How long have you been dabbing?

I was wondering if anyone is having lung/breathing issues? I've been dabbing for 5 months. What started out slow has become my reg and I've pretty much dropped flowers completely. I've been dabbing everyday between my rig when home and my pen on the go. Latley I feel a bit flemy. Also, my breath feels tight. It may just be the hot weather, humidity and shitty air quality or is it dabs? I've been smoking/ vaping flowers for 20 years and never had this before. Coincidence? I'm too new to dabs to make a decision and am looking for someone with years to ease my fears

What kind is it? Are you winterizing? That will help a lot but even so its "normal"

I know the dab thing is in right now and occasionally I partake in smoking some but it doesn't matter if its shatter or what I can hit that stuff, blow out and bam my nose starts running.

That there alone lets me know or at least makes me think that it's not too good on the body IMO.

do what ya do though I'm not judging just saying its an area I'm not too educated in (as far as safe or not) and will stick to what I know.

qwizoking said:

What kind is it? Are you winterizing? That will help a lot but even so its "normal"

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i dab both winterized and not. I've been making straight BHO lately due to more confidence about removing butane and it cuts down the manufacturing time to 24 hours instead of 72. I may go back to winterized only.

ive been into oils for almost a year now..

when i first started, i was under purging..

i eventually figured out how to fully purge.

even with full purge, i felt like i was killing my throat, lungs

then i got into winterizing...

my lungs went through some rough times before winterizing.

i felt sick a good part of the year..

oil is incredibly potent.. take less of a hit, hold it longer.

try winterizing out for a couple months..

p.s., what kind of butane are you using?

Guzias1 said:

p.s., what kind of butane are you using?

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Power 5X or super 5X. I was told they are the same product out of Korea and they are basically generic vector.

Unfortunately, all you're really going to get is various opinions. Until these effects can be more reliably studied all you can rely on is anecdotal evidence from people, some more reliable than others obviously. For what its worth, I've been dabbing for about a year now and with no flowers for the last six months or so and if anything I feel "better" lung wise.

Well its not really an opinion at all. When concentrating cannabinoids inherently you concentrate everything else. Relative to polarity..but winterizing removes the plant fats and waxes that make the smoke harsh and congests you..it is better for you

7 months pure BHO. non winterizing (I should be). smoke maybe 1 joint a month when im driving and cant hit the nail.

I no longer cough up black/brown shit from smoking joints/bong hoots.

I no longer smoke lots/fill rooms with smoke trying to get high. 1 hoot in morning. 2 hoots after work, 3 before bed. 6 hoots per day compared to smoking 6 joints per day... yeah my lungs are happier. now if I just winterized all of it I wouldnt worry about it at all.

oil is def hard on the lungs when youre first starting (youre prob taking too large of hoots) but once they get used to it, it gets better, especially if you winterize it... zero burn and constricting feelings in the lungs.

Around 4 or 5 years at this point. Mostly winterized oil, as non winterized oil leaves my lungs feeling coated and induces hard coughing trying to expectorate it.

The winterized oil induces coughing, but a lighter, more productive cough, that clears my lungs.

I too have gone on on oil only regiment, haven't smoked flowers in almost a year.

I actually just tried a couple nights ago to smoke some flowers with some bubble (maybe half melt)

I know for a fact, that the OG -18 was a very sexy flower and loved by many, but...alas


I have become an” oil snob”

Plant matter = shitty shitty taste now.

That makes me sad... But. That being said....

I now live in flavor country, haha.

Sirdabsalot462 said:

I have become an” oil snob”.

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My sentiments exactly. All I do is smoke concentrate now.

Well all I smoke is my own oil. Ive moved off flowers completely for the most part. I let my buddy borrow my flower vape who I have now turned onto wax. I just might ask for it back. Smoking flowers does taste inferior to wax. I think I'm going to move back to winterizing and see how I do now that my tech

over a year not sure, i dont smoke flower anymore either just oil

You guys are just smoking bad flowers


Have had some amazing headband lately. Quality flower is still a plus for me.

Oh bro, I WISH that was the case...

I have loads of members that can back me on this...
A strain OG-18 from one particular dispensary here locally is treasured by many.

On my way home with it, it was in a zip-lock, inside a medicine container,inside a wax paper bag...and my car still stinks of skunky cannabis.

Kief even taste funky, trichome cuticle taste is bitter.
Which is why a majority of bubble is also too much plant matter.

The only hash I've been able to tolerate in regard to taste is that hand pressed shit I made using Frenchy's method.

I often ponder??

What have I done?? The precious flower I've cherished for nearly two decades... As a flower currently tastes horrible*even the green hit*

But, then..I think, I'm going to be my own gardner in about 9 days..

Maybe, just maybe I'll grow some tasty flowers to vape with some full melt whatevs' on z top.

But, I seriously doubt it.. My plants will be stripped of fan leaves, left to dry 7-14 days...and blasted, and refined.

I plan on..
Blasting all trim popcorn,and maybe 1\2 of tops.

Gotta keep some top buds to” showboat”
Hopefully all this shit works accordingly...

I'm about to invest a pretty penny or two...fuck.

Kanivers said:

I was wondering if anyone is having lung/breathing issues? I've been dabbing for 5 months. What started out slow has become my reg and I've pretty much dropped flowers completely. I've been dabbing everyday between my rig when home and my pen on the go. Latley I feel a bit flemy. Also, my breath feels tight. It may just be the hot weather, humidity and shitty air quality or is it dabs? I've been smoking/ vaping flowers for 20 years and never had this before. Coincidence? I'm too new to dabs to make a decision and am looking for someone with years to ease my fears

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Honey oil isn't miscible w our lung fluids. The body actually rejects the foreign object and expels it as a dark colored, light colored, or even chunky phlem which is better than the hot smoke caking the lungs w an excessively tarry substance that burns itself into your lungs. Pretty much all concentrates have led to this expelling of loogies which is better than staying in the lungs Imo and experience. I don't like the coughing fit type of fluid you can't seem to ever hack until about 1/2 hr has passed.

Smoking wax since November 2010. Still love flowers, also love oil. Blasting my own BHO since the beginning...Never bought wax. Vacuum purged, winterized ONE batch...Didn't notice TOO much of a difference, but a slight one.

Kanivers said:

I was wondering if anyone is having lung/breathing issues? I've been dabbing for 5 months. What started out slow has become my reg and I've pretty much dropped flowers completely. I've been dabbing everyday between my rig when home and my pen on the go. Latley I feel a bit flemy. Also, my breath feels tight. It may just be the hot weather, humidity and shitty air quality or is it dabs? I've been smoking/ vaping flowers for 20 years and never had this before. Coincidence? I'm too new to dabs to make a decision and am looking for someone with years to ease my fears

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try laying off of the bho for a while and see how you feel. that should tell the tale.