How to not cough when hitting a bong Reddit

I smoke occasionally every 2-3 months and when I do smoke, I start coughing heavily from my first inhale.

Yesterday, I smoked for the first time in a month and in my first inhale, I started coughing very hard. I couldn't smoke anymore after 2 more inhales and by then, I was already stoned out of my mind. Any tips to ease coughing?

I like to think of smoking weed like going to the gym. Everybody has to start somewhere. Your first time at the gym, you can't expect to be maxing out every machine. Same goes with smoking bud. In time, your lungs will grow used to the bong rips and you will be able to take fatter and fatter hits. Just keep smoking and you'll get there! And even if you don't, smoking isn't a competition. Who cares how much you can smoke as long as you get high right? nahm sayin'?

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In your experience, what's the best way to keep the coughs away? I've tried warm water bongs, lighting my bowl with hemp string instead of direct flames, even fast&tiny tokes. What else works for yall?

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You may be like me. A cougher, no getting around it.

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Pretty much this. But I did notice after a while you do cough less and less but you never fully just stop coughing

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Haha I quit smoking cigarettes because I'd rather have good bong rips to earn my lung cancer

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I usually take a drink of water right after my exhale and then it seems to help quite a bit.

I am a cougher too, so much so that sometimes I'd cough so hard that I would get a really intense pain in my joints that hurt for like thirty mins, and doing what I've told you above helps me quite a bit.

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Hold a fought drop under your tongue while you hit it.

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I have experienced that Warm bong water is actually smoother on your lungs then cold.. Try a warm bong, if you don't like it add cold, but warm water does help.

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Drinking milk seems to help me a lot because it coats the throat nicely. Also, if you milk up the bong suck some air through your nose, and then clear it, it gives some extra cooling and might reduce irritation from loose smoke in your sinuses, throat, etc.

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I always ask myself "does the coughing help?". The answer is always no, so I just suffer for a minute. Sure coughing helps in the moment, but it makes it worse a second after in my experience.

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Try getting some peppermint oil to drop into the water. It gives a really nice cooling effect without ice or cold water. There's also the common problem of just taking way too big of a rip. My SO used to think that you just had to fill the whole thing with smoke, but now she just takes pipe sized hits, and that's way more enjoyable for her. Another thing that I've used is a carbon filter. It's a glass chamber that goes between your bowl and downstem, and it filters out a lot of the bullshit with activated charcoal, making the bong rip a lot more smooth. The last thing I can think of to at least soothe your coughs is Naked Juice or a similar smoothie type drink. They have as much sugar as Mountain Dew, but they taste good and it's like throat lotion. Stops coughs better than water. Hope that helps!

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Drink water or something that coats your throat before you do a hit and you won’t cough as much. Or just keep doing hits and the coughs will slowly become less prevalent.

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Room temp water smaller rips. If you. Keep coughing then that's just you.

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Don't be a pussy. That's all there is to it. You can fight the urge to cough.

my first one I'm usually ok, but when it gets passed back around, I am always can't make it through without some form of coughing, and it's embarrassing. Is there a way I can practice my lung capacity?

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A) Take smaller rips

B) Get used to smoking

C) Stop caring what people think

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You ain't smoking if you ain't choking

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You could try edibles, a tincture, or a vaporizer. For a high very similar to smoking I'd suggest the vaporizer! r/vaporents

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You gotta cough to get off buddy. Flex those lungs!

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Coughing intensifies the buzz for me.

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that is probably because your brain has less oxygen due to coughing, so you feel lightheaded

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If you take really deep breaths for like a minute it might help and maybe drink some water to keep your throats from getting dry, besides that I guess you could breath in some air before you exhale all the smoke to cool down the smoke already in your lungs

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You could try putting ice in the bong, some bongs have little bubbles on the inside of the stem to hold ice. You could also try adding mint leaves or drops to the bowl or chewing mint gum or having a cough drop in your mouth while smoking.

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Take a a nice deep breathe and exhale almost completely, take smaller hits (let the bong basically clear before pulling the slide).

Also take more bong rips. That helps.

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Focus on exhaling slowly. For me, this helps me relax and focus on not coughing.