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Originally Posted by polak
Thought I'd bump this as I'm also going to start cutting back.
My smoking had increased steadily over the last 3 years from rare, to occasional, to a couple times a week to almost daily once I broke up with my ex (not cause of ending it, just cause she was never into drinking or smoking so it kept me in check).
Now it never got to the point where it would interfere with my life so I never really cared about how frequent it became. If I was bored and had nothing to do I'd smoke. But in the last couple weeks I've started to get serious anxiety when I smoke. My heart feels like it's racing and beating really hard and intense (it's not, my pulse is fine) to the point where it freaks me out. Just a ####ty experience every time. I was never prone to anxiety before this and I've never had an anxiety attack sober (where there wasn't heavy drinking and large caffeine intake the night before) so it's definitely the weed. Even dispensary stuff gave me the attacks so it's not laced or anything dumb like that.
I know I won't be able to quit cold turkey, too many of my friends smoke and honestly, it seems that if I'm distracted, I have no issues. In line with this, my GF and I are instating a "Only social smoking" rule. That should cut it back to a couple times a week and we'll see if that helps the attacks. We're going to invest the time we would normally spend ripped (boring evenings alone) going for runs instead.
I know this post doesn't offer much for discussion but I just felt like talking about it and laying my plan out might help. I also think it's important for some of you that think weed has no negative effects to see that it does and they SUCK.
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Might not be a bad idea to go and talk to your doctor to make sure that your racing heart isn't a symptom of something else.
Not grass related, but a bunch of years ago, I had the same thing happen, my heart was racing and I felt like my head was going to explode, everyone said I was having anxiety issues, and or "Dude its in your head"
After a very serious heart racing episode where I could feel every rapid beat everywhere on my body I went to the hospital. After they admitted me and gave me a nitro tablet and tested me, and wired me up with a monitor, it turned out that I had developed an irregular heart beat that if I continued to ignore it could have become a huge issue.
The put me on beta blockers (damn near killed me) and then calcium channel blockers and worked on regulated my heart beat. If the drugs didn't work the next option was surgical.
Thank god that didn't have to happen.
Don't mess around dude, it never hurts to see a doc when things are that weird.