I Quit Smoking Weed. How I Feel After 3 Months of Sobriety
Summary
TLDRIn this video, the creator shares their personal journey of quitting smoking weed after being a regular user since 16. They discuss the reasons behind their decision, including increased anxiety and a realization that weed had become a coping mechanism rather than a creative tool. The creator details their experience with withdrawal symptoms and the 'pink cloud' of clarity post-quitting, emphasizing that while quitting weed didn't solve all their problems, it allowed them to acknowledge and address underlying issues. They also share how they replaced smoking with healthier habits like exercising and meditation, ultimately leading to a more present and fulfilling lifestyle.
Takeaways
- 🚭 The speaker quit smoking weed after being a regular user since the age of 16.
- 🌿 The decision to quit was personal and came after experiencing negative effects like panic attacks and increased anxiety.
- 🔄 The speaker acknowledges that weed can be a useful tool for some, but for them, it became a coping mechanism that hindered personal growth.
- 🌱 The withdrawal symptoms were real and included disrupted sleep patterns, anxiety, and physical discomfort.
- 💪 The speaker replaced weed with healthier habits like exercising, which helped in managing withdrawal and improving overall well-being.
- 🧘 The journey included rebuilding self-trust by making and keeping small commitments to oneself, like daily workouts.
- 🌈 The 'pink cloud' phase post-quitting was a period of increased clarity and motivation, which eventually faded, requiring ongoing commitment.
- 🏋️♂️ The home gym expansion and regular exercise became key substitutes for the previous evening routine of smoking and gaming.
- 📸 The speaker still explores creativity through photography and video-making, indicating a continued pursuit of personal interests.
- 🌟 The experience of quitting weed has been transformative, leading to a desire to be the best version of oneself and live more fully.
Q & A
How long has the speaker been quitting smoking weed?
-The speaker has been quitting smoking weed for 12 weeks.
What was the speaker's longest break from smoking weed before this quit?
-The speaker's longest break from smoking weed before this quit was six months.
Why did the speaker decide to quit smoking weed?
-The speaker decided to quit because weed stopped being a useful creative tool and became a coping mechanism and avoidance of problems and responsibilities.
What physical symptoms did the speaker experience after quitting weed?
-The speaker experienced disrupted sleep patterns, increased anxiety, night sweats, and a general physical discomfort after quitting weed.
What is the 'pink cloud' mentioned in the script?
-The 'pink cloud' refers to a period of heightened clarity and positive feelings that can follow the cessation of drug use, where the individual feels more present and excited about life.
How has the speaker been substituting bad habits with good ones?
-The speaker has been substituting bad habits with good ones by committing to a fitness routine, expanding their home gym, and engaging in outdoor activities like walks.
What is the speaker's stance on the use of psychedelics?
-The speaker still uses psychedelics occasionally but responsibly, finding value in them for personal growth and believes they are anti-addictive.
How has quitting weed impacted the speaker's life?
-Quitting weed has allowed the speaker to acknowledge problems they were previously unaware of or avoiding, and it has led to a commitment to self-improvement and a healthier lifestyle.
What is the speaker's advice for those considering quitting weed?
-The speaker advises that if someone feels in their soul that they should stop using weed, they probably should, but also acknowledges that it's not for everyone and some people can use it responsibly.
What has the speaker been doing to rebuild trust in themselves?
-The speaker has been making and keeping small promises to themselves, such as committing to daily workouts and other healthy habits, to rebuild trust and maintain their commitment to sobriety.
How does the speaker feel about their current state of health and fitness?
-The speaker feels they are in the best shape they've been in the last two years, although they acknowledge there is still room for improvement and they are actively working on it.
