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lonelypsychonaut
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Smoking Weed With Chest Congestion?
#23659731 - 09/19/16 06:52 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hey guys,
So I've been sick with a cold for the past 5 days, and I think that this is an issue that a lot of people here can relate to/benefit from talking about.
The cold went how it usually goes, started with a sore throat, then the nose acted up, and now I'm just dealing with the leftover chest congestion.I'm basically over the my sickness, I'm feeling very normal, its just my chest.
NOW, my problem/question has to do with how weed can/has been playing a role. A little background, my nightly routine consists of a few beers, a few bong hits, and a cigarette. At the peak of my sickness (first 3 days) I did not drink (because it lowers immune system function) or smoke, and I had a bowl in my vaporizer each night cause it was easier on my throat. Now that I've been feeling better, I've been drinking again and smoking my bong (just a hit or two), and I've had a cigarette the past 2 nights.
However, I just can't stop thinking about how the smoking is affecting me, and this goes for every cold I have. I would just not smoke weed until I'm better, but the problem is that I have pretty bad insomnia. Resting/sleeping is important when you're sick, and if I can't smoke weed I know I'm not gonna be able to sleep. I also don't want to smoke just to get to sleep and end up getting acute bronchitis.
What should I do? Is smoking a couple hits from my bong before bed REALLY that bad on my lungs? Has anyone tried anything that has significantly helped their chest congestion? I've been staying resting a lot, I've been staying hydrated, I've been taking hot steamy showers, I've been eating good foods ...
I just want to smoke and be normal again!
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SpiritShroom
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Youll be fine. I was terribly sick 2 weeks ago, summer cold or whatever. Scared me cuz i take lots of colloidal silver/reishi for immune system. I havent been sick in 3~ years. It seems like half my town got sick though. I had the same issue. The aches and congestion left, just a sore throat/lungs. It was pretty terrible. Hurt really bad, and just couldnt stop coughing. Didnt stop me from smoking. I just realized i had to take like .1 baby hits out of a waterpipe. Any more than half a lung full of smoke and id be coughing for the next minute. Just use vape or bong and really small amounts. It sucks cause i enjoy lungfulls and coughing, to really get stoned, and to smoke like that was weird. But it did the job. In my experience it took like 7 or so rough days of the cough. Then my lungs were cleared and back to normal
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Myco_illogic
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Re: Smoking Weed With Chest Congestion? [Re: SpiritShroom]
#23659856 - 09/19/16 07:37 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've found regularly smoking marijuana prevents this kind of cold. Only to get it again within 3 weeks of break. As a kid it'd be a monthly or bimonthly thing.
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lonelypsychonaut
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Re: Smoking Weed With Chest Congestion? [Re: Myco_illogic]
#23659869 - 09/19/16 07:41 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Myco_illogic said: I've found regularly smoking marijuana prevents this kind of cold. Only to get it again within 3 weeks of break. As a kid it'd be a monthly or bimonthly thing.
ya I barely ever get sick, I'll normally get a cold once a year. I'm SO used to smoking and drinking every night, and not being able to do these things is mostly the reason why I hate being sick!
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Mental Taco



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I barely get sick but when i do i smoke the entire time. Makes no difference.
Id rather be high and sick than just sick.
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Re: Smoking Weed With Chest Congestion? [Re: Mental Taco]
#23660277 - 09/19/16 11:09 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Would edibles work for when you cannot smoke and get you to sleep?
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CogDog
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i have the same problem. Here in San jose, it-s rainy season and yesterday i adventured to a permaculture 50acre farm that also did porno supossedly, fuck for forest, but ended up sleeping with a cold and coughing to the guts.
