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Quit Smoking Weed

The podcast from quit-smoking-weed.com for anyone quitting weed or about to. One topic per episode: insomnia, irritability, cravings, what happens in your brain and body, which supplements actually help, and how to stay clean. Honest, practical, no lecturing. Over 3,000 people helped since 2013. 🎯 Online program: quit-smoking-weed.com/quit-smoking-weed-and-transformation-program 📕 Free ebook: quit-smoking-weed.com/ebook 🧪 Supplements: quit-smoking-weed.com/supplements 📸 instagram.com/quit_smoking_weed 📘 facebook.com/quitsmokingweedofficial ▶️ youtube.com/@QuitSmokingWeedofficial

  1. 1d ago

    #53 Cannabis Withdrawal Psychosis: how rare it is, who is at risk, and the days it shows up

    Cannabis withdrawal psychosis: what the term actually covers, how uncommon it is, which histories carry the risk and what the window after the last use looks like. All episodes to read up on at https://quit-smoking-weed.com ▬▬▬▬ Everything about quitting ▬▬▬▬ Supplements that actually help: https://quit-smoking-weed.com/supplements/ ▬▬▬▬ In this episode ▬▬▬▬ Ten years of daily use, a plan to stop on Monday, and a phrase in the reading that stops everything. Two different things share almost the same name. This episode is only about the second: symptoms appearing in the days after stopping, with no cannabis in the picture at all. - What psychosis means here: a break from shared reality, perceiving things that are not there, fixed beliefs grounded in nothing, thinking that stops joining up. - Why that is a different category from the irritability, low mood and short temper almost everyone gets, not the severe end of the same package. - Both halves of the honest answer: onset inside the withdrawal window is documented, and it accounts for fewer than one in a hundred emergency admissions at the peak. - Whether raising this with a general audience protects the vulnerable few or frightens everyone else for no reason is where opinions split. - The five compounding risk factors: heavy daily use over years, stopping abruptly instead of reducing, a personal or family history of psychotic illness, starting in adolescence, and high potency products. - Why no single factor decides anything alone, and why an average across everyone who quits is useless to the person carrying the history. - The mechanism in plain terms: the system cannabis acts on gatekeeps dopamine, and both the external THC and the reduced output of the body go missing at once. - The window: onset two to twenty days after stopping, most cases inside the first week, peak around days three to seven, right on top of the worst phase of ordinary withdrawal. - Why severe sleep disturbance is the most commonly reported first sign and still not a warning sign on its own. - The dividing line from ordinary withdrawal paranoia, which is recognition: being able to trace the feeling back to having stopped. - What to do before stopping if the risk factors describe you, and why symptoms after stopping are a same-day medical situation, not something to talk down at home. This is general information, not medical advice. ▬▬▬▬ Chapters ▬▬▬▬ 00:00 A phrase in the reading that stops everything 00:31 Two things that share almost the same name 00:59 What psychosis means here 01:12 Not the severe end of normal withdrawal 01:47 Both halves of the honest answer 02:15 Does naming this help or frighten people 03:12 The compounding risk factors 03:50 Family history and starting young 04:15 The mechanism: the missing regulator 04:52 The window: two to twenty days 05:16 Severe sleep disturbance as first sign 05:45 Ordinary paranoia and the line of recognition 06:39 What to do before stopping 07:05 If it is already happening 07:29 Working out which group you are in #quittingweed #weedwithdrawal #cannabispsychosis #cannabisknowledge #sobriety

    #53 Cannabis Withdrawal Psychosis: how rare it is, who is at risk, and the days it shows up
  2. 3d ago

