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.
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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.
i do, for about 3-5 seconds, unless were playing mexican sweat
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.
I hold hits occasionally...but normally for only 3-5 secs.
But isn't that cutting circulation off to the brain? :confused: :confused: :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by dj screw
Doesn't matter how full your lungs can get if they're full of smoke. The brain needs air to make the smartness work.
What is that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Samwhore
see who can hold a hit longer?
you hold your hit in until whatever your passing gets back to youQuote:
Originally Posted by Towelie
We call that taxi...
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.
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.
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Originally Posted by LIP
I do...
nah, holding your hits in longer makes you look "cool"
Shit sounds hard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samwhore
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 confusingQuote:
Originally Posted by Towelie
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.
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.
Then you end up like a bunch of people with Tuberculosis, coughing your heads off and drooling...KICK ASS! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Samwhore
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*
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
'bout 5 seconds
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.
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!
so 3 seconds is the best time to hold it in? or go with your natural breathing patern?
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.
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:
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Originally Posted by Dope Chic
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.
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.;)
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.
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by orangeman
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.
if holding your breath longer than a normal breath is bad, then why arents swimmers all retards?
man im high
^ ... it's bad when ur smoking...
Just 3 seconds. Maybe a little more a little less.
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:
yes when i first stared people told me to hold it in for a good bit now i hold it for about 3 secondsQuote:
Originally Posted by Dro_Princess
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:
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
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 less oxygen to the brain the higher u get thats wat the hi is really not letting oxygen to the brainQuote:
Originally Posted by benagain
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Reffer
Dont hold hits, or your breath.
well i just learned something new. 3 secs max for me for now on
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.