I have been out here at the Collective, by myself for almost a week straight now, so I welcome the convo!!
What you are saying seems logical...but if that were the case, don't you think that when doing something like running, that the lungs would slow down, to get all usable O2?? Instead we breath faster, up to multiple breaths per second--
When you hold it in longer it just deprives that 1 brain cell you have left of much needed o2.
You are not getting higher, just dizzy from lack of air.
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This is complete bullshit. You are claiming that the THC transfer from the smoke into our bloodstream is instantaneous, this is obviously false.
There is obviously a point of diminishing returns where holding the smoke in no longer increases our absorption of THC, but to say that there is no benefit gained in holding a hit in longer is simply untrue.
What you are saying seems logical...but if that were the case, don't you think that when doing something like running, that the lungs would slow down, to get all usable O2?? Instead we breath faster, up to multiple breaths per second--
Crusader Rabbit;4583167}I've been told that trying to hold that big hit of smoke down in your lungs when your body is telling you to exhale said:who told you that? why did you believe them? With 20 years experience holding in all my hoots as long as I can the worst thing that ever happened was a cough!! And very rarely at that, its all about lung control.
I've done a lot of Yoga breathing stuff plus basic breath control being a sometimes professional wind player/teacher. It doesn't matter if your holding a lung full of straight air or air mixed with smoke either way your body tells you to exhale when it runs out of Oxygen. You may not know it but at this point the alveoli naturally expand allowing you suck in more air, even if you thought your lungs were full when you first started holding your breath...
From: “A Cannabis User’s Harm Reduction Handbook” © Steve Liebke 2001.Take small, shallow tokes or pulls. About 95% of THC in cannabis smoke is absorbed in the first few seconds so breath holding is quite pointless. All it really achieves is a far greater amount of tar being deposited in the lungs.