Thank you very much! Know that I really appreciate your help, even if I can't Thank you individually!
To get off of alcohol, I sat in the house and smoked pot heavily for a month. To get off of weed I just stopped. To get off of nicotine I smoked CBD weed heavily for a week and then stopped smoking weed again. I smoked regular weed on for a random week because I found out CBD could cause false positives for THC on a drug test, then I quit again.
Alcohol free: 306 days
Weed free: 25 days
Nicotine free: 50 days
So you're saying that weed is a solution to evrry addiction. Nice.
Jk lol congratulation on your beinf drug free!
Lol, thank you! Alcohol was the worst one to get off of, nicotine being a close second.
Had a really bad weed addiction (yes I know it's psychological but imo it was harder than quitting cigarettes)
Whenever I tried to quit I wouldn't be able to sleep for up to 3 days at a time. If I got past that I could be clean for a month or two before caving and falling back into weed usage.
Turns out I had really bad OCD and PTSD and zero serotonin (thus, no sleep). I got put on Lexapro and the obsessions were 90% better after that, and the weed usage has gone from daily to once every few months, with friends. The hard part has been adjusting, and developing, a new lifestyle and hobbies to replace the drug use. I also have Been grieving the decade I lost to addiction and trauma.
My tips: addiction is a response to something else going on. It's not laziness, it's not lack of willpower, it's not because you are a monster. It might be due to covering up pain, or because you're self medicating and don't realize it. Be kind to yourself, because the world is unnecessarily shitty to addicts.
Exercise helped my depression, which in turn helped my addictions.
Stopping was the easy part, I drank myself into liver/kidney failure. I’ve stayed sober one day at a time.
Getting counseling, a psychological evaluation and a prescription for my anxiety helped me learn about the root cause of my drinking and how to manage it in a healthy way.
