I don't know how well known this is, but many pot smokers seem to complain about the coughing aspect of it, even to the point of saying they like everything about weed except the coughing. Cig smokers often say they like that cigs don't make them cough. While I understand that this form of coughing can be annoying and unpleasant, it happens to be very good for the lungs, and we should be proud to cough b/c that means bad stuff is not staying in our lungs. It reminds me of ayahuasca and how it can make its users vomit, but the shamans who apply it insist that the vomiting is very healthy and cathartic. While inhaling smoke is not the most ideal thing for the lungs to do, there is a distinct difference between potsmoke and cig smoke. The smoke from cigs constricts the bronchia, preventing the lungs from purging the tar and noxious stuff from the cigs. Pot smoke on the other hand dilates those same bronchia and allows the user to expel unwanted matter (via coughing). this is only one site supporting this, there are many others. It also says that regular cig smokers will help their lungs by puffing on weed every now and again: http://www.skepticfiles.org/socialis/cannabis.htm
just wanted to add something from my own experience. I find that the first couple of tokes from a bong load are the ones that make me cough, and shit comes out that I have to spit out, etc. but as I keep smoking the smoke gets smoother and I always figured that it was just the painkilling properties of the herb that numbed my coughing reflex. but after paying more attention to it, the first few coughs clear out my bronchia and the smoke gets smoother because the first coupla tokes physically removed bronchial obstructions. i guess what comes out from the first coupla tokes is dust, pollen and other junk that makes its way into my lungs, and probably smoke particulates, too from mj smoke. I think mj smoke does leave behind some unwanted stuff, but thc and cannabinoids themselves clear it out. Not all of it though, and I find aerobic exercise picks up the rest of the pieces, but we're all supposed to be doing that anyway
good post. i am definitely a cougher. going on 6 years of toking I still cough my ass off almost every time. i smoke cigs as well and they never make me cough. people have always called me a newb and a pussy for coughing so much but i say fuck you i'm stoned as shit!
Just make sure you breathe out completely before you start coughing. That's mostly why people cough so much from smoking weed. they dont know how to hit it.
What does it mean if I don't cough after using my vaporizer? Am I still gaining the benefit? Actually, scratch that. I have coughed my lungs out through my mouth after using my vaporizer and I remember thinking to myself, "I thought this was supposed to be smokeless... why am I dying over here?". This pretty much proves your point. Great thread.
I love coughing my ass off after taking a big rip. It gets the bad shit out, makes me higher, and I think its fun and really funny.
It's normal, since vapes don't combust your weed, they just bake it like an oven and you inhale light pleasant thc vapor, not smoke.
love it and hate it. love it when i'm that much higher after coughing a lung out, but hate it when it hurts to you know.
you are so correct bro. i always tell people something on the lines of that. exhale completely. happy tokingarty:
yeah I actually forgot to tell my wife make sure to not cough the smoke out her first time. she did cough it out and it hurt and I felt bad. often a novice will be timid about the smoke and not pull it down into the lungs deep enough so it stays closer to the throat and triggers coughing and they cough the smoke out. or they think it's better to hold it in than to blow it out quickly to cough
