Anybody know any book about quiting marijuana?

[Francis G]

Anybody know a book about quiting marijuana?

[janicelou]

Read Tony Robins book.. Awaken the Giant Within

[apsinvo]

I don't, but if I may offer some advice -

Select a time when your usual routine will be broken. Perhaps when you're going away for a week or something. If you don't have any such thing planned, plan it today. Make sure you're occupied and have a list of items to do that you enjoy doing, and just for that week, don't do it.

That breaks the cycle, and it's quite easy when you're actually out of your usual environment and routine.

Step 2 is not returning to it when you return to your usual environment, however the fact that you're off it for a week gives you the boost to make that happen.

[irfan]

Originally Posted by Francis G

Anybody know a book about quiting marijuana?

Francis, are you looking for a book or are you trying to quit weed? Or maybe to help someone else quit?

I don't know any books, but there are quite a few forums out there. The trouble with this issue is that it's so hard to find any reasonably balanced resources. For political and legal reasons, it's very hard to find any calm, balanced analysis of the issue, it's usually completely polarized. Even such issues as whether weed is physically addictive evoke fierce disagreement.

Perhaps there are some books specifically dealing with the subject, and some may be helpful. But you might do better with more general personal development books that help you cut your own path.

When I was younger, I found a ten day Vipassana course not only blew weed out of my life (which was why I signed up for it), it lead to all sorts of other wonderful experiences that made me wonder why I ever thought weed was a problem in the first place.

I like the idea of that much better than those twelve-step AA type approaches, which seem to mean that people stop using a substance and then go on making it the center of their lives for the next decade! (Although I've heard other people say that approach is good for them, and I don't want to belittle it either!)

[Derelle]

The quickest way to stop something, is to have something else, that you like that much more. Sometimes, the thing we want the most, is there to fill some void that we have. I think you should read books that have more to do with self empowering ideas and also learn meditation. The urge will and can subside, if you calm your mind, relax and know that you can do without anything that you don't need.

Some of the best books I read were here.