Holding a Hit - Make You Higher?

[WeedyBoyWonder]

Good. Make it quick.

Some how I don't think your post contained quite the level of sarcasm mine did.

[LIP]

Some how I don't think your post contained quite the level of sarcasm mine did.

No, not one bit.

[SantaClawz]

This has been debated so many times its rediculous. If you think you get higher from holding in hits, you will feel higher, thats how powerful our minds are. Anyway, there isnt any way to gauge "how high" you actually feel, so its pointless.

[brainface]

Do even the least bit of reading about lung physiology and function, and you'll see that the gas exchange and/or absorption of anything you breathe in occurs instantly. It literally occurs with the initial expansion of those little alveoli, the tiny air sacs where the chemical exchange occurs. Holding a hit doesn't do anything to make you higher, just like holding a breath doesn't do anything to make you absorb more oxygen from the air you breathe.

Are you sure about that last sentence. Because if I hold my breath as opposed to taking a deep breath and exhaling right away I can wait much longer till I need to inhale again.

Also couldn't there be multiple chemical exchanges in one alveoli as you are holding your breath? or in this case holding in weed smoke?

[RUTBpiping]

This has been debated so many times its rediculous. If you think you get higher from holding in hits, you will feel higher, thats how powerful our minds are. Anyway, there isnt any way to gauge "how high" you actually feel, so its pointless.

Quite right.

Holding in hits is something that you get told to do when you first start out in my experience its just something i do subconsciously now when having a sesh.

[angry nomad]

I was listening to a recent NORML podcast and they were saying that your lungs absorbe all the THC in smoke instantly and that holding a hit does nothing but hurt your lungs. Is this true? I tried only holding a hit for a second then exhale the last few times I've smoked and it seemed to give me a cleaner buzz, not any less or more of a buzz. I didn't cough, or choke while smoking either.

I really don't think holding it in does anything, but I tell new smokers to hold it in for a second just to make sure they inhaled it into their lungs and not just their mouth.

I have noticed that if I I take a big hit, and feel a hard cough coming on, I can stop it by holding my breath a little bit, and very slowly exhaling.

[nolanfortwenty]

iv also heard coughing makes you higher..fact or fiction..iv bin told this is true

[kgb420]

ok, i remembered where i read it. here it goes...

"A scientific study of subjects smoking marijuana determined what factors affected blood levels of THC. It was discovered that longer breath holding time was more important than the number of puffs taken of the "puff volume". That's right. Roll your eyes at your smoking pals when they seem on the verge of exploding from holding an inhale - science is on their side."

quoted from an article by William Dolphin & Chris X, PhD, published in Ed Rosenthal's Big Book of Buds 2

[Fencewalker]

A study done by a group of doctors in Canada at Dalhousie University, concluded that more than 90% of the THC is absorbed into the lungs within the first seconds of inhalation. Another study confirms this, but they put their number at 95% absorption. The 5-15% of THC that isn't absorbed is due to THC loss in trace smoke, or smoke that never enters the lungs.

[silverstoner]

The problem with this website is that people claim to "know" about things. Are you a doctor specialized in lungs? if no and even if you are what the heck do you know? "Gives your longs longer contact with the bad stuff, not the good?" seriously how can you say this with a straight face

birdgirl knows what shes talking about, I learned this in grade 11 biology...