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Why Do People Smoke Weed?

Marijuana, or weed, has been used for thousands of years by many different cultures around the world. However, its use has become controversial in modern society.

The active ingredient in marijuana is THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), which gives the user a “high” that can last for minutes or hours, depending on the strain of weed being smoked. Marijuana is still a Schedule 1 narcotic substance in the United States and Canada, along with heroin and acid (LSD) among other drugs.

Although marijuana is still in the process of being legalized, the penalties for possession and consumption can be severe in some states. Penalties can range from small fines, to time behind bars. Punishments such as these can have a detrimental effect on a person’s life, and the life of their family.

So why do people smoke marijuana?

This article will discuss some of the potential reasons for smoking weed including medical reasons, social situations, managing stress, and simply getting high.

Medical Marijuana

The use of cannabis (weed) is now being used to ease the pain of people that are suffering from diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, HIV/AIDS and other ailments that require pain management. Basically, medical marijuana is used for pain relief, and can also help with symptoms such as nausea that often come along with chemotherapy treatments. These treatments can be very intense and people use marijuana to cure to their discomfort.

While medical marijuana is legal in Canada and there is no legal penalty in 24 of the States in America, as well as the District of Columbia, it is basically being used as an opiate. There are no long term, scientific studies to prove that weed cures any diseases, however, it is most commonly used as a pain suppressant and not an actual treatment.

While ingesting medical marijuana does relieve pain temporarily, there is no evidence that it is a cure for any underlying pain.

Social Factors

As with smoking cigarettes, there is often a social stigma that factors into why people may begin to smoke weed: they may feel pressured into it.

For teenagers, smoking weed is seen as the “cool” thing to do and many are coerced to try smoking weed before they want to. Trying to fit into what society wants is the largest factor driving adolescents to start smoking weed, and they can then become addicted to it.

Smoking marijuana is almost the same as smoking cigarettes in terms of risk factors. Nicotine in cigarettes is stronger that the THC that is found in marijuana, but both have the same chemicals that can make a person addicted.

Smoking in general is now being outlawed in most public places in North America, and is gradually falling out of favor in many social scenes. Because of this, younger people will often smoke weed in closed social situations such as parties and other intimate social gatherings. Now that smoking weed is no longer a social norm, smoking away from the public eye is now what the younger people must do.

Smoking Weed for Stress and Pain Management

Smoking weed produces a “high” that comes in the form of relaxation and the feeling of positive emotions instead of negative ones, The injection of chemicals into the brain from smoking weed will naturally nullify certain pain receptors.

In addition to pain management, smoking weed can also decreases stress in the same manner.
Marijuana smoke can theoretically reduce the pain and suffering of people with anxiety disorders and seizures for a small amount of time.

Smoking weed is also an effective tool to provide an increase in appetite and a reduction of nausea for people going through chemotherapy or other traumatic procedures. However, smoking too much weed can lead to paranoid behavior, the exact opposite of the intended effect of marijuana.

This is an important factor to consider, and many people may want to quit smoking entirely. Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy is one of the most effective ways to quit, and hypnotherapist Joseph R.Giove has over 30 years of experience in the smoking cessation field.

Just to Get High

The governments of many countries around the world have certain misgivings about the legality of marijuana. It is still a Schedule 1 drug in the United States and it will be that way until Congress passes a law saying otherwise. Until that day, it is illegal to smoke weed in the United States. That being said, people still use weed just to get a high the same as using other Schedule 1 drugs like heroin and acid.

There is the notion of getting a high is dangerous and exciting. Perhaps the most intriguing part of smoking weed, especially for young people, is the aspect of doing something dangerous.
Getting a high is the most common reason for young adults to start smoking weed, and also to continue smoking weed. This is a dangerous habit to start and even harder to break. Joseph R Giove and Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy can help to break this cycle.

Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Can Help You Quit smoking Weed

There is no long term scientific studies to determine the precise side effects of smoking weed for a long period of time. While some of these studies suggest that smoking marijuana when in pain helps ease a person’s suffering, the greater health effects to a person’s lungs and brain may be more dangerous. Joseph R. Giove can help you overcome your addiction to marijuana.

Joseph R.Giove is a certified Clinical Hypnotist with over 30 years of experience in the field of helping people quit smoking. His methods are non-invasive and he uses no additional chemicals or carcinogens to help you quit smoking. The best way to quit smoking weed is to let Joseph R. Giove help you use the power of your own mind to help you quit smoking.

May 22, 2016
Is Smoking Weed Bad for You?