    #52 Weed Withdrawal Treatment: what helps, what to skip, and in what order

    Weed withdrawal treatment: what actually helps at three in the morning, which remedy belongs to which symptom, and what quietly makes it worse. All episodes to read up on at https://quit-smoking-weed.com ▬▬▬▬ Everything about quitting ▬▬▬▬ Supplements that actually help: https://quit-smoking-weed.com/supplements/ ▬▬▬▬ In this episode ▬▬▬▬ Week one, three in the morning, awake again, and a search history full of things somebody claimed would fix this. Magnesium, ginger tea, cold showers, some powder with a leaf on the label. Almost none of it says which thing is for which problem, so most people take a bit of everything and learn nothing. - Exercise outranks every bottle: twenty minutes of anything that raises the heart rate fires the reward pathways cannabis was firing artificially. - Whether an exhausted body can be asked to exercise at all, or needs a bottle as a bridge, is where opinions split. - Sleep as a foundation, not a remedy: cool dark room, same wake time daily, no alcohol, something targeted only for a specific sleep problem. - What supplements really do: reduce specific symptoms. They do not remove withdrawal and do not shorten it. - Magnesium glycinate as the broadest single option, 300 to 400 mg at night, 30 to 60 minutes before sleep. - Why ten things at once is expensive guessing: nothing can be credited to anything, and a side effect cannot be traced. - One remedy per problem: lavender oil and CBD for early anxiety, inositol for mood dips, melatonin only for falling asleep at 0.5 to 1 mg, since more intensifies vivid dreams. - The rest of the protocol: exercise and sleep for fog, structure and other people for flat mood, small frequent meals and ginger for nausea, light bedding for night sweats. - Breathing in for four and out for six, which works through the vagus nerve, not motivation. - Structure as the underrated part: fixed sleep and wake times, meals at the same hours, cold showers for irritability. - What makes it worse: alcohol, left out for the first two weeks, and the detox tea aisle, which sells an idea of something being pushed out. - Where the medical line sits, and why short-term prescribed support is a reasonable choice rather than a failure. - The honest timeline: physical mostly finished in two to three weeks, mood and anxiety four to eight, with week five boredom pulling people back. This is general information, not medical advice. ▬▬▬▬ Chapters ▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Three in the morning and a search history 00:38 Why the supplement aisle backfires 01:32 Nothing in a bottle outranks movement 02:58 Can an exhausted body really exercise 03:22 Sleep as the foundation, not a remedy 04:20 What supplements actually do 04:46 Magnesium glycinate, dose and timing 05:32 Why ten things at once teaches nothing 06:12 Matching one remedy to one symptom 07:43 The protocol from sleep to night sweats 08:11 Breathing in for four, out for six 10:21 Structure, cold showers and manual override 12:06 Alcohol and the detox product aisle 13:15 Where the medical line sits 14:18 The honest timeline #quittingweed #weedwithdrawal #withdrawalremedies #cannabisdetox #sobriety

    #52 Weed Withdrawal Treatment: what helps, what to skip, and in what order
  3. 5d ago

    #51 Am I Smoking Too Much: the 20-question self-test that ends the loop

    Am I smoking too much: why the question keeps coming back, why comparing yourself with someone who smokes more settles nothing, and what to measure instead. All episodes to read up on at https://quit-smoking-weed.com ▬▬▬▬ Everything about quitting ▬▬▬▬ Supplements that actually help: https://quit-smoking-weed.com/supplements/ ▬▬▬▬ In this episode ▬▬▬▬ A Tuesday evening, nothing on fire, nobody in your life complaining, and one very quiet thought surfaces. It gets pushed away within a minute and comes back weeks later with the wording unchanged. This episode is about why that loop can run for years. - Nothing external forces a conclusion: the job holds, the bills get paid, the quiet Tuesdays repeat. - Comparing yourself with somebody who smokes more is a rigged game, because the comparison gets picked after the answer has already been chosen. - Grams, sessions and money are easy to count and say almost nothing on their own. Two people at the identical amount can be in very different situations. - Whether the question itself is already the answer is where opinions split: doubt as a sign of friction, or normal self-reflection getting talked into a problem that is not there. - The more useful measure: which jobs cannabis has taken over. Winding down, switching the head off, getting through a boring evening, making an uncomfortable thought go quiet. - Every job it takes is one your own coping stopped handling, so those muscles weaken from disuse. - The line between an evening being better with it and an evening not working without it. Same substance, same amount, entirely different relationship. - Honest self-assessment fails on your own, because the internal judge and the internal defense attorney are the same person. - What twenty fixed yes or no questions do that self-reflection cannot: they cannot be swapped for easier ones halfway through. - The three result bands in plain words, and why the middle one matters most: motivation dips a little, nothing has visibly gone wrong, and it gets blamed on the boss or the winter. - Why knowing the answer is not the same as changing anything. Remove the tool without putting something in its place and the empty gap does the pulling. - The goal is not stopping, it is no longer needing it. Those are different problems with different solutions. This is general information, not medical advice. ▬▬▬▬ Chapters ▬▬▬▬ 00:00 A Tuesday evening and one quiet thought 01:07 The thought returns, wording unchanged 01:58 Why comparing yourself is a rigged game 02:27 Counting grams, sessions and money 03:14 Is asking the question already the answer 04:17 A better measure: the jobs it has taken over 05:38 Every job it takes weakens your own coping 06:08 Better with it or not working without it 07:06 The judge and the defense attorney 08:16 Twenty fixed yes or no questions 09:19 The lowest band and the highest band 10:30 The middle band that gets waved away 12:03 A mirror, not a verdict 12:47 Knowing the answer is not changing it 13:22 The goal is to stop needing it #quittingweed #cannabisuse #amismokingtoomuch #selftest #sobriety

