Black/Grey Pieces in phlegm

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Originally Posted by jessem98

Me and my buddy are pretty much daily smokers. Now i smoke around the same amount as he does. Over the past year or so he has developed phlegm in which he coughs out, and it contains like black or grey little pieces in it... He has asthma, and his dad smokes like a chimney (in the basement away from everyone). He stopped smoking all together, and started vaping...

Is this from holding in hits? Is it from exposure to cigs?

... Does anyone else have or heard or this?

What could that black/grey material be?

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The same stuff that you see going out the non-mouth end of whatever you're burning is the most likely culprit. Ash. Bits of carbon or partially burned weed or tobacco. Smoke particulate. What you're breathing in is what you're coughing out, usually the most recent thing you've smoked or inhaled. You expectorate dust, pollen and pet dander, too, generally. It's caught in the throat, trachea, bronchial tubes and bronchioles and comes out in phlegm/mucus when you cough it up, at least some of it does.

If you work around sand, rocks, or asbestos, that's a little different. Those particles are unique. They lodge in the little air sacs and passages in lungs more easily and can't really be expectorated from those spaces. Once those particles are lodged, the body has an inflammatory defense response and goes through a process that ends with the laying down of collagen over the sand or asbestos particles. That, in turn, ultimately results in fibrotic nodular lesions. Over time, bad news, bad breathing interference.

You don't have fibrotic lung disease or silicosis/asbestosis. You have a too loosely rolled joint or cigarette and are probably inhaling more deeply than you need to and taking in ash, bits of carbon or partially burned weed or tobacco, smoke particulate. It's not uncommon for people to cough up bits of blood, too, which can look red or dark browninsh, if their lungs are very irritated.

This is a very interesting topic. I actually came on here the other day just to look for a form on this particular topic. Since reading it i have spoken with a couple friends of mine and there seems to be a common factor with the coughing of phlegm, and that is the bong.I tend to use the bong about 90% of times and most friends that used the bong to this percentage seemed to be coughing the same thing. I would really like to hear some more info on this if it really is "as healthy as blowing your nose" or whatever. If Birdgirl would drop her opnion that would be greatly apreshiated as i find you to be quite wise and very informitave.

Me too...I cough up grayish/balckish spit from my lungs but I believe its from the everyday smoking, Ive stopped and taken breaks and the phlem goes away. I also have asthma and when i used my medicine to losen up my lungs I would cough up dark phlem. I stared using a vaprozer and that seemed to help, before it was joints, pipes and bongs.

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Originally Posted by Rastaman292

This is a very interesting topic. I actually came on here the other day just to look for a form on this particular topic. Since reading it i have spoken with a couple friends of mine and there seems to be a common factor with the coughing of phlegm, and that is the bong.I tend to use the bong about 90% of times and most friends that used the bong to this percentage seemed to be coughing the same thing. I would really like to hear some more info on this if it really is "as healthy as blowing your nose" or whatever. If Birdgirl would drop her opnion that would be greatly apreshiated as i find you to be quite wise and very informitave.

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Hey, Rastaman, and thanks for the kind words. All I have is an opinion. I have nothing scientific to base it on, though. I don't know of anyplace that has tested the differences in amounts of inhaled particulate/dirty crap/ash, etc. according to smoking method used.

My opinions tends to tell me that whatever's making you cough the hardest and have to expel the most crap from your lungs is the least healthy and most irritating. Whatever method is making you bring up the most gray or dirty phlegm is what's sending the most crap down there. If that's bong intake, then that, to me, would be the dirtiest smoking method. If it's a loosely rolled joint for someone else, then, for him, it'd be loose joints. I expect it all depends on how someone inhales and what filtering mechanism is employed, if any. When my sister was smoking year before last for her chemo symptoms, we hooked her up with some little filters for the joints. That helped keep a lot of crud out of her lungs. We had to. She literally didn't have the strength to cough and needed easier-to-breathe smoke.

If and when the day returns that I use cannabis again, I'm going to vape. I have enough trouble breathing in regular air thanks to asthma. Best of luck to you, Rastaman!

jessem,

i smoked cigarettes for years before smoking pot. i had dark/grey phlegm coming out in my morning shower. after i started smoking joints (mmc for IBS), my lungs felt better, but the stuff was still dark/grey.

then i quit smoking cigarettes. my phlegm turned from grey to green (i'm high 24/7) and my lungs started feeling even better.

anyhoo, my 2 cents is that if your phlegm is dark/grey, its NOT the pot.

i hope this helps...

b

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Originally Posted by memetics

jessem,

i smoked cigarettes for years before smoking pot. i had dark/grey phlegm coming out in my morning shower. after i started smoking joints (mmc for IBS), my lungs felt better, but the stuff was still dark/grey.

then i quit smoking cigarettes. my phlegm turned from grey to green (i'm high 24/7) and my lungs started feeling even better.

anyhoo, my 2 cents is that if your phlegm is dark/grey, its NOT the pot.

i hope this helps...

b

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Well i only smoke weed and i get dark/grey phlegm so if its not the pot what is it? Its definitely the pot. Green phlegm is boogers. No way your left with anything green if your smoking your weed right.

Youll b fine

we cough up black shit now and again

better out

than in

rinse your mouth, spit, rinse, hak it up, spit!

or just cut back on the hooka

get a one hitter

prolly the black stuff is from nasty eveil cigs?

DONT SMOKE CIGS THEY WILL KILL YA (( + + + +

i was gonna start a new thread on this, but since this is still alive, why not bring it back hm?!?

Hmm well i was gonna ask a question on the subject, but i guess ill leave my opinion...anyways, i smoke at least once a day, and have done so for the past year or two, and ive noticed that i start coughing up black/brown/grey/whatever stuff with my phlegm after i decreased my smoking habits from lets say 3-4 times a day, down to once at night. Im thinking its just built up tar that my lungs are flushing out, and not ash like others were saying(considering i smoke out of a bong, or bubbler 95% of the time). I remember reading an article (most likely posted by granny stormcrow lol) about how weed makes your lungs naturally produce phlegm, which flushes out your lungs, as opposed to cigarettes smoke, which gunks up the airways or somethin like that...

anyways, that makes sense, right?

man i thought i was the only one its so wierd its just like he said its specs of gray and black and i dont smoke cigs at all...it happens even more when i smoke blunts though and alot of it is probably from my work i do bodywork on cars which means alooot of dust and fumes n yuckness i will get home n blow my nose n it will be bright greenish yellow from the bodyplastic i should really start wearing a mask