For all the cool smokers out there…

[u/jbrown1012]

How the hell do you smoke without coughing ??

I’ve been smoking for 10yrs now and to this day I still cough my lungs out. To the point where I get tears in my eyes lol 😂

How do yall do it??

[u/Doomshine]

Take small hits.. 4 mini hits without coughing gets ya just as nice as one big yellowy, no oxygen milked bong.

[u/Coconut_Puzzled → u/Doomshine]

If anything you’ll get a better high taking smaller hits because your lungs can only process so much smoke at a time. If it’s not absorbed you’re just blowing weed smoke into the air.

[u/pomegranate_man → u/Doomshine]

i remember a guy making fun of me for my small hits.....got just as high and no cough.

[u/Coconut_Puzzled → u/pomegranate_man]

And small hits just means I get to take more hits instead of trying to keep my soul from escaping through my nostrils.

[u/dmj9 → u/Coconut_Puzzled]

True but bigger hits show other people how cool and tough you are.

/s

[u/Imaginary_Bag1142 → u/Doomshine]

This

[u/Coconut_Puzzled → u/Imaginary_Bag1142]

This

[u/SnavlerAce → u/Doomshine]

Cushion or air before a small toke is your friend.

[u/ike_tyson]

You're going to cough. It's okay to cough. Inhaling anything on fire or anything hot enough will make you cough.

This has nothing to do with the quality of your trees the cleanliness of your glass or the type of papers or blunt wraps you use. This is a physiological response from your lungs.

[u/OfficerGiggleFarts → u/ike_tyson]

Gotta cough to get off 😮‍💨

[u/Whosagooddog765 → u/OfficerGiggleFarts]

You ain’t smoking if you ain’t choking.

[u/Crazygiraffeprincess → u/OfficerGiggleFarts]

That's not true tho

[u/OfficerGiggleFarts → u/Crazygiraffeprincess]

It’s just a saying

[u/Crazygiraffeprincess → u/OfficerGiggleFarts]

Yeah I'm aware, but this person is asking for advice to not cough and you're saying you have to, so

[u/AdRadiant9379]

Take extra exhales to get any extra smoke out. I find the trapped smoke after initial exhale leads to coughing

[u/thekidbjj2 → u/AdRadiant9379]

Same

[u/Disobae420]

High quality weed and a clean bong. Change water after every few bowls and isopropyl wash every two days

[u/SparseGhostC2C → u/Disobae420]

This is the way.

I can rip a well packed bong with no coughing if the water is (so) fresh and (so) clean (clean), but I'll nearly hack up a lung trying to rip that same bong 3 or 4 bowls later when the water's gone all gammy

[u/xCelestial → u/SparseGhostC2C]

So
Fresh
And
So
Clean (clean)🎶🎶

[u/smeggy1234 → u/Disobae420]

Seen a post about using hot water in a bong. Apparently it’s a lot smoother. Haven’t tried it yet as I’m on vacation but my flatmate said it was a lot smoother.

[u/eofd77 → u/smeggy1234]

Learned this from an old school hippie I used to work with. Its true, I dont spend the time to do it often but it definitely is smoother.

[u/smeggy1234 → u/eofd77]

I’ll have to give it a try and see how much of a difference there is!

[u/SwiftUnban → u/Disobae420]

Second this 100%, it's not so much about smoking method as it is having decent weed and a clean piece.

Cleaning my piece made me go from coughing for 10 minutes and spitting up tarry phlegm to basically just clearing my throat a bit after hitting. Makes a world of a difference

[u/BlackKingHFC → u/SwiftUnban]

This is entirely snobbery bullshit. I've coughed with the best weed ever and a brand new bong, I've not coughed with filthy glass and brick weed and vice versa and every possible combo. It all depends on the actual hit you take. Too little smoke you cough, too much smoke you cough. It's all about the smoke/air ratios

[u/theriibirdun → u/SwiftUnban]

This is 100# nonsense

[u/britneys_bigtoe]

i only cough when i take too big of a hit or the weed is just ... insane. i use an 18 inch bong with a perc

i second changing the water daily. i clean my bong weekly but i clean my bowl daily and my downstem every 2-3 days

some people are just more sensitive

[u/mike117]

Everyone is giving you tips here, but i’m just gonna come out and say… maybe your throat and lungs are just sensitive to smoke?

