: Or how to minimize throat-damage from smoking
I know there's a smoking when sick thread in the archive, however, I felt I had a valid HR angle to add to the subject.
If your anything like me (you have my sympathy) you get sick all the time but can't stop smoking for the love of tobacco or cannabis. I suffer constantly-recurring glandular fever and pick up the odd bug, just coming out of a nasty flu atm...
Everyone knows smoking hurts like hell when sick and makes your respiratory tract (throat, tonsils) very sore.
And it's true that (seems like bongs in particular) can turn a simple cold into a nasty bronchitis/pneumonia.
So rug up, take care, eat well, relax - try to breathe deeply and focus on getting better.
But lying in bed all day sucks and you want a smoke, right?
I found that if I inhale just a bit of my delicious cigarette, then suck in a lot of air thru my mouth, to push smoke ASAP away from throat/burning glands and deep into my lungs, there is not much pain.
I 'ghosty the hit' meaning I hold it 5+ seconds before exhaling and the smoke has mostly condensed in my lungs and the out-breath doesn't burn like it normally would.
You might find you don't need a whole cigarette when inhaling each breath so deeply, I have these cigarettes in 3 parts and smoke one over a whole day.
Ofcourse, many people mightn't want to hold their toxic, radioactive, carbon rich tobacco smoke in their lungs for that long - but I smoke Manitou organic, an additive free tobacco.
(it is postulated that the heavy metals bound up in the ferts of non-organic tobacco production increase the amount of radioactive heavymetals that the plant expresses in a big way)
It also helps to sip a warm, very sweetened herbal tea between breathes of smoke (and breathes of fresh air between each ghostied hit) - the viscous tea seems to coat the throat/tonsils and lessen consequent raspiness.
Inadvisable, but sensible if your going to smoke anyway, and I wish I had worked this out so many years ago.
So long being sick and making the problem worse.
My vapouriser wasn't much help (vapir 4.0) used to hurt like hell on my throat/tonsils - too much hot dry air, possibly the water-filters for vapes you can buy would help. Possibly a volcano would be smoother.
Oh, verily important also is to roll your own, light, almost see-through hemp paper is the best I've found for you delicate, throaty-ones out there. MOST important is not to use those furkin filters. Get a nice organic, no additive tobacco (easy to find if u look/ask any tobacconist/supermarket) and roll a lil' cardboard rizla out of any unbleached packaging you find - I used to use no filter, but a tapering end on my cigarettes for 8 years and always seemed a more mellow smoke than filtered ciggs.
"Several studies have demonstrated that the filter material (cellulose acetate fibres) can become detached.3-7 Pauly and colleagues have recently observed cigarette filter fibres in human lung specimens, indicating that the material is respirable.8 A study of filter fibres implanted in mice for six months demonstrated that fibres resist biodegradation.5 As a result of burning tobacco, the discharged fibres are also coated with tobacco tar, which contains carcinogens.5 Such inhaled filter fibres may pose a previously undefined health risk to the smoker beyond exposure to the chemical toxins found in tobacco smoke."
http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/10/1/84.1.full
They also cause resistance to inhalation, so you pull hard, while the smoke slowly trickles over your throat without enough FWOOMP of burning to properly vapourise the nicotine and rush it into your lungs for absorption. There's also great studies on the nicotine:tar ratios of filtered/unfiltered cigarettes. Filters Always absorb a higher proportion of nicotine than tar, because nicotine is a lot more volatile (ready to condense?) than tar.
Happy healthy times and here's to hoping for even more healthier ways to smoke
For the texture of smoke trickling in and out of you is divine, a heady atmospheric ambience you can breathe all night long. Sigh, I love shmokables.
I know there's a smoking when sick thread in the archive, however, I felt I had a valid HR angle to add to the subject.
If your anything like me (you have my sympathy) you get sick all the time but can't stop smoking for the love of tobacco or cannabis. I suffer constantly-recurring glandular fever and pick up the odd bug, just coming out of a nasty flu atm...
Everyone knows smoking hurts like hell when sick and makes your respiratory tract (throat, tonsils) very sore.
And it's true that (seems like bongs in particular) can turn a simple cold into a nasty bronchitis/pneumonia.
So rug up, take care, eat well, relax - try to breathe deeply and focus on getting better.
But lying in bed all day sucks and you want a smoke, right?
I found that if I inhale just a bit of my delicious cigarette, then suck in a lot of air thru my mouth, to push smoke ASAP away from throat/burning glands and deep into my lungs, there is not much pain.
I 'ghosty the hit' meaning I hold it 5+ seconds before exhaling and the smoke has mostly condensed in my lungs and the out-breath doesn't burn like it normally would.
You might find you don't need a whole cigarette when inhaling each breath so deeply, I have these cigarettes in 3 parts and smoke one over a whole day.
Ofcourse, many people mightn't want to hold their toxic, radioactive, carbon rich tobacco smoke in their lungs for that long - but I smoke Manitou organic, an additive free tobacco.
(it is postulated that the heavy metals bound up in the ferts of non-organic tobacco production increase the amount of radioactive heavymetals that the plant expresses in a big way)
It also helps to sip a warm, very sweetened herbal tea between breathes of smoke (and breathes of fresh air between each ghostied hit) - the viscous tea seems to coat the throat/tonsils and lessen consequent raspiness.
Inadvisable, but sensible if your going to smoke anyway, and I wish I had worked this out so many years ago.
So long being sick and making the problem worse.
My vapouriser wasn't much help (vapir 4.0) used to hurt like hell on my throat/tonsils - too much hot dry air, possibly the water-filters for vapes you can buy would help. Possibly a volcano would be smoother.
Oh, verily important also is to roll your own, light, almost see-through hemp paper is the best I've found for you delicate, throaty-ones out there. MOST important is not to use those furkin filters. Get a nice organic, no additive tobacco (easy to find if u look/ask any tobacconist/supermarket) and roll a lil' cardboard rizla out of any unbleached packaging you find - I used to use no filter, but a tapering end on my cigarettes for 8 years and always seemed a more mellow smoke than filtered ciggs.
"Several studies have demonstrated that the filter material (cellulose acetate fibres) can become detached.3-7 Pauly and colleagues have recently observed cigarette filter fibres in human lung specimens, indicating that the material is respirable.8 A study of filter fibres implanted in mice for six months demonstrated that fibres resist biodegradation.5 As a result of burning tobacco, the discharged fibres are also coated with tobacco tar, which contains carcinogens.5 Such inhaled filter fibres may pose a previously undefined health risk to the smoker beyond exposure to the chemical toxins found in tobacco smoke."
http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/10/1/84.1.full
They also cause resistance to inhalation, so you pull hard, while the smoke slowly trickles over your throat without enough FWOOMP of burning to properly vapourise the nicotine and rush it into your lungs for absorption. There's also great studies on the nicotine:tar ratios of filtered/unfiltered cigarettes. Filters Always absorb a higher proportion of nicotine than tar, because nicotine is a lot more volatile (ready to condense?) than tar.
Happy healthy times and here's to hoping for even more healthier ways to smoke
For the texture of smoke trickling in and out of you is divine, a heady atmospheric ambience you can breathe all night long. Sigh, I love shmokables.
