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(Edited) Ya Gotta Cough ta Get Off
by Jeffry McMillan, RRT-NPS, RPFT
There are myths that say holding your breath for a few seconds when toking gets you more high from your weed. Another says the oxygen content in your blood drops. My favorite; you gotta cough to get off.
These are false myths.
Holding your breath or coughing can lower your heart rate and blood pressure causing you to become lightheaded.
When you inhale any aerosol like smoke and you hold your breath, you get more time for it to deposit in your lungs, true dat. This is not noticeable, and remember, the aerosol created by smoke is mostly bad stuff you don’t want in your lungs.
The invisible vapor created by smoking is asorbed based on its pressure.
The vapor in smoke is also full of all kine nasty stuff, including carbon monoxide which can occupy the place in blood where oxygen needs to go. Because it’s attraction is over 500 times stronger than oxygen’s, carbon monoxide always gets a ride before oxygen. This does effect the amount of oxygen in your blood.
The smoke looking aerosol you see when you vape is not made from small particles like actual smoke. It’s caused by invisible vapors condensing in the cooler air, the same way clouds come from invisible water vapor condensing.
When you take a normal breath approximately 1/3 of that breath doesn’t participate in any gas exchange, so the last 1/3 of the breath inhaled is just exhaled.
All of this means that taking a small toke followed by a large slow breath to push that toke deep into your lungs, is the way to go. I would not hold my breath.
The effect you get depends on the dosage. After a certain dosage, you can take larger doses and get less effect from those doses.
I recommend small toke, deep breath, no breath hold, and go slowly. This will allow you time to notice when you reach the peak effect and use less pakalolo.
For more information try reading:
Vapor Pressure, Vaping, and Correctionsto Misconceptions Related to Medical Cannabis’ Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients’ Physical Properties and Compositions
Aharon M. Eyal,1 Dana Berneman Zeitouni,1 Dor Tal,1 Daniel Schlesinger,1 Elyad M. Davidson,2 and Noa Raz1,*
by Jeffry McMillan, RRT-NPS, RPFT
There are myths that say holding your breath for a few seconds when toking gets you more high from your weed. Another says the oxygen content in your blood drops. My favorite; you gotta cough to get off.
These are false myths.
Holding your breath or coughing can lower your heart rate and blood pressure causing you to become lightheaded.
When you inhale any aerosol like smoke and you hold your breath, you get more time for it to deposit in your lungs, true dat. This is not noticeable, and remember, the aerosol created by smoke is mostly bad stuff you don’t want in your lungs.
The invisible vapor created by smoking is asorbed based on its pressure.
The vapor in smoke is also full of all kine nasty stuff, including carbon monoxide which can occupy the place in blood where oxygen needs to go. Because it’s attraction is over 500 times stronger than oxygen’s, carbon monoxide always gets a ride before oxygen. This does effect the amount of oxygen in your blood.
The smoke looking aerosol you see when you vape is not made from small particles like actual smoke. It’s caused by invisible vapors condensing in the cooler air, the same way clouds come from invisible water vapor condensing.
When you take a normal breath approximately 1/3 of that breath doesn’t participate in any gas exchange, so the last 1/3 of the breath inhaled is just exhaled.
All of this means that taking a small toke followed by a large slow breath to push that toke deep into your lungs, is the way to go. I would not hold my breath.
The effect you get depends on the dosage. After a certain dosage, you can take larger doses and get less effect from those doses.
I recommend small toke, deep breath, no breath hold, and go slowly. This will allow you time to notice when you reach the peak effect and use less pakalolo.
For more information try reading:
Vapor Pressure, Vaping, and Correctionsto Misconceptions Related to Medical Cannabis’ Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients’ Physical Properties and Compositions
Aharon M. Eyal,1 Dana Berneman Zeitouni,1 Dor Tal,1 Daniel Schlesinger,1 Elyad M. Davidson,2 and Noa Raz1,*
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