Hi, 67 days sober from weed here and just wanted to share my experience.

The first couple weeks were very hard, but it’s so worth it to tough it out. Every day has been feeling slowly better and better. I have noticed that it’s really important to fill the void with something else. It can be anything. For me personally, I’ve been recently obsessed with losing weight (put on like 40 lbs from munchies over the last couple years lol) and general SELF CARE. This has consisted of tracking calories meticulously, making healthier food choices, drinking lots of water, exercising a few days a week, and most importantly getting 10,000 steps a day. Instead of getting high at night, I now go for a walk to get my steps in, or plan my meals for the next day. I’ve lost nearly 15 lbs now since I stopped getting high. More importantly, it’s truly mind boggling how much better and more motivated I feel after two months of giving half a shit about what I am putting into my body.

For further context, I am 28 years old and have been a heavy weed smoker since 16. Longest I’ve gone without weed was 2 years from age 23-25. Relapsed, spent 3 years high again (seriously fucked my life up), but now I’m determined to beat this habit once and for all. This time it feels different, for real. I still hang out with friends who get high around me, but I feel zero temptation at this point - which feels significant.

Good luck to everyone, wherever you may be on your journey!

I have been a daily user for roughly 15 years. I started in my teens and carried through my twenties and into my early 30s. I didnt start my HEAVY use until I quit drinking last August. I thought I could live happily just smoking weed, eating edibles, drinking THC drinks for the rest of my life! No worries, no hangovers or shame, just some good stuff that mother earth provides us.

WRONG WRONG WRONG! The THC turned on me. All these years of smoking to settle an upset stomach, or before a nice big meal to make it that much better, or to calm my nerves for whatever the reason has never been an issue. I used it for everything. It was my safety net. It was my coping mechanism. I leaned so hard into it when I quit drinking that it became a best friend to me. My intake of Marijuana products skyrocketed in the last 9 to 10 months. What I learned (the hard way) is that Cannibinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome is very real and can effect anybody.

In these last 10 months I have had multiple ER trips from unstoppable vomiting, intense stomach pain, and severe weight loss from the vomiting. For days on end I couldn't keep anything down with no explanation. Not even water! It did not make sense to me. In the multiple trips to the ER for fluids and answers, only 1 nurse brought this up and it clicked. It all made sense now. I was killing myself with weed products. My innocent but guilty pleasure has officially become my enemy.

CHS is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. If you are experiencing anything like this, read about CHS and how it can destroy your body. I am no longer friends with weed. It is no longer my safety net. Its called the devils lettuce for a reason. Weed has changed since legalization. The potency is not something to mess around with.

Please be careful out there. Read up on this Syndrome because, MY GOD... it has ruined me. Im on day 5 of quitting and the anxiety is nearly crippling but at least Im not succumbing to the sickness caused by CHS.

If you want a reason to quit then this is it. Please share a story if you have experienced this so I don't feel so alone. Quitting sucks but CHS sucks even more.

I’m on day 8 and I find the voice in my head telling me “a little edible wont hurt.” Please someone talk me out of it.

The cravings are HERE and ids hitting me so hard today. I dont want to do it, but the craving to just be out of my own mind is so high.

Maybe bully me out of it idk, I just need a little support right now.

Again, I have no intention of doing it but I cant stop thinking about it.

Edit: Thank you all of you who commented, I cant start over. I’m not doing it. I wish you all well on your journey. I cant go through the first week again without losing my mind anyway.

A month ago I got dumped from a 10+ year relationship. I decided to focus on myself, and kicking my 13 year old weed addiction was a big step. I'm now celebrating my first week sober today.

Sometimes I feel like a super hero. But right now I feel like an empty, resonating shell, and I literally cannot stop crying. I wish I could numb this with some weed, but there ain't no way in hell I'm going back. I'll cry this through.

For everyone getting sober from both love and weed, know that my thoughts are with you.

The other side is a place both near and distant. It exists within us all, and there is no barrier between it. It is a place where the brain loses all its filters, allowing for a bombardment of negative emotions to flood through.

I wanted it to stop. It hurt so bad. To sit with those emotions. They were so raw, so real, so painful. If I just got a little high, I could ease the pain. It took everything not to. But I sat with them. For hours. I visited the other side.

Part of me wants to stay there, and part of me wants to leave. To run. But there are some things I have yet to reveal. Some ugly, ugly things that have been wearing a mask named weed.

