I'm trying to kick a silly habit which I have had now for 1 year (every day before bed). My wife has noticed that I really lack the energy I used to have. I start fresh today. What sucks is that I just bought an ounce friday. Oh well. I need to know how long it will take to completly clean out?

Well, I say that in terms of mentally, as part of your identity becomes enmeshed with being a 'pothead' and physiology or body wise, once the substance leaves, if it was just a physical addiction you would not want to use again. I am clean three weeks now, and have no desire to use today (or ever again I pray.)

Last year I quit totally, it lasted for seven months until this May. Unfortunately I picked up again at a party, I justified to myself "I can just have one..." I had a stubby of beer and a cone at a party.

Within 6 weeks, I was smoking an ounce a week to every four days or so, and drinking a 6pack of beer or more, or 2 bottle of champagne etc. Just to get more wasted. Not drunk, I just liked that it made the sedation/stoned feeling stronger. I almost failed uni, my relationship is dismal to non-existent.

(broken up currently, for one month, though back 2 gether 4 a few days last week... we have other issues than just drugs, and I won't go into the details in this post or forum)

I have known I was an addict since 21, but only since going to Narcotics Anonymous (A great support group for ALL drugs, not just narcotics, for those who don't know about it.) And AA and learning about the 12 step program, have I been able to escape the mental attachments, and see marijuana for what it really is. I glamourised and justified it, and all sorts of other behaviours and "jedi mind tricks" to tell myself why it was okay. And trying to CONTROL it for years, denying it controlled me. At the end of the day my metaphor for it is, "Marijuana is my green Kryptonite. It takes away my powers!"

So to beat the fight, you must learn new thinking... and surrender your ego and look at the facts of your life.

Cheers people, and good luck with it.

By the way, to answer another way, after a week or two for me without dope, I start to feel normal again without it instead of with it, and my sleeping and appetite balance out. Once when I couldn't sleep I stayed up all night, and then went to bed tired early the next night. This helped reset the late night body clock. (that was ages ago, not this time getting clean. The duration was shorter this time.)

this means after 40 days, there r no traces left in your blood, however the damages could last a life time depending on the nature ad potency of drugs and u may never fully recover.

in my country we rarely get marijuana, but we have hashish. but i guess the same goes for both the drugs!

I think craving will always be a possibility--but I believe less once your at 6 months +/-...I'm pretty sure its different for everyone. There is research to show crack cocaine users had a heightened impulse/craving to use when triggered by environmental cues (hanging out in the party place, seeing people you associate with use)...I've had multiple periods of 6 months of cessation (not with the goal of recovery but long enough to pass a drug-test, or not having access). So now that I'm toying with the idea of moderation (yes, research does not favor this) or stopping again for 6 months to build up a new routine, I'm having a really hard time stopping. I think long-term abstinence requires regimented, discipline self-awareness and employment of mulitiple coping skills and strategies...I'm just not sure why I want to stop.