trying recreational drugs, it's your own body so do what you want but I highly recommend that you don't. It leads to nothing but laziness (severe laziness, not just ah I don't feel like doing that) and sucks your money away.


Anyways, even to the people who quit cigarettes which I still smoke and I imagine are a hell of a lot harder to quit, what did you do?

 

[DigDug]

off = starting to become normal. You are just not used to being in your own skin, facing yourself.

Be with yourself. You haven't for so long. It's just you! Don't be so afraid, right?

And I'm not joking, this is really what it is. You've stunted your emotional strenght and development for 4 years. You need to get to know you. And that's you with your sober mind just sitting there, with nothing to distract it - at least chemically.

Listen to some music, but not that which is associated with drugs. Talk to people - I'm sure you still know a few despite the many you've let slide by - who don't revolve around drugs. See what they say, what they do. Even if it resorts to mechanically copying their schedule of life, or if you are comfortable enough, asking them what they do when they are just relaxing and being them, DO it.

you have to reprogram yourself about how you live. It's only after you stop drugs, do you realize how much of life was wrapped up in them.

Right?

 

[jacc1234]

Quit opiates cold turkey, was not fun but im much better off now.

 

[Horus]

Quit drinking, basically cold turkey. Man did that suck.

 

[kogase]

Aspirin, straight up. It was a rough few days, but with the help of my family and the grace of Jesus I managed to conquer my addiction.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Good luck, you can do it :thumbsup:

Listen to a lot of GYBE to occupy your time

 

[SampSon]

I quit smoking cold turkey, it was easy.
I used to smoke bud very heavily, but I just stopped because I just didn't want to anymore.

 

[Hankysmoo]

It's all about will power. Don't let some substance control your life.

 

[gooseman]

I can't give you any advice other than to hang in there, I'm sure it will get better as the days go on.

I do applaud you for the effort and hope you accomplish your goal. I'm rooting for you.

 

[RCN]

What pills?
I doubt it is the pot giving you these symptoms although it isn't unheard of. Keep smoking and quit the pills. Should take the edge off.

Later quit smoking. Or don't and just change the background of the "scene".

 

[DigDug]

Listen, bro. YOU are the owner of your own life. You've made the bravest and strongest decision that most people in life ever make, simply because most people aren't ever given a chocie as difficult as you.

And you've come out with flying colors ALREADY. You chose the right path. Your inner heart was still beating strong enough that you listened and followed suit. Its not about me or anyone telling you what's right. YOU obviously know what's right because you've made the choice you have. Don't lose sight of that.

Print this thread out if you must. In fact, write down on a peice of paper why you made the choice you did and PRINT THAT OUT on a peice of paper. Put that in your wallet, or wherever else you'll be able to reach for it. Sometimes we need a reminder of why we do what we do, and there's noone better to remind us than ourselves, in our own writing.

You've made a decision that may be rough, and may hurt right now, but if there's one thing you know, its this: WHERE YOU WERE BEFORE WAS WHERE YOU WERE UNHAPPY. So there is really no other choice than what you've made, right?

If not now, WHEN?

Best of luck.

 

[DigDug]

Keep smoking and quit the pills

Shut the fvck up, stoner. He's made his choice.

 

[AreaCode707]

No experience so I probably can't offer any great advice, but major kudos to you for making and sticking with this decision. You'll remember this as a huge turning point in your life.

 

[George P Burdell]

You won half your battle when you made the choice to quit. Just keep it up for a few more days, and you'll be set. :thumbsup:

 

[RCN]

Originally posted by: DigDug

Keep smoking and quit the pills

Shut the fvck up, stoner. He's made his choice.

:roll:

I'm not a stoner. I haven't smoked in years. I just quit one day. Not for any real reason I just stopped. No cravings or anything which is the norm for weed.

If the "craving" becomes overwhelming because the unknown pills have a strong physical addiction smoking a little weed would be a whole lot better than going back to the pills.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: RCN

Originally posted by: DigDug

Keep smoking and quit the pills

Shut the fvck up, stoner. He's made his choice.

:roll:

I'm not a stoner. I haven't smoked in years. I just quit one day. Not for any real reason I just stopped. No cravings or anything which is the norm for weed.

If the "craving" becomes overwhelming because the unknown pills have a strong physical addiction smoking a little weed would be a whole lot better than going back to the pills.

The pills are really whatever I can get my hands on, but for the most part I take a lot of hydrocodone and methadone. I can't just quit the pills though and keep smoking, because if I do that I'll never quit the fvcking pills. I have to get out of this enviroment.

