I am a physician, board certified in internal medicine.

First--bravo to you for trying to quite smoking (both). The cigarettes are so bad for you (you know this) and so it's great that you are trying to quit. The marijuana is also not healthy.

The first question is what are your symptoms mostly from--are they from withdrawal of nicotine in the cigarettes or from withdrawal from marijuana? My guess is that you are having both nicotine withdrawal and marijuana withdrawal symptoms. Hard to know because I don't know how much of each you are using.

So, there is probably some overlap here, with stopping both at the same time being worse than stopping one at a time.

Because you seem to be suffering so much while attempting to quite smoking both, you should certainly treat them correctly.

For the cigarette/nicotine withdrawal, I would strongly recommend that you talk to your doctor or to a pharmacist about using a nicotine patch or chewing nicotine gum. These are very helpful. You must use them correctly and be under the care of a doctor, but they are very helpful to people.

I don't know what is used to treat marijuana withdrawal. I will always tell people I don't know something instead of making up a half baked answer that I am not sure of.

A tip as you research on your own further--beware of cures or methods that are touted on the internet or have not been researched well. Many people will offer you methods that use herbs, fruits, diets, etc. You must remember that simply because these have worked for one or two people does not mean they will work for you. In order to be sure that a treatment, be it a pill, a patch or anything else, will work, you should look to see (online) or ask your doctor or whoever is offering you the treatment this question: "Has this treatment been proven effective in a randomized controlled clinical trial, or a large, well matched prospective cohort trial?".

Any doctor or medical provider worth their degree will know what these are and should be able to answer your question.

FINALLY--perhaps you should consider seeing a type of physician called an "addiction specialist". Often these are psychiatrists, which is fine--it doesn't mean you are crazy. It's just that because mood symptoms are so common in withdrawal, a psychiatrist/addiction specialist can help follow your symptoms and help you with treatment.

I hope this is helpful to you.

Best of luck. Quitting is hard but worth it.

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