Vaping and chest tightness..

Hi there. Long time combuster recently discovered the joys of vaping here. I love it. Got myself a mighty vapor and think it's brilliant. I have to say though, I'm getting a tight chest feeling after every use which I never got with smoking. I'm not doubting that vaping is certainly a lot healthier but the tight chested feeling is rather uncomfortable. Any reason for this and do you get used to it?

Try lowering your temps or the amount of herb you are using?

I agree lower temps. Don't pull so hard don't make the vapor as dense.

Vaping should NOT give you a tight chest. It's a lot lighter smoke. When you vape higher your smoke is then denser and resembles smoking.

You could be over doing it with the vaporizering, maybe a bit too enthusiastic? Could you be doing it too much? Another idea would be some water filteation using a water tool and a GonG attachment.

If your heat was too high you could have burnt the inside lung area. Another person new to vaporizing had a similar issue a few months back.

You shouldn't be having a problem like that. Vaporizing should be easier on your lungs than smoking.

Lay off the big hits, especially at higher temps. Consider getting yourself something like the e-nano. You can sip your vapor and that should be easier on the lungs. You can also use it with glass, and get some water cooling. You'll have to be careful using the gong adapter though- easy to get into those big hits again.

Putting my vape through a water piece helps a lot for me. I rarely get any discomfort now, even with big hits.

Try using a hemp fiber(or cotton) to filter out the particulates or whatever it is that irritates the lungs when vaporizing

as others have suggested try water that should heap alot. Maybe start at low temps and shorter hits eventually I would say you will grow a custom it.
Just like when we use to combust. Start of with baby lungs and after a while you are ripping monsters.

Ive been vaping for well over ten years. Vaping has always made my "asthma" flare up, making me wheezey. Way worse than combusting...
I've tried water filtration, and for me it doesn't help
What does help is using a cotton or hemp fiber filter

Come to the conclusion vaping definitely does not agree with me. Tried taking the temperature on my mighty all the way down but it's not helping. Right now I have a dull ache in my chest, it feels tight and I feel like I can't get a full breath. I last vaped two days ago.

Just can't get my head around why I never got this with all the crap in tobacco and all the harmful stuff combustion produces yet vaping is causing me to feel like this.

I'm just wondering, why is it that vaping causes me (and a lot of other people) to cough uncontrollably and that when you take a big hit you can physically feel your lungs are full of something yet you don't get this with combustion despite all that thick horrible smoke?

Anyway, I ain't going back to smoking so I guess I'm screwed.

THC is a natural expectorant, that's why you cough when taking value hits

where do you get hemp fibers???

Toodlers I had a nasty surprise also, when I first vaped with my Airizer Air on the hottest red setting, and foolishly took multiple huge draws, reveling in that delicious aroma, but not realizing the serious lung and throat damage I was inflicting until hours later. For a couple of days after that misadventure, I had serious difficulty just breathing normally, so much so that I swore to myself that I'd never vape again.

One day, the packaging of ALL new vaporizers will carry explicit and dire warnings about the possible repercussions of FAILURE to use a water filtration system while vaping, and if I were allowed dictatorial powers for just 24-hours some day, my first edict would be to criminalize vaping without the inclusion of a water tool, with all defaulters sent off to Siberian labor camps for re-education.

Anyway, following the advice of a few of the good folks on this forum, I resumed vaping soon enough, but now using a home-made stainless steel bubbler stuffed with ice cubes, and the difference was literally night and day, I chit you not. I can take monster hits on the red maximum temperature setting with my Airizer Air, and by the time that vapor meanders its way up through the freezing water and ice mixture, it is rendered as mild and soothing as anything I have ever had the pleasure of inhaling.

So I say verily unto thee, Toodlers, that you venture forth and acquireth yee a bubbler with decent volume, not some portable one, and then, with that unassuming but essential savior in hand, proceed to vape in complete safety, while indulging in as monstrous hits as your tokin' heart desires.

Okay, I know nothing about bubblers.. can you recommend one that will work well with the Mighty? I'm in the UK.

How come the mighty is not having the same affect on other people's lungs though, like friends of mine that are using it on higher temps?

Toodles said:

Okay, I know nothing about bubblers.. can you recommend one that will work well with the Mighty? I'm in the UK.

How come the mighty is not having the same affect on other people's lungs though, like friends of mine that are using it on higher temps?

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What about the quality of your cannabis? Could your unit be running too hot? Most people find vaporizing cannabis much easier on their body than smoking it. That was my case and many others here on the forum. Maybe you have an underlying health problem? Have you tried other vaporizers?

Maybe cannabis isn't for you.

Toodles said:

Okay, I know nothing about bubblers.. can you recommend one that will work well with the Mighty? I'm in the UK.

How come the mighty is not having the same affect on other people's lungs though, like friends of mine that are using it on higher temps?

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To answer your second question, I can only speculate that a small number of first-time vaporizer users were simply born with lungs that react very badly to dry, hot THC vapor, and that for such people, the choices then narrow down to either rigging up a bubbler, going back to combusting or edibles, or, horror of horrors, as Carole King mentioned above, to flat out quit getting high, which wouldn't be a viable option for me because of how dearly I cling to the religious conviction that reality and sobriety are but crutches for those who lack the constitution to face drugs.

To rig up the Mighty with a bubbler, I would suggest that you check out the Mighty users thread here, or perhaps the thread on glass bubblers, since I am certain that someone there has already devised a means of running the vapor from the Mighty through water to accomplish that vital cooling and humidifying stage.

i was vaping 3 grams a day through my da buddha. i couldn't figure out why my lungs and throat hurt (yeah i'm kinda stupid). so i came here and finally figured out that a bong/bubbler would help a lot. it is annoying that the makers of vapes don't typically mention this. at least they didn't a few years ago.

then i found myself having to draw through the bong and i didn't like that so i stopped vaping for awhile. then i got an extreme q for the bag. i've used nothing but the bag for over a year now and i love it. no hurt lungs, no bong to fuck with (i shouldn't have gotten a 20 incher ) . i went from 3 grams a day to .75. it's the best purchase i've made in many years.

Cannabis vapor just affects some people differently. The majority of people will not be bothered much. But if you have asthma vaping can really aggrivate it and make you wheeze. Even if u don't have asthma as some of my friends have experienced with the volcano and higher settings
The first thing I would do is experiment with water and fiber filtration and see what works for YOU. Vaporizing isnt the end all solution for everyone.

I'm the same way with vaping flower. I just dab now.