 

[everman]

Normally I would insert some kind of stupid comment about pie or cheese, however I'd just like to encourage you to hang in there and quit that stuff.

 

[RCN]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: RCN

Originally posted by: DigDug

Keep smoking and quit the pills

Shut the fvck up, stoner. He's made his choice.

:roll:

I'm not a stoner. I haven't smoked in years. I just quit one day. Not for any real reason I just stopped. No cravings or anything which is the norm for weed.

If the "craving" becomes overwhelming because the unknown pills have a strong physical addiction smoking a little weed would be a whole lot better than going back to the pills.

The pills are really whatever I can get my hands on, but for the most part I take a lot of hydrocodone and methadone. I can't just quit the pills though and keep smoking, because if I do that I'll never quit the fvcking pills. I have to get out of this enviroment.

Wow...good luck. Methadone is as hard to quit as heroin.

I suggest you find a forum with recovering addicts.

 

[DigDug]

Opiates do cause a physical addiction. The important thing is that, if you do start taking pills again, it's not because you are a loser or destined to be this way, you may need a professional detox program. Much of the "not right" feeling is just a rebound of pain - our body proliferates "pain centers" as a response to an influx of opiates.

This is NORMAL. There's nothing wrong with you. Just imagine a life of feeling good without any pill whatsoever! Your body and YOU can be that way!

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: RCN

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: RCN

Originally posted by: DigDug

Keep smoking and quit the pills

Shut the fvck up, stoner. He's made his choice.

:roll:

I'm not a stoner. I haven't smoked in years. I just quit one day. Not for any real reason I just stopped. No cravings or anything which is the norm for weed.

If the "craving" becomes overwhelming because the unknown pills have a strong physical addiction smoking a little weed would be a whole lot better than going back to the pills.

The pills are really whatever I can get my hands on, but for the most part I take a lot of hydrocodone and methadone. I can't just quit the pills though and keep smoking, because if I do that I'll never quit the fvcking pills. I have to get out of this enviroment.

Wow...good luck. Methadone is as hard to quit as heroin.

I suggest you find a forum with recovering addicts.

Harder apparently.
That's the sick joke about methadone treatment. You get off the H but you get on a more addictive(albeit legal) opiate.

 

[nboy22]

quitting weed cold turkey is not hard at all.It must be the pills getting you because when I quit I used to smoke at LEAST 2 times a day every day. It wasn't hard to quit

 

[EGGO]

An eating disorder.

Amazing what you'd do for someone you truly care about.

 

[myusername]

Cigarettes. 7½ months. Quitting the weed never had much of an effect beyond a desire to constantly talk about weed and how much I wish I had some. Used pills but fortunate enough to have a finite supply because I am a hermit with no connections. Definitely know the feeling from the cigarettes though. It's almost like being buzzed, things look sharper around the edges, feeling somewhat aloof .. but none of the pleasant emotional aspects of a buzz. It goes away after awhile, probably another 48 hours or so. The desire might last for a couple weeks, though it should be manageable. The problem is not getting through the quitting period, but the ability to realize, a month, half a year, or 2 years later that you can't just have one for old times sake or to reward yourself for doing so well or because you are feeling down. Good luck.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: myusername
The problem is not getting through the quitting period, but the ability to realize, a month, half a year, or 2 years later that you can't just have one for old times sake or to reward yourself for doing so well or because you are feeling down. Good luck.

Yep, that is what I had to do with coke. I could actually tell that I was becoming addicted to coke so I swore it off and have never had it since. A buddy of mine that I was taking it with didn't quit when I did, and it took him pawning all of his stuff off to buy more before he eventually did. I've had it offered to me many times, and it is HARD to turn down a free line, but I simply won't let myself touch it again. I think it's going to have to be the same way with pills and pot. Not even an every once in a while.

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: myusername
The problem is not getting through the quitting period, but the ability to realize, a month, half a year, or 2 years later that you can't just have one for old times sake or to reward yourself for doing so well or because you are feeling down. Good luck.

Yep, that is what I had to do with coke. I could actually tell that I was becoming addicted to coke so I swore it off and have never had it since. A buddy of mine that I was taking it with didn't quit when I did, and it took him pawning all of his stuff off to buy more before he eventually did. I've had it offered to me many times, and it is HARD to turn down a free line, but I simply won't let myself touch it again. I think it's going to have to be the same way with pills and pot. Not even an every once in a while.

Damn, looks like you hang out with the wrong people. Stay out of the druggie scene, dude, don't let chemicals control and ruin your life.