I should stop smoking marijuana, but all my friends smoke!? -
I should stop smoking marijuana, but all my friends smoke!? -
I-ve been smoking weed very consistently over the past 5 years, and it-s getting to the point where I don-t really even get that high anymore unless I smoke a ton, which uses up too much cash, so essentially I-m broke. I have a job and am going to college, have a girlfriend etc., so I know that I can smoke and still function, and I live in the SF bay area, so the weed is awesome! All of my friends/roomies smoke too, which is great if I want to keep smoking, but not so great if I want to quit.I feel also that I-m becoming depressed because I smoke so much and so often.. I dunno, I feel like I should quit, but I-m not really sure if I want to. Despite the negatives that come from smoking, I-m still pretty into the positives. Nothing beats coming home from a day at work and rolling up some sweet ganja.
..Sorry, I wrote this while kinda stoned, so it might come off as a bit confusing...but what should I do? Keep smoking or quit?First off, never do something just because people around you do it. You lose your wits, decisions, and most of all your identity. You disappear into what people want you to be rather than who YOU want you to be.
Next, you kill off weeks to months of your life span per smoke. So every time you smoke marijuana, you live about a month less. 12 times and you die a year earlier. It ruins your health and kills you. Your parents raised you to be born healthy (unless you were child abused, which I seriously doubt and hope not). They want you to live. If you have people you love, and more importantly, people who love you that you love, you shouldn-t make them worry about you.
Also, addiction will cause huge economic losses. Huge economic losses often result in extreme pressure and dangerous self ego and personality. Maybe right now your life is all right, but when you start to lose money to support yourself, let alone people around you, you may need to start borrowing money. You fight with your gf, your family, and soon you will find yourself all alone. I-ve hung out with friends who-ve done drugs and they-ve lost everything just because they didn-t quit when they should.
It will cause a chain reaction that will spiral your life downwards until there is nothing left, and when you have nothing left, it will drive you further down into living hell. Drugs will never stop harrassing you, even when you have nothing left. I-ve seen cases before.
I-m not trying to be pessmistic, nor am I trying to be nosy. I-ve just seen so many of my friends destroy themselves and I-m scared that someone else will, too.
You-ve had your dose and your time of enjoying the drugs. While your life is still right, I beg of you, please stop before the damage is too great. Because once you reach a certain point, you enter a state of no return. Dose the fire out before it burns out an entire forest.
In other words, stop while you can. That-s what I think. While your life is still in good shape.-Next, you kill off weeks to months of your life span per smoke. So every time you smoke marijuana, you live about a month less. 12 times and you die a year earlier. It ruins your health and kills you.-
Really??? Did I just read this in the -Best Answer-??? God damnit. Idoit. Idiot.
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You should quit not only because of the health problems you will have later on in life but you will have more money to either spend on your grilfriend or to take her to the movies or anything like that. It shouldent mattter if your friends ore smoking you will be the one better off in the long run if you quit while your ahead and like you said you don-t even get that high anymore. If you quit just think of all the moeny you will have.Well you can continue smoking but smoke moderately coz too much smoking that is bad for your health, you might get several respiratory problems if u continue to smoke too much, well if u started to be a health conscious u stop using that weeds, gud luck with u its ur own choice and descision so choose wisely on what u think is right and fit for you,.It may be all well and good smoking right now, but if you carry on think ten years down the line. Don-t mess your life up while you still have it. I know it seems okay right now because nothing bad has come ut of it, but trust me you-ll regret it. If you quit, at least you-ll live to tell the tale...i used to smoke it instead of normal fags. one after the other. for years. i thought i was functioning well until years later i just stopped smoking. saw the world so much clearer. took a while for the jank to get out of my system. quit it. stop being a stereotypical college kid stoner. your mates will eventually drift away as you get older and get new jobs and move away. dont be the one left behind.its all you it doesn-t matter what your friends think or do it all depends on if you fill write doing it cause if you dont then whats the point. you do what makes you fill write because if you dont enjoy life then theres no point because youll be sad all the time.if you need to talk email me at anthony_hackler@yahoo.comyou need to check your *** into rehab and move into some apartments away from them crackheads!!! its going to **** up ur life for as long as you live.you feel bad if you do weed,and u feel so much better if you dont.but then again ive never tried it and never plan toIf you quit smoking you will lose all your friends, that is what happened to me, so If you are good at making new friends then quit if not keep smoking but maybe don-t inhale and pretend to be all stoned.In my opinion, you should definitely quit. My friend smokes, and she gets sick whenever she smokes, so, it doesn-t matter if it-s the most famous thing around. Keep your health, and spare your life.stop if you do keep smoking then you will die young and your lungs right now most likely look black do not do it even if your friends do it because they are thugs for doing that. THEY NEED HELP!!!!!Quit. Gradually. It is gonna be hard, but just lay off it and do something else instead(I-m not talking about other drugs or alcohol.)
You are slowly killing your body.QUIT!!! Say to your friends that you-d rather live longer ...
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QUIT!
If your roomies hate you because of that, then that-s their problem.