Outlines
🌿 Quitting Weed: A Personal Journey
The speaker begins by announcing their decision to quit smoking weed, a habit they've had since the age of 16. They express surprise at how easy it has been, especially considering they never intended to quit before. The speaker details their past experiences with taking breaks from weed, their longest being six months. They discuss the negative effects of weed on their mental health, leading to anxiety and panic attacks, and how it transitioned from a creative tool to a coping mechanism. The speaker also acknowledges the benefits of marijuana for others while recognizing their own inability to use it responsibly.
🌱 Physical and Mental Changes After Quitting
The speaker describes the physical and mental withdrawal symptoms they experienced after quitting weed, such as disrupted sleep patterns, increased anxiety, and night sweats. They explain that while weed is not as physically addictive as other drugs, it still affects the body and requires time to readjust. The speaker also talks about the 'pink cloud' phase, a period of increased clarity and well-being following the cessation of drug use. They emphasize the importance of commitment to oneself and the process of rebuilding trust within oneself to maintain sobriety.
💪 Substituting Bad Habits with Good Ones
The speaker shares their commitment to fitness and self-care as a way to replace the habit of smoking weed. They discuss their increased physical activity, including home workouts and going to the gym, and how it has helped them stay active and healthy. The speaker also talks about the importance of building trust in oneself through small commitments and the process of integrating creativity and meditation into their daily life. They mention their occasional use of psychedelics in a responsible manner to aid in personal growth.
🌟 Embracing Sobriety and Personal Growth
In the final paragraph, the speaker reflects on the significance of quitting weed at their current stage in life, focusing on becoming the best version of themselves. They express a desire to face life's challenges directly rather than numbing themselves with weed. The speaker acknowledges their personal power and the importance of living a present and fulfilling life. They conclude by encouraging others who may be considering quitting weed, emphasizing that while it may not be the right choice for everyone, it has been a positive and necessary change for them.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Sobriety
💡Tolerance Breaks
💡Anxiety
💡Creative Tool
💡Coping Mechanism
💡Physical Symptoms
💡Pink Cloud
💡Relapse
💡Commitment
💡Substitute Habits
💡Meditation
Highlights
The speaker quit smoking weed after using it since the age of 16.
It has been 12 weeks without smoking weed, which was easier than expected.
The speaker never tried to quit before but took tolerance breaks, with the longest being six months.
Weed stopped being a useful tool and became a coping mechanism, leading to the decision to quit.
The speaker still supports responsible use of weed for those who can manage it.
The speaker's infrequent use of weed was still every night, leading to a decision to quit.
Quitting weed has allowed the speaker to acknowledge problems they were previously avoiding.
The speaker experienced physical symptoms like disrupted sleep and anxiety after quitting weed.
The 'pink cloud' phase after quitting involves increased clarity and presence.
The pink cloud effect fades, and the speaker had to deal with the reality of daily life.
Commitment to quitting was solidified by giving away smoking utensils.
The speaker replaced bad habits with good ones, such as exercising and improving fitness.
Working from home led to the expansion of a home gym to avoid the lack of motivation to go to a public gym.
The speaker now experiences a runner's or biker's high instead of relying on weed.
Small commitments to self-improvement, like daily workouts, have helped rebuild self-trust.
The speaker still uses psychedelics occasionally but in a responsible manner.
Meditation has been reintroduced into the speaker's routine to maintain sobriety.
Quitting weed has been a commitment to personal growth and being the best version of oneself.
The speaker encourages those who feel they should quit weed to listen to that inner voice.
The decision to quit weed should be supported by a community and environment.
