Holding in hits

[crare]

Does the time you hold in your hits affect how high you get?

[Wheed]

Well, it contributes to getting you higher because you are holding your breathe and it will get you light headed, but other than that, the lightheadedness will go away shortly. It's better to just hold it in for a bit.

[ganjah]

No need to hold it in for more than 5 seconds, maybe 8 seconds if you take a huge hit. The reason is that the thc absorbs pretty fast and the more time you hold the smoke in, the more damage to your lungs you are doing.

[horror business]

Well, I'm kind of undecided on the issue. At first I thought that the reason people said holding the hits in makes you higher, is really just because it makes you light headed, not actually higher. But then again, if you just inhale and exhale quickly, a shit load of smoke blows out, and shotguns get people high, and that's the same smoke you are exhaling into their mouths, so, it seems like a waste to blow it out.

Usually, I'll hold it in for 15 seconds if I'm watching a clock, just because I heard by that time all the THC you're going to get has already been absorbed.

Sometimes, if I'll take too huge of hit, I'll have to cough it out almost instantly.

[Perp]

Exchange at the molecular level is almost instantaneous. There is no need to hold in a hit. You are just holding in the harmful elements of the smoke. You don't need to hold in air to get the full effect of breathing, do you?

[crare]

that's all very well. this information will aid me with my weed smoking merit badge

[Captain Hanks]

Holding your hits in does indeed increase your high because it gives your lungs a chance to absorb all the thc. THC is absorbed by the lungs instantly (95% is absorbed within the first few seconds). Holding the smoke in any longer then three seconds does NOT get you higher. The only reason you feel higher is because of oxygen deprivation (lack of oxygen to the brain kills brain cells and gives a slight buzz).

[kwef]

so final verdict is not hold it in mabey more than 5 seconds?

[AlwaysBlazed]

No, smoke instantaneously is absorbed by your lungs, the longer you hold it in the more carcinogens you inhale.

[funky not a junky]

that's all very well. this information will aid me with my weed smoking merit badge


Hahahahahahahaha im a boyscout.

[slipknotpsycho]

Well, I'm kind of undecided on the issue. At first I thought that the reason people said holding the hits in makes you higher, is really just because it makes you light headed, not actually higher. But then again, if you just inhale and exhale quickly, a shit load of smoke blows out, and shotguns get people high, and that's the same smoke you are exhaling into their mouths, so, it seems like a waste to blow it out.

Usually, I'll hold it in for 15 seconds if I'm watching a clock, just because I heard by that time all the THC you're going to get has already been absorbed.

Sometimes, if I'll take too huge of hit, I'll have to cough it out almost instantly.

ummm.... not around here, a shotgun is done wtih fresh smoke, either by putting your lips over a cherried bowl and blowing, or sticking a joint/blunt in your mouth backwards and blowing....

[lil josh]

yer round ere to give a blowback you put the joint in ur mouth backwards and then the other person puts there lips bout 1 inch away from the roach then the person with the joint in there mouth blows while thre otherperson sucks all the air coming out of the joint :)


oyea lol 4gotte, i loke to hold in ma tokes it DOES get me higher no mater what scientific bullshit you tell me i know that it does lol :)

anuva thing i like to do is take a toke inhale blow it away take a toke inhale blow it away and keep doing that cause your not ever taking a breath of just fresh air while your doing that but each time you inhale your getting bout 60% weed 40% oxygen i like it better than just takng loads of tokes wivout blowing out cause you can do it for longer you dnt get out of breath and it gets u mashed :)

[WeedyBoyWonder]

There is NO advantage of holding the smoke in, inless your on a suicide mission.
Your just depriving your lungs of oxygen making you go light headed, the longer you hold it in the more damage your doing to your body.
THC is absorbed in the lungs INSTANTLY, as i say there is no added effect from the cannabis of holding it in longer.
Personaly i dont, i just inhale and exhale.

Take note, this is correct.

[lil josh]

nope :)

[timothylearyisdead]

There is NO advantage of holding the smoke in, inless your on a suicide mission.
Your just depriving your lungs of oxygen making you go light headed, the longer you hold it in the more damage your doing to your body.
THC is absorbed in the lungs INSTANTLY, as i say there is no added effect from the cannabis of holding it in longer.
Personaly i dont, i just inhale and exhale.

Take note, this is correct.

i would agree with this but holding in hits fucks me up twice as much otherwise, and its not from being lightheaded, because its last the whole high. is there any real way to tell if thc is absorbed instantly? plus ive gotten high off people blowing smoke from their lungs into mine so yeah. actually thats the only way mine friends gf smokes and she gets more ripped than i do.