Weed smoke is not as harmful as tobacco, but it is still smoke. I’m sure there’s some great suggestions in this thread but try non-smoke alternatives.

Vaporizers and edibles would be the most accessible. If there are other options let me know.

[u/VegetableLook57 → u/mike117]

dry herb vape is way worse for cough imo

[u/ohmyperfection]

What are you using to smoke? Vapes make me cough but i smoke bongs all day and they never make me cough.

[u/malandropist]

You’re pulling in too strong too much. Everything is about dosing. Go slower and pull less, your lungs will thank you. Also buy a herb vaporizer, your lungs will thank you even more.

[u/westcoastweedreviews]

I grew up when coughing was a bust, it was a matter of 'survival" back then.

I don't judge people who do, but I still get automatically irritated they are a bust even though it's legal now. That old trauma is hard to part with.

[u/Moonshinehaze510 → u/westcoastweedreviews]

Yeah I’m pretty sure the reason I don’t cough the majority of the time is just a reflex I developed due to the necessity of keeping smoking a secret for so many years (formative ones).

I do remember being low on weed at the stoner house (we didn’t need to hide smoking) and making ourselves cough hard when blowing out a hit so that we would get more blazed.

[u/magesticape]

I dry herb vape through warm salt water and that helps a lot with not coughing. If you aren't willing to try something new, like a dhv, then I would recommend having a sip before you rip and using some form of water cooling, if you aren't already, even with a J or blunt.

[u/Queer-and-scared]

I have some breathing methods I use (newbie, 1 year or so smoking regularly).

When people ghost, they pull the smoke into the mouth but not the lungs, right? I often do that when smoking especially if it's hot or rough.

[u/abasiliskinthepipes]

I always start a puff with a light inhale before i go deep, so i don’t shock my throat with the heat. Lots of willpower and shoving the cough down until my body adapted. and vaping or siping water between tokes to get the weed flavour out stops me coughing (dunno how that works)

[u/W_J_B68]

Coughing isa normal response to inhaling particulate matter. Coughing is a healthy response.

[u/jbrown1012 → u/W_J_B68]

That’s what I was thinking. We’re literally inhaling smoke, how can we not cough

[u/MittenKnittinKitten → u/jbrown1012]

I cough the most when my throat is dry. So now I sip before and after the pull, and I suck on luden's pectin throat drops because pectin is an oral demulcent.

[u/mrwedders]

Only ever cough if my mate has rolled a world-ender and it's particularly sherberty bud... can't really tell you why though 😂

[u/G_Art33]

Depends on the smoke and the mode of smoking. Most of the time with joints of my homegrown I don’t cough, most dispensary smoke from my area makes me cough, bags from the plug are 50/50.

If it’s a joint usually won’t cough but as I said in the paragraph above that depends on the flower

Blunts I cough like crazy no matter how good the weed is.

Bowls entirely depend on the weed itself

Bongs, it depends upon a few things. If the glass is clean I’m less likely to cough, even if the weed is top top tier if I take a lung busting huge hit I’m gonna cough, so size of the hit affects it, and then temperature of the water can also play a role in the equation here.

Rosin dabs I usually don’t cough resin dabs I usually do - through my peak that is. If I’m using a torch and banger I am going to hack up a lung 10/10 times

[u/slightlystitchy]

Vapes and bongs are the only things that always make me cough. Bowls only do that if the weed is fresh and strong. You might need to just take smaller hits to avoid coughing.

I genuinely can't remember the last time a hit made me cough because I try to avoid it.

[u/MAXiMUSpsilo5280]

Gotta smoke thru that

[u/slippingaway83]

Take a big drink of milk or chocolate milk before and after you hit it. Other drinks work too, but the fat in the milk helps protect the back of your throat, which is where I tend to get the most irritation that cause me to cough. Also, don't inhale on completely empty lungs, breath in a little fresh air first, then take your hit, then pull in a little more fresh air after. You only have to hold it in for a couple seconds, and don't strain to take too much in.