Transcripts
hey everybody and uh welcome welcome to
my channel uh this is a video that I've
actually been kind of wanting to make
for a little bit but I also wanted to
get a little further out from uh the
process of what you've probably already
seen in the title uh I quit smoking weed
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which is for people who know me is crazy
for people who know me and you like know
how long I've been smoking weed since I
was 16. uh this is probably like you
don't believe it and that is totally
fair to not believe it however it's true
I stopped smoking weed and it will be 12
weeks without smoking weed and I gotta
say
way easier than I thought it would be
like way easier I'm like preface this by
saying I never tried to actually quit
smoking weed I would just take tolerance
breaks I would take breaks where I was
like dude I've been smoking too much I
need to like slow down and and give
myself a reset and my longest break I
ever took uh was actually like six
months but that was a few years ago so
that was before I even moved to Chicago
I don't know the the last several times
I had smoked before I decided to quit I
was just getting like panic attacks and
just a lot of anxiety and it really just
stopped doing what it used to do for me
it stopped being a useful creative tool
and it became this coping mechanism this
avoidance of my problems and my
responsibilities and I know that like
weed is not the [ __ ] Devil's lettuce
I still support people smoking weed I
think people who can responsibly use
wheat should totally still be able to do
it uh as long as you're old enough I've
proven to myself time and time again
that I cannot responsibly use marijuana
like I
I at my like most infrequent use of it
in terms of being a regular smoker
would still do it every night I wouldn't
do it during the day I wasn't like
smoking all day or anything like that
but I was somebody who and at the
evening at the end at the end of the day
I would unwind and I would smoke and I
would play video games or I'd watch
YouTube or Netflix or whatever
uh and
I just found that it was getting in the
way it was it was stopping me from doing
what I needed to do it is not the sole
thing and in fact that's something I've
learned in my journey of sobriety here I
started realizing different things that
I was not doing or ways that I was
getting in the way of myself from doing
things that I want to do or at least
that I say that I want to do and uh
breaking promises to myself you know and
when you start to lose that trust within
yourself and you stop believing yourself
when you make a commitment I mean that's
that's something you got to work on and
that's something that we we can't allow
to continue but I actually quit before I
ran out of weed I ended up giving it
away but uh but it is kind of funny like
I I really made a commitment in my head
of like I'm really gonna do this and I'm
really not gonna smoke and after that it
was easy and I know that that's strange
and that is not the usual experience I
think for most people it's pretty hard
but I've taken so many periodic breaks
where I recognize that I certainly was
healthier when I was was not smoking and
I was like I was better about regulating
what I was eating and I was just taking
care of myself better when I didn't
smoke uh but I kept telling myself that
like oh but like it's not the weed and
it's true it's not it's not just the
weed
uh there's a lot of things that would
get in my way me specifically getting in
my own way that is not just the weed and
quitting weed did not solve all of my
problems and I want to make that very
clear but it has allowed me to begin to
acknowledge the problems that maybe I
was unaware of or ignorant of or
choosing to not see
um and it has brought me to a present
moment where
I now am
much healthier just like much health I
can't say I'm the healthiest I've ever
been because the the truth is I've been
in much better shape than I'm in
although I am actually working on it uh
and I'm probably in the best shape I've
been in
in the last like two years but that bar
is kind of low because that's that's how
I got to this point I wanted to quit
wheat I kind of want to break into that
uh and and try to break down what has
happened with me in my process what have
I done in in order to change my habits
and to get myself out of the uh the
pattern of smoking and getting out of
the situations that I would put myself
in that would make me very likely to
smoke weed in the very beginning phases
when I first quit and I first was like
okay I'm done
um it was hard okay it wasn't hard to
not want to smoke that was the easy part
right like I knew I didn't want to smoke
I really did not have a craving to do it
however the withdrawal symptoms are real
man uh it's not a physically addictive
uh drug in the same way that like heroin
is or cocaine or whatever but it still
is it still is a drug that it has its
fangs on you and it does have a physical
effect when you quit
so one of the things that I notice right
away was my sleep pattern was completely
[ __ ] up uh because I used to go to
sleep you know I was tired from being
stoned and it would be easier for me to
fall asleep right away however in the
