I'm only 15 and i have serious problem I smoke weed i need tips to quit, its really messing with my life!!!!!
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If you don't feel you can do this on your own, you need to seek proffessional help.  Call a crisis prevention line, or go to your local youth center, or seek a counselor.  Try these web sites and phone numbers attached.\n\nAlcohol/Drug Abuse Hotline\n1-800-662-HELP\n\nMarijuana Anonymous\n1-800-766-6779\n\nHelp Finding a Therapist\n1-800-THERAPIST (1-800-843-7274)\n\nNational Youth Crisis Hotline\n1-800-448-4663\n\nTeen Helpline\n1-800-400-0900\n\nTeenLine\n1-800-522-8336\n\n\nHope one of these will give you the help you need.  Good luck... don't give up!
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I'm there with you! I actually quit about 2 months ago, and then 2 weeks ago I was under a lot of stress and started back up again. I kept smoking one or two a day and kept telling myself, I'm not smoking again, I'll quit tomorrow, but I haven't. I think that you really, really have to want to quit. Not for your family, or your health, but just because you don't want to do it anymore. My dad, who is 54, quit a few weeks ago, and he has smoked since he was 16. He is using the patches. I'll pray for you and you pray for me! Good luck!
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The easiest way is to stop doing drugs. However there is a product on the market that is supposed to purge your system of any THC or whatever you have in your system. My friend who's a pot head said that Green Tea also works. I wouldn't know, so I'm just going on what she said.
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The only people that think drugs are the in thing to do are the ones taking drugs!  Take drugs long enough and it will ruin your life.  I think you did the right thing by quitting weed; now hang out with people that think the same way you do.  Drugs are dumb & dangerous, life is complicated enough without adding a drug habit to it.  Good Luck, there are normal people everywhere that have fun without drugs.
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Your risk of several types of cancer are increased, and more so if you have a genetic predisposition to cancer causing cells. Besides that and, of course, the fact that it isn't legal for you to smoke, you are young and the damage you do to your body will reverse itself if you quit. Your are changing your body's ability to breathe, distribute oxygen to your brain and other organs, circulate blood properly and about thirty other things that your body does involuntarily to keep you alive. So, you need to ask yourself, why do you smoke? While at your age some people (also mostly your age) will form a certain opinion about what kind of person you are, once you hit about the twenty to twenty-two age group and older, most people think you just look weak and ignorant for not knowing what you're doing to your body and too lazy to help yourself (much in the same way most people view those who are morbidly obese). The fact that you're smoking such a small amout says to me that you don't need it, you just like it. I know. We can smell our own. When I quit I promised myself I would light up one or two whenever the mood struck me-this idea helped me quit cold turkey. I had one a couple of months later, a few a couple of months after that, another one about six months later, etc. The more time that passes the less I feel like I like it so the less I smoke. But the only reason I ever did smoke was because I liked it, the feel, the flavor, the smell even. If you can't pinpoint why you do it at all-then why do you do it at all?
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I have the same problem.  I don't think there is anything that you can do.  Maybe get some vitamins (there are ones that are supposed to help with memory and over all mental health).  Without knowing much more about you that is all that I would say.  I think my problem is from smoking too much weed when I was younger.
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first of all- this is the best thing that you can do for yourself! i hope you stick to it! you deserve to have a healthy long life!\n\nit's different for everyone, but usually the urge to start again will get less extreme after 7 days, and mostly gone by a month. they say it takes 40 days to create a new mind pattern, a new habit.\n\nif you are young and haven't been smoking that long, your body should repair itself from the damage already done fairly quickly, and you will have completely new lungs in 7 years (all the cells will be renewed) you should start to exercise- replacing old bad habits with new healthy ones, plus exercise will really make you feel great mentally as well as physically.\n\nit can help to use the patch, it helped me quit a 10 year 1 pack a day addiction. i don't reccomend niccorette because that can become habit forming as well. be careful where you go and be wary of your triggers. if you always smoke when out with friends at a bar, it may be best to avoid those situations for a while, and ask your friends to support you.\noh, i hear laser therapy is the latest...\nGOOD LUCK- you really are SAVING YOUR OWN LIFE!
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I smoked from the age of 11 until I got pregnant with my daughter at 24. I was able to quit because I was pregnant and didn't want to put her at risk, but after I had my son, it seemed my reason to quit had disappeared. I only wanted 2 kids, so I knew I would never be pregnant again, When she was 2 and he was 9 months, i started again. I smoked for 3 more years, before I quit again. You have to find the inspiration to quit. I did it for 2 reason, my children, and because I watched my father die from lung cancer. I don't want to put my children through that torture if I don't have to. It may be too late, but at least I'm doing what I can to prevent it now.\nI quit slowly. First I only smoked outdoors, never in the house. In the summer it's fine, but during the cold windy days, smoking started to lose it appeal. I stopped smoking in my car. And I avoided alcohol. Then I started smoking half of the cigarette. I got to the point that a pack would last me 2 weeks, then 3 and at that point I stopped all together. The wole process probably took me about 3 months, but it was the only way that worked for me. I tried the patch and it made my arm feel weird, I tried cold turkey, but that only lasted a couple of days for me. The gradual method was best for me, but everybody is different. My step-uncle quit after 35 years cold turkey, but he would cut up carrots and celery and other veges and snack on them whenever he had a craving. It worked fo him, I had a friend quit using the nicitine gum. and I had another friend go to the doctor for a prescrition antidepressent that helped her quit. So far we are all still smoke free.\nJust try to find a reason that is very important to you, your health, the health of people around you, money, the smell on your clothes or hair, bad breath or whatever motivates you.\nIt's still not always easy (July of 05 was the last time I smoked). Stress triggers cravings and so does alcohol still, but I just focus on my reasons for stopping. If you can make it through the next five minutes without smoking, you can do it for a lifetime. A craving only last that long. Distract yourself in thos e five minutes by checking the mail, calling a friend, fold a load of laundry, or something that needs your hands to do it. \n\nYou can do it!!\n\nP.S. I feel better about myself now too, I don't feel like a lepper for smoking. I always felt a little ashamed whenever I lit up, not to mention that I have so much more money since I quit too. Not only do I save on the cigarettes and lighters, but breath mints, and air fresheners too!