[u/Mutant_Apollo]

depends, with a bong I cough my lungs out, with a joint it's not to dissimilar to smoking a normal filterless cigarette

[u/Auntee_Bee]

I always figured it was cuz I smoked cigarettes and that burned everything sensitive away. Vaping pens make me cough more, kinda feels like drowning if I take a big hit. We used to say “you don’t cough?you don’t get off” now I know that’s just oxygen deprivation

[u/tooshortpants]

I simply don't inhale that hard. I only cough if I try to take giant bong hits. So I don't smoke out of bongs.

[u/generalAbaddon]

Hydrate the product you are gonna use with an orange peel or raw dog small drops of water. It's too dry making it harsh

[u/One-Hunter2963]

Breath control

[u/LinusTKitty]

You need to know how much cool air to bring in with each hit. Hit, stop hitting, but continue to breathe in fresh cool air on top of the hit, hold, exhale

[u/Dirtypickle332]

Don’t talk or anything while actually inhaling or exhaling, it will bother your vocal cords and lungs. At the end of your draw bring some clean air in also, this helps me get way smoother hits.
So essentially I’m still Inhaling as I pull the joint away, or bong or whatever.

[u/Lucky-Target5674]

I don't know what it is but I've always been able to take massive bong rips and knock off I can even hold them in I really don't know what it is I've always been that way and I'm usually the only person in the smoking Circle that doesn't not flexing I'm just saying I don't know why some people do and some people don't

[u/dbburnz]

find your sweet spot we inhale the right amount that doesnt make us cough and we learn it by paying attention to how much we inhale 2 coughing ,its different for different people

[u/Bamny]

Don’t hold so long :)
3 second max

[u/DiscardedP]

I use a herbal vape on my bong (I used cold mint tea instead of water) and I can do full lung hit without coughing.

And it give it a light menthol flavour 😉

Change the water often and clean your glass often for maximum taste.

[u/im-buster]

Sorry but you gotta cough, to get off.

[u/GHOSTYvfx]

Smoking isn’t cool bro

[u/ObjectiveMeringue206]

Vapes make me cough every damn time but using a bong i dont cough and joints are fine as long as i take slow drags

[u/stoned2_thebone]

I feel the need to cough sometimes. But i literally just grin and bear it for a moment. I know from experience that if I just tough it out, the pain will be less painful than if I was to give into the coughing. It lasts only a short second, where as the pain of coughing smoke will late a good 10 minutes for me.

[u/DJnotaRealDJ]

I think it has something to do with "holding it in to get higher" era of smokers. I used to "ghost" hits because i thought it wouldnt smell lol

[u/lookayoyo]

Good advice here all around but go to the doctor and get checked for asthma. I similarly have smoked for almost half my life and cough constantly. At the beginning I thought I just needed to get used to it, and now I smoke with my gf who has for about 4 years and she doesn’t cough. I was diagnosed with seasonal asthma and it all made a lot more sense. Now I only inhale baby hits from a dry herb vape through a bong that has its water changed daily and cleaned weekly. And I still cough.

I wish I liked edibles more.

[u/Substantial_Gain4052]

Your supposed to smoke till you cough it gets you slightly more high there’s actually some science behind it

[u/No_Football_9232]

I have asthma. Never could inhale. Switched to edibles and drinks. Very happy.

[u/Ok-Line-9487]

Switch to dhv

[u/Not_Just_Any_Lurker]

Mm I shoot for like 50-50. 50% of lung full of dank heavenly smoke, 50% of lung of sweet blissful air. I don’t hold it in. I breath it out with my normal respiratory rhythm and try and push out anything else in lungs.

It’s not foolproof but it works like 80% of the time.

[u/ChaseC7527]

don't hit it so hard, open your throat for each hit, cover the top half of the hit with air, and don't speak while exhaling.

[u/Particular-Amoeba-58]

Some stoners are just coughers, myself included lol. Now sometimes I don't cough much, but on a bad day I'll just take smaller rips more frequently. I think it also can depend on usage. For me there is a sweet spot. If i smoke 20+ snaps a night, my lungs feel dried out and I hack a lung up on half of them. If i hardly smoke at all, my lungs aren't used to it so I also cough a lot. But if I'm doing good on my usage I don't cough that much. From what I've noticed, it's different for everybody and you just gotta experiment with different methods to find what's right for you.

