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TurricaN
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Help with coughing when smoking?
#5359235 - 03/02/06 07:50 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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This probably sounds like a bit of a newbie question... I was just wondering if anyone knows any good ways to minimise or eliminate coughing when smoking marijuana? I smoke only about once every week or two and have done so for about half a year, but every time I always cough really hard when I take the bong hits.
I've tried putting more water in the bong and making it colder, but I still cough every time when I breath out after holding in the hit. I tried to drink soda immediately afterwards to stop it, but sometimes the coughing is enough so that I can't even hold it and spill it everywhere. I never cough in regular day to day life, so I don't know why this is happenening.
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Fruitboot
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: TurricaN]
#5359262 - 03/02/06 07:57 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Maybe take mellower hits? I still cough like crazy when I take huge rips out of my friends bubbler and I've been cheefing for over a year and a half now. The past 8 months have been moderate use with about 4-5 days a week average.
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: Fruitboot]
#5359275 - 03/02/06 08:02 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Throw some ice in the bong? You don't have to hurt your lungs to get high anyway, take smaller hits and hold it in for longer.
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: Fruitboot]
#5359276 - 03/02/06 08:02 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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there is not much you can do to prevent coughing. bongs always make me hack. maybe you could try to smoke blunts
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TurricaN
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: psychonaut_420]
#5359325 - 03/02/06 08:14 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well, I tried blunts before, but for some reason I just feel that the effect for me with blunts is much weaker. Plus, I couldn't roll 'em, other people rolled the ones I tried. 
Anyways, weird... Right after I made this thread I took two perfectly smooth rips without coughing, I was so impressed. Now my vision is strobing like mad. 
BTW: Anyone ever get the feeling that being high can be characterised as a feeling of being able to comprehend fantasy rather than simply to imagine fantasy?
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: TurricaN]
#5359361 - 03/02/06 08:23 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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take smaller hits, don't hold the flame over the bowl, just hold it over long enough to get it burning and then let it smolder as you inhale, you'll find your bowls last you a lot longer and go a lot further (people often accuse me of putting more bud in my bowl because mine lasted a good 4-5 hits while theirs only lasted 2-3)
After awhile your lungs should become less sensitive, it's kind of gotten to the point now where if I cough I did something wrong...
Personally I used to try to explain or describe being high, then I tried shrooms and realized that there's no point in trying to explain it because it just can't be done and it's better to just sit back and enjoy it rather than trying to summarize or understand it...
Learn how to roll, it's useful, fun, and well, it's nice to be able to actually spark the joint every once in awhile. I consider rolling somewhat of an art as every person's roll has its own unique characteristics, etc... If you were sharing the joint among several people then yeah, that would explain it... Personally I find bongs are better for getting a quick fix and are easier on your pocket but when it comes down to it, smoking a 0.5 in a joint to your face will get you higher than in a bong, bong will probably just make it last longer (assuming you fill small bowls like me)
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: TurricaN]
#5359366 - 03/02/06 08:25 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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bong hits only hurt reaally bad when you start coughing before you get all the smoke out of your lungs, when you push all the smok out of your lung before you inhale and start coughing you wont get the 'burning' feeling in your lungs. other than that theres not much you can do unless you've go the iron lung haha ither pack more smaller bong hits or just get your shit down. snow/ice works too, but if its some tastey weed your throat is still going to get the 'expanding' feeling either way . gotta love snow bong hits. later on
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: Damn]
#5359422 - 03/02/06 08:39 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Here's a radical idea, put a cough drop in your mouth before you start smoking
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: Damn]
#5359467 - 03/02/06 08:51 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Multi chamber bongs are my favorite way to go for big hits. I constructed a 6 chamber with PVC pipe and hot glue (no toxic chemicals. toxic chemicals are bad) and the smoke barely tickled... of course you'd still cough a bit once your lungs were full of it.
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Edited by ExplosiveMango (03/02/06 08:54 PM)
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: ExplosiveMango]
#5359496 - 03/02/06 08:56 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Kind of an odd suggestion, but have a good diet and don't blaze to the point where you're coughing too much during a session.
I cough as well, but it's controller. I feel great when I blaze. I can take nice, comfortable and decent rips and cough at the end of a session. I try to cough when appropriate and not too much... don't wanna rip and irritate the hell out of your throat.
I never smoke to the point where my throat's sore anymore. Learned to stop that shit from my newbie days. But I can still kill a bong load or take gravity bong hits.. sometimes a good, wild cough is inevitable.
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: browndustin]
#5359550 - 03/02/06 09:11 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Tons of ice will make a huge difference.