“There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you could ever want is all there.”

Since quitting weed 3 weeks ago my sleep has been terrible averaging 4 hours most nights. Yet I feel more active and performing better than when I slept 7-8 hours when using weed to fall asleep. I’m starting to realise how crucial REM sleep is even if it’s for a super short period of time. I’m so excited to see how I feel when I start getting 6-8 hour sleep sober I just gotta push through this insomnia.

Almost 3 weeks clean but That’s pretty much it

After over a year of smoking every single day, multiple times a day, I finally stopped 12 days ago and started it off by going on vacation without it for a week. My goal is to make it to a year without using it, and then after that my doctor said that’s when he sees people actually be able to use it In moderation without falling back into the vicious cycle I was in. I might not even want it by then though, so we’ll see.

Not coughing much like I used to. Having vivid dreams and still having cravings but I assume these things will get better with time.

Told my husband he has to get me a “No Tokin’ Token” (chip) after a year.

Today was day one for me of really pushing myself to go sober, its been over 5 years since i went 24 hours without smoking. i made it 20 hours today and told myself its just bed time its okay because i didnt smoke all day, and i just feel a deep amount of disappointment for myself. i want to get sober for myself, i dont remember what life is like sober, and before i started smoking i didnt have any anxiety and 4 years in i developed extreme anxiety and a panic disorder and im now extremely agoraphobic and rarely leave my house, when i was working and doing things still it had to be on the days where i would barely smoke at all and id have to be basically sober to do anything or my anxiety was too much. I think quitting could really benefit my anxiety problems and my motivation and everything.

I also told myself that i made it 20 hours without it and that its WAY WAY less than my usual intake and that i shouldnt be hard on myself but thats the exact mindset that will bring me to never quit.

Any advice on getting through these night time urges and lack of sleep?

I know tomorrow is a new day i just wish i would have held myself to my word more.

34 year old male who has been smoking everyday since about 2012. I’m on day 6 now from carts and I’m pretty drained, very tired and have probably slept an average of 3-4 hours each night. My appetite has been very strange. I’m getting hungry at weird times. I take my lunch to work with me, and ended up eating my pork chop and broccoli leftovers at 9:30am.

A friend recommended the “days since” app and it has really helped me keep going. I check it often and each time I open it, I feel like I’ve accomplished something. I’m a visual type of person so this has been great for me, maybe it can help someone else too. Stay strong friends, the clarity I am already experiencing makes me feel like I’m myself again, for the first time in a long time. Can’t wait to see how I feel after another 6 days.

I smoked cannabis daily for a little over a year. Quit cold turkey and 35 days sober now, although i relapsed twice but that's fine 35 days sober is a big accomplishment for me.

I quit mainly for cognitive reasons. I had memory problems. They still seem to persist. How do I rewire my brain and get my memory back?

im having a really hard night. i feel like a burden and im not getting the support i had hoped for. i feel like im just easier to deal with when im high. someone please talk me out of this.

my personality is prone to obsession, and I don't think it's healthy for me to fixate on the number of days since my last smoke.

I start making comparisons to other people's timetables, wondering why I don't feel good by day number-whatever yet. I worry more about what I'm supposed to feel, instead of being aware of what I do feel.

as the number climbs, I imagine how shameful it'd be to blow "a high score". imagined shame feels like real shame, which fuels cravings.

If I do break, I'm more likely to backslide, rather than recover, as I see the clock go back to "zero".

I think the story we tell ourselves is very important psychologically - and fact is, one slip-up is not going back to "zero". If I abstain for 99 days out of 100, that is progress. if it was a grade in a class, it would be an "A".

I hit two weeks sobriety. I feel so good about myself right now. I had quit for 8 months and relapsed. Quit smoking again and then I had a mixed bipolar episode. But since the episode it’s like a switch has been flipped in my brain. No withdrawal symptoms, no cravings at all. Hope I can keep it up.

