Avoiding Coughing Out

[NeoPariah]

They say you don't get off unless you cough, but coughing out still can be a pretty crappy experience. Here's a little trick I use: Exhale slowly through your nose. It's easier to control the impulse to change that exhale into a cough that way. But doing it more than once or twice ruins your sense of smell for the day.

What tips and tricks do you have for avoiding coughing out?

[Trichocereus Panza]

Two words: small hits.

Just smoke it nice and leisurely, esp. if you're alone.

[Stfu its Matthew]

i hate coughing gives me a bad start on the high and ruins it

[pixel]

the "don't get off unless you cough" phrase is a myth... try having a massive coughing fit when youre sober.. you feel really lightheaded after. its not being "more high" its just being high combined with lightheadedness and the high dirtier that way

[DazedNblazed]

yeah i dont understand that myth, why would it make you higher if you cough your lungs out?

[LIP]

All coughing does it dialate the avioli and you feel the high quiker, but not a stronger high.

To stop coughing take small hits, and exhale slowly, and if you feel the urge to cough, try your hardest to surpress it cos once you start it takes ages to stop coughing.

[Toker4LifeVT]

just smoker smaller ammounts until the effects of the cannabis kick in and it will numb ur lungs up.

[cjh3387]

coughing can get you higher actualy, it opens these things called ephilaries? or something like that in ur lungs and when u cough the marijuana enters them and gets u higher.

[Toker4LifeVT]

how can it enter your lungs better when ur coughing out air... how would that make you higher.. i know what ur talkin about i felt it myself but its only for a few seconds especially if i stand up fast or have a bad coughing fit i seem to get alot more dizzy.. but it goes away fairly fast

[duhrickjames]

Coughing is good. When you cough it forces the aveoli in your lung to expand, along with your actualy bronchial tissue. This means that there is more surface area for THC and other chemicals in mary to enter your bloomstream.

The first hit you take should be so big that it makes you cough. You will get higher from your later hits, because you coughed.

Exhaling (and inhaling) through your nose is bad. Marijuana smoke contains more cancinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke, and your nose is a much less protected area than your throat. You will get those red lines in your nose that old men get (bursted capillaries) except you will get them much earlier in life.

Unless you want a grandpa nose, don't mix nose and dank.

Exhaling slowly through your mouth is the best way to get the highest possible off of a given hit of smoke. Holding the hit +5 seconds also maximizes this. Take as much fresh air behind a hit as possible. While holding, try to suck more fresh air into your lungs. Even if you think you can't, suck the tiniest bit more. Sit straight up. Put your arms in the air, and then take another tiny breath on top.

This will help to expand the size of your lungs over time, and will help to better absorb the smoke because fresh air triggers chemical exchange between the aveoli in your lungs, THC does not.

[Stfu its Matthew]

Exhaling (and inhaling) through your nose is bad. Marijuana smoke contains more cancinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke, and your nose is a much less protected area than your throat. You will get those red lines in your nose that old men get (bursted capillaries) except you will get them much earlier in life.


dude sounds good except that its the other way around tobacco smoke is so fucked that it has radioactivity and stuff in the leafs so you see? ya! but nice job anywyas man i outta try ur theory out

[Trichocereus Panza]

Exhaling (and inhaling) through your nose is bad. Marijuana smoke contains more cancinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke, and your nose is a much less protected area than your throat. You will get those red lines in your nose that old men get (bursted capillaries) except you will get them much earlier in life.

Unless you want a grandpa nose, don't mix nose and dank.

Exhaling slowly through your mouth is the best way to get the highest possible off of a given hit of smoke. Holding the hit +5 seconds also maximizes this. Take as much fresh air behind a hit as possible. While holding, try to suck more fresh air into your lungs. Even if you think you can't, suck the tiniest bit more. Sit straight up. Put your arms in the air, and then take another tiny breath on top.

Wow. Thanks for all the helpful information bro, I definitely won't be exhaling through my nostrils anymore.

I also agree with taking in a lot of fresh air to follow your hit. Now that you mention it, that's another good method to prevent coughing, if that's what you want to do.

I don't like the heavy lungs feeling after smoking, so I'm in the habit already of inhaling as deeply as I can after a small-medium hit. I'll have to try your "arms in the air" theory too.:)

[TheAtomicPunk]

If you cough, it means you took a hit you couldn't handle. Therefore it was a huge hit, that's what gets you high. Not the fact that you coughed. Smart one...

[DusanTafari]

People actually say that if you cough thats good? Maybe for beginner toker but where I come from, coughing is a sign of weakness, I hate coughing too, tell your friends to fuck off next time they say cough.

