Marijuana withdrawal as bad as withdrawal from cigarettes

Eurekalert ^ | 01/24/08 | Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

[Vigilantcitizen]

Pure, unadulterated b.s.

[cripplecreek]

Between quitting drinking, quitting pot smoking, and quitting smoking cigarettes, cigarettes were the hardest by far. Alcohol was next and pot was a simple matter of saying no thanks.

[Sudetenland]

No, actually I agree. My problem is that the taxpayers had to pay for something that most heavy pot-smokers (or ex-pot smokers) already know.

[Sudetenland]

Shouldn’t that be “No thanks, dude?”

[cripplecreek]

I’m 43 so it was “No thanks man”.

[kcubram]

This is laughable. As someone who knows, there is no comparison.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Hear, hear. Not difficult to quit in the least.

[Billthedrill]

Not in my experience and I smoked it with regularity. I just stopped and...nothing whatever happened. Nothing. Anecdotal evidence, to be sure, but it’s a fact. Never even tempted to go back.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Youe results may vary, but to me, there is no comparison.

[Vigilantcitizen]

oops..I meant your. “That’s why they call it “dope””.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

based on self reporting in a recent study of 12 heavy users of both marijuana and cigarettes.

Self reporting = people fudging their facts. They may not mean to but they do. So this study was doomed from the start.

And 12 users? Any study of less then 1500 is badly flawed because of the statistical noise.

[pandoraou812]

You see this one?

[cripplecreek]

The only marijuana “addicts” I’ve ever known were simply using a claim of addiction to to make excuses for their laziness.

[Wolfie]

So when do we make cigarettes illegal?

[Sudetenland]

Maybe, although I smoked a pack a day for 20 years, I started rather late (27) and had little problem quitting cigarettes. On the otherhand, as an alcoholic-addict, I had a dickens of a time before I managed to stay in recovery from alcohol and pot...especially pot, I really loved that.

[TigersEye]

I would agree. In my anecdotal experience I would compare it to quitting watching a good television series in the middle of the season. I would feel like I was missing something...once or twice. Just a stray thought easily cured with a half hearted “Oh well, so what’s for dinner?”

[tacticalogic]

In addition, six of the participants reported that quitting both marijuana and tobacco at the same time was more difficult than quitting either drug alone, whereas the remaining six found that it was easier to quit marijuana or cigarettes individually than it was to abstain from the two substances simultaneously.

Read that carefully. Quality stuff, that research.

[pandoraou812]

Just a stray thought easily cured with a half hearted “Oh well, so what’s for dinner?”

True...

[TigersEye]

The only marijuana “addicts” I’ve ever known were simply using a claim of addiction to to make excuses for their laziness.

I agree. Except the only person I've known to claim "addiction" was making an excuse to be an a-wipe. Something he was fairly accomplished at when stoned it just didn't bother him when he was.