Anybody know some good lung-clearing methods?

[D1me]

I'm really starting to worry about my lungs right now. Yes, I know weed is not a common (if at all) cause of lung cancer, but it seems the tar from smoke is still catching up with me. In the past while my lungs have been feeling, for lack of a better word, "thin". I Feel like when I take deep breaths I'm not getting as much oxygen, like very shallow breaths (I just smoked a joint, and it's worse now).
So anybody know some good methods for clearing your lungs out of all that tar? I guess there's going for runs, but anything else would be appreciated. I've also been seeing these bottles in health food stores with pills that claim to speed up your lungs clearing themselves and healing, would anybody know if they actually work?

just go run for 30 min and smoke a bowl after. your lungs will feel so much healthier and you'll feel better after smoking.

[LuckyNiner]

just go run for 30 min and smoke a bowl after. your lungs will feel so much healthier and you'll feel better after smoking.

Yes! This is exactly what I do! It feels great, especially when you're struggling through that last mile and you know you have a fat bowl or 3 to look forward to when you're done. Talk about motivation..

Anyway, yeah. I run, every day, a few miles. I've only started recently (past few months, when I was smoking every day) but it feels great and gets easier every time, and my lungs feel fantastic. Of course, the running has gotten even easier this past week, because I haven't been smoking, but when I was, I felt like the exercise counteracted some of the harmful effects of inhaling the burning plant matter, which, like Birdgirl said, is harmful no matter what.

Filtering the smoke through cool water and ice will help (get a bong!), too.

Also, Birdgirl, I want to thank you for your wonderful and in-depth advice. I can't tell you how fantastic it is to have a (former?) smoker on here who also happens to be in the medical profession. Good luck with med school, and thank you again for what you're doing, both on here and in the world.

:rasta:

[birdgirl73]

LuckyNiner, thank you. For saying such nice things. For reminding me that what I'm studying is going to be used for the benefit of people when (and if) I finish med school. When you're smack in the middle of the classroom part of it, you totally lose touch with that fact. And thank you for teaching me. At the very top of those suggestions I posted above, I should have listed your tip, which is cardio-vascular exercise. That does more benefit toward keeping the lungs clear than anything.

Thank you for your kindness--and for showing me yet again how very, very much I can learn from others!

[birdgirl73]

Hey, Mr. Devious and others who read this post. I need to correct one of my recommendations from up above based on something I just learned about today.

In years past, it used to be believed that beta carotene helped prevent lung cancer and/or promote and protect lung health, particularly in cigarette smokers, and beta carotene was a standardly recommended supplement. But I just learned that the latest research has very much proved just the opposite, and I wasn't aware of these new findings till today. I'll post a link below.

These findings mean it's unwise for cigarette smokers--and indeed, possibly weed smokers, too--to take beta carotene supplements for lung health and/or cancer prevention, as everyone, including me, used to believe. In tobacco smokers, beta carotene has been strongly associated with an increased risk for lung cancer, even long after it's stopped.

So just to be safe, Mr. Devious, don't take beta carotene to help clear your lungs. My hunch is that you're probably not a cigarette smoker, but even if I were a weed smoker only, I think I'd still stay away from beta carotene since weed's another type of smoked vegetable matter, albeit a much safer and less heavily smoked one. We don't truly yet know enough about the link between smoked weed and lung cancer to be able to say for sure.

http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials...inal-CARET1204 (and you can read other info by Googling "beta carotene and lung cancer")

[BigHyphyD]

Ramen Noodles!!!

[ThePurpleMan]

I know exactly what your talking about... after smoking alot of bud at parties i get this feeling almost as if my lungs are crusty... heres what i do i take a shower and breath really deep breaths next to the hot steam its gonna make u cough.. I do that until I stop coughing and it isnt effective.. i have coughed up some resin looking shit before too its kinda scary but w.e... after that i get out wash my mouth out with this crest mouth wash brush my teeth and go for a 45min jog... I get home feeling like a million bucks.. but yea everyone else is right too.. a vaporizer is a great investment... i have one but some times i perfer smoking out of a bong or rolling blunts

[Abattoir Dream]

everyone coughs up bits of tar, and we call it lung butter where i live lol its some sick ass shit

[Abattoir Dream]

my lungs just ache, alot...

[LIP]

Once when i was smoking a joint i started coughing, really really bad, thought i was gunna puke, so went over to me bin and spat out a load of phlem. I mean, loads and loads of it. Just thought i'd share.

[Bong30]

What you need is water......


Make sure you drink plenty of water...thin the mucus

Lay off the milk and cheese for a while to thin it more.....

Then take long, hot, showers, and cough up some lung cookies.


Do you have Asthma? Have you been checked?

water, and a little albuterol you will be fine.