Is smoking supposed to do something?

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Ns1

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I didn't get high my first 3 or 4 times.


Also, smoking joints is not really noob friendly, as it depends on the skill of the person who rolled your J.
 

yhelothar

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If you got high off weed, you'd DEFINITELY know it.
first few times I didn't get high. I may have felt a little more relaxed... I thought it was stupid.
Then about my fourth or fifth time trying, it suddenly hit me, and it was like I was in a whole nother dimension. It's a HIGHLY altered consciousness.

Cigarettes hit me about the first time I knew how to get it into my lungs. The trick is to just smoke a little into your mouth, and then cool it with your tongue or saliva, and then take a nice breath through your mouth to inhale it in.
Tobacco was pretty damn strong for me the few times I've tried it. It makes me really light headed and dizzy.
I personally don't like it though. I react horribly to all stimulants - nausea kicks in.
 

Ns1

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first few times I didn't get high. I may have felt a little more relaxed... I thought it was stupid.
Then about my fourth or fifth time trying, it suddenly hit me, and it was like I was in a whole nother dimension. It's a HIGHLY altered consciousness.

this.


i also hate tobacco, except in hookah form.
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: Ns1
I didn't get high my first 3 or 4 times.

Pretty common, from what I've heard.
Need to see if we can get the Mythbusters team on that one.
 

Ns1

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: Ns1
I didn't get high my first 3 or 4 times.

Pretty common, from what I've heard.
Need to see if we can get the Mythbusters team on that one.

Well, they ARE down the street from oaksterdam...
 

BudAshes

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Lol, you need some better weed. 1 hit off one of my blunts and you will floating in the cloud city with lando calrissian.
 

ConstipatedVigilante

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1. Don't inhale cigar smoke, noob.
2. Breathing out smoke doesn't mean you inhaled. The best way to make sure you're inhaling is to take a drag off your joint/hit the pipe, don't exhale, but open your mouth a bit an inhale some fresh air normally, as if you're trying to get some air while you're swimming. Make sure to breathe in deeply. This will bring the smoke into your lungs along with the air. You should get high after 3 or so hits off of half-decent weed.

It might be easier to "practice" smoking with cigarettes. The smoke is a lot harsher and you'll definitely know when you'll inhale it - your throat will burn and you'll start coughing if you're not used to smoking. Smoking is a learned skill - once you're good at it you will learn how to keep from coughing and how to hold in smoke for awhile.

Edit: And some people don't get high the first time. I have a friend who said he had smoked with some other people before we blazed, but he wasn't getting high - he was just doing it to be social. So after he said he "didn't understand why people liked it so much" we fishbowled my car. We must've smoked a gram and a half in there - the car was filled with smoke and we were coughing and laughing like crazy. Neither of us could keep track of our train of thought - it was great.
 

ViviTheMage

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Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
1. Don't inhale cigar smoke, noob.
2. Breathing out smoke doesn't mean you inhaled. The best way to make sure you're inhaling is to take a drag off your joint/hit the pipe, don't exhale, but open your mouth a bit an inhale some fresh air normally, as if you're trying to get some air while you're swimming. Make sure to breathe in deeply. This will bring the smoke into your lungs along with the air. You should get high after 3 or so hits off of half-decent weed.

It might be easier to "practice" smoking with cigarettes.
The smoke is a lot harsher and you'll definitely know when you'll inhale it - your throat will burn and you'll start coughing if you're not used to smoking. Smoking is a learned skill - once you're good at it you will learn how to keep from coughing and how to hold in smoke for awhile.

This post is full of retard.
 

FeuerFrei

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I got a buzz the first time I smoked a cigarette. Just kind of a heady feeling.
 

ConstipatedVigilante

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Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
1. Don't inhale cigar smoke, noob.
2. Breathing out smoke doesn't mean you inhaled. The best way to make sure you're inhaling is to take a drag off your joint/hit the pipe, don't exhale, but open your mouth a bit an inhale some fresh air normally, as if you're trying to get some air while you're swimming. Make sure to breathe in deeply. This will bring the smoke into your lungs along with the air. You should get high after 3 or so hits off of half-decent weed.

It might be easier to "practice" smoking with cigarettes.
The smoke is a lot harsher and you'll definitely know when you'll inhale it - your throat will burn and you'll start coughing if you're not used to smoking. Smoking is a learned skill - once you're good at it you will learn how to keep from coughing and how to hold in smoke for awhile.

This post is full of retard.

Would you like to tell me why, negative nancy? I'm not telling him to take up smoking a pack a day. I smoke a cigarette every few days for the buzz and I'm not addicted - it's really not that hard to moderate. Unless you're just saying that practicing with cigarettes is retarded, then we're gonna need some elaboration.
 

ViviTheMage

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My opinion is that if you start smoking you will keep on doing so....as it is addicting, just because you can moderate it, does not mean that others can.

And condoning someone else to start...does not seem like a good piece of advice to me.
 
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I didn't get high smoking pot until the first time I used a bong. Took a massive hit with some (apparently) potent weed, and within 20 seconds, I felt like every synapse in my brain was firing simultaneously. I had to lie back on the bed and just let the world spin for a minute because the sensation was so completely unfamiliar to me. I spent the next twenty minutes or so laughing hysterically at Jimi Hendrix and making electric guitar sounds with my mouth. So when you get high, you'll know.

Tobacco has never done a thing to me. I've smoked cigarettes and hookahs, and I tried dipping; nothing. Which, frankly, makes me happy, as I find smoking to be a loathsome habit (dipping too).
 

Turkish

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LOL...

Kids talking about smoking. Jebus. It's not a good thing and if you don't like it, stop talking/thinking about it.

I hated it during the first 2 packs of cigarettes I went through. Now I enjoy it... it's not a good thing and I know it but I like it.

You really should stop thinking about smoking.
 

JEDI

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Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
fuggin stoners.

EDIT : on a side note, going to Amsterdam in December ^_^

let me know if the ongoing rate to rent teenagers is still $30 for 1/2hr? :Q
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
I didn't get high smoking pot until the first time I used a bong. Took a massive hit with some (apparently) potent weed, and within 20 seconds, I felt like every synapse in my brain was firing simultaneously. I had to lie back on the bed and just let the world spin for a minute because the sensation was so completely unfamiliar to me. I spent the next twenty minutes or so laughing hysterically at Jimi Hendrix and making electric guitar sounds with my mouth. So when you get high, you'll know.

:laugh:
I can totally see someone doing that.
 

Eli

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It's a very subtle high.

Edit: Oh, we're talking about marijuana too?

You got high. Probably very high.

It's hard for most people to tell on their first few tries. It's also a pretty subtle high, in the scheme of things.

Once you notice it though, it's not so subtle... lol
 

ebaycj

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Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Yeah, I probably was just doing it wrong. Not sure how to do it right, but meh.

Best way to describe it is a two-phase system.

(Start out by breathing "out" first. You don't have to be over-aggressive and empty your lungs completely, just a normal "out" breath).

First phase is like drinking a milkshake through a straw. This gets the smoke in your mouth.

Second phase, you open your lips a little bit and breathe in deeply (while smoke still in your mouth).

Then you exhale.