For any weed smokers out there, is it true that coughing actually opens your lungs?

Question

Someone told me that after coughing, your lungs open up even more and you can actually get a bigger deeper hit. Is that true?

Answer 1

Don't be crazy. Coughing is a mechanism to rid the lungs of irritating substances. The lungs don't "close", so hacking doesn't "open" anything up. It just usually clears some phlegm. Gosh, it's one thing to be high but another to be crazy.

Answer 2

I don't think that coughing opens your lungs. It is usually a sign that something is not right with your lungs. For example: My brother who is an avid weed smoker and cig smoker and is only 34 yrs old has just been diagnosed with emphysema, and he coughs and coughs.

Answer 3

Coughing is way for the lungs to natuarally get rid of irritants and is actually very hard on the lungs.A study of 450 individuals found that people who smoke marijuana frequently but do not smoke tobacco have more health problems and miss more days of work than nonsmokers.(7) Many of the extra sick days among the marijuana smokers in the study were for respiratory illnesses.

Even infrequent abuse can cause burning and stinging of the mouth and throat, often accompanied by a heavy cough. Someone who smokes marijuana regularly may have many of the same respiratory problems that tobacco smokers do, such as daily cough and phlegm production, more frequent acute chest illness, a heightened risk of lung infections, and a greater tendency to obstructed airways.(8) Smoking marijuana possibly increases the likelihood of developing cancer of the head or neck. A study comparing 173 cancer patients and 176 healthy individuals produced evidence that marijuana smoking doubled or tripled the risk of these cancers.(9)

Marijuana abuse also has the potential to promote cancer of the lungs and other parts of the respiratory tract because it contains irritants and carcinogens.(8, 10) In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50 to 70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than does tobacco smoke.(11) It also induces high levels of an enzyme that converts certain hydrocarbons into their carcinogenic form - levels that may accelerate the changes that ultimately produce malignant cells.(12) Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which increases the lungs' exposure to carcinogenic smoke. These facts suggest that, puff for puff, smoking marijuana may be more harmful to the lungs than smoking tobaccorder on the lungs than cigarettes."

Answer 4

I know after you take a hit the more you cough the higher you get so yea i guess it opens your lungs

Answer 5

WARNING: Coughing after any kind of smoking is a sign of a pending lung ailment and you MUST quit smoking, or you will eventually die from this ailment.

Answer 6

WEEDS BAD