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A similar story, with a sample size of one - me. Smoking marijuana helped me quit smoking cigarettes. One of the reasonably well known side effects of smoking
by phillc73 7y ago
A similar story, with a sample size of one - me. Smoking marijuana helped me quit smoking cigarettes.
One of the reasonably well known side effects of smoking pot is sometimes a feeling of intense paranoia. Well, over a period of a few months, I was regularly smoking pot in the evenings and convinced myself that smoking cigarettes would kill me and while stoned I was able to exaggerate these feelings to the point of paranoia (I was thinking very, very hard. Overthinking, another well known side effect).
Subsequently, even during the day when I wasn't high, I could still "feel" that paranoia whenever I lit up a cigarette.
It took maybe 2-3 months, but eventually I stopped smoking cigarettes all together, and even now almost 20 years later, just one drag starts to make me feel sick.
Of course, then I had a pot smoking problem, but that's a different story, which required a different solution.
- npo9 7y agoHow did you quit heavy cannabis usage?
- tribeofone 7y agoSwitch to edibles and gradually reduce the dosage, (which is hard or impossible with smoking). You'll start to crave it less and prefer the more moderate (and different) high from edibles than being stoned from smoking. From this stage, you'll be in a better position to stop altogether if you want too.
- _jal 7y agoWhen wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
- phillc73 7y agoI moved to another country where I didn't have the same network of friends and contacts. Basically, changed my environment and was busy setting up a new life. I didn't move to another country to give up cannabis, it was just a happy co-incidence.
- MichaelApproved 7y agoWe're you worried the Cigarettes would pick up a knife and kill you? Because that would be paranoid. Thinking they'd kill you with cancer sounds reasonable.
- phillc73 7y agoWhen not high, I could rationalise that cancer fact the same way many other smokers probably do. When stoned, I focused on that fact and made myself paranoid about it.