Marijuana, or weed as it is also called, has been making major news headlines recently as several states in the US and many other countries moving to legalize or decriminalize this otherwise Schedule 1 drug. This, coupled with the ongoing discussions and studies surrounding its use in the medical field, ascertaining whether smoking weed is bad for you can seem confusing.

It is important to note that despite certain specific medical benefits for particular illnesses as administered by a medical professional, overall smoking marijuana is not ‘healthy’. It would be fair to say that weed is less damaging to your health than cigarettes, but it is still by no means healthy. Cigarettes contain over 4000 chemicals and many of them are carcinogenic. Many of these same chemicals are also found in marijuana if it is not grown certified as organic. Marijuana, more commonly known as weed, is a natural plant, as is tobacco. However, both of these natural plants are often then combined with thousands of chemicals.

Unfortunately, there are certain social groups that are more likely to smoke weed when the time comes to make a healthy choice. Pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and young people are the most susceptible to this drug.

The Chemicals in Marijuana

While cigarettes bear the brunt of more than 4000 incredibly harmful chemicals, this is not to say that marijuana doesn’t also contain its fair share. Scientists have identified 483 different chemicals in marijuana including THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), which is the active ingredient in weed that gives the user a ‘high’. However, many of the other chemicals found in marijuana can be harmful to the body as well. Some of these chemicals include:

● Nitrogenous compounds
● Amino acids
● Enzymes
● Simple alcohols
● Acids
● Fatty acids
● Steroids

Particularly when purchasing weed ‘on the streets’, or from anywhere other than an official weed dispensary, there is no scientific way of accurately knowing what precise chemical components are contained therein. Different growing environments, planting methods, soils used and fertilizers can contribute their own chemical components to various strains and strengths of weed.

Smoking Weed, Breastfeeding and Pregnancy

The harmful effects of marijuana are amplified for certain segments of the population, particularly pregnant women and new mothers who are breastfeeding. While the effects of smoking weed while pregnant or breastfeeding are still being studied, it is certainly not recommended. Ingesting smoke of any kind is not recommended at any time in a life, and smoking marijuana while pregnant or breastfeeding could be harmful to your child’s development.

Unfortunately, and perhaps do to the lack of studies on the subject, many women do smoke weed when they are pregnant. Often the motivation for this is due to the calming and pain reducing effect that marijuana can have. There are any number of pains that can come with pregnancy such as back pain, leg pain and headaches, to name a few. Smoking weed, specifically the active ingredient THC contained therein, gives the user a sense of pain relief from these sometimes excruciating pains. This being said, there are some studies that have concluded that babies born to mothers who smoked weed while pregnant were at higher risk of being born with the following issues:

● Stillbirth
● Low birth weight
● Smaller length
● Smaller head circumference

When a woman is pregnant everything she puts into her body can be transferred to the baby through the amniotic sack. Likewise when a new mother is breastfeeding, chemicals from marijuana including the active ingredient THC can be transmitted through the breastmilk and ingested by her baby.

Marijuana Use in Adolescents

Despite recent legislation in certain states and moves to decriminalize weed, marijuana remains illegal in most of the United States and Canada. Marijuana is still a Schedule 1 Drug along with Heroin and LSD and it is nevertheless by far the most widely used drug among young people. Its illegal status means that young people must interact with criminals and drug dealers in order to procure it, which can put them in dangerous situations. If they are caught with weed by the authorities, they can also face jail time. In fact, in the United States, about half of all people in federal prison are there due to drug possession charges.

Smoking weed can also affect young people’s growth and development. Smoking weed for extended periods in a person’s youth can have the following health effects as they grow older:

● Memory loss
● Inability to think clearly
● Decrease in IQ
● Poor school performance
● Behavioral changes
● Increased risk of long term mental health issues

Health Effects

While smoking, inhaling, or ingesting weed may not be as dangerous as smoking and ingesting nicotine from cigarettes, they share many of the same attributes. While the quantities are lower, there are still several of the chemicals found in cigarettes that are in THC. These chemicals, when smoked, will produce a thick tar that eventually builds up in the lungs the same way nicotine does. Just as smoking cigarettes can lead to severe health problems stemming from problems with the lungs such as lung cancer, so can marijuana use.

Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

Marijuana use can pose significant health risks to anyone who smokes it in addition to being disruptive to your daily life due in part to the ‘high’ achieved by its active ingredient, THC. More and more studies are being done every day to examine both long-term and short-term effects and just how much damage smoking marijuana is causing the human body. Being weed free and smoke free in general is by far the healthiest way for you and your loved ones to live happy, healthy lives.

