What are your lungs like?

Nosferatu

Well-Known Member
Your right man, I want to clarify, I had these symptoms from overdoing it. Vaping is healthier than smoking hit for hit, and will cause sideffects much slower than smoking will. This is scientifially proven. I just wanted to post to let people know, vaping isn't completely harmless, it's easy to vape more than your body can handle without feeling it at the time. Just a warning to all those new enthusiastic vaporists! Toke easy, or you'll end up like me! :ko:
 

Hydra-Glide

http://vintagetwin.com
If available in your area, I suggest investing $50. for an electronic hash oil vaproizer pen and a $60. 84+% THC cartridge. Imo, Blunte-E has the liquid "blend" wired by engineering. A toke from the pen will almost make you cough, but you can "will yourself" through it, and not cough. I never get a dry throat from their proprietary 84+% blend of glycerine/ SC Labs 94% pure THC. The benefit from the Blunt-E group is that they're working together with SC Labs "tested meds" dispensaries. The power of proprietary efforts is there's only one source to go to for supply and problems. They have an honest no-quibble exchange at all SC LAb supplied dispensaries for bad cartridges.
I keep a pen in my warm shirt pocket. Looks like a pen. When I'm out in the field working with spinning power tools that can rip my arm off in an instant, I want to be totally aware and saturated with THC at all times. I toke on the pen at will. The only dry throat I get is when I vape my own proprietary blend of the fore mentioned brown, hot peppery, hash oil and Blunt-E's 19% honeycomb Kush refill solution. And then I get a burn, but it tastes like real hash so I like it. And the thinner solution feeds the pen's wick, which produces a bigger cloud of vapor smoke an often a choke. One fact I've found is the vapor mist leaves your sinus cavities much faster than a bong smoke choke.
 
Hydra-Glide,

lauz

Apprentice vaporist
I'm probably vaping around 0.5 - 1g a day

My lungs haven't given me any problems since switching from combustion. For the first month since I quit smoking I would cough up phlegm, my lungs just feel much better since switching.
 
lauz,

VaporNation

Vaporizer Superstore
Retailer
I still haven't got my first vape yet, but one of the main reasons I'm looking at vaping is the possible health benefits.

Although I havent been a heavy smoker for sometime, on the rare occasions that I do have a combustion session, there is a noticeable effect on my lungs for weeks afterwards, when I go for a run.

I want to know exactly how far vaporizing can go to minimize this. So I was wondering if people could post the following:

A) How much do you vape/smoke?

B) What condition do you feel your lungs are in?

Perhaps its not the most scientific of studies, but I think it will be interesting nonetheless.

First, you'll notice significant health benefits as only THC is activated, nothing gets burned or combusted so you don't get any smoke byproducts.

A) Vape everyday
B) Lungs are in great condition :)
 
VaporNation,

PeteyS

Well-Known Member
Ive been a on-off cannabis smoker, and vaporist for 25 years.
I also run about 25 miles a week. I def notice a performance increase in my lung capacity whenever I take a break from cannabis.
It feels as if all that resin you find on your bongs and vapes also coats your lungs. Not a good thing.

If you want to see the difference for yourself, go a T-break from vaping, and use cannabis tinctures instead. So in other words, put the the THC through your liver instead of your lungs for a month or two. You might find that you like it better.
 

1973PortlandToker

Well-Known Member
Ive been a on-off cannabis smoker, and vaporist for 25 years.
I also run about 25 miles a week. I def notice a performance increase in my lung capacity whenever I take a break from cannabis.
It feels as if all that resin you find on your bongs and vapes also coats your lungs. Not a good thing.

If you want to see the difference for yourself, go a T-break from vaping, and use cannabis tinctures instead. So in other words, put the the THC through your liver instead of your lungs for a month or two. You might find that you like it better.

This subject isn't very popular on this site. I notice the last post before yours was from 2013. Nobody said anything when the CDC and others raised the alarms about vaping a few years ago.

But apparently the lung damage a few years ago was caused by vaping cartridges that included Vitamin E acetate, which caused the lung damage.

 
1973PortlandToker,

GoldenBud

Well-Known Member
But apparently the lung damage a few years ago was caused by vaping cartridges that included Vitamin E acetate, which caused the lung damage.
the damage is done because the lungs are kept in room temperature, and the vapor is like at very high temp, so not only heat is exchanged between the hot and cold surface, but also material, and the thc/terps vapor is sticky and can make you feel you have less air when you're doing aerobic activities....but it's only like a fraction of a damage comparing to smoking (!)

most users in FC don't vape from carts so there's no Vitamin E risk i think, but it's important to warn people so they stay away from these
 
GoldenBud,

1973PortlandToker

Well-Known Member
the thc/terps vapor is sticky and can make you feel you have less air when you're doing aerobic activities

Well, that really sucks. I'm going to revive my interest in tinctures.

If vaping does reduce lung capacity, then I'd say vaping is not a good idea at all, even if it's much cleaner than smoking cigarettes.
 
1973PortlandToker,

Madri-Gal

Child Of The Revolution
One of my primary reasons for vaping is for the anti-inflammatory effects of cannabis. My lungs are kept at body temperature, not room temperature. Water keeps me hydrated, and as I vape a lot, I just keep water at my vape station and remember to drink it as part of self care. My lungs are amazing self-cleaning organs that clean themselves by means of cilia, mucus, coughing, exhalation. My lungs aren't slick glass, but more like the lining of my cheek, which I notice does Not get rosin, resin, or oil, wax or any form of cannabis stuck to it as a film or coating. Mucus membranes are amazing, and amazingly simular. My mouth is pretty amazing as a temperature sensor also, and vapor that passes the lips isn't the same temperature as heated. It would burn the lips, tongue, throat, before getting to the lungs. One reason for coughing is too warm a temperature so the heat doesn't burn. Too cold a temperature, too little or too much humidity can cause coughing, not just physical or chemical irritants. Coughing happens for many reasons. Turning down the temperature of my vapes works well if I think heat is causing the cough. You don't get clouds with low temperature vaping, but you cough less, so I try that if I feel coughing is an issue. If my throat is irritated after vaping, I know the solution is drinking more water. Dry throats, while uncomfortable, aren't dangerous, and I'm glad to know there is a simple solution.

I vape a crap ton of cannabis. I garden, and I hate it to go to waste. Also, for my lungs. I had severe asthma. My lungs have shown on tests to now be functioning normally, and my asthma is under control. If I try a T break, my asthma becomes worse. For me personally, there hasn't been a downside to vaping. It's improved my health, and it's an interesting hobby. I spend far less on vapes, supplies and seeds than I did on asthma meds, doctors, hospitals, etc.

I know everyone hasn't had the same experience, and bodies are variable. It makes me sad to hear when people struggle with vaping, as my experience as been mainly positive save for the time I ate too high a dose of an edible. It was delicious, but unfortunate.
 

GoldenBud

Well-Known Member
a recommendation for people who suffer from mucus: try not consuming coffee drinks at all. for me it works. I know I'm addicted to caffeine, so I brought capsules before. I will have headaches without caffeine. still energetic but not having mucus anymore (!)
 
GoldenBud,
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