delta9
12-08-2004, 09:38 AM
It got to the point where I was just SO tired of all the crap from my many years of smoking nicotine cigarettes - the difficulty breathing, inability to go more than a day without at least ONE cigarette, inability to get impetus to do ANYTHING without a cigarette, oh the physical addiction!
So one night, I bought a half-ounce of marijuana. Mind you, it wasn't very GOOD marijuana, but it was a half-ounce of marijuana all the same. I had three cigarettes left. So I chain smoked two of them, and then ran the last one under the faucet, as a last "SCREW YOU" to the tobacco industry. Now, as you might expect, I was a bit "charged", both from the nicotine hitting my system and from the beginning of a new endeavor... So I sat down and rolled seven half-gram joints. That's one of my four eigths. I took another two of the eigths and made some water hash. Disappointing because I only yielded a gram, but hey, I figured I'd want to be HIGH a least once during all this ;).
So, I had seven half-gram joints, a gram of some nice blonde hash, and one eigth of some alright bud. Why did I set it up like this, you ask? Well, from my research, I knew it would take anywhere from four to twelve days before the nicotine left my system, and physical withdrawal of nicotine is a BITCH (I knew from managing to go as much as TWO days without a cigarette previously). I've been smoking tobacco cigarettes four a good nine or ten years, the last four pretty heavily, so I figured I would be in the 10 day or so range (I had managed to work myself down to a mere four cigarettes a day before starting this).
The basic plan was, wake up in the morning, go as long as possible until I need that cigarette, and then smoke one of the joints, inside a cigarette pack (see, working on my own familiarity here, this is why it was pre-rolled), and then smoke a bowl when the next cigarette urge hit.
Of course, no plan survives contact with the enemy... BUT, I did go nicotineless. I smoked a joint a day for seven days, and I started out smoking a bowl a night... unfortunately, the gram of hash didn't go the distance I had hoped it would, and I ended up getting another eigth (this is some barely-better-than-stress (it's green... that's about all I can say for it) I'm talking about); however, once again, I was victorious! NO NICOTINE. I had to continue self-medicating until day 14 or so before I fully felt I could go without wanting any cigarettes.
I smoked everytime I felt the urge for tobacco, and this lasted a good five or six days before I stopped noticing any "pull". As of this posting, I'm around day 39 or 40 without having any tobacco, and I'm going strong.
Of course, there's still a bit of a mental pull, especially when I see people smoking a cigarette... but if I've got some bud, I just smile and nod. 'cause the act of smoking is why I am mentally addicted to cigarettes - they're just a vessel to me inhaling and exhaling smoke....
So one night, I bought a half-ounce of marijuana. Mind you, it wasn't very GOOD marijuana, but it was a half-ounce of marijuana all the same. I had three cigarettes left. So I chain smoked two of them, and then ran the last one under the faucet, as a last "SCREW YOU" to the tobacco industry. Now, as you might expect, I was a bit "charged", both from the nicotine hitting my system and from the beginning of a new endeavor... So I sat down and rolled seven half-gram joints. That's one of my four eigths. I took another two of the eigths and made some water hash. Disappointing because I only yielded a gram, but hey, I figured I'd want to be HIGH a least once during all this ;).
So, I had seven half-gram joints, a gram of some nice blonde hash, and one eigth of some alright bud. Why did I set it up like this, you ask? Well, from my research, I knew it would take anywhere from four to twelve days before the nicotine left my system, and physical withdrawal of nicotine is a BITCH (I knew from managing to go as much as TWO days without a cigarette previously). I've been smoking tobacco cigarettes four a good nine or ten years, the last four pretty heavily, so I figured I would be in the 10 day or so range (I had managed to work myself down to a mere four cigarettes a day before starting this).
The basic plan was, wake up in the morning, go as long as possible until I need that cigarette, and then smoke one of the joints, inside a cigarette pack (see, working on my own familiarity here, this is why it was pre-rolled), and then smoke a bowl when the next cigarette urge hit.
Of course, no plan survives contact with the enemy... BUT, I did go nicotineless. I smoked a joint a day for seven days, and I started out smoking a bowl a night... unfortunately, the gram of hash didn't go the distance I had hoped it would, and I ended up getting another eigth (this is some barely-better-than-stress (it's green... that's about all I can say for it) I'm talking about); however, once again, I was victorious! NO NICOTINE. I had to continue self-medicating until day 14 or so before I fully felt I could go without wanting any cigarettes.
I smoked everytime I felt the urge for tobacco, and this lasted a good five or six days before I stopped noticing any "pull". As of this posting, I'm around day 39 or 40 without having any tobacco, and I'm going strong.
Of course, there's still a bit of a mental pull, especially when I see people smoking a cigarette... but if I've got some bud, I just smile and nod. 'cause the act of smoking is why I am mentally addicted to cigarettes - they're just a vessel to me inhaling and exhaling smoke....