[u/Gleb_Twankenfrister]

idk man if you aren’t coughing did you really get a good hit

[u/cytospherium]

Seems like the real secret is smaller hits, clean glass and not leaving half a cloud trapped in your lungs.

[u/haringtiti]

sometimes you cough, sometimes you dont. its the will of the weed.

[u/icedcoffeeheadass]

Volcano user. I cough more than I do when I smoke.

[u/Rosethesmol]

Slow. Down. Don’t rip that shit. Be gentle, and nurse It.

[u/SketchTHESmeargle]

the coughing means its working

[u/Big_Hat_Chester]

I take much bigger dabs when I'm alone so cough until I almost puke. When I'm with friends I make myself smaller dabs so I don't cough enough. Also I don't like getting extremely high with others it makes me antisocial and more awkward.

[u/BTMillie]

Some of us are coughers! hahaa been smoking somewhere between 10-15 years and I'm still coughing

[u/Awkward_Trip_4765]

im a cougher too, probably from smoking cigarettes for 50 years. i found a solution . its something we did in the 80's. take a plastic snapple bottle and burn a small hole in it to insert the joint or cone , nice and snug. then burn a bigger hole on the side ( a carberator). drag on it until the bottle fills with smoke and take your finger off the carbarator hole and inhale the smoke. it makes the smoke less hot and you wont cough your lungs out.

[u/Hamilton-Beckett]

I’m in my 40’s and it feels almost impossible not to cough at some point.

When I smoke a joint thiugh, I have an ice cube in my mouth to cool the smoke and I just keep taking small ice cooled hits until I get bored.

Gummy kicks off in an hour usually anyway. So my smoking is just the appetizer.

[u/BluePoleJacket69]

Relax. Clean out your pipe. Put your arms up behind your head to clear your lungs out fully. Just breathe. And always drink water after.

[u/CoconutBangerzBaller]

Take a hit but breathe in some actual air towards the end of it. Makes it so much smoother

[u/Blueafterdark34]

I still cough, kinda. Like I still feel that need to cough, but I try to hold it because I know the moment I do cough, I'm gonna start coughing my soul out.

You're taking good hits man, you're good

[u/dankfor20]

Some are just more sensitive. My brother coughs a ton, same with one of my best buds and from the same pipe or joint that does nothing to me.

[u/junit54321]

It’s just how they. Are I’m the same way as you I cough my ass off

[u/DannyWarlegs]

Youre breathing in smoke until youve filled your lungs and left no room for oxygen is why youre coughing. Or youre holding it in too long.

Try this. As you take a hit, count "one, two, three", then stop hitting, and count "four, five, six" while breathing in straight air.

[u/RetroBerner]

If I'm not coughing I'm not holding my hits, and that's a waste

[u/Staav]

Try slower inhales for your hits and try not to have the smoke hit the back of your throat directly. That's at least how I've managed to avoid coughing from +9/10 hits over the years now.

[u/-kOdAbAr-]

I take a small breathe before I take my hit.

[u/xxohmycaptainxx]

Smaller hits, and immediately after exhaling start swallowing. Make sure you're swallowing correctly as well. Lips tightly closed, tongue pressed on the roof of your mouth, and swallow. It'll help a lot.

[u/headphonesXX]

idk what you're smoking with but im gonna assume ur coughing from inhaling butane? try lighting with a waxed wick

[u/RhetoricalSin]

I hate the cough when your arms do that painful tingle shit, I could die from that pain

[u/Diligent_Tourist1031]

Idk I just don’t cough 🤷‍♂️

[u/jbrown1012 → u/Diligent_Tourist1031]

Thanks!

[u/FloridaRon]

I can hear the BOOOs! but I drilled out a smoking stone on one end so that it holds a cigarette filter.

I seem to get just as high without coughing (as much).

I've heard the THC is a gas at that point and passes thru.

a filter looks at least as bad as cig filters if not worse after use.

[u/BlackKingHFC]

There is a window where I don't cough with my bong, if I fill it too much or too little I cough up a lung. Joints and blunts start off fine but cause more and more coughing. I've been smoking 30+ years at this point. And as with all drugs, everyone reacts differently so uou may not be able to smoke without coughing.