Holding hits?

[BabyFacedAbortion]

Do you hold your hits, why or why not? If yes, how long?

I don't hold my hits, nor do my friends..but we did when we were younger.

I know a lot of older smokers that hold their hits for a long ass time tho.

[Samwhore]

i do, for about 3-5 seconds, unless were playing mexican sweat

[benagain]

I don't hold my hits at all. Get what I want in one hit and let it 'slide' out.
I'm pretty sure that holding a hit can actually kill some brain cells, but I could be wrong. Ususally I am.

[smokingskeleton]

I hold hits occasionally...but normally for only 3-5 secs.

[benagain]

If you got good lungs like me i hold it and hit again and hold it not stopping till i need to leave the smoke out which is a long time.

But isn't that cutting circulation off to the brain? :confused: :confused: :confused:
Doesn't matter how full your lungs can get if they're full of smoke. The brain needs air to make the smartness work.

[Towelie]

unless were playing mexican sweat

What is that?

see who can hold a hit longer?

[Samwhore]

What is that?

see who can hold a hit longer?

you hold your hit in until whatever your passing gets back to you

[memoryburner]

We call that taxi...

[LIP]

Holding hits does nothing but damage. A natural breath is roughly 3 seconds, you shouldnt have to hold it any longer than that. If you do your damaging your brain, your lungs... everything!

Theres no THC to be absorbed... it's absorbed instantly... so all holding it does is coat your lungs in a lovely thick tar, and while your not breathing... no oxygen... and what does that mean? It means not breathing turns people into vegtables.

Dont hold your hits... theres no point at all... unless you want to be ill.

[nikweiser]

why does this thread show up a lot, i thought we all knew that almost all of the thc is absorbed instantly and you are just holding smoke in your lungs which is bad for you.

[Samwhore]

Dont hold your hits... theres no point at all... unless you want to be ill.


I do...

nah, holding your hits in longer makes you look "cool"

[Towelie]

you hold your hit in until whatever your passing gets back to you

Shit sounds hard.

[Samwhore]

Shit sounds hard.

only when you have a group of like 8 people or,me and my friend played, the two of us, with a pipe and a joint, then it got confusing

[Dro_Princess]

When I first started smoking I did. Everyone said thats the way you do it. People really need to be more informed on that shit. Thats like telling a virgin how to do somethng sexually and they do it and look stupid because they dont know any better. I have since learned that holding your breath kills the brain cells not weed.

[make it legal]

Yeah, I tried telling my friends it does nothing but none of them want to believe me so whatever to each his own.(I don't know if I used that saying right)

But yeah usually I just do for like three to five seconds no more. One of my best friends tries to hold it in for as long as his lungs will possibly let him... can't be good.

[TheGreenFog]

you hold your hit in until whatever your passing gets back to you

Then you end up like a bunch of people with Tuberculosis, coughing your heads off and drooling...KICK ASS! :D

LOL...

Not to say that I don't occasionally enjoy the numbing, coughing-induced high, but normally, I'd say 3 seconds...for sure...:smokin:


The Fog :rastasmoke:


*cough, cough*

[d00d557]

my friends think you're supposed to hold dank smoke in longer or whatever and I tell them it doesn't matter because its all absorbed instantly but no they insist on holding it in longer

[rnichilo]

'bout 5 seconds

[2600HERTZ]

It has nothing to do with brain cell damage, holding your hits just gives your lung more time to absorb the carcinogens in the marijuana. You don't absorb more thc from holding the hit. Do a little research.

[MrGreenFingaz]

I always used to hold it for around 10 secs, ever since i read here that 3 seconds is all u need and all u do is hyperventilate and fuck up your lungs more if u hold a longer time :/. Smoke on!

[YahtzeeG]

so 3 seconds is the best time to hold it in? or go with your natural breathing patern?