    #51 Am I Smoking Too Much: the 20-question self-test that ends the loop
  4. Sep 6

    #50 Exercise After Quitting Weed: the biology behind the advice nobody follows

    Exercise after quitting weed: what movement actually does to empty receptors and a flattened dopamine baseline, how much of it counts, and where in the day to put it. All episodes to read up on at https://quit-smoking-weed.com ▬▬▬▬ Everything about quitting ▬▬▬▬ Supplements that actually help: https://quit-smoking-weed.com/supplements/ ▬▬▬▬ In this episode ▬▬▬▬ The advice arrives buried in a list next to drinking more water, delivered in the tone reserved for flossing. Nobody argues with it and nobody does it, and the reason is not laziness. It has never been explained as what it actually is, so it lands as something a healthy person would do rather than the one tool aimed straight at the biology. - What stopping physically leaves behind: fewer receptors, far less sensitivity in the ones that remain, and the body's own anandamide production turned down. - Why that deficit is the floor under the restlessness, the broken sleep, the flat mood and the constant physical anxiety. - The lowered dopamine baseline in the motivation centre, and the drained battery picture: the key turns and nothing but a clicking sound comes back. - Why this makes the early weeks a measurable temporary physical condition rather than a character problem. - Whether movement is therefore the first instruction or useless advice to someone who physically cannot act on it is where opinions split hard. - Why distraction only occupies attention while movement triggers an actual internal override. - What aerobic work releases, why it binds to the very receptors the drug was binding to, and why the runner's high is not a metaphor. - The craving effect, one of the better established things in this subject, and how a single session lowers intensity measurably. - The dose: 20 to 40 minutes of moderate aerobic work, three to five sessions a week to shift the baseline rather than borrow a lift. - Why hard sessions backfire early, since cortisol spikes on an already sensitised nervous system, and why frequency beats duration. - Bringing the bar down to shoes on and out the door, and why leaving the chair where smoking used to happen does biological work by itself. - Putting the session in the window where cravings peak, the sleep timing rule of finishing two to three hours before bed, and why morning light anchors the whole thing. This is general information, not medical advice. ▬▬▬▬ Chapters ▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Advice in the tone of flossing 01:11 Fewer receptors, less of your own 02:07 A reward system below baseline 03:06 First instruction or useless in week one 04:16 Why distraction is not the same thing 04:41 The internal override 05:33 What it does to a craving 06:23 Twenty to forty minutes, three to five times 07:19 What counts as aerobic 07:35 Why going hard on day one backfires 08:24 Frequency beats duration 09:26 Lowering the bar until it clears 10:17 Putting it where the day hurts most 10:58 REM rebound and the timing rule 12:14 The shift between weeks six and twelve #exercise #quittingweed #cannabiswithdrawal #dopamine #recovery

    #50 Exercise After Quitting Weed: the biology behind the advice nobody follows
  5. Sep 4