[Dutch Masta]

The verdict should be that anyone holding in hits does not know what they are doing.. and if anyone is losing brain cells from weed its from this.

[IllusionalFate]

For the people who think holding in their hits gets them higher (which it doesn't), there's still no good reason to hold in your hits. Why? Because you only get one pair of lungs... you can always buy more weed.

[SpaceCaptainDimi]

does anyone have any proof at all that THC is absorbed by the lungs instantly or are you just talking out of your asses?

[IllusionalFate]

Conventional wisdom is that holding in the smoke increases the effects felt. Recent research shows the opposite; it causes more harm to the lungs without increasing the amount of THC absorbed. Studies done in Australia indicate that 95% of the THC in cannabis is absorbed in the first few seconds of inhaling. Holding in the smoke longer just allows more tar and other noxious chemicals to be absorbed.
http://www.schmoo.co.uk/thclub/methods.htm

[LIP]

does anyone have any proof at all that THC is absorbed by the lungs instantly or are you just talking out of your asses?

95% is abosrbed instantly. The other 5% is abosrbed within 3 seconds. A natural breath is 3 seconds. No need to hold a hit, at all. An one who argues with that is arguing with fact, and showing their ignorance.

The only thing holding hits in does it cause oxygen depravation, which might answer some of the questions about why "potheads" are dumb.

[slipknotpsycho]

like i said before, if you think that smoke has enough thc worth keeping it in for, and you still wanna argue with that ^^^ do your own experiment, get a pipe/tube, have a friend smoke a bowl/joint/blunt w/e inhale and exhale directly into it, then you take the reused hits... dont' smoke anything at all on your own, let your friend do all the hitting... i know it doesn't work becuase me and my brother tried it when we didn't have enough to get us both high....

[horror business]

When I was talking about a shotgun, I was talking about the process of someone taking a hit, then exhaling the smoke into someone's mouth, who inhales. This gets the person inhaling the shotgun high. Does this mean they are only getting 5% THC because 95% of the THC was already absorbed by the first person?

[timothylearyisdead]

naw man seriously that is the only way my bestfriends gf will smoke and she gets fuckin baked no joke. i think we should just drop it because people are just gonna stand their ground on this issue. lets just smoke some bud, some of us will hold it in longer than others, regardless we will still all get high:smokin:

[KindMidasSoundman]

when I hold in a hit, I make duck noises

[jfoster]

if you are really that keen on holding in hits, take your hit hold it for like 5 sec or 3 or w/e, blow it out, then take a big breath of air and hold it for a while. there you go

[IllusionalFate]

I just thought of something. THC may be absorbed instantly but that doesn't mean that all the other cannabinoids are also. So maybe the people who get shotguns or hold their hits in longer get more cannabinoids which is why they get higher. I still won't hold in my hits though because I can always just smoke more instead of coating my lungs with tar and saving some money.

[420allthetime]

I believe that the thc gets absorbed right away, and that makes sense. But than why does hot boxing a car get you so much higher if there isn't any Thc left in the smoke?

[LIP]

I believe that the thc gets absorbed right away, and that makes sense. But than why does hot boxing a car get you so much higher if there isn't any Thc left in the smoke?

Possibly a placebo because your smelling it, so you automatically think your smoking it... Dunno, but i guess you cant argue with science.

[jfoster]

actually dont take science as fact. imo, time has only proven that science is usually wrong. they get some stuff right but remember that science is all theories

[wadejason]

when i first started smoking way back in the day, the guys that introduced it to me told me to take a hit or two and pass (the pipe then, phx now hah) but they told me to hold it in and try not to exhale until the piece comes back to me. now that was a kinda cool learning tool and i thought that holding in your hits was the way to go...but maybe not that long. now a days when i puff puff pass, i take the hit, take another little breath of air in...hooooold it in for about 3 seconds and then exhale. i figure anymore than that is just smoke irriatating my insides. so go along and hold it in but i dont know if it will get you much but coughing more often. just remember to take that extra breath in after the initial hit because i think thats important to really hold your hit in your lungs good and tight and less more about how long you hold it in.

[Perp]

I believe that the thc gets absorbed right away, and that makes sense. But than why does hot boxing a car get you so much higher if there isn't any Thc left in the smoke?

Because the smoke coming off the joint is also accumulating in the enclosed area, not just what you exhale.