[LIP]

Well a natural breath is roughly 3 seconds, and by that time you've abosrbed all the THC and other active cannabinoids... after that it's not weed smoke in your lungs... just smoke... and that's never good to have in your lungs for longer than you need to.

[Dope Chic]

My x-bf is anal about that shit. He insists that you hold your hit for at least 10 sec. the longer the better in his book. If you don't hold your hit and you're smoking his shit he won't let you have anymore, he believes that it's a "waste of weed". Hes just an asshole like that tho.:wtf:

[LIP]

My x-bf is anal about that shit. He insists that you hold your hit for at least 10 sec. the longer the better in his book. If you don't hold your hit and you're smoking his shit he won't let you have anymore, he believes that it's a "waste of weed". Hes just an asshole like that tho.:wtf:


Damn, he really is one silly little prick. Oh well, he'll be coughing up black chunks of tar eventually... then he'll be sorry.

[Dope Chic]

Lol yea he is I've tried to show him things that contradict his notions but he says it's a bunch of b.s. Oh well he can live in the land of the ignorant and suffer the consequences.;)

[orangeman]

IMO holding hits DOES determine how high you get off the smoke. I used to hold my hits for like 3-5 seconds but now I hold it for like 5-15 seconds and it makes a big difference, trust me.

[conch420]

do you guys have any proof that thc is absorbed insantly?not trying to be a dick, im just wondering why you guys always tell ppl that? and yeah its just common sence the longer u hold in a hit the more tar will be deposited in ur lungs , i guess thats why whan you hold i your hit for a long asstime no smoke comes out

[LIP]

IMO holding hits DOES determine how high you get off the smoke. I used to hold my hits for like 3-5 seconds but now I hold it for like 5-15 seconds and it makes a big difference, trust me.

I hate to say it buddy, but oxygen depravation. It's lightheadedness, possibly coupled with placebo. As you inhale the smoke you hardly get any oxygen that breath, and holding... well your not getting oxygen all that time. That's going to kill brain cells, and i think that may be whats causing some of your chest problems, and im not just saying it man.

There plenty of stuff on the net about how THC is abosrbed instantly, i've read quite a few, mainly in threads in the medicinal forum. I have no links. Before this site changed ownership there used to be a "daily factoids" and the THC being abosrbed instanly fact was in the rotation.

[dankus maximus]

if holding your breath longer than a normal breath is bad, then why arents swimmers all retards?

man im high

[ballllin]

^ ... it's bad when ur smoking...

[Matt the Funk]

Just 3 seconds. Maybe a little more a little less.

[smokeblunts3]

when i got a good amount of weed to smoke i hold it for like 3-5 seconds i guess. but if all i got is a roach i usually hold the smoke as long as i can. after doing that a while sometimes now after i do that my head throbs for a minute i've always known its from the lack of oxygen but i figured maybe holding it longer gives your red blood cells or w/e more time to transport the shit through your body, but i guess i'm just stupid and now i know why. from all those brain cells i been killing doing that shit :thumbsup:

[BlueBerry Nug]

When I first started smoking I did. Everyone said thats the way you do it. People really need to be more informed on that shit. Thats like telling a virgin how to do somethng sexually and they do it and look stupid because they dont know any better. I have since learned that holding your breath kills the brain cells not weed.

yes when i first stared people told me to hold it in for a good bit now i hold it for about 3 seconds

[midlifecrisis]

As soon as I'm done inhaling, I start exhaling.


When you're younger you can hold it in forever (I did)....you're invincible at that age.


When you get older, you think about things like.......your health.

I'm with Lip on this one...no need to hold it in. If I remember correctly somewhere around 80-90% THC is absorbed in the first few (2-3) seconds, after that it is up to the individual if they want to try to extract that last bit of THC while depositing tar in your lungs, or just let it out.

Inhaling any smoke is bad for you....why hold it in 5-10 times longer than necessary to get only 10% more?