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You should have a legal guardian with you. Someone who is responsible for you, like one of your parents . If your Aunt is responsible for you, that works too. I do have to say that at 13 years old ... lay off the weed and other drugs and seriously re-evaluate your freinds. Your life hasn't even really started yet . Give it a chance to be something good. Good luck .... ;)
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I used to hide mine rolled up in a sock in the sock drawer; make it look like a sock.  Don't smoke pot anymore myself; I lost too much ambition and self respect.  Respect your self and yourself's future.
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Just keep telling yourself how bad they are for you. Do this repeatedly till you have set this in your mind. It is not as hard to give up something that you really think is bad for you. \n\nLet your family and friends know you are planning to quit so you have their support and also you will not want to let them down as well as your family.\n\nPick a date that is easy to remember or that means something to you. Could even just be the first of a month. Then quit on that date. You have to want to quit for yourself. The for them is a bonus. Try to stay busy and it will keep your mind off quiting.\n\nYou will still probably bitch but hopefully you can find something else to do and bitch less and less.\n\nAt first it was easy for me and then I wanted to smoke more and more. But I did not even touch one. After a few months the craving was gone, but I still liked to smell a burning cigarette. \n\nHas been over three years now and I still like to smell a cigarette burning but have no desire to smoke one. Still have a couple of cartons in a cabinet and will probably throw them out in some years to follow. At least my old friends are here even if I do not want them.\n\nP.S. I smoked for over 40 years. I liked smoking but finally realized that it was not good for me. It is also a big waste of money as they are very expensive now.\n\nGood luck. Think positive and it will work.
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I have no clue what everyone else said as I didn't take time to read the same thing people always say that is no where near right. First off its an adiction and no one can say its not the same as a physical addiction. I was physically addicted to weed for 10 long years. I smoked an ounce a week every week for 9 of those years. When I finally had kids I stopped and it was the worst month of my life. I couldn't sleep, or eat and even sex got a whole lot more boring. i had never in my life not even once had sober sex until the day i stopped and it was not nearly as fun. \n\nNow, I quit 3 years ago and I still want to get high, I don't but I still want to and I think about it at least once a week. We are the same as drunks in a lot of ways except the only thing wrongwith reefer is its illegal. anyhow, start by slowwing down. I went down to a hlaf for a few weeks, the a quarter for a few weeks, the an 1/8 for a few weeks and finally I got down to smoking once in the morning to get my day going and once at night to get to sleep. once I got over the hump of not smoking in the morning the day time was much easier, until I stopped the final nightly stone. then life was hell for a whole month. I hurt all over, I puked for a week or so occasionally and I hated the world.\n\n\ntry quitting in small steps and don't take advice from people who have never had this addiction. they're just guessing.\n\n\n**added***\n\nonly amatures smoke it with tobacco, don't listen to them for sure.
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THE BEST ADVICE I CAN GIVE IS DON'T START SMOKING,  but have look at this link . but if you want toxins to sop entering you body ,,stop breathing ,eating, drinking ..ect\n\nlol    good luck
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One way is to stop hanging with those friends of yours who do it with you.  Stop calling them and don't answer their calls.  If you really want to quit, that should be easy. \n\nAsk a friend of yours who doesn't do crack if you could stay with her /him for awhile.  Be honest and don't put her/him though hell like you have so many others.   \n\nAlso make sure you have plenty of weed.  It makes it easier than cutting yourself off completely.
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find a different hobbies to do Ive been smoking for 30 yrs and its so hard to stop once you get hooked PLEASE STOP SMOKING try anything that will help the patch there gum anything just stop smoking or you will end up with cancer in the throat or lungs
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It is just your answer to the pain of loosing somebody dear.\nJust watch yourself, the ideas in your mind and the sensations on your body just before starting drinking and smoking. Be aware and do nothing...the urges will dissapear.\nYou get addicted to the sensation that weed and buzz are giving u and not to the buzz or pot itself. Same with cigarettes. A little bit of weed now and than is more than ok,  a natural medicine, a wise friend but renounce the rest..they are just intoxicants. And you must know that nobody can help u but yourself...so be aware and take over your greed for pleasant sensation.
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I'm so sorry you're going through this.  For 17 you sure are mature!  Hun, go to www.na.org  That's the national site for narcotics anonymous.  They have links there and help for family members of addicts.  Don't hesitate to contact them, you'll find the help you need!  If you situation is dangerous then you'll have no option but to call the police or talk to your school principle and get help immediately.  Big hug and much luck!