Misc Quit MJ after 17 yrs a 1/2 oz a week user. HELP - Page 2

Chief Roundup · 02-12-2006, 01:54 PM

Have any of you guys ever quit and struggled like I am? I know it is what I want to do but I am alienating everyone around me. Man this sucks. I can't seem to control myself. I am not yelling but I am so confused and emotional like a woman right now it is horrible.

SLAG · 02-12-2006, 02:46 PM

remember Mj is not physically addcitive only mentaly.

Unline Nicotine or Alchohol

MJ additcion is all mental

Mind over matter buddy!

Chief Roundup · 02-12-2006, 02:46 PM

Hey guys I am through. Just seeing how this is affecting makes me feel very ugly and not worthy of the great people that are now in my life.
The funny thing is that the kids seem to be calming but my wife seems to be the one that I am cold and distant to. And she does not deserve that.

I will never smoke again. It is over. It is just a matter of getting past this without making her hate me right now and wanting to leave.

B_Ambuehl · 02-12-2006, 02:52 PM

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I gave up Copenhagen a month ago after chewing for over 25 years. I just woke up one day and said fug this, I'm done and gave it up cold turkey. I had read in advance that giving up chew was equivalent to knocking a heroin habit because of the amount of nicotine in a single pinch of chew. I knew what I was in for in advance and it still kicked my ass. I ran the same emotional gamut you are going through and was a world class dick weed to be around. I am just now leveling off. It must have taken that long for all the nicotine to leave my system. There were days when I was about half crazy.

Nictoine is very difficult to cold turkey. I bought a can of fake tobacco they sell at wal-mart called smokey mountain. Mixed 1/2 a can of copenhagen with 1/2 a can of that and only allowed myself a certain number of dips per day. After a few days I cut down on the dips allowed and then started mxiing only 1/4 copenhagen with 3/4 smokey mtn. Did that for a week or so and then finally switched all the way over to the fake stuff with no copenhagen. It was much easier then i thought it would initially be. If i had to do it again i would also use wellbutrin or zyban to help in the process.

**Bwana** · 02-12-2006, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

dip doesn't really affect you or the people around you like a marijuana addiction.. that's like biting your nails.

Like biting your nails? As far as I know, biting yoru nails won't cause cancer or cost you a shit load of money. As far as quitting, quitting weed is easier than to quitting the Chew habit because of the physical addiction factor related to nicotine..........seriously, look it up.

SLAG · 02-12-2006, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

Like biting your nails? As far as I know, biting yoru nails won't cause cancer or cost you a shit load of money. As far as quitting, quitting weed is easier than to quitting the Chew habit because of the physical addiction factor related to nicotine..........seriously, look it up.

He is And Idiot

Chief Roundup · 02-12-2006, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

Like biting your nails? As far as I know, biting yoru nails won't cause cancer or cost you a shit load of money. As far as quitting, quitting weed is easier than to quitting the Chew habit because of the physical addiction factor related to nicotine..........seriously, look it up.

Well I quit smoking cigs for 4 months and it was not nearly as emotional as stopping MJ. I did start cigs again after that though.

go bo · 02-12-2006, 03:01 PM

psssst...

if you're quitting, can i have your pipe?

**Bwana** · 02-12-2006, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by B_Ambuehl

Nictoine is very difficult to cold turkey. I bought a can of fake tobacco they sell at wal-mart called smokey mountain. Mixed 1/2 a can of copenhagen with 1/2 a can of that and only allowed myself a certain number of dips per day. After a few days I cut down on the dips allowed and then started mxiing only 1/4 copenhagen with 3/4 smokey mtn. Did that for a week or so and then finally switched all the way over to the fake stuff with no copenhagen. It was much easier then i thought it would initially be. If i had to do it again i would also use wellbutrin or zyban to help in the process.

That may have been a better route to go, but in my mind, I'm either doing something or I'm not so that's why I said screw this I'm doing it cold turkey. That technique is not for everyone, but I knew it was best for my personality. I knew it would be harder up front, but would be over faster. The first three weeks were a total bitch, but the last week was a walk through the park on a comparative level.

Every week I put $25 into a box (what it was costing me to use Copenhagen plus a little extra) and after one year, I am going to take the money and do something with the family. Here's the kicker.

I told my wife if I fell off the wagon for even one chew during that year, I would make myself triple what was in the kitty and donate the money to PETA. Needless to say, I won't let that happen come hell or high water.

Eleazar · 02-12-2006, 03:13 PM

I thought this stuff wasn't addictive?

**BigMeatballDave** · 02-12-2006, 03:13 PM

I smoked alot of weed 10-15 years ago. Haven't smoked on a regular basis in 9. I quit because I moved to Ohio and wasn't hanging around people who used. That makes it easy...

**Bwana** · 02-12-2006, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ENDelt260

hahahaha... if you donate money to Peta you have to post it here.

LOL, Brian, you know me well enough to know hell would freeze over before I would let something as dreadful as that happen. I thought of the worst punishment I could think of in the event I ever fell off the wagon and for me, donating to PETA was it.........I'm done.

CrazyHorse · 02-12-2006, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

Have any of you guys ever quit and struggled like I am? I know it is what I want to do but I am alienating everyone around me. Man this sucks. I can't seem to control myself. I am not yelling but I am so confused and emotional like a woman right now it is horrible.

Find something to do. Perhaps poker.

**BigMeatballDave** · 02-12-2006, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Cochise

I thought this stuff wasn't addictive?

I've always heard that. I never felt I ever really NEEDED it. I don't see how it could be chemically addicitive, just psychologically, I suppose...

**KcMizzou** · 02-12-2006, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

LOL, Brian, you know me well enough to know hell would freeze over before I would let something as dreadful as that happen.

You bought a Peta fishing hat...

CrazyHorse · 02-12-2006, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by BigChiefDave

I've always heard that. I never felt I ever really NEEDED it. I don't see how it could be chemically addicitive, just psychologically, I suppose...

Anything that your body is used to running on is an addiction. For example sugar. When you have maintained a certain sugar level and try to change that level your body is used to, your body will crave it until it reaches the sugar level it has become used to. Only after stopping for a couple weeks will your body aclimate to the new levels.

Until then, you will be irritable. The mood swings can be very severe. Nicotine is only an addiction because of the longevity that your body has run on it. You dont smoke one cigarette and are suddenly addicted. Your body has to aclimate to it. Once it does, and then you try to stop your body is starving for it. That applies whether it is nicotine, fat, sugar, whatever.

CRU, you are almost there.

02-12-2006, 01:54 PM
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02-12-2006, 02:46 PM	#17
Chief Roundup Admitted Planet Junky Join Date: Oct 2000 Casino cash: $1691627	Hey guys I am through. Just seeing how this is affecting makes me feel very ugly and not worthy of the great people that are now in my life. The funny thing is that the kids seem to be calming but my wife seems to be the one that I am cold and distant to. And she does not deserve that. I will never smoke again. It is over. It is just a matter of getting past this without making her hate me right now and wanting to leave. __________________ Fanaticism is nowhere. There is no tenderness or humanity in fanaticism.
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go bo Flop = Man of Steel!! Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: independence Casino cash: $10006405	psssst... if you're quitting, can i have your pipe?
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BigMeatballDave GBM 8-12-15 Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Dayton, Oh. Casino cash: $10052154	I smoked alot of weed 10-15 years ago. Haven't smoked on a regular basis in 9. I quit because I moved to Ohio and wasn't hanging around people who used. That makes it easy... __________________ 2015 Adopt-a-Chief: Tamba Hali
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