    #49 Inositol for Cannabis Withdrawal: what it does for the week three fog

    Inositol for cannabis withdrawal: what the grey flatness of week three actually is, where this compound acts inside the cell, and who it reliably does nothing for. All episodes to read up on at https://quit-smoking-weed.com ▬▬▬▬ Everything about quitting ▬▬▬▬ Supplements that actually help: https://quit-smoking-weed.com/supplements/ ▬▬▬▬ In this episode ▬▬▬▬ Week three, and the hard part is supposedly over. Sleep is back, the anxiety has faded, the cravings are manageable. Then the same email gets read four times and still nothing sticks, and an entirely ordinary word will not come. This was meant to be the point where the head cleared, and instead things went quiet in a way that is very hard to describe because nothing hurts. - Why this is not tiredness, and why treating it like tiredness with three cups of coffee makes people feel worse. - What it actually is: working memory shrinking, ideas that used to join up refusing to connect, present even when fully rested. - What is happening underneath, with dopamine and serotonin systems left unbalanced once the external chemical stops regulating them. - Why the brain pulled its own receptors off the cell surface, so there are now few locks left to catch the keys it makes itself. - The thermostat picture: years of an air conditioner doing the work, then wild temperature swings once it is gone. - What inositol is and is not, since it is loosely called vitamin B8, is not truly a vitamin, and is not a stimulant of any kind. - Where it acts: as a secondary messenger inside the cell, delivering the memo once serotonin knocks on the door. - Whether the small downside makes it plainly worth trying, or whether mixed reports and week three desperation make overselling it a relapse risk, is where opinions split. - The sorting rule that decides who it suits: the flat, foggy, emotionally muted version of withdrawal rather than acute anxiety and insomnia. - Why lavender and valerian belong to week one and this belongs to weeks two and three, as phases of one arc rather than competing choices. - Dosing: capsules or powder, a usual daily range of 500 milligrams to two grams, manufacturer instructions outranking any other figure, and why more does not work faster. - The timeline: a response after five to ten days of consistent use in the people it works for, three scattered doses being no trial at all. This is general information, not medical advice. ▬▬▬▬ Chapters ▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Week three, and the hard part is over 00:50 Not tiredness, something else 01:28 Heaviest in weeks one to three 01:52 What stops doing the brain's job 02:21 The brain removed its own locks 02:47 The lazy thermostat 03:35 What inositol actually is 04:00 What it is not 04:18 The messenger inside the cell 05:22 Worth a try, or oversold 07:11 Who it suits and who it does not 07:43 Week one calm, week three clarity 08:06 Capsules, powder and dosing 09:08 Five to ten days of consistency 09:27 Supporting infrastructure, not a fix #inositol #cannabiswithdrawal #brainfog #quittingweed #detoxsupplements

    #49 Inositol for Cannabis Withdrawal: what it does for the week three fog
  6. Sep 2

    #48 Cannabis Induced Psychosis: who is actually at risk and what recovery looks like

    Cannabis induced psychosis: what separates it from a very bad high, which risk factors actually decide who it happens to, and what recovery looks like afterwards. All episodes to read up on at https://quit-smoking-weed.com ▬▬▬▬ Everything about quitting ▬▬▬▬ Supplements that actually help: https://quit-smoking-weed.com/supplements/ ▬▬▬▬ In this episode ▬▬▬▬ Something far stronger than intended, four hours convinced the neighbours are recording through the wall, and by morning it is filed under a bad night. Six months later the question still sits there unspoken: did something happen that does not undo itself. Online there are two answers, one saying a single use can permanently unravel a mind, one saying the whole idea is propaganda. - The clinical position between those two: real, affecting a minority, tied to identifiable risk factors, with a reasonable outlook once use stops and care begins. - The three core features: perceiving what is not there, holding fixed beliefs evidence cannot move, and thinking that stops linking up. - The dividing line that matters clinically, which is insight. In a bad high the person still knows it is the cannabis. In psychosis that knowledge is gone. - Why visual hallucinations are more common here, while hearing things dominates in a psychotic illness that arises on its own. - The numbers: roughly half a percent to one percent of users, climbing among heavy users of high potency products. - Whether a low population average is the honest headline or a false reassurance to exactly the people who are vulnerable is where opinions split hard. - The strongest risk factor, a personal or family history of psychotic illness, and the frozen lake picture: cannabis is the backpack, genetics decide the ice. - Starting young, with pruning and prefrontal wiring still under way: altering a foundation while the house is being built. - Potency, where the relationship is close to linear, and why concentrates bypass the pacing that traditional flower allowed. - How onset arrives, within minutes or across days, why reasoning mid episode fails, and what to do instead: stay calm, cut the stimulation, get help. - The outlook: more than half recovering within 24 to 48 hours once use stops, most of the rest within days to a few weeks. - The exception that frightens people, and why permanent abstinence rather than moderation is the guidance after an episode. This is general information, not medical advice. ▬▬▬▬ Chapters ▬▬▬▬ 00:00 The night filed under a bad high 01:05 Two conflicting stories online 01:51 What psychosis actually means 02:43 The dividing line is insight 04:00 Thinking that stops linking up 04:54 How rare it actually is 05:18 A low average or a false reassurance 06:48 Family history and the thin ice 07:51 Starting young 08:45 Potency and saturated receptors 09:55 How fast the onset arrives 11:53 Why calming talk is not the answer 12:19 The recovery outlook 13:07 The exception in the numbers 14:15 After an episode #cannabispsychosis #cannabisknowledge #quittingweed #thcpotency #mentalhealth

