Smoking - Disappearing Crack Smoke

[jdrug]

SWIM is not a smoker of cigarettes and such and doesn't really know how smoking works per se (how the smoke is processed by the lungs etc), but it seems some take a hit of crack and hold it in for say 25-35 seconds and proceed to exhale a fair amount of smoke. Yet others do the same and little or no smoke is exhaled. Is there an obvious explanation or is this just a case of everybody is different?

[Danc9552003]

Yeah, this always happens to SWIM when smoking crack or meth... Sometimes he can hold a hit in for 20 seconds and blow out a huge amount of smoke, but other times with the same size hit he blows nothing out, not too sure why tho.

[jdrug]

I've recently read that crack crystalizes in the lungs and if it is fairly pure, little or no smoke will be exhaled when the hit is held for a long time. Interestingly, there seems to be some dispute whether a crack hit should be held as long as possible (the typical sentiment it seems) or that it should only be held for 10-15 seconds max and then slowly exhaled via the nose -- probably a topic for another thread though...

[KomodoMK]

SWIM has noticed this effect when he first tried it with friends, he thought he was doing it wrong yet still got the same effect.

What you said may possibly hold true, as you may sometimes smoke more cut than others, thus why sometimes you exhale no smoke and sometimes you exhale quite a bit.

[Nicaine]

First off, crack smoke isn't smoke (although it looks like it)... it's vaporized cocaine particles. That's why it has almost no odor.

If someone's blowing out and there's hardly anything, (A) they're probably holding the vapor for a long time (thus most has adhered to the lungs by the time they exhale), or (B) the vapor particles were so small or there was so little of it that nothing is visible when exhaled. The room lighting might affect the visual appearance of the "smoke" as well.

SWIM guesses that most of the difference is due to how big a hit the person has taken, combined with how long they hold it. SWIM used to find that some mental confusion was normal while imbibing, so something ordinarily obvious might not be very clear immediately after a hit.

[klaatu]

My friend Swim agrees with Nicaine.

Jdrug - bear in mind that everyone is different so trying various techniques will most likely find something that suits you. Perhaps smoking smaller amounts more frequently is better than a large hit each time. Maybe that will mean you exhale less smoke that way...?

Klaatu

[Rockman]

From what swim has heard if you hold it in for quite some time some people tend to swallow the smoke thus no smoke

[sheche]

Swim has heard from another friend that took cem. in college that people often swallow as a result of the effects of it. When you swallow it, lots of it goes into your stomach. the result is less smoke, and more burps. Also, SWIM has noticed that metal pipes give bigger and better hits.

[mzlady]

Originally Posted by Rockman

From what swim has heard if you hold it in for quite some time some people tend to swallow the smoke thus no smoke

I'm not sure if that makes sense... why would one swallow it just because it is held in the lungs longer... ?