first few weeks of quitting like falling
asleep was way harder and I certainly
started dealing with more anxiety and I
would get like racy thoughts at the end
of the night
and it was it was not an easy time I had
night sweats
um there definitely is a physical
discomfort and if you are unaware of the
physical symptoms of uh of quitting weed
you know not nearly as Extreme as any
other actually like physically addictive
drug but it is still there and I want I
want to make people aware that there is
a process of coming from that you have
to allow your body to be able to
re-regulate its dopamine system you know
and that that's going to take a little
bit of time it's used to the rewards of
of you get the hit and you get the quick
high and you have to learn how to
produce those chemicals on your own
again without that assistance and so in
that process it is going to disregulate
you and sometimes it's going to put you
in a state of feeling like lethargic or
tired or you're not going to get as well
rested at first and that is because it
takes time for your body to readjust to
a world where it is not getting high all
the time
um so for me that was something that I
noticed right away it was like damn like
there are some real physical symptoms
um however when you push past that you
then get to the next phase and the next
phase for me was what some people call
the pink Cloud it's referred to as
this like Clarity that you get after
being in a drug-induced stupor you know
this is usually referred to for like
people who are addicted to like pills
and stuff but I think it definitely
applies here
and so for then the next like month I
was in like a sober High where I felt so
present and so like excited and like
proud of myself for doing what I was
doing and it creates this High effect
where you're you're so clear-headed and
you're so there that you feel amazing
and you feel like you're on top of the
world right however the thing about the
pink cloud is is that it will fade and
the reality of your day-to-day life is
going to come back
and so what typically trips people up is
when the pink Cloud Fades away and life
gets hard again or you know just becomes
mundane uh that people become less
cautious of their potential for a
relapse or you know to uh trip up and
get back into their habit but for me I
think I just I got to a point where it's
like okay I'm so done with this and I'm
so committed that I'm literally willing
to like give away my pieces and I I
don't I don't want any utensils that I
can smoke out of anymore uh
and I think that level of commitment
that I made to myself and that promise
that I made to myself it started out as
just like just make it to the end of the
year and see how you feel but really
like I was still trying to commit long
term I just didn't want to make a
commitment that I was going to then not
live up to
um But as time has gone on actually I've
gotten more
like more solid in my feeling on that
like no I'm done I smoked enough for a
lifetime I don't need to smoke anymore
but one of the things that I committed
to myself this year was that I wanted to
work out and take care of myself I have
like stepped up my fitness game a lot
and so I've substituted some bad habits
with some good ones
um I also work from home and so when you
work from home you gotta make an effort
to get up and move and so while the
weather was still good this summer I
made sure to go out on walks I wanted to
experience nature I wanted to feel the
Sunshine the breeze and that was
actually super helpful for me to avoid
getting stir crazy and as well as just
enjoy the world around me you know I
worked out at home we actually expanded
our home gym which had helped a lot
because sometimes I didn't want to I
didn't want to go to the gym like
physically
um not that I didn't want to work out
but I didn't want to like drive there
the the place where I live the parking
is annoying like just there's just no
spots the idea of even moving the car
was just like oh do I want to move the
car and then have to walk three blocks
you know just to just to get back to my
apartment you know so I was just a lot
of times I found myself skipping the gym
and I would just do some home workout
stuff but since we've gotten a bench
we've gotten an indoor bike we have a
treadmill and when you combine those
with our dumbbells and our kettlebells
and stuff we actually have enough where
I can do almost everything and I still
go to the gym on the weekends I I'm now
burning like 1500 calories a day you
know and I'm going hard and I'm making
sure I'm watching my portions of eating
I'm making sure I'm watching what I'm
snacking on because the snacking has
always been kind of my sneaky wave
eating too much in a day so I now get
you know a runner's high or a Biker's
High uh from the bike instead than from
weed and it's way healthier for me it
keeps me active it allows my body to be
more fit uh while I'm otherwise sitting
at my desk on my computer all day
and one thing I learned in the process
of making these new uh commitments to
myself was I was building back trust at
a layer by layer level so I was in Small
ways making small promises so you know a
promise to make sure I work out that day
