Help for Marijuana Addiction

I never thought that I needed help for my marijuana addiction. I always thought that when the time was right I would just quit. And if the time never came than I would just smoke weed until I die. I never saw anything wrong with that for a long time. Then things started to go wrong for me. My employer started doing random drug screens and I came up dirty for weed. After a long situation, I ended up losing that job. That was a blow. But the worst thing was when my girlfriend left me for an investment banker because of my marijuana addiction.

She said she didn’t want to end up with a loser like me who hung out at my house with smoking weed with my roommates all day long. Finally I decided that I might have a marijuana problem. And, I decided that I didn’t like myself very much and that I needed to make some changes in my life. The first thing I decided was that I had to quit smoking marijuana.

But how to do it? How do you quit smoking weed? I certainly didn’t know what to do. I thought I could just stop smoking weed and be done with it, however it did not really work out that way. What happened was that I had terrible marijuana withdrawal. I got anxiety and irritability plus I couldn’t sleep at night. Things would get so bad that I couldn’t stand it anymore and I’d break down and smoke some weed. This happened a few times and it always ended the same way, with me telling me what a loser that I was because I had a problem with marijuana.

Around this time, I had heard about some people who had discovered how to quit weed but I didn’t trust them at all. I was very close minded back then! I thought that I would do it myself no matter what what. I wasn’t a drug addict after all, I just smoked too much weed. See, I was closed minded.

A the time if someone had told me exactly how to quit smoking pot, I wouldn’t have believed them. I would have been suspicious but most of all I just wouldn’t have listened because I did not want anyone telling me how to do it. If I couldn’t do it myself then it wasn’t worth doing.

Does that sound familiar? Just about every person I have spoken to who wanted to quit smoking went through a phase where they wouldn’t listen to anyone’s advice on quitting smoking pot. All they would do was insist that they could handle there business and quit on there own. If that is the shape you are in, then don’t worry — Everyone was there once.

What I finally learned was that it wasn’t weak to ask for help on how to quit smoking weed. It wasn’t stupid to try the same strategies that have worked for millions of people. It was smart. When I realized this I couldn’t believe how bull headed I had been. I realized what better thing that to listen to the people who actually know!

I also realized that I needed to start calling this thing by the proper name. It was an addiction. I needed help for marijuana addiction! Once I came to the realization that I was just like everyone else who was struggling with weed, I realized that I could start to take direction and take steps that would help me give it up.

I searched all over the internet for information about marijuana addiction. I read blogs and websites and articles. I talked on forums to lots of former weed smokers who had overcome their addiction. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Everyone was offering me help, and they were totally willing to help me. I felt so stupid! Why didn’t I open my eyes sooner. All I had to do was visit a few websites that were all about how to quit smoking weed and open my eyes.

I started at MA but I read every website I could find. And, lo and behold, I started to get some answers. The fact of the matter was that once I was willing to open my eyes and do my part, the information just seemed to find me.

So, that’s the first step in getting help for your marijuana addiction: Educating yourself. Stop living in the shadows and step out into the light my friend.

More to come.