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: Atheist]
#5359791 - 03/02/06 10:16 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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work up your hits. One of my friends(actually the person who introduced me to pot) always used to cough. Normally a tough, strong person, smoking pot made him cough his lungs out to the point where he was coughing up shit and felt weak. He found after a little more experience, he could handle the smoke better if he started small. The best way to smoke imo is to start small and light, and when your almost done, rip that shit and take enormous hits. Now i dont cough anymore, i suggest trying it. Also, even after taking your small hits, drink a little or chew some gum while you smoke so it doesnt taste so strong. Hope this helps ya
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: IWantSomeCrack]
#5360241 - 03/03/06 12:27 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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The weed youre getting probably is either non flushed fertilizer weed, or it isnt cured very well, if at all. Or both even. If its not burning to a white ash more than a black ash its probably one of the above.
You can change this by just curing the weed by having it dry so the stems snap, and then just puttin that in a bag or something to sit for a couple weeks. Or you can water cure it by sticking the buds in water for 7 days. You change the water daily, and then on the 7th day you dry it out with a fan or whatever you want. Doing any of those will by far make the weed 10x less harsh than it started out as. Also, if you do the water cure, it will flush the weed of alot of things that the grower did not. Like the fertilizer, and other things that dont get you high but make the weed more harsh.
Also like someone else said here, you should start small. Once you get some small hits in, you wont be so prone to coughing.
No matter what though, your weed should not be terribly harsh. Thats a good sign of bad cured and flushed weed. Just experiment with some added curing once you get your weed and your coughing problem should be cleared up in no time at all.
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: TurricaN]
#5360297 - 03/03/06 12:51 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
TurricaN said:BTW: Anyone ever get the feeling that being high can be characterised as a feeling of being able to comprehend fantasy rather than simply to imagine fantasy?
Hahaha... total pothead realization. I love it.
I don't see a problem. Gotta cough to get off, so they say.
If it's really bothering you then just take smaller hits!
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: TurricaN]
#5360445 - 03/03/06 01:52 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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you gfuys make me sick, take smaller hits,i cant roll, blah blah blah. start twistin them joints and stop bein a pussy. Your lungs will eventually build up but secret is take better hits, not bigger but good sized ones and yo gotta learn how to HIT CLOUDS Take a good hit right before it gets hot and hold it in your mouth but dont inhaled, close your lips make kinda a kissing motion then open your lips and let the smoke come around into a little cloud, then sssssssssssssttttttttt suck that in and hold it, lettin them clouds cooool that way is a nice teqnique and looks sick too. usually gotta be indoor or no wind.
 spent a couple minutes finding a nice pic for u , peace maine good luck
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TurricaN
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: bluengreen]
#5360783 - 03/03/06 06:33 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Cheers for the suggestions. Ice is out of the question 'cause there's no chance I'll be able to get it into the bong, since it's pretty much entirely enclosed (you have to fill it with water through the little hole on the side that you put your finger on, inhalation goes through a small flexible tube on the top so you can sit back taking hits).
The curing thing sounds interesting... The ash is usually fairly light-grayish, although the weed I have is supposed to be good quality (the shop I bought it from had five types and this one was the second most expensive and had very good reviews, it certainly gets me very high anyways). Although maybe the light ash could also be because I'm using a torch lighter?
Otherwise I'll just try taking smaller hits I guess next time.
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: TurricaN]
#5361141 - 03/03/06 10:48 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I have smoked many bong hits in my day. I have found the best method(in my opinion) is to find a straight acrylic bong about 24"(too short and you get bong water in your mouth, too long and it will burn no matter what you do) a little bit of water in the bottom, filler the rest of the way with ice. You very slowly hoot the bong until the smoke has made it to the mouthpiece. Now, STOP !!!! take a deep breath out, pull the bowl(or open the choke) and haul that fucker back at full till.  Hold briefly(1-2seconds) then exhale the whole hoot(may take 2 breaths, there is a lot of smoke in there) I find the less time there is smoke in your throat, the less burn. You get it into the lung real quick, hold it, then exhale quick and there should be minimal cough. Also dont let the hoot sit for very long, it definetly taste a lot worse after sitting in the chamber for 10 seconds. If you smoke a small amount of hashish or oil you are smoking less plant matter, while still getting just as high, less smoke=less burn. I dont even smoke bud unless i have ran out of bubble, using my method with .1g of hash, i will not cough at all, it tastes quite nice, and i am fuking ripped off my face within minutes.
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: Luv_The_Cyans]
#5364484 - 03/04/06 12:31 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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mm i love hooking up my vaporizer to my bong ultra pure smooth hits gets you BAKED FAST!!!
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Re: Help with coughing when smoking? [Re: MrMolotov]
#5364880 - 03/04/06 02:59 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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The worst cough I ever had was when 6 fat ass blunts of fire were being passed amongst the 6 of us...so technically facers but the blunt wraps where all different flavors so we had to. Well I took this one hit, which ended up being my last, and its actually kind of hard to explain, well I took this hit, and it just hurt, and I wanted to cough but I couldn't, and it felt as if my diaphragm muscles pushed the air out...very painful. And it only happened once after that, and that was after smoking a ridiculous amount of reefy deef. The lesson learned here, take it nice and slow, escpecially if you have a lot, so you can smoke all night and its easier on your lungs and throat.
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