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depresseddistraughtdisillusioned · 2 years

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Some Quick Advice on Bong Hits

I've been mostly a bong smoker for years. I much prefer using the water for filtration and cooling of my smoke, and it's overall a less harsh smoking experience. I tend to cough a lot when smoking, so anything that makes my smoke smoother is welcome.

Those are some of the benefits I've found in using a bong. Yet, in spite of preferring bong smoking, I only recently learned a little about how to smoke using a bong. Let me tell you what I was doing.

Step 1. Get hempwick, which is hemp with a wax covering. It can be found in most head shops. It's good for anyone who wants to avoid sucking in butane when they smoke out. You light the wick and use it to light the bowl. It burns a slightly lower temperature than the butane, which prevents you from scorching any marijuana in your bowl, and gives an easier smoking experience.

The wick burns at an approximate temperature of 1500-1800 degrees Fahrenheit (10). Butane lighters burn at approximately twice that temperature, or roughly 3500 degrees Fahrenheit. With lower temperatures, there's less chance of burning the cannabis to ash, and less harsh butane coming through your bong. It's worth being aware that butane inhalation while smoking has been linked to headaches.

Granted, with the butane you can annihilate your bong load faster, but you're more likely to waste cannabis that way, rather than getting to a euphoric stage faster. In fact, you're likely destroying some of your THC if you use a butane lighter -- which is any standard Bic -- on your marijuana.

Step 2. Smoke from the outside in.

WHen you're smoking, the simplest way to get an even burn with less harsh hits on blackened marijuana is to smoke around the edges of