Quit Smoking Forever Guide

There are many cigarette smokers who also smoke marijuana. Whilst marijuana possession is illegal in most countries, I will refrain from judging people who smoke marijuana and I hope you do to. Even if you do not smoke it yourself then I still recommend you read this section anyway because it is a great eye opener for you to truly understand cigarette addiction.

The biggest fear of many marijuana smokers who want to stop smoking cigarettes is that they fear that they will have to give up marijuana which occupies an important place in their life much like their choice and freedom to enjoy a beer. Because surely smoking marijuana and smoking cigarettes are the same addiction, right? No, this is not the case, as we will shortly see.

Now, I am only speaking here for the vast majority of marijuana smokers who are not addicted to marijuana and who choose to use it occasionally, much like most people who enjoy alcohol but are not addicted to it and don’t use it all the time.

If you are not addicted to marijuana, then there is no reason why you cannot stop smoking cigarettes but continue smoking marijuana when you choose to do so. Nicotine and marijuana are different and your brain treats them differently. Would you worry about continuing to be able to drink alcohol if you stop smoking cigarettes? Of course not! Well, the same applies to marijuana and cigarettes. They just both happen to use the same method of ingestion (inhaling smoke) but otherwise are completely separate and different. If you are addicted to cigarettes but not to marijuana, then you can safely stop cigarettes and continue marijuana as normal.

The major difference between cigarettes and marijuana is that nobody chooses to smoke cigarettes when they want to - all cigarette smokers are addicts. With marijuana, a small section is addicted but the rest are not.

So if you are addicted to cigarettes and marijuana, then I would personally recommend that you use the methods here to stop both. Even though marijuana does not contain the hundreds of toxic and radioactive addictives in cigarettes, daily smoking of copious amounts is still harmful to your respiratory and circulatory health. Use this guide to stop smoking cigarettes. Because marijuana addiction is slightly different, then a slightly different approach is needed and you can see my personal recommendation here:

But what about those who smoke their marijuana joints with tobacco? Surely they will have to smoke only pure marijuana in future?

This is not true.

Remember how I said that marijuana and tobacco can be considered separate? Now think about this - there are tens of thousands of people who visit Amsterdam each year to legally smoke marijuana. Most of them will mix tobacco in their joints (outside America, this is common). And out of the people who smoke this “mix”, some of them are cigarette smokers but the vast majority of them are not. In fact, you’ll find that the split between smokers and non-smokers is not much different to ordinary life, about 80/20.

This is why I say that nicotine is not chemically addictive. If it were, then all these people who smoke a mix of tobacco and marijuana would naturally gravitate to smoking cigarettes when they were not smoking “joints”. They would have an almost uncontrollable urge to smoke cigarettes. But this is simply not true.

What’s more, there are many people who are ex-cigarette smokers, who used to smoke a pack a day and no longer do, and they continue to smoke “mix” joints with zero desire to smoke cigarettes.

I believe that this is because they make a joint for a purpose. They make a joint as a choice, in order to get “high”, to get a particular psychoactive effect.

On the other hand, a person smoking only a cigarette knows that it is an addiction and that there is no psychoactive “high” to be obtained.

I think that this is one of the best examples for seeing addiction for what it really is. It is a state of mind and not a craving for a chemical (like nicotine) after you have tasted it.

How can anyone argue against the evidence that you see each day in the city of Amsterdam? Several hundred people who are not addicted to cigarettes but yet choose to mix tobacco into their marijuana joints.