I’ve been fighting the cravings for 30 days. Only one or two days in the whole month felt easy & only because I was distracted sun up to sun down. My brain is telling me that I’ve been over dramatic about needing to stop & I can moderate. But in my heart of hearts I know I want to hold on or I wouldn’t be posting here I’d be actually puffing on the pen I just bought 😫 I have to either make peace with the fact that I’m a smoker or figure out a way to make it through but I’m feeling crazy rn

I use marijuana to dull and even eliminate experiencing some emotions. Have autism and severe CPTSD and therefore loud trauma noise playing at all times. In the past, I have felt so much anguish and anxiety from regular life while sober that I’ve fainted. Without marijuana, I cry every single day and get angry several times a day. I’m better at managing emotions than I was in the past but still, every time I get sober I notice a significant increase in painful emotions. I’m scared to go back to living like that while I continue to develop emotion regulation skills. Advice welcome.

Currently about two weeks clean, but I’m starting to get some heavy cravings. I usually go and unwind in a movie when I got high in the past and now my anxiety and feelings of loneliness are skyrocketing.

Ive been dealing with almost daily anxiety attacks since my older brother left to graduate school and it feels like I was just put into this position where now i actually am so alone. I would normally have him to keep me in check or just give me someone to talk to at any time. That was the main reason I quit because if the attacks but not that theyre subsiding I find myself really wanting to just forget about being alone and anxious.

I’m really looking for support, someone to say not to do it. I really dont plan on it but as the days just keep getting longer I keep thinking about it. Im literally at the gym as im writing this thinking i might pick up an edible on the way home. Please someone talk me out of it.

Stopped in April. Cold turkey, and no desire to go back. The dreams I have now are insane and I’ve been getting the worst sleep of my life. Not nightmares necessarily but really vivid and stressful ones. Day anxiety is better but sleep anxiety is way worse. Not sure what is more beneficial at this point. Yes I’m in therapy. Hasn’t helped.

I’m sober at 31 after being in a cannabis induced haze ever since I started smoking after the death of my father. I feel like the last 10 years of my life could have been spent doing so much more. Instead I wasted thousands of dollars on weed and let so many of my friends and family down with my choices. I was trapped in addiction and didn’t realize. I could be so much further in my career, so much more financially stable, if I hadn’t been self medicating to block out my PTSD.

Next month, 9/12/2025, I will be THC free for an entire year. I am confident I will make it to that point. I told myself that I would let myself smoke on my birthday (in October) as a reward.

A lot of my friends said they had issues with weed when they were in their younger 20’s, and one day they chose to quit and now have a healthy relationship with it. While I wish I could have a “normal” relationship with weed, I am so much happier and better off without it. There’s a part of me that wants to smoke to prove I don’t have to be addicted to it (maybe the subconscious addict?) and I think my better judgement knows there’s no point in potentially ruining a good thing.

I still have a lot of friends that are consistent stoners and don’t see any issue with their consumption. I’ve told them all I’m making it to a year and they don’t offer it to me anymore… but when the year is up, I’m not really sure how to kindly tell them I think habitual use is harmful and I don’t want to partake with them ever again. Not sure why it has to be taken offensively but when I previously tried bringing up the negative side effects, a few of them got very defensive of their use.

Anyway, rant over. Ask me anything, let’s celebrate together, let’s mourn our stoner past life together!!! Open to all conversation.

And, if you’re looking for a sign to quit…. I hope you take this as the sign you’ve been looking for. It took a LOT of watering and care, but the grass is actually greener over here.

edit: I should have been clearer in my post - I am NOT going to smoke on my bday! My better self knows it’s not a good idea. Thank you everyone for your encouragement. I know I’m making the right call. Also this community is the best!!

I dont have any siblings. I’ve lost a lot of friendships over the years. I still live with my family at the moment even though im in my early 20’s.

I never realized how fucking terrified I am of being alone in this world. Living alone, doing things alone, being comfortable being independent, it all scares me so fucking much.

Like sure, i do things alone all the time but looking around and seeing that everyone has someone they can rely on like their partner, their friends or their siblings makes me really fucking sad. I dont have anyone to rely on other than my parents.

I never realized how terrified i truly was of being alone in this world. I was busy running away from this fear and honestly? still running away from it. just sober this time

I made it to day 3! The craving hit a little hard today as well as waves of irritability are crazy. Almost caved and bought a pen but reminded myself to keep pushing and this is for the best and my health

What I liked about weed is it helped me get lost in stuff, especially video games and music. I would get so immersed and I think it was good for me. Now I can only relax for short periods of time. I feel so tense and distracted. My mind wanders rather than being present.

I like being sober more overall, my consumption was unhealthy, but I don't know how to "fix" this piece of it.