Increased heart rate when smoking

Anyway to prevent it? My heart rate goes extremely high whenever I smoke and it really fucks with my highs. I try to slow down my breathing but that only helps when I'm sober so what can I do to reduce my heart rate or at least ignore it?

I've got the same problem. I vaped a bunch of weed last night and I counted my heart rate at ~120 beats per minute, which I think qualifies as tachycardia. I was extremely high though, so it's definitely possible I counted wrong.

The more you think about it, the more you will notice it. Your mind will work to convince you your heartrate is too high, and you will begin to believe it. Dont get stuck in that cycle!

we have had a couple patients notice the same thing. almost all of the time, it happens when smoking a strong indica (kushes mostly). try switching to sativas and you should be able to get a much more comfortable high.

I always thought it was sativa that you higher heart beats and stuff, so I'll try getting more sativas but that's not always an option because I can't always choose the bud I'm getting.

And I know that if I don't think about it then it won't be a problem, I used to think that I just thought that my heart rate was increasing but it really wasn't but then I found out that weed really does increase your heart rate so it's all I think about anymore.

And yea, the last time I got high my heart beat probably was 120 beats per minute, and no that's not an exaggeration. At first I was really scared but then I just said fuck it I don't care and I was able to enjoy my high. I was twitching all over the place though lol.
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But anyway, any other ways to deal with the increased heart rat

One thing you might be able to do is try to lower your resting heart rate. Mine was around 80 for a while, but I started running and it dropped by about 10 beats per minute. I don't know what kind of shape you're in already, but you could try some cardio to get your heart in shape and your heart rate may not rise quite as much.

Another thing that helps is sleep :thumbsup: One time I was sitting at my desk hitting my vaporizer (one of the first couple times I had used it), and I felt like I was having a heart attack, so I went to bed. Same thing with the racing heart beat, if it's late, I usually just go to bed. Come to think of it I've had a few incidents like that with the vape. One time I got far, far too high..I was standing in my bathroom and suddenly the room got really, really dark. If you've ever played Call of Duty, it felt like what happens in the game when a grenade goes off by you and you get shell-shocked. I'm guessing it was the result of very low blood pressure due to vasodilation. Scared the shit out of me, but again, I just went to bed :stoned:

Some tachycardia (heart racing) is very common in response to smoking. It's worse w/ sativas than indicas, and it's a response that happens routinely after smoking of anything because the heart's having to work harder to pump oxygenated blood around the body when you're inhaling lungsful of smoke to compete with your air intake.

In the post below, my husband outlined a fairly tried-and-true method for slowing the heart rate down if it's dire enough to require some sort of treatment. Good luck w/ that.

http://boards.cannabis.com/medicinal...ml#post1790562

I don't really understand. What I should do is hold my breat and take in slow breaths or something like that?

And I was pretty sure it had something to do with me not getting enough oxygen. I smoked a lot of it. I think I'm going to take a 3 week break from weed and see if that helps at all.

If this ever happens, sure fire way to solve it is have someone punch you as hard as they can in your nuts or box wichever the case may be..
Worked every time I tried it!:D
It may also prevent pregnancy.:jointsmile:

Since the heart rate goes up as a result of not having oxygen does that mean that if you use a vaporizer or eat weed brownies then you won't get the increased heart rate?