I have to stop smoking. I-ve change the hash tobacco or weed to the tobacco filter, but stil.
anyway, im back to the comunnity, 5 days ago did opium as a 1 time thing and 2 days ago first tried cristal too with some chilled gang and ended up using the experience in a really productive artistic and musically, e even got to be able to put a leg under my head!
haha but for nevermore, its a waste of money.low doses of Peyote FTW! mr, runner
im gonna find the big black maestros and stay in the forest a couple of days!
im gonna buy those things on the 2nd comment.
cheers, some experimental comic im making about dreams
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openmind
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Cannabis is actually a powerful expectorant and bronchial dilator, it's great at keeping the lungs clean. It dilates the bronchial tubes in the lungs, it opens up the airways in the lungs. It helps push out phlegm, mucus, tars, dust, air borne pollutants, etc....Cannabis was even used for asthma attacks back in the day because it opens up the lungs.
The most ideal way to reap this benefit of the plant would be to vaporize the herb, or even better would be vaping hash/dabbing oil, but even smoking hash or smoking herb will do (though smoke in general will be irritating to the lungs, especially when one is sick).
I've never stopped smoking the herb when I'm sick/congested, though the times I have I wish I had a vaporizer on hand.
My lungs purged out so much phlegm and tars and gunk the times I was vaping or dabbing more often than I was smoking, as well as riding my bike and working the lungs.....but even after smoking a large proper joint with clean papers I can feel my lungs open up and let out a bunch of phlegm and gunk from my lungs.
So yea....vaping weed is ideal but even taking some tokes will help IME, hot steamy showers....Maybe make a big pot of steamy water and drop some eucalyptus oil and/or peppermint oil in it, drape a towel over your head and lean over the pot and breathe in the goodness of the vapors (If that makes sense, it's good stuff for opening up your lungs & sinuses)...if you have the energy to do so, go on a swift walk or a bike ride or go do some activity so your lungs can get a little work out & push out the congestion....and stay away from the cigarettes, tobacco dose the opposite of cannabis smoke/vapor and actually causes the bronchial tubes/airways in the lungs to constrict & close up.
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Edited by openmind (09/20/16 01:45 PM)
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lonelypsychonaut
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Re: Smoking Weed With Chest Congestion? [Re: openmind]
#23663708 - 09/20/16 11:41 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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openmind said: Cannabis is actually a powerful expectorant and bronchial dilator, it's great at keeping the lungs clean. It dilates the bronchial tubes in the lungs, it opens up the airways in the lungs. It helps push out phlegm, mucus, tars, dust, air borne pollutants, etc....Cannabis was even used for asthma attacks back in the day because it opens up the lungs.
The most ideal way to reap this benefit of the plant would be to vaporize the herb, or even better would be vaping hash/dabbing oil, but even smoking hash or smoking herb will do (though smoke in general will be irritating to the lungs, especially when one is sick).
I've never stopped smoking the herb when I'm sick/congested, though the times I have I wish I had a vaporizer on hand.
My lungs purged out so much phlegm and tars and gunk the times I was vaping or dabbing more often than I was smoking, as well as riding my bike and working the lungs.....but even after smoking a large proper joint with clean papers I can feel my lungs open up and let out a bunch of phlegm and gunk from my lungs.
So yea....vaping weed is ideal but even taking some tokes will help IME, hot steamy showers....Maybe make a big pot of steamy water and drop some eucalyptus oil and/or peppermint oil in it, drape a towel over your head and lean over the pot and breathe in the goodness of the vapors (If that makes sense, it's good stuff for opening up your lungs & sinuses)...if you have the energy to do so, go on a swift walk or a bike ride or go do some activity so your lungs can get a little work out & push out the congestion....and stay away from the cigarettes, tobacco dose the opposite of cannabis smoke/vapor and actually causes the bronchial tubes/airways in the lungs to constrict & close up.
I've actually heard of the eucalyptus/peppermint, lean of over a pot thing, I've just never bothered to try it! Maybe I will!
Also, where did you learn all that stuff? Do you have any articles I could read or anything? Is it really credible information? It doesn't sound wrong tbh, especially with the vaping, I just don't see how smoking it could be helpful at all lol
And for a personal bit of advice, what if its just one cigarette before bed? I only smoke 1 - 3 cigarettes every day, but I do fiend for those cigarettes, even if its just the 1 lol
Edited by lonelypsychonaut (09/20/16 11:55 PM)
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psilocybinjunkie
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I have asthma it's best to wait until your chest clears up before hammering your lungs with smoke.
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