:smokin: :smokin:

[SonEtLumiere]

i only hold in for like 3 seconds or so, jsut long enough i dont know, theres a point where it feels right to let out the smoke, unless im hitting the g bong at one of my friends houses then i hold it in for awhile.... i dont know why lol, thats where i just got back from and damn am i high

[ValkyrieAg]

I inhale, then exhale slowly through my nose if I am smoking dank out of my pipe. I do not hold in for much reason and am a believer that 3 seconds is enough.

Lets think about this. If you were to hold your breath for 1 minute, you would obviously think "i need to breathe". Well lets say you hold it for 1 minute, then very very as quickly as possible, exhale, inhale. It wouldn't take but 1 second, yet you would get the oxygen your body needs, in one single quick breath.


HOWEVER
The other day I was smoking my NL+BB on my couch. I was watching tv, and I had my lamp on. As a habit, every exhale is directed at my lamp, which makes the smoke look cool, which is fun. (i practice smoke rings in it) Anyway, I took a good solid perfect hit that was perfectly dense, but not so dense that it would make me cough. I filled up my lungs, and thought for a second 'WOW', but held it. Right then, everything slowed down. After what felt like 6-10 seconds, i blew it towards my lamp. Well you can tell when the smoke hits the lamp, and I remember being lightheaded and high and looking at the ceiling while I exhaled and It felt like it took forever. Amazing hit, baby.

Don't underestimate holding a hit in for at least 5 seconds on occasion.

[The Reffer]

But isn't that cutting circulation off to the brain? :confused: :confused: :confused:
Doesn't matter how full your lungs can get if they're full of smoke. The brain needs air to make the smartness work.

the less oxygen to the brain the higher u get thats wat the hi is really not letting oxygen to the brain

[LIP]

the less oxygen to the brain the higher u get thats wat the hi is really not letting oxygen to the brain

No it's not. It's a sideeffect from breathing in smoke, but being high is from the active cannabinoids working with the cannabinoids receptors. Oxygen depravation is killing brain cells, and ultimately, making you a vegtable. It's stupid to do it, and to be honest, it's stupid to think thats what being high is. When you hold your breath it's not a good feeling. It's a dying feeling, because that's whats happening, your brain is DYING.

Dont hold hits, or your breath.

[IceNine]

well i just learned something new. 3 secs max for me for now on

[ValkyrieAg]

Hold on, since when is holding your breath killing you?

Ya know those people who can free dive like 400feet or whatever, they hold their breath for up to 4 minutes. They are in the best of shape and can run a fuckin marathon.

Im sorry LIP, but sometimes you are full of shit.

[StrwbrryFldsFrvr]

you hold your hit in until whatever your passing gets back to you

We call that one Chicago.

[Agressor1]

I didn't know that, I thought you had to hold your hits to let the THC get in your system.

Because to me it's like a ball that folds its inside outward, because you get the thc on the outside but not the stuff on the inside.

So, I hold my hits until I feel as if the smoke has cycled so I get every bit of THC from each little particle.

I guess I'm wrong though, good thing I haven't been smoking for a long time.

I won't hold my hits anymore.

[lava521]

I think it works a little different for everyone. Try differnt things, do what works. I think that its important to get the smoke deep into my lungs. So I hot heavy smoke then 'chase' with air to make sure it goes deep into my lungs rather then chill in my throat and not be used. Try different patterns and see what works. I have heard that holding gets you higher faster, some poeple do that when their low on weed... Try it and see for yourself. The most important thing is to keep on puffing no matter how you do it. I mean common is there really a wrong way to enjoy marijuana? :o)

[Agressor1]

yeah, what's it matter if I breathe in normal while I take a hit?

[LIP]

Hold on, since when is holding your breath killing you?

Ya know those people who can free dive like 400feet or whatever, they hold their breath for up to 4 minutes. They are in the best of shape and can run a fuckin marathon.

