How long do you hold it for???

Here is a question for everybody. Is there really any difference in holding the smoke in? Or is this just bs? All my life I've held my hits in as long as I could but is this really necessary or is this just something to do to pass time lol?i would love to hear what anyone knows about this subject. Sorry if this is a stupid question but it was just a huge discussion in our circle and no one really knows anything just opinion. Is that it or is there science behind this question? Lol

Your lungs are not hollow, they are full of blood vessels that interact with the air you inhale, looking like a tree with the trunk going out to the leaf branches. When you inhale smoke, as soon as is it in your lungs the air is touching your blood, and the contact surface area inside your lungs is ridiculously high. Holding it in longer doesn't do anything, the exchange into your blood happens pretty much instantly....or so I've been told by very qualified people

seven and a half seconds.

zhn0k said:

seven and a half seconds.

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Really? I do 10 mate. Shit you're kidding yourself with anything less than 10 honestly.

Lmfao!! Omg this sounds just like last nights convo! Thank you to the fact filled reply. I honestly never believed it made any difference holding it in hence why I made post to shut some ppl up BUT I ALWAYS find myself holding my breathe after every hit lol. I figure it only seems like it works cause your depriving your brain of oxygen so of course you get more of a light headed feeling when you hold your hit in.

10 seconds!!?? There's nothing coming back out of your lungs if your holding your hit that long lol...

Gotta love RIU, you can ask anything and as long as there's not already a million threads on it you'll get an answer! Thanks for the replies guys, I love being able to allocate anything with concerning my grow or just general information about the smoke, just by using my finger tips! Gotta love technology and sites like RIU! Thanks again guys, off to clone I go!!

mattoak said:

Your lungs are not hollow, they are full of blood vessels that interact with the air you inhale, looking like a tree with the trunk going out to the leaf branches. When you inhale smoke, as soon as is it in your lungs the air is touching your blood, and the contact surface area inside your lungs is ridiculously high. Holding it in longer doesn't do anything, the exchange into your blood happens pretty much instantly....or so I've been told by very qualified people

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Agreed.
I try to hold for a couple seconds, but I notice that even if I start coughing and lost it all right away, I can stil feel it in the same amount of time as though I had held it.

This from a bigbugsmag article posted June 11 2012. Marijuana Inhalation Nation: How Long Should You Hold that Hit?

"The latest research on THC absorption indicates that holding in your marijuana hit from seven to eleven seconds gives your lungs the optimal amount of time to absorb as much THC as possible, without coating your lungs with particulates or depriving yourself of oxygen."

Word to the wise. Hold it if you grow it or know the grower. Otherwise only a second or two. Be good to those lungs, you kinda need em.
Google plant-growth-regulators-poison-marijuana to see whats up. Smoke safe!

Hold your break while looking at a clock for 11 seconds. A lot longer than you would think!

mattoak said:

Your lungs are not hollow, they are full of blood vessels that interact with the air you inhale, looking like a tree with the trunk going out to the leaf branches. When you inhale smoke, as soon as is it in your lungs the air is touching your blood, and the contact surface area inside your lungs is ridiculously high. Holding it in longer doesn't do anything, the exchange into your blood happens pretty much instantly....or so I've been told by very qualified people

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Holding ur breath only kills brain cells, this is why scientist thought Marijuana killed brain cells. When holding ur breath all u do is deny the brain O2. Would u deny ur plant CO2? When u deny the brain O2 u kill brain cells, when u deny ur muscles O2, u become weak.

I posted this in another thread, this is not the 1st time this question has been posted: copy and pasted from Wiki.
78% nitrogen
21% oxygen
0.96% argon
0.04% carbon dioxide, helium, water, and other gases


I believe depending on ur size, I am 6'5" and 260lbs, u only use 5%-6% of that O2.


With that being said I hold my breath for 3-5 sec. No competition here! Mostly because of habit, but I remember in the 80's living in West Texas and smoking some pretty shitty bud. U had to hold ur breath just to get high. I can remember smoking a 1/4oz in a matter of hours with one friend. The weed i get now it's more like a gram and a half to two. I grew some GDP that wouldnt let me hold my breath, it was the death.

i never hold it in just puff exhale i know some people who try to hold it till they blow out like no smoke that is stupid to me just think what it does to your lungs all the tar buildup

The pros put it on an IV...