...that pretty well says it - male musician age 27...now in AA first time and clean for 3 weeks...
207801
Congratulations on your sobriety. I suggest you do puzzles and play word games. Some of it will come back but you need to work it.
607404
First, congratulations.  I come from an alcoholic family and have lost three to the disease.  As for withdrawals, each person is a bit different.  The beginning is obviously the hardest on the body.  The shakes are common, also hallucinations, mood swings.  Try calling your local AA, PLEASE.
579596
Well done for what you have achieved in the past, and what you are trying to achieve now. You should visit your doctor and ask for advice. If given the all clear, remember, it takes time to repair any damage caused by smoking, or inactivity, and also, as with all of us,  we change with age. But you have the benefit of having been athletic. Give yourself time to build up, and take care of your body. You only have one. No one can tell you that you are deluding yourself, but yourself. Most of all, remember that you are already a winner in having succeeded in giving up smoking. Best of luck!
614338
Cannabis in its natural habitat, grows to two or three meters high.  The leaves have minute globules of resin on the underside. The plants are 'harvested' and the 'processor' whips the branches of the plant against a table or worktop to which the resin sticks.  He then scrapes the resin off the table and forms it into small bars.   It is obviously easier to transport and is more expensive.   Your friend will not give up its use unless he really and truthfully wants to do so.  He will not have 'withdrawal symptoms' as do heroin users and will not have to go 'cold turkey'.   He may become quite paranoid at times and this is when he may revert.   If he is successful, his body should be clear in about a month.   There is a school of thought that he could possibly have 'flashbacks' over the coming years.  Good luck in your endeavors.............
551115
This will show my age, but... I walked out of a Gordon Lightfoot concert a loooong time ago.  He was very drunk/stoned, and kept saying he felt rougher than a bear turd rolled in fish hooks, which was kind of funny the first time, by the 20th time it got old, and he kept messing up his songs.  It was sad and I was embarrassed for him.  A lot of people were walking out.  You don't get your money back whether you stay or leave, so the question is, do you want to be here or would you rather be somewhere else?  If you don't want to be there, staying just means you have wasted the money, now you are wasting your time.
314233
Congrates on making it five years!! It is common to replace one addiction to another. And yes too much caffiene over time can be bad for you health. Just drink it in moderation, and try to slip in atleast 3 glasses of water in a day so it can go through your system and clean it out. I hope you stay clean for another 30 yrs.!!!!!!
459330
i guess you're talking drugs here, right,  will the stuff not be gone by Friday??  that seems like a long enough time, is it possible for you to be honest n up front with your employer or would that end your job?? good luck to you , whatever you do.
10838
if your a addict go 2 N/A with other addicts.i'am a addict i'll tell what i did & learned in the porgram you only have 2 change 1 thing THAT'S EVERYTHING!!! yes even old gilfriends.do what u got 2 do 4 u. everything else will fall into place. i have 3 yrs clean & sorbor & a hole new life. yes new girlfriend 2. she's got 2 yrs. we been together two & a half yrs.  JUST 4 2 DAY
13867
I have never done drugs in my life and I am 31. I am proud of it. Because who knows if I would have could have messed up my life. I am thinkfull I didn't because I am very successfull now.
527158
the first thing you need to do is pray, and ask God to guide you and give you direction on a sound thing to do. your second good thing was asking for help from your yahoo family. Talk to your mate and remind him in order to stay clean you must stay away from people, places, and things that relate to your old drug habits. Next you should try and remind him that these were the same friend that were with him in his addiction and three years later they are still there. Have him to revisit his past mentally, than look at his present too see how far God has brought him. Lastly, stay supportive he may be at a vulnerable point in his life, try to help keep him focused and away from the bad influences. Sometimes we do not see out of the corners of our eyes that something may be approaching, that is why you walk by his side. keep your head up and your eyes open.
387993
I got mine out this summer. I am 28. The older you are the longer it takes. \n\nI felt good enough to do a lot of things the day after, however, I was very emotional because of the drugs, so I wasn't fit to go anywhere. \n\nAfter 4 days I went out for a full day with a friend.Then the next day, I crashed. I was exhausted and somewhat relapsed. It was about 2 weeks before I was back to full speed, but about a week before I felt good enough to do things more than 1 day in a row.\n\nMilk it for all it is worth, baby!
239232
Do it now while you're still young enough to "start" over.  If he hasn't changed now, he never will, even if he quit the drugs.  Drug users are self centered and blame the world for their problems.  Get out now.
538791
yeah, i know exactly what you mean. i dont smoke right now due to the  fact that i am on probation and i only got a month to go before i get off( this will be the first time getting off probation since i have been 13, i am 21 now) but anyway i grew up real crazy, breakin into peoples houses, stealin cars, fightin all the time, and that was before i started smoking weed. i first tryed weed when i was 17, by that time i was already on adult probation. at that time i was drinkin alot and gettin arrested almost once a week. after i started smokin i stopped drinkin as much so in turn i stopped going to jail. i started concentrating on things more and started thinking about what i was doin and where i was headin in my life. eventually my probation officer noticed that i really calmed down and was gettin my stuff together and desided to drug test me. when he found out i was smoking weed he got mad and said "man, you was doin so good and you had to go and fuck it up with weed." i explained to him that that is the reason why i was doin better and why i was not drinkin and beatin people up all the time. after having a talk with him then he threw away the drug test papers and told me that i could keep smokin if i stayed out of trouble. since then i had a review and the judge noticed that i havnt had a drug test for awile. i didnt narc out my p.o. and took the blame and again in turn my p.o. stuck up for me and got me off the hook and got my probaition time shortened. since i have started smokin i now have gained a full time job, i am enrolled in columbus state community college studying to become a nurse and after that a doctor, i have found a sence of feeling and love that i never even thought was possible in me, and have accepted christ into my life. i practice beliefs of christafari. weed is the second best things that ever happened to me and jah is the first. if it were not for these two things then i would probly be doin 25 to life right now, and thats no joke. thank you for giving me the chance to testify this and jah bless.
236860
Neither did mine, but I told him I did not want to be with a man that felt the need to escape to never-never land.  I wanted a strong man (character-wise)  We argued for a very long time about it.  I wasted TOO long arguing.  How long will it be til a couple times a week turns into several a week and then every day?  No one knows.  For my man, he had to choose between me and "it".  And it's not "just weed"  it's substance abuse just like any other drug including alcohol.   It's your life, set it up to live it well with the decisions you make every day.  YOU CAN"T MAKE him quit, you can only hope you can give him a reason that is good enough so that he wants to stop    to live in the real world like a man does.
361510
probally about 3 weeks well done on being soooooooo good
371358
I took it for a short time....for depression. I had headaches, and gained weight.  Also, when I stopped taking it...my hearing kept going in and out.  I kept hearing this zzip..zzzip...I could actually feel a strange vibration going thru my head...and that's when I figured out it was my hearing....fading in and out.  Really weird.  And they say it is not habit forming....but, then they say "well, you can't just stop taking it..you have to be weaned off of it."  If that's not an addiction....then explain that one to me!! I ended up just going to a counselor and now I am doing great....I just had to have someone not involved with my life to help me figure things out.
618099
As hard as it may be, I think you should steer clear of this guy.  If he is using and you move in you will more than likely give in to temptation.  You have been clean for four years why jeopardize that for a man?