Joseph R. Giove uses Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy to gently reset your brain patterns in order to diminish your desire to smoke weed. He uses no outside chemicals or carcinogens as other ‘quit smoking’ techniques may use. Only the power of the mind, which in the end, is our most powerful tool.

May 13, 2016
How to Stop Smoking Weed
Weed, also known as marijuana, is still a Schedule 1 drug in the United States and despite the perception it has health benefits compared to cigarettes, weed can have adverse effects on a person’s health in the long term.

There have been tests that study the long term effects of smoking weed but since marijuana is still a Schedule 1 drug, there are a lot of people that will not be truthful about their use of the drug. However, now that marijuana is becoming legal in many states in the United States, Canada and other countries around the world, health testing is quickly becoming scientific and widespread. That being said, there are still harmful chemicals being absorbed by the body, not to mention psychological and socially disruptive effects that can occur with prolonged marijuana use.

Quitting marijuana can greatly increase your overall health, physical and psychological, and this article will focus on these effects and how to best quit smoking weed in the most efficient way.

What is Weed?

Weed is Cannabis (its official name) but also goes by many other pseudonyms such as marijuana and pot. The active ingredient in marijuana is THC, which stands for delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, and gives the smoker a psychoactive “high”. This active ingredient is found in the resin of the leaves and buds of the plant. There are also an additional 500 chemicals present in the Cannabis plant and at least 100 of those are chemically related to THC, called cannabinoids.

There are many ways of smoking or consuming marijuana, and some of the most popular ways to consume are as follows:
- “Joint” – This is simply the dried leaves or buds rolled up in paper like a regular cigarette and smoked in much the same way.
- “Blunt” – Similar to a joint but this method involves cutting open a cigar and removing some or all of the tobacco and replacing it with weed, then re-sealing and smoking.
- “Bong” – Also, referred to as a water bong, it is a device that allows the marijuana smoke to “clean” itself by being filtered through water before being inhaled.
- “Edibles” – Weed can be very easily incorporated into both food and drink by grinding up the leaves and buds. It can then be added to food items such as brownies, cookies, candies, and almost anything else. Another use is in brewed teas, which is very popular with medicinal users.
- “Resins and Hash” – Resin is the tar-like substance left over from pipe smoking and contains much less THC than the plant buds, however, after some processing it can become a very concentrated, potent form of weed called hash. Some of the types of hash that are smoked are: “hash oil”, waxy-like “budder”, and hard, amber-like “shatter.
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The Benefits of Quitting Weed

There is medical evidence that smoking marijuana is “safer” than smoking cigarettes or other forms of nicotine. However, smoking weed has only recently become legal in some states and therefore is still in its infancy in terms of studying its long-term health effects. Smoking marijuana, regardless of its potential medical uses, still produces tar that is taken into the lungs and builds up the same way cigarette tar does. The physical benefits of quitting smoking weed are similar to quitting cigarettes and include breathing easier, less chance of cancers, and increasing your life longevity.

Some other immediate physical effects of smoking marijuana include:
- Dry Mouth
- Shallow Breathing
- Dizziness
- Slowed Reaction Time
These effects will subside immediately as soon as you quit smoking marijuana.

The addictive nature of smoking weed is more psychological than physical, and the user can become very dependent on the THC that is delivered to the brain.

Here are just some of the psychological benefits of quitting weed:

Ambition and Mental Clarity

When smoking marijuana, a person can become lethargic and therefore content with a simpler life that they originally wanted. If a person smokes marijuana during their working day they can lose the ambition that they might have had for the job or even the clarity in which to do it. After removing weed from the equation, the brain is no longer dependent on the THC that it is receiving and will allow for greater concentration and activity.

Overall Energy

Smoking weed is similar to smoking cigarettes in this way, as smoking anything causes the lungs and bloodstream to be restricted of oxygen. This lack of oxygen makes a person tire faster and for longer periods of time. By quitting smoking weed, there will be a gradual increase in the re-oxygenation of the blood and lungs and therefore an increase in overall energy levels.

Personal Benefits

Marijuana is, for the time being, still a Schedule 1 narcotic drug in most places in the world, alongside Heroin, LSD, Ecstasy, Quaaludes, and Bath Salts. This makes it a drug that is still illegal in most states and is punishable by various lengths in prison at worst, and heavy fines at best. Having to find someone from whom to purchase weed can be dangerous, as can growing it yourself. Many people have been buying and smoking marijuana for years with no problems with the law, but as it is still illegal all it would take is one mistake.

Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

Smoking in general has detrimental effects on a person’s health both physically and psychologically. While smoking cigarettes is potentially the more dangerous of the two, marijuana still has many of the same chemicals that cigarettes have. For instance, the part of the marijuana plant that contains THC is the resin, which produces a tar that can build up in the lungs and can cause many of the same cancerous and physically harmful effects as cigarettes.

Quitting smoking weed has many of the same physical health benefits as quitting smoking nicotine, both physical and psychological. Clinical Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy is proven to be one of the most effective methods of quitting smoking weed and tobacco. Joseph R. Giove is a certified Clinical Hypnotist and has over 25 years of experience helping people quit smoking weed. Joseph R Giove Clinical Hypnosis can help with quitting weed without the aid of harmful chemicals by focusing on gently altering the way the brain craves marijuana. If you need assistance with quitting weed in the most effective way possible, Joseph R. Giove can help.
April 28, 2016
Trying to Quit Smoking

Although there are many times when people lack the necessary awareness to make the decision that will be the most beneficial to wellness and health. This is not uncommon, and can often depend upon a number of demographic factors as well as personal experiences. In these cases, the hoped for outcome is always one that will lead to greater clarity and the ability to make a more educated choice in the future.

However, there are also many times when people already have a sense of the healthier behavior, but they still choose to follow a path that may be familiar, but far less safe. This can frequently be seen as the case with smoking, especially when what is thought to be a choice is actually a negative habit that has been learned and reinforced over time.

Knowing the Consequences

The above pattern is common to anyone who smokes, and it is unlikely that any smoker does not realize the risks they may be causing to health. This also means that non-smoking friends of the smoker can sometimes have a very difficult time in understanding why their loved one “will not” quit. Unfortunately, this attitude is not one of support, and can actually be detrimental to the person who is trying to quit.

The fact that foreknowledge of consequences is not sufficient to keep people from picking up a cigarette in the first place also gives some further insight into the nature of the addiction and why it can be so difficult to quit. Exploring these regions of motivation can also help smokers release their attachment, especially through the use of hypnosis. Smokers can call 866-863-4669 or email Joseph R. Giove at Stop Smoking Hypnosis Bay Area to take that step in the direction of the informed choice, instead of the habit.

Quitting Makes You Want to Smoke?

It is also important to realize that people who are trying to quit smoking can also be under extreme pressure regarding the endeavor. This can apply to loved ones or friends who are trying to be supportive, but to the person who is trying to quit, this care can sometimes feel like a burden of expectations. Should the person who is trying to quit smoking have a slip up, it can feel as though that individual has let others down, and the stress and anxiety then further triggers a craving.

This pressure can still be true for individuals who are trying to quit smoking for their own personal motivations. Internal evaluations can often be harder on the self than external ones, and in these cases as well, the stress of trying to quit can actually generate less successful outcomes. However, understanding that this pressure is being placed on an individual who is already searching for coping tools can also allow for a better means of trying to quit smoking.

Accepting the Process

Perhaps one of the most beneficial means of trying to quit smoking with any approach is that smokers understand that they are going through a process of unlearning what could be decades of habitually learned behaviors. In this way, smokers can also understand their initial motivations for smoking much better, and this can also lead to a more streamlined process of re-framing these motivations.

Another important thing for people who are trying to quit smoking to think about is their actual goals, both in quitting and in long-term lifestyle changes for health and wellness. The more inherent motivation that an individual is able to tap into, the more they will be able to sustain their better behavioral choices. Thus, in starting with goals that are specifically related to smoking, the person can truly evaluate their own rationale in quitting. With the inclusion of long-term health goals, people can also start to see how their choices and their health are interrelated.

The personal goals list can also provide the person who is trying to quit with insights into how the behavioral pattern became reinforced initially. This allows individuals to begin to work the actual process of letting go of their attachment to smoking and to the initial behavioral reinforcement that led to addiction in the first place. Further, it gives people who are trying to quit smoking positive tools that are based in personal goals as a means to truly connect the intent to quit with the motivation.

Taking the First Steps of the Journey

Along with setting long and short term goals when trying to quit smoking, it can also be helpful for individuals to go through a pre-quitting phase in order to prepare for life as a non-smoker. This can also be helpful because it allows the person to begin to visualize a life without cigarettes, and this can be particularly beneficial with hypnosis to stop smoking. Essentially, before actually going through the actions, people can still prepare themselves in a way that makes success likely.

