Asthmatic Smokers?

K so, i searched a little, and i read a few threads here on stuff about smoking marijuana and having asthma.

I myself have had asthma since i was born, and i have been smoking since about the begining of this summer. I have asthma pretty bad. I skateboard, and i exercize a lot, which has helped my lungs and made my asthma much less more dramatic, and my doctor says my lungs are a lot healthyer than the average asthmatic person who doesnt get out too much.


Now, i read some people say that smoking helps them, but whenever i smoke, heres how it goes.

Joints: I can hit as hard as i want, and actually TRY to choke myself out, and it wont happen. This seems to be the best for me, sense i can hit big, and hold them without choking up, or coughing even once.

Blunts: Depending on how big the opening is, i can usually hit pretty big and not have a problem coughing, as long as i hit slow and smooth. However, every once in a while ill choke up, but it only ends up at the end with a little weezing when i get home, and i can usually get rid of it with the inhaler (puffer).

Bongs: I have only smoked out of two different bongs in my life. One is this really high quality, belly button high, $400 PHX bong, that i have smoked out of (my friend has it) like 8 times. I love it, it always gets me freaking BAKED, but i have to hit softly, and its pretty damn easy for me to choke up (for a good minute somtimes even) if im not extremly carefull and thinking when i hit. Ill usually come home and ill be weezing like crazy for the rest of that night, even after i do the nebulizer. It will be incredibly hard for me to sleep. The next day ill wake up and it wont be as bad, and ill have mild weezing till like mabey 4 PM. If it helps you follow what im saying, i only smoke at night (from 8 - 10)

The other bong was only once, and it was this not very big, home made bong out of a plastic cylender tube from a science room, and a socket from a wrench as the bowl. It didnt hit good at all, and i didnt choke at all.

and last but not least....
Pipe: Ive had experience with different pipes, many different times. I usually choke up pretty bad when i smoke from a pipe, unless (just like with the bong) im incredibly careful when i hit. Ill usually come home with the same as what i explained that i had with the first bong, just not as bad.





So, i have noticed by experimenting, that joints seem to be the best for me (asthma wise), and bongs seem to be the worst. But heres the thing. Ive read from the other threads that bongs are the best, since the water filters out a bunch of stuff thats very bad and causes damage to your lungs. Could any of you clarify some of this for me?

Also, i only smoke about once a week (but i smoked 5 times this week :rasta: ), so im not really a constant (daily) smoker.


So i got a few questions.

>How bad is smoking for your asthma? Ive read on this site that its good for it, but for me, my experiences have been quite the opposite. Does it cause any long term damage?

>Whats the most i would be able to smoke without it really being bad for my lungs? Is once a week (somtimes twice, mabey three) too much? or is that safe.

>How bad are bongs? Is it just the way i hit? What exactly does the water filter out?

>Ive also read stuff about filters on pipes. What exactly does this mean?








Anyways, sorry for the long read, i tryed to space it out, and paragraph it as much as i can to make it easy to read. Thanks in advance to anyone whos got answers for any of the questions. I look forward to posting here :smokin:

I posted this for the other guy that was asking about asthma but here it goes:

I have had asthma for 18 years now (my whole life) and I have a very very very bad case of asthma and have to use my puffer constantly and am still seeing asthma specialists

Marijuana has never made me short of breath at all, It makes it better.

I've never had to use my puffer once or had wheezing or any asthma effects during toking time, infact one time I was all out of my medication so what I did was smoke weed, couple minutes later I was good to go. The weed actually takes AWAY my asthma.

Do you smoke only joints? Specify a little

I posted this for the other guy that was asking about asthma but here it goes:

I have had asthma for 18 years now (my whole life) and I have a very very very bad case of asthma and have to use my puffer constantly and am still seeing asthma specialists

Marijuana has never made me short of breath at all, It makes it better.

I've never had to use my puffer once or had wheezing or any asthma effects during toking time, infact one time I was all out of my medication so what I did was smoke weed, couple minutes later I was good to go. The weed actually takes AWAY my asthma.

That was the exact same thing you said earlyer lol

haha yah bro, i have nooo idea how that actually happened

but yah I smoke out of everything, bong, pipe, joint whatever same effect.

Vape! Way better on your lungs!- Granny:hippy:

Nobody knows the answers to my questions about filters and stuff?

Water-bongs generally filter out harmful carcinogens that damage your lungs. What you could do to make bongs more bearable is put ice with the water.



I, too, suffer from severe asthma but I haven't had an attack in years, and I smoke pretty much every day. However, I make sure I'm healthy in almost every way to ensure that I won't get it. Smoking Cannabis is actually counter-productive for what cannabis is good for. Vaporizing it, however, is a very good alternative and cooking with it properly is an even better alternative. Cannabinoids in Cannabis have been known to be neuro-productive, anti-inflammatory, muscle relaxors, appetite-causing, headache relievers, among other uses. Know that smoking ANYTHING is not good for asthma, at all, due to many carcinogens and carbon monoxide being inhaled into the lungs.

I've never understood people saying that smoking makes their asthma better-- it always made mine much worse. However, once I got my vap it got a lot easier. And I've actually read that that line about bongs being better for you isn't true, that it just cools the smoke but doesn't really filter out that much of the stuff before it hits your lungs. Don't know how true it is, but I do remember reading it.

All in all, I don't know about pipes vs. jays vs. bongs, but if your asthma is bad enough that you own a nebulizer, you should spend $100 to buy a vaporizer and stop fucking up your lungs with smoke.

well i think the water actually does filter out stuff. After a few bowls, look at how nasty the water is.

The water doesn't really filter anything. That's very popular folklore. What it does do is catch the larger particulate matter in the smoke. That's the drity gray stuff that turns the water nasty and which would otherwise end up in your lungs. A lot of nasty stuff still ends up in people's lungs, however. Inhaling any sort of combustible vegetable matter is not beneficial for people's lungs or hearts, despite what some people may tell you. THC and CBDs alone, the isolated active ingredients in cannabis, are themselves beneficial chemicals and possess anti-inflammatory and broncho-dilating effects, but the problem is that in inhaled cannabis smoke, people are getting a lot more than the active ingredients.

Granny Storm Crow is correct. If you're looking to ingest the beneficial ingredients in cannabis and protect yourself from the harmful ones, a vaporizer is the way to go.

Are there filters on pipes? I have no clue what filters or screens are. anyone?

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Originally Posted by birdgirl73

The water doesn't really filter anything. That's very popular folklore. What it does do is catch the larger particulate matter in the smoke. That's the drity gray stuff that turns the water nasty and which would otherwise end up in your lungs. A lot of nasty stuff still ends up in people's lungs, however. Inhaling any sort of combustible vegetable matter is not beneficial for people's lungs or hearts, despite what some people may tell you. THC and CBDs alone, the isolated active ingredients in cannabis, are themselves beneficial chemicals and possess anti-inflammatory and broncho-dilating effects, but the problem is that in inhaled cannabis smoke, people are getting a lot more than the active ingredients.

Granny Storm Crow is correct. If you're looking to ingest the beneficial ingredients in cannabis and protect yourself from the harmful ones, a vaporizer is the way to go.

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A moderator should really sticky a thread on topics like this.... lol

Smoking makes my asthma a lot worst than making it better.