[one.stoned.wookie]

a trick i learned to not cough is expel all smoke out of your lungs after a hit and you wont cough as much but sometimes i take such a big hit i cough and black right out....its fun sometimes...also coughing alot deprives oxygen from brain making you feel "higher" then normal

[Don Don]

The more you cough, the higher you'll get.I know from experiments.

[berny]

The only time i cough is when i hit a bong and take a huge hit. The large hit is the cause of the stone and the cough. The cough is just the after effect.

[orangeman]

I never coughed to the point where I was light-headed or my head looked sorta red but I have coughed a bit...sorta like "The Guy" off of Half Baked when he smoked the pipe lol...

[nothx]

coughing is good hands on. taking small hits is weak. its all about snapping bowls.

haha kinda reminds me why once a stoner always a stoner.. cause you always want to see if u can get higher or smoke more hahahaha

[jermbiggs]

werd

[Hollandica]

well, I'd rather be nicely stoned than as stoned as i can be, because that's pretty fucking awfully stoned. That would be stoned beyond all pleasure and rationale.

[nothx]

well, I'd rather be nicely stoned than as stoned as i can be, because that's pretty fucking awfully stoned. That would be stoned beyond all pleasure and rationale.


haha yea but what doesnt kill you only makes you stronger! No pain no gain! Just do it! <insert random believe in yourself proverb> <insert Lance armstrong's face>

[daves19]

They say you don't get off unless you cough, but coughing out still can be a pretty crappy experience. Here's a little trick I use: Exhale slowly through your nose. It's easier to control the impulse to change that exhale into a cough that way. But doing it more than once or twice ruins your sense of smell for the day.

What tips and tricks do you have for avoiding coughing out?

Hi there! i just don't think coughing gets you off in your high...psychological thing maybe...i just smoke one hit, don't hold it too long and i am high! coughing just gives you a rush of oxygen!!

Happy toking! i am going for one!:dance:

[daves19]

The more you cough, the higher you'll get.I know from experiments.

you're right but this applies also when you don't smoke! if you cough and cough sober, you sort of get high...combine with pot, which accentuate the experience, you feel higher...:dance:

[Vinny87]

I always thought it was good to cough, because it gets out all the excess smoke in your lungs.

Sometimes, after hitting a joint and exahaling, it'll seem like all the smoke is out...then I cough about 3 seconds later, more shit comes out.

[Big Calhoun]

Just small hits. If I'm going to cough, I usually feel it in the back of my throat and I stop the pull right there. I'll never forget when I had a coughing fit while pulling on a bong. Coughed...into the chamber...water soaked the herb and came out the stem. Very embarassing....but we still smoked that shit!

[orangeman]

Nah, I enjoy coughin out lol. Usually because I smoke by my self so I dont have any tricks for avoidin it. But when I do smoke with other people no one cares about coughin it's all about tokin and chokin :).

[iamenfuego]

nigga i dont cough lol, i really dont cough that much and i usually take huuuuge hits. i always smoke that headies so the smoke is smooth

[Crosis]

I smoke weed and cigarettes, so my lungs are pretty much used to the abuse. I can fill 'em up on some dense ass smoke and not cough a bit during the exhale.

[stoneberg]

it helps to internally cough, without letting the smoke out. I don't know if its psychological only, but i feel THC explosions in my blood when i do that and get higher hehe.

[willystylle]

Actually I read on another post that you don't need to hold it in to get the full effect because THC is instantly absorbed. I think it's tripe. You take a big hit and hold it so that a lot of THC gets absorbed in one hit.

You only cough because your aveoli are irritated by something (in this case it's the carcinogens in the smoke) and coughing is just the body's way of forcing the bad smoke out and oxygen in. So in my mind the more your body's trying to expel the smoke from your lungs (coughing), the better your hit will be (the more THC the worse the cough is)

in other words the actual act of coughing is bad - but coughing is a good sign for a good high. coughing is good.

[birdgirl73]

Coughing doesn't get you high. The inhalation does. Coughing is just an unpleasant byproduct of having harsh or unfamiliar smoke in your lungs. Some coughing is good when you're smoking or just anytime throughout the day to help keep your lungs clear, but coughing when you're smoking does sort of take the pleasure out of the smoking experience.

I have trouble with coughing, and I'm sure I ought to take in weed in a different form anyway because I'm not a cigarette smoker and I have asthma. What I'm going to try instead is some special hemp filters I found online that you roll up and put in your J and see if those don't help a little.