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dlboarder1122

Besides a vaporizer, whats the healthiest way for me to smoke?.. i have a glass batty that i use now, but i heard they're horrible for your lungs.. should i make a homemade water bong? whats the best way to do it?

 

Jah-Red

what is a "batty"?


I don't think there is a safer way than vaping

dlboarder1122

like a "one hitter" pack it in the front like a ciggarette, no carb or anything.. do you think its better using a waterbong?

Buzzby

Water-filtered pipes eliminate most of the ash and particulates that you would otherwise be sucking into your lungs. OTOH, they filter THC more efficiently than tar, so you would be getting a relatively higher amount of tar than you would without the water filtration for the same amount of THC getting into your system.

In terms of health, nothing comes close to a vaporizer. A good one costs less than an ounce of weed. Because it conserves your stash 2:1, a vaporizer would pay for itself over the course of a couple of ounces used.

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blazinjeeps

One of the big problems with smoking from a pipe is that the heat singes the fibula (those really small hair-like things) are in your respiratory tract that are responsible for moving mucous around. A bong is more efficient at filtering out thc than tar, but those fibula are responsible for moving crap out of your respiratory tract (which includes tar). And as already mentioned, a bong will filter out the solid particles/ash. So I would say a bong is the best way to smoke in regards to lung health, but it will still come nowhere close to a vaporizer.

 

idiotjane

Okay, I have to share a personal experience...

Now, this may be because bongs are often times shared (but so are j's and this doesn't happen with them for me), but it seems that every time I use a bong, within a week I get the "crud". Aka cold symptoms approaching bronchitis that is usually limited in duration but occasionally require antibiotics.

I have asthma (so I shouldn't be smoking at all really) and when I first started smoking I used a bong 80% of the time. I always rinsed out the water chamber with a great deal of hot water before use -- and no matter what changed the water twice daily if I was smoking more than twice daily.

I ended up developing a serious case of pneumonia that didn't respond to normal antibiotic treatment -- coughing up blood and had to have a bronchoscopy -- and imagine trying to tell a pulmonary doctor about smoking anything, let alone MJ!

Ever since it's been other people's bongs and I have no idea of how careful they are with bong hygiene. It could just be a coincidence. It could be that all my friends carry the crud but deposit more saliva on the bong than on the pipe (which doesn't make sense looking at how most people use non-hookah type bongs).

But my pet theory is that inhaling moisture into your lungs can make you more succeptible to certain bugs. I use a one-hitter myself when alone, and only seem to get the crud after using a friend's bong.

Buzzby

I've always found bongs to be the most irritating way to smoke. Many bong smokers seem to think you can't get high unless you cough up a lung. I think it's much more likely that the lung irritation from smoking a bong opens you up to infection from organisms that are always around in the environment than there being some pathogenic organism peculiar to bongs.

Tayler

Dude what are u doing? why wouldn't u just freaking vaporize? with your condition i wouldn't screw around...

PurpleKushSkunk

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Now, this may be because bongs are often times shared (but so are j's and this doesn't happen with them for me), but it seems that every time I use a bong, within a week I get the "crud". Aka cold symptoms approaching bronchitis that is usually limited in duration but occasionally require antibiotics.
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You are right because I bought a bong 3 weeks ago and smoked with it everyday for two weeks and at the start of the third week my throat was so irritated that I didnt have enough energy to fully inhale a bong hit so I switched back to my glass pipe and I notice a big difference, the pipe is smaller,easy to hide quickly,smoother smoke,nice high.

The bong is big and tall, not easy to hide fast, harsher smoke, a high that usually takes u to paranoid trips.

blazinjeeps

I've never gotten sick after smoking from a bong and have always found bong hits to be the smoothest...getting you more f***d up because you take bigger hits. Just my personal experience.