    #48 Cannabis Induced Psychosis: who is actually at risk and what recovery looks like
  7. Aug 31

    #47 Weed Withdrawal Nausea: why mornings are worst and when it ends

    Weed withdrawal nausea: why the stomach gets involved at all, why half past seven in the morning is the worst hour of the day, and how many days it usually runs. All episodes to read up on at https://quit-smoking-weed.com ▬▬▬▬ Everything about quitting ▬▬▬▬ 📕 Free ebook: https://quit-smoking-weed.com/ebook/ 🔗 Free self-check: https://quit-smoking-weed.com/cannabis-use/am-i-smoking-too-much-free-cannabis-self-test-assessment/ 📖 The article for this episode: https://quit-smoking-weed.com/cannabis-withdrawal/weed-withdrawal-nausea/ 📱 All episodes on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kn90NzRCX1dtdqDGozC56 🍏 Also on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id6800789852 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/quit_smoking_weed 📘 Facebook: https://facebook.com/quitsmokingweedofficial ▶️ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@QuitSmokingWeedofficial Supplements that actually help: https://quit-smoking-weed.com/supplements/ ▬▬▬▬ In this episode ▬▬▬▬ Day three, and breakfast is not unappealing but actively wrong. The smell of coffee that has been part of every morning for fifteen years is suddenly too much to be in the same room with. People brace for the bad temper and the broken sleep. Nobody warns them the stomach loses its balance too. - Why the digestive system is involved: the regulation network cannabis acts on runs the whole length of the gut, not just the head. - What it does down there: sets the rhythm of how food moves, manages appetite, and governs the signalling that produces nausea itself. - The locks and the master key: the adaptation is structural, so empty receptors leave intact machinery running on ruined calibration. - The second engine driving the symptom, and why calling it anxiety must not be used to imply the sickness is imagined. - The loop: feeling sick is frightening, being frightened makes the sickness worse, and why breaking either side eases the other. - Why mornings peak: lowest blood sugar after a night of fasting, an empty and sensitive stomach lining, and anxiety running high before the day settles. - Whether this is a manageable background discomfort or a disruptive ordeal that blindsides heavy users is where opinions split hard. - The medical line: cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome shows up during ongoing use, not after stopping, and repeated severe vomiting in withdrawal means seeing a doctor. - The timeline: worst across days two to five, fading through the following week, largely settled by day seven to ten and essentially gone by the end of week two. - The counterintuitive move that matters most, which is eating before feeling ready, a banana, dry toast, a few mouthfuls of rice. - Ginger, hydration in small steady sips, a ten minute walk outside, and peppermint alongside the ginger. - The three traps: coffee on an empty stomach, skipping meals, and strong smells while smell sensitivity is raised. This is general information, not medical advice. ▬▬▬▬ Chapters ▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Day three, and breakfast is out 00:53 Why the gut is involved at all 01:51 Millions of tiny locks, one master key 02:32 Intact engine, ruined calibration 03:41 The second engine behind the sickness 04:36 Break either side of the loop 05:09 Why half past seven is the worst hour 06:10 Background discomfort for most 06:41 Or an ordeal that blindsides heavy users 07:39 Where the medical line runs 08:28 Days two to five, then fading 09:25 Eat before you feel ready 09:58 Ginger and how to take it 10:44 Ten minutes of fresh air 11:20 Coffee on an empty stomach #weedwithdrawal #nausea #quittingweed #cannabisdetox #withdrawalsymptoms