Part of the pre-quitting phase should also be having a plan. This can include:

• Looking into resources to try to quit smoking
• Deciding an approach to quitting
• Setting a timeline for quitting goals
• Having healthy alternatives in place for behavioral adjustment
• Finding a positive support network, which can include groups of other non-smokers

Although each of these factors can greatly contribute to facilitating trying to quit smoking, they can also become synergistically supportive, especially when hypnosis is used for smoking cessation. This is mainly due to the fact that the above points are considering the removal of blockages to success in a manifest way, while the hypnosis provides a means of releasing blockages in an emotional and mental way.

The result is that trying to quit smoking can become a more streamlined and easier process when people take the proper measures to enact this change. Emailing or calling Joseph R. Giove at Stop Smoking Hypnosis Bay Area is an ideal first step, as it will also begin to get people who are trying to quit smoking in the right mental, and even physical, space for the pre-quitting phase.

December 15, 2015
Tip 4: Do eCigarettes, Nicotine Patches, Pills or Nicotine Gum Work to Stop Smoking Cigarettes?

My name is Joseph Giove. I’m a biomedical engineer and a clinical hypnotist. I’ve helped thousands of people stop smoking over the last twenty five years. I created this video series to help you become free of the habit an addiction of smoking cigarettes.

Do eCigarettes, pills like Chantix, nicotine patches, nicotine gum and other forms of nicotine replacement… do they actually work to help people to quit smoking? The short answer is “sometimes” but here is the problem and the challenge with them. If you are looking to reduce the toxicity of smoking then an nicotine replacement can be helpful in that regard, because smoking an eCigarettes obviously you are taking in fewer toxins and same goes with patches and nicotine gum.

You are taking in fewer toxins so many people will say “well it is better for you than smoking.” I like to say it is not as bad for you as smoking, this is a big difference. Many of people I see are addicted to these other nicotine replacements. In terms of helping quit smoking, the reason it is only partial effective is because the process of smoking is both a habit and an addiction.

If you are keeping the addictive substance into your brain, into your body then you are perpetuating it because the way neurologically that works is the addicted substance can trigger the habit and the habit can trigger the addiction. So to really become free you have to taper off of the nicotine and that is where the replacements can become very effective, but simultaneously you need to very deliberately change the habit, because as I mentioned they can each trigger the other.

So really the effective way is to break free of nicotine and the habit together, and that needs to be part of your decision.

Take action now to be free. If you need assistance, I help people all over the world through phone sessions and private sessions at my clinic in Northern California. Feel free to call my office at 925-215-4017 or contact me here and get ready to enjoy your freedom.

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September 13, 2014
Tip-8: Why is it so hard to stop smoking cigarettes and nicotine?

My name is Joseph Giove. I’m a biomedical engineer and a clinical hypnotist. I’ve helped thousands of people stop smoking over the last twenty five years. I created this video series to help you become free of the habit an addiction of smoking cigarettes.

Why is it so hard to stop smoking cigarettes? I am asked this question all the time. People mistakenly believe that it is harder to stop smoking cigarettes than heroin or alcohol and others, in fact many people have said I quit these other addictions but I struggle with quitting smoking cigarettes. Why is that? The reason is because people take the wrong approach to stopping smoking cigarettes.

They fail to recognize that the process of smoking is both a habit and an addiction and both of these are neurological processes that occur in the brain and they become crossed link. So when you address the addictive part it is one approach, when you address the habitual part it is another approach, you have to do both. When you do both this is approaching it the proper way and it becomes easy because I can guarantee you there is not a cell in your body that wants another hit of nicotine poison.

Not a part of your brain wants it, all those cravings, stress, other triggers; they are false associations created by this dual process of habit and addiction. So to break free, address both. This video series talks about this, I do not want to repeat it here, so be sure to watch the other videos in this series if you really want to break free of the habit and addiction of smoking cigarettes.

Take action now to be free. If you need assistance, I help people all over the world through phone sessions and private sessions at my clinic in Northern California. Feel free to call my office at 925-215-4017 or contact me here and get ready to enjoy your freedom.

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September 13, 2014
Facts About When You Quit Smoking

Source: American Cancer Society

Within 8 Hours…
Smoker’s breath disappears.
Carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal.
Oxygen level in blood increases to normal.
Blood pressure and pulse rate drops to normal.
Temperature of hands and feet increase to normal.

(more…)

September 22, 2013

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