Cannabis and tobacco
Tobacco
is acknoweldged as the most widely used
recreational drug on the planet. It’s
also particularly dangerous and addictive.
That much we know.
Hard
as it may be for alcoholics and hard drug
users, to give up smoking cigarettes when
they clean up, cannabis
users who smoke their dope with tobacco,
face a unique
problem when it comes to quitting cannabis. The combination of nicotine and cannabis
creates a powerful cocktail, potentially
more addictive than either one alone, and
stopping smoking both together can cause
such a confusion of cravings that it can
seem impossible to move forward into recovery.
Many
dope smokers in the UK smoke both tobacco
joints and cigarettes. Some people in this
position want to kick both at the same
time, others recognise that stopping one
or the other first will be all they can
manage initially.
Many
people who rarely, if ever smoke a cigarette
routinely smoke five, ten, fifteen, or
even twenty tobacco
joints a day. Understandably
its hard for non-cigarette smokers to admit
that they are addicted to tobacco.
Only you
will be able to tell whether you are ready
to quit tobacco and cannabis seperately
or together.
Its
not always the case but to keep
it simple: if you are able to recognize the craving
for tobacco as physical and the craving
for cannabis as mental then that is a good
start. For me when I stopped smoking cigarettes
the craving for nicotine was always with
me those first few weeks of stopping. I
held it somewhere around the pit of my
stomach.
When
I quit cannabis, after a short while I
was able to pinpoint that the desire to
get stoned was at its strongest when I
was trying to block an emotional situation
or feeling.
At
some level, most of us want to become just
as healthy as possible. That is what Clearhead
is all about and ultimately that means
freeing yourself from tobacco and not needing
cannabis anymore. Whether this takes weeks,
months or even years. Keep focused on your
intention and you will be able to make
this happen, trust yourself and you will
do it sooner rather than later. The feeling
of freedom gained is one of lifes great
natural highs.
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