It-s YOUR life and you should live it healthy-
and with decent people as friends.quit. it will be tough but beneficial your friends will understand. no one should be depressed.So what You Should , Just Because They Smoke Doesn-t Mean You Have To, You Have to Be In charge Of You to be A Better Person Always Remember That.
Good Luck, Hope I HelpedSure things are going great but in 5 years you-ll be sitting in some chair discussing how bad you screwed up and wish you didn-t...you-ll be doing that for about the rest of your lifeHang out with different friends. Your friends are bad influences on you. if you don-t want to smoke, don-t hang out with them.you should stop smoking. Just because your friends do the wrong thing doesnt mean you should too. so just stop smoking and your life will be better!!What is wrong with you? Smoking is gross!!! EEEWWW You have to stop unless you want to die of lung cancer.quit,,, dont leave ur friends though..they-ll prolly be like..ok w/e thats cool.. or jsut take tolerance breaks or t - breaks to the point where u start gettin higher then spread ur smoking times around bettereasy if u don-t u-ll die faster and if you quit well just as simple as thatQUIT it messes with your mind and if your friends tease u get new friendsahhhh just cut down a lil bitits time to get off that crap. quit - quit - quit -quit- quit. you will feel a whole lot better.quit!!! its the best thing to do. just keep trying. who cares what ur friends do. you should do whats right.you should quit. every time you smoke, you are taking off about 2 mins of your life. and say you have 3 a day for five years would be 3,650 mins that you took off your live. and i bet that you want to live a long and healthy life, and when you are smoking your shortening your time down.... a lot. and did you know that smoking one marijuana joint is like smoking 5 tobacco cigarettes?! do that number that i said before would double in 5. and 3650 times 5 would be 18,250 mins off your life. your putting yourself and many others with the rick of 1st, 2nt, 3ed and 4th hand smoking. (1st of course is when you smoke yourself, 2nt is when your smoking around people and they inhale it, 3ed is when the smoke gets into the particles on your couch and carpet and 4th is a unopened pack of cigarettes. by smoking your falling short of memory and math and verbal skills (good luck getting into collage with out a lot of memory of math) you have a much higher chance to get cancer. (my grandma died from smoking) smoking increases your heart rate the normal heart rate is about 70-80 beats per min and your heart rate may increase by 20 or 50 or EVEN double. marijuana can also lead to the use of other drugs and people who smoke marijuana have a greater risk of starting using cocaine and other drugsWell, I think you should quit and get the best out of your college experience. You could say i don-t know what im talking about, but i do. My uncle had it made, like full ride scholarship - everything. But weed just crept in and destroyed his life. I think that if something inside of you is telling you that you should quit, then you should. Find something else to get you high, like Wal-mart games. Basically what I-m saying is that you should have fun in a healthy way. Talk to your friends when they are SOBER and let them know what-s up. If they-re your friends then they-ll understand. Ask them about maybe not smoking around you. Don-t deppreciate them, because they wont be as open to you - what you want to do. On the other hand, dont kiss @$$ because then they might think they can walk all over you. Hope this helps.I can tell you from my own experience that it IS possible to quit even if your friends don-t. It sounds like you are just about at the point where you are no longer getting the benefits/enjoyment from the drug that you once did. When you are ready to stop, just do it...don-t make it a big deal....don-t make a production over it. When somebody passes a joint to you, just pass it on without toking. You could toke up, but don-t feel like it today...or tomorrow.....well it-s been probably 30 years since I made that choice and I don-t regret it.Marijuana is a depressant, the long term side effects of it aren-t good. The most severe side effects of smoking it for an extended periods of time is a lack of motivation, memory loss, learning processes of the brain can be become impaired, you can develop cancer, increased heart rate,paranoia, hallucinations, just to name a few.
Just by reading your question and in the manner in which you typed it to me expresses severe damage is already manifesting. My advice would be to get yourself into a AA program, you must move out of your current living arrangement if you truly plan on quitting. Alcoholics are rarely successful in quitting if they live with another alcoholic and the same is true in your situation.
Decide on positive action to quit, make a plan to stick to it, and then your life will have more meaning.I think that just by your posting here says that your gut feeling may be telling you that it-s time to quit using marijuana. A person can have an addiction and still seem like a rather functioning individual (keeps a job, attends college, has significant other or such). Please do consider associating with more positive people that exhibit healthy behaviors and that don-t self-medicate. Those that use drugs or alcohol with their friends usually come to realize that they weren-t their real friends to begin with but someone to -party- with.
Those that use marijuana can become psychologically addicted, and there are outpatient treatment programs available for those that would like to become sober. Please look into addictions counseling and one may deal with the issues that led one to have used any type of substance to help cope with life on a daily basis. Some people actually do have clinical depression or other mental health problems that can be helped with counseling and/or medication such as antidepressants.
For a free support group (though not in place of actual therapy) -- Narcotics Anonymous:
http://www.na.org
Marijuana Anonymous (though fewer groups nationwide):
http://www.marijuana-anonymous.org
Alcoholics Anonymous:
http://www.aa.org
(a person may attend an -open- meeting if don-t have a drinking problem)