    #47 Weed Withdrawal Nausea: why mornings are worst and when it ends
  8. Aug 29

    #46 Cannabis Use Disorder Symptoms: where a heavy habit crosses the line

    Cannabis use disorder symptoms: what the eleven clinical signs actually describe, where the line between a heavy habit and a disorder sits, and why the label itself is disputed. All episodes to read up on at https://quit-smoking-weed.com ▬▬▬▬ Everything about quitting ▬▬▬▬ Supplements that actually help: https://quit-smoking-weed.com/supplements/ ▬▬▬▬ In this episode ▬▬▬▬ The person this describes is almost never the person anyone pictures. There is a job, the rent gets paid, nobody has staged anything, and there is one gap that keeps getting walked into: the distance between deciding to cut back and actually cutting back. Only at weekends, only after work, just a bit less tonight, and the deal keeps not surviving the evening. - Why the gap, not the amount and not the years, is where this lives, and why roughly three in ten regular users land in this territory. - The definition stripped of drama: continued use despite meaningful problems the use is causing. - The formal threshold: at least two of eleven signs within twelve months, two mild, four or five moderate, six or more severe. - What the criteria never ask about: being unemployed, homeless, or in a crisis. The bar is friction. - The signs in plain language: using more than intended, failing to cut back, time lost to using and recovering, things given up, memory gaps, flat mood. - The quietly abandoned life: a hobby that stopped, a project never started, and the broken promises nobody else sees, so nothing gets challenged. - Outsourced emotional regulation, and the forklift comparison: the heavy lifting gets done for you while the muscle that did it goes rusty. - What happens physically: heavy use scales the body's own production down, CB1 receptors reduce in number, and relaxing or sleeping is genuinely impaired for a while. - Where the line sits, and it is not amount or frequency: what is it costing, and can the person actually stop. - Whether the clinical label is a useful mirror or a box people hide behind is left unresolved here, on purpose. - The three drivers: habit with no emotional trigger, escape from feelings, and deep dependence woven into identity and daily functioning. - What actually helps: no medication exists for this, therapy has the strongest track record, and going it alone needs a plan for the first seven to ten days plus one person told. This is general information, not medical advice. ▬▬▬▬ Chapters ▬▬▬▬ 00:00 The gap between deciding and doing 01:16 How the medical world defines it 01:52 Two signs out of eleven 02:23 What the criteria never ask about 03:29 The quietly abandoned life 03:45 Managing feelings with a forklift 04:33 The promises nobody else sees 04:50 Nights without it 05:09 What the receptors actually do 05:55 Why stopping whenever you want fails 06:24 Heavy habit or disorder 06:54 Useful mirror or a box to hide in 08:57 Habit, escape, deep dependence 10:05 No pill, no patch, no shortcut 10:33 Quitting without professional help #cannabisusedisorder #quittingweed #cannabisaddiction #withdrawal #sobriety

    #46 Cannabis Use Disorder Symptoms: where a heavy habit crosses the line

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The podcast from quit-smoking-weed.com for anyone quitting weed or about to. One topic per episode: insomnia, irritability, cravings, what happens in your brain and body, which supplements actually help, and how to stay clean. Honest, practical, no lecturing. Over 3,000 people helped since 2013. 🎯 Online program: quit-smoking-weed.com/quit-smoking-weed-and-transformation-program 📕 Free ebook: quit-smoking-weed.com/ebook 🧪 Supplements: quit-smoking-weed.com/supplements 📸 instagram.com/quit_smoking_weed 📘 facebook.com/quitsmokingweedofficial ▶️ youtube.com/@QuitSmokingWeedofficial