Hi all, hope the evening is treating you well. Just catching up first of all on replies and callouts from earlier today. Haven't read the recent messages in the thread yet.
@Snuchu, the way I got off the green was recommended to me by a psychologist who was an addictions specialist. Basically the idea is to slowly wean yourself off so that there is more chance of long term success and less chance of relapse. The first step, which I did for the first week and continued doing to the end is to start a tally of how much green you are consuming each day, as near to exact as you can get it. Every time you have a bong, jay or however it is you take it, just mark it off on a computer sheet you keep open, or else on a sticky note or something on your mobile. You can even just put a mark down on a piece of paper if you want. The simple act of tallying in itself tends to reduce your intake and at least you know what you are dealing with. So that would be my suggestion for the first week and at the end of the week add up the total, divide it by 7 and that's your average intake per day. After that, you just start trying to reduce your average daily intake week by week by however many units you feel you can manage. I went through some ups and downs with this so don't worry about that if it happens but just keep tallying, that's the main thing. After some months of this (it might take you less time hopefully), I went away to a place where I had no access to green for three weeks. I set a concrete 'quit date' for the first day of my trip away. Then when I got back I just didn't start again. It's been a bit over two months without it now and I have almost no craving. This is after 20 years of using. It's just one way of doing things. Your nurse may have some other suggestions about how to get you off it quicker. Best of luck! You'll get support here for your efforts however you choose to go about it.
@Former-Member, you wrote so well about the stigmas that women face in all different ways. We ought to stick together with it more I think and mostly on these forums I think we really do. Thanks so much for giving me a better perspective on what I was venting about this morning. Thanks for your kindness and compassion too, @Decadian, much appreciated. @Former-Member, as usual you wrote such wonderful things, feel heaps better in my womanhood this evening than I did this morning.
@PeppiPatty, sorry you are all ill, hope things pick up very soon. Great that you are getting into some sewing. I too am thinking about @eth and hoping she's having a great time, minus crocodiles.
