The Side effects of Quitting Weed

yo what's up guys hello and welcome back to another video now you may have seen this video I made last week and that was basically about my whole situation and my struggles with different kinds of drugs and a little bit about my family life in the past and whatnot and stuff like that but the gist of the video basically comes down to the fact that I was smoking weed very very very often so anyway here I am a few of you may be wondering whether or not I'm still going strong if I'm still keeping it clean and you'll be happy to know that I am I'm now officially 7 days this is my I think seven days was yesterday or this is the seventh day around that time but yeah so we're still going strong but I wanted to make this video to give a little bit of an update talk about the situation and how how I've been feeling how I've been filling my time instead of doing stuff like smoking constantly how I'm dealing with the the withdrawals and the different side effects that you can expect if you want to do the same thing and quit smoking yourself now I was smoking looking a lot of the devil's lettuce to be honest like every single day from probably about lunchtime till about midnight every day so I was very much engrossed in it pretty heavily to be honest with you and in my mind I think the mental side of it is the most difficult bit and also trying to find something to fill your time but one thing that I didn't expect to be so intense and to be honest I've smoked before and quit before but this is probably my longest stint where I've actually continued smoking so that we drawers were the worst this time and the side effects are still going to this day so I'm hoping that they're going to be over soon I'm not going to make this video too long I'm going to quickly brush over some of the things and then talk about what I'm doing to stay clean and how I'm keeping myself on the straight and narrow but the main thing is right so you how do you fill your time like the best thing to do when you trying to quit something like this is to not substitute it with something else like a lot of people will quit smoking and start drinking for me I've never really been a drinker like my mom was a serious alcoholic my dad was a serious drug addict thankfully my mom's all right now I don't speak to my dad at all since he abandoned me when I was like 15 left me in the house of drug dealers but that that is a that is a crazy story for another video but we're going to talk about the the withdrawals from the weed and the first day like I was waking up like the sleeping is the hardest thing cuz anyone that smokes weed consistently will tell you that they use it to get to sleep they use it to chill out and relax in the evenings and I was very much in that camp as well now to find yourself in a position where you can actually get to sleep after quitting something like this especially on that first night I started by doing like a lot of exercise a lot of extra skateboarding just doing some things that I knew would get me physically tired but physical tiredness isn't really like the main thing it's all in the head when you're sitting there when you would normally smoke before bed not doing that becomes an issue you lay in bed for hours and just sit there and just think about stuff and you crave it you do like people can say that weed's not addicting but to me it's certainly was and it was more of a mental like habitual thing then for example if someone was quitting a more hard drug like heroin or something like that with that you get like real B you can like literally kill yourself if you go cold turkey off that because your body can withdraw from it so hard but this isn't that intense but the main thing was the sleeping right so when you do eventually get to sleep oh my God man the nightmares you get are crazy like they're not so much like real tragic nightmares like waking up screaming or whatever like that they're more like really intense lucid dreams and I've been waking up like seven eight times a night it feels like every half an hour and you can probably tell like my eyes I am seriously tired because I have not been sleeping well at all now don't get me wrong I'm not going to go and start smoking again to try and stop this cuz I think I'm over the hump now but there's definitely still happening last night was a little was not as bad as the night before and that was not as bad as the night before that so it is getting better which is always a good sign to see but yeah the lucid dreams are crazy like I have like now my dreams aren't super super super scary like for example some of the weird stuff like I get mad anxiety about like traveling and stuff like that so for example a nightmare for me would be booking a skate trip and then getting to the airport without my passport and then I'll wake up like or like another one would be like I would dream that I smoked again or like dreamed that I did another drug or relapsed or whatever and then you wake up and you're like oh my God why did I do that and then you realize it was a dream and you kind of get like a more relaxing sensation then you go to sleep and you have another nightmare like I was waking up and having probably like seven or eight nightmares I was literally living for a season worth of TV show every single night so yeah I think that is the most intense part of giving it up like I had one dream where Holly my girlfriend brought home a lion and the lion sat on my lap and I literally could not get up like this is more of a comical one but it was one of them ones you know like when you get paralyzed in a dream for example you're trying to run away and you can't run away your legs don't work you know the ones I'm sure you've had one before but yeah that was one of the ones where I had a line sitting on me and I couldn't get up and it was scratching at me slowly like peeling my skin off like it was crazy weird right but they're the only ones I can really remember but I always remember waking up stressed and I have like mad shoulder pains from where I've not been sleeping properly so it can get a bit crazy so if you're going to quit yourself expect that cuz I've spoken to a few people that have quit and when I did a live stream the other night a bunch of people were saying that they've experienced the same thing if they when they were quitting there is some science behind it which I'm not going to go into now cuz I'm no scientist but I would recommend researching it if you haven't already now outside of that I haven't had too many negative side effects like you do get like sweats in the night and stuff like that but the main issues are when you're sleeping like that is the hardest part for me I've not taken any other like pharmaceutical things to help me deal with the sleeping because I feel like if you just start substituting it with something else then that's just going to become a problem as well so you'll start to rely on that so it's best to just wait it out deal with the Knights as when they come and hopefully within like 2 weeks or something that'll stop I'll keep you guys updated on that but the things that I've been doing to fill my time I've just been skating way more I've been working constantly like I feel if you're going to swap an addiction for one don't swap it for another drug alcohol cigarette whatever swap it for something that benefits your life like the gym hard work just don't go crazy with it don't overwork yourself to the point where your body can't handle it just do it to the point where you know you're going to be tired every night because if you get to bed and you're not tired then your body just hasn't expended enough energy that day at least that's my personal opinion on it so I've just been doing plenty of exercise plenty of skating another thing that's difficult is all of my friends smoke all of them I mean all of them Holly doesn't though Holly doesn't smoke which is obviously a massive benefit so when I'm at home I don't ever see it I'm not around it and it has been difficult because I didn't first of all tell my friends I was going to quit full time so they were offering it to me still and I feel like the strength to say no from someone offering it to you comes from the first time you say it just literally say it the first time just say no the first time they ask just say no straight away don't even think about it just say no and then the next time that no becomes a little bit easier and a little bit easier if you give up and say yes you've just broken down your own willpower and prove to yourself that you're not ready to quit so keep yourself true to your word and just stick to it man because trust me it's well worth it I'm still not into that point yet where I've started to feel better without it because like I said I'm still going through the withdrawals and having the crazy dreams so I'm going to make another video on like maybe the two we or 30-day Mark to let you guys know if the dreams have stopped how I'm dealing with it then and what you can expect if you're going to do the same thing over that period of time but yeah I just thought I would make this video to give you guys a quick update if you've watched this far the new escapism board to be out next week at some point thanks for watching I'll see you guys in the next one