I promise to make sure I get on the bike
you know those little promises me
following through on that is slowly
rebuilding the trust that I need to have
Within Myself in order to maintain my
commitments as well as my creativity my
next step in this process for me of
leveling up to
I think a better version of myself that
I know I can be now uh the next small
commitments I have to make is just doing
something creative
um so sometimes it's taking photos and
I've certainly been enjoying that
um and sometimes it might just be making
a video like this I do still do
psychedelics
um not very frequently but I do still do
them I find Value in them they're
anti-addictive and in fact they've
actually been super helpful in my
process of growing I only trip once in a
while anyway and I occasionally micro
dose um but even that I don't do with
any sort of like super regularity or
anything like that I am mostly sober
right like most of my time is now spent
sober I actually have in uh increased my
meditation time I I used to be a daily
meditator way back in the day and I am
again now and I have had not been for a
while I had been kind of out of out of
my cycle ever since covet it kind of
just ruined everything to be honest so I
would be remiss to say that I you know
did this all completely sober and I've
I've never touched anything since it's
like that's not true
um although I have not drank
yeah I've not drank at all since uh
since I quit weed but I have done some
micro doses of mushrooms here and there
and I did do a trip I don't feel like
those things
um especially when used responsibly and
at this point it's like I I've done them
for so long it's not it's not like I'm
not in that phase where I was in the
beginning where it's just it was so
exciting to be in that state of mind and
to think about the universe and some of
these spacely ideas and whatnot like
those are awesome things and I think
that everybody should go through a phase
where they explore that if they're going
to go through psychedelics like you're
gonna inevitably just it's just part of
the game okay but you get to a certain
point where you know you become more
responsible you realize like the value
of them on a very down to earth level of
like well how does this affect me and my
life personally rather than these big
ideas of like we are all God and
everybody is the universe and we are all
the same thing of the part of the cosmic
weave like dude we've all been there
okay and I get it and I do have that
right I do I do feel this sense of
interconnectedness however it is so much
more helpful to be grounded on this
Earth and to integrate it into your life
uh in a tangible way because at the end
of the day it's like you can think about
all these spacely things and all these
Cosmic ideas but if you're not grounded
in reality and using that unique
perspective in your day-to-day life with
your human connection to other people
then you're kind of you're missing the
point while you're on this planet what
can you do that you can share with other
people and that you can
um help people on their Journeys and
provide something for someone else while
also providing for yourself and
fulfilling your soul so this journey of
quitting weed has been so magical for me
it's been so
important and was so necessary at this
time in my life I'm 28 years old I'm
gonna be 29 next year you know I I'm at
this point where I'm I'm way more
interested
in being the best version of myself and
really being present and really enjoying
my time here than being in a high stupor
where I'm numbing myself every evening
because life is hard you know it's like
I want to deal with life being hard and
I want to handle it uh like a capable
person could and I am capable and I am a
powerful person and I have to
acknowledge my power within myself that
I can do this and I believe in myself
and so for me quitting weed has been a
commitment to me and and what I want to
be in this world and it's not right for
everybody some people weed is great for
and it helps them but for me it stopped
doing that so uh thank you for listening
to me ramble I've already talked way too
long on this but uh this was an
important story that I felt like I
needed to tell and I hope that other
people who maybe are thinking about
quitting or have felt in their soul that
like I should stop like you probably
should if that's how you feel if you
don't feel that way if you feel like you
use it responsibly you only do it here
and there dude we just totally fine in
fact it is way better to be addicted to
that than alcohol so given the two you
know pick your poison it is important to
have an environment in a community
around you that can help support you
through this decision and who are
supportive and in fact several of my
friends have also quit weed
um kind of around the same time not
because I convinced them but I think
just we we all kind of got to the same
point where we were feeling similarly
about it uh but anyway thanks for
listening I appreciate you all thank you
so much uh like subscribe all that other
stuff and maybe more videos soon
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thank you
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