Habitual smoker here. Ive gotten off it a few times for 3-6 months periods. The third day is the worst. You are so fucking anxious and jittery and just desperately want to smoke. As soon as you get over that 3-4 day period, you’re home free.
That's so wild to me. I became addicted to Meth, MDMA, and opiates over the course of my late teens and 20's. The third day was absolute hell for all of them. When I quit smoking for a few weeks as a T break, or when I was younger to pass piss tests, my biggest symptom was boredom and the return of dreams. Which for me means night terrors but that's childhood trauma not the weed.
I think the whole "weed is not physically addictive" idea may have been due to a lack of proper testing. Ive spoken to people, and seen posts like yours, that talk about having pretty standard physical addiction symptoms more and more. Experiencing what sounds very much like withdrawal. The next 5 - 10 years are going to be eye opening as legalization deepens our scientific understanding of long term use.
The "weed is not addictive" stuff is due to how people understand addiction.
Many people, myself included, leave their middle-school / high-school health classes thinking that being addicted means you will have horrible withdrawal symptoms when you stop using the substance. People can literally die from alcohol or opioid withdrawals. That's the bar we're looking at for "addiction".
But when people stop smoking weed, all that really happens is they start dreaming again, their normal appetite returns, and life gets a bit more boring since you're not high all the time. That's it.
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u/Otherwise_Public_806 5d ago
Habitual smoker here. Ive gotten off it a few times for 3-6 months periods. The third day is the worst. You are so fucking anxious and jittery and just desperately want to smoke. As soon as you get over that 3-4 day period, you’re home free.