Im sorry LIP, but sometimes you are full of shit.

Are you completely thick?

You seriously think holding your breath, starving your brain of oxygen ISNT killing brain cells?

If you think that you gotta be havnig a laugh. Im not talking shit, i KNOW what im talking about thankyou.

People who go sky diving and shit arnt doing it all the time are they? But people smoking regulary ARE.

Damn, your the one talking shit.

[smokeblunts3]

We call that one Chicago.

yeah we call it chicago were i live to and also sometimes we play it where if you exhale before it gets back to you, your off that blunt or w.e your smoking but i rarley play that game i don't think its that much fun i like to talk about some random shit when i'm blazin not sit in silence.:smokin:


And Lip you mean free diving right?? lol

[LIP]

Same thing isnt it, might be called something differnt coz im in England.

[I Stay High]

you hold your hit in until whatever your passing gets back to you

We call that Chicago where i am from (NY)

[Weed Boy]

About 85-95% of the THC is absorbed in the first 3-5 seconds. So I hold my hits in for about 3-5 seconds a peice. Ive also tryed holding them in for longer peroids and it doesn't seem to make a diffrence.

[peaceandlove420]

Okay I have researched it and what not and I agree you shouldn't hold your hits.

However, I recently played a game of red-eye (everyone has a name for that game I guess its just different everywhere, the holding till it passes back to you)

We had three people with a glass on glass 18 inch bong with a sidecar ass catcher.

I held my hit actually we all did until the bong got back to us. I was more stoned than I have ever been off one bowl.

You may say, no dude its a placebo or lack of oxygen.

No, many many minutes if not an hour later I was still stoned to shit.

And it was great.

Everytime I hold in fat hits longer I get way more high. I am not saying the studies are a lie,

but seriusly, I was high as a damn kite, usually it takes at least 3-4 of those to get where I was at.

[Jimbob1310]

i usually count to 5, get ALL the thc absorbed. i do it alone at home at night, instead of crying over the girl i love. if nothing else its something to do...

[smokeblunts3]

Same thing isnt it, might be called something differnt coz im in England.

in the US

free diving=diving as far as you can down into the water on a single breath

sky diving= jumping out of a plane with a parachute

alot different so i thought you messed up.

[ValkyrieAg]

Meet Timmy. Timmy is 25, 175lbs and in decent shape. Due to his love for <insert sport>, he does alot of cardio. Timmy holds his hits for 10 seconds apiece. He exhales and that is the end.

Meet Jonny. Jonny is 55, 5'4", 350lbs and in terrible shape. Due to his love for cheetos, he has bitch tits and he hasn't seen his dick. He believes that holding his hits for 3 seconds is plenty. (and it is). But if he holds his breath for too long, he gets a little lightheaded and knocks over his cheeto bag.

Moral of the story, if you in such terrible shape that you can't hold your breath for more than 30 seconds, you should probably worry about that spare tire around your waist than your 'brain cells'.

LIP, can you not hold your breath for 30 seconds?

[divestoned]

In the old days I heard that it takes 14 seconds to absorb the usable part of a hit......

Dive:stoned:

[LIP]

Meet Timmy. Timmy is 25, 175lbs and in decent shape. Due to his love for <insert sport>, he does alot of cardio. Timmy holds his hits for 10 seconds apiece. He exhales and that is the end.

Meet Jonny. Jonny is 55, 5'4", 350lbs and in terrible shape. Due to his love for cheetos, he has bitch tits and he hasn't seen his dick. He believes that holding his hits for 3 seconds is plenty. (and it is). But if he holds his breath for too long, he gets a little lightheaded and knocks over his cheeto bag.

Moral of the story, if you in such terrible shape that you can't hold your breath for more than 30 seconds, you should probably worry about that spare tire around your waist than your 'brain cells'.

LIP, can you not hold your breath for 30 seconds?


Of course i can, infact, most people can, but while your not getting oxygen to your brain your gonig to be killing brain cells. That's what i was saying, and that's something that cannot be aruged with.

People who are holding hits and think they're getting higher are just getting lightheaded from oxygen depravation, and/or placebo effect.

That's all i was saying, if you hold your breath, your going to kill an amount of your braincells.... That's probably whats making those bastards think that cannabis is doing it!¬

[potsmokingnome]

Hmmm I do ussually hold my hits in a bit...although now I'm reconsidering my tokin methods! So I will stop holdin my hits in!! I need all the brain cells I can get! lol and a healthy set of lungs is allways a good idea lol

[Canadien.]

We call that Chicago where i am from (NY)

Hahah, we call it Montana. Random lol.

[potsmokingnome]

Hahah, we call it Montana. Random lol.

what the heck you doin up so early this mornin? I have to goto work what's your excuse? Its sunday the Candian sleep day lol

[Masta Stuff]

what the heck you doin up so early this mornin? I have to goto work what's your excuse? Its sunday the Candian sleep day lol

LMFAO :jointsmile:

[potsmokingnome]

LMFAO :jointsmile:

another canadian that is awake, at a such early hour of the mornin! what is Canada coming to when, 3 Canadian are up at such a gawd awfull hour on Canadian sleep day, sheesh! thats almost half our population right there awake! ;) lol

[LIP]

I was up at 4:30 this morning think it was saturday and that i had to go to work, and i didnt realise it was sunday untill i'd got dressed, had a shave, smoked a jonit and was about to leave, when i looked at my TV times mag and saw it was sunday. Good job i turned it over to sunday last night otherwise i wouldnt have realised and i would have driven 3 hours to work for nothing.

[potsmokingnome]

I was up at 4:30 this morning think it was saturday and that i had to go to work, and i didnt realise it was sunday untill i'd got dressed, had a shave, smoked a jonit and was about to leave, when i looked at my TV times mag and saw it was sunday. Good job i turned it over to sunday last night otherwise i wouldnt have realised and i would have driven 3 hours to work for nothing.

I did that once, but it was for high school. it was saturday and I thought it was a week day, I got up, got my shit together, and walked to school, and when I got there everything was locked up and there wasn't anyone else around, thats when I realized "fuck its the weekend!" so back home i went to get my ass back to bed!

[potsmokingnome]

Well this canadian is off to work, but all I wanna do is go back to bed!!! I hate Inventory season, now sleepy sunday for me this week, or next :(

[LIP]

Well this canadian is off to work, but all I wanna do is go back to bed!!! I hate Inventory season, now sleepy sunday for me this week, or next :(

Have a good day at work mate. I work 7 days a week all though the summer boating season. I know what it's like to bother going in on a sunday when all you wanna do is sleep

[Canadien.]

Yeah, I'm workin' my Sunday away too. Bastards, lol. Have a good day guys.

[IceNine]

well last night i smoked about as much as normal, holding it in for 3 seconds max., and i was just as high as usual, so i think holding it in really does nothing.

[peaceandlove420]

*sighs* I guess its one hell of a placebo effect.

But something to note, we did this outta a fat bong (glass on glass almost 2 feet tall, diffuser downstem sidecar double bubbler ass cather). When you take hits from anything besides a bong you get CAN get big hits but it doesn't exceed/fill up your lung capacity like a bong does. Just think about a bong, its a huge ass tube of smoke. No other method of smoking allows for the rush of that quantity of smoke that quickly [(hence the essence of a bong I know ; ) ]

Maybe since yellowy milked bong loads have so much more smoke and so much more thc than you would with other methods of smoking (pipes, joints, blunts, chillums whatever) , that in fact holding them longer allows more smoke/thc to enter your lungs gets you higher and allows more thc abosrbtion?

A hypthosesis maybe. Wrong, most likely. I don't know. Just a thought.

Seriusly though, we have tested this, and like the guy above me there wasn't much of a difference with other methods, slightly, but nowhere NEAR a properly milked bong load that you have to fight to hold. We would get temporarily more high (lack of oxy I bet) but it didn't linger.

Outta the nice ass bong. O yeah.

[MaryjaneAndHashley]

you hold your hit in until whatever your passing gets back to you

We call that ''marathon''

then again, its in french XD

I thought nobody on the forums did that

And it had to be YOU bringing it in!

[Samwhore]

We call that ''marathon''

then again, its in french XD

I thought nobody on the forums did that

And it had to be YOU bringing it in!

of course, I OWN you,

[intrepidus6]

I don't hold at all. Neither do any of the people I have ever smoked with.

And I have tried holding before just to see if I would get higher, and I didn't. So I see no point to holding hits.

[NightProwler]

i dont know if anyone has said this already, but from what ive read about this subject (and i've read alot. mostly on theese forums) the most useful and most reliable information that i've gathered is that holding the smoke in your lungs does no good becuase the thc gets absorbed instantly but not all gets absorbed. in order to get the rest of the thc in that hit into your system, you should exhale and then breathe back in before the smoke is completely out of your mouth. that will re-mix the thc around in the smoke, giving another, (but less potent im sure) hit to you.
i do that usually 2-3 times and i realy do notice it helps conserve. i rarely smoke more than one bowl when i do that method.

[Buddha Man]

i read somewhere that the majority of the THC is absorbed instantly, so basically holding hits is more of a personal preference than a requirement. i dont really hold my hits. just inhale exhale. and i get blazed

[Bong ripper420]

i always thought themore u cough the more u get off.

[coledog855]

Holding hits does nothing but damage. A natural breath is roughly 3 seconds, you shouldnt have to hold it any longer than that. If you do your damaging your brain, your lungs... everything!

Theres no THC to be absorbed... it's absorbed instantly... so all holding it does is coat your lungs in a lovely thick tar, and while your not breathing... no oxygen... and what does that mean? It means not breathing turns people into vegtables.

Dont hold your hits... theres no point at all... unless you want to be ill.

A comment backed with no science, or logic at all. :wtf:

[memoryburner]

The only time i hold hits is if im trying to blow rings...

[big smoke07]

A comment backed with no science, or logic at all. :wtf:

If Lip werent banned im almost sure of it that he would make you look stupid.

[tokin'smoker]

awww, sad, why is LIP banned?

[Tokinskater90]

yea never hold your hit just inhale as much as possible (even if it burns) then exhale 4 second later i get just as high when i don't hold hits in

[coledog855]

If Lip werent banned im almost sure of it that he would make you look stupid.

Does he work in the field of medicine or science? If not, then I doubt he's going to make me look stupid. I've read many of his posts, and I'm not too impressed.

[rnichilo]

If I don't hold my hits for at least a few seconds, I feel like I'm wasting the smoke. Especially if I'm smoking good herb.

[hamburger_train]

Bah, a few seconds is plenty. If your smoke aint doing what it needs to do in that short time you need to invest in some new herbs.
Think of a cigarette, do you see people holding in their drags to get a better nic fix? No, you just cough and feel sick. If you in turn just hack and cough due to holding your hit you're going to just waste it anyways.
How enjoyable is hacking until your eyes pop out and your neck has so many veins popping out you look like a hard on with arms and legs?

[A Scanner Darkly]

Thanks to this topic, I'm never going to hold in a hit any longer than like 3 seconds. I was also wondering about the effects of holding hits, so I'm glad I found this topic.

[Reefer Rogue]

A comment backed with no science, or logic at all. :wtf:

Your post is the definition of irony.

If you're reading this Lip, I don't know why you've been banned, but that's a REAL shame. :(

[d00d989]

i always hold in my hits for 3-4 seconds....and in my honest opinion holding it in that long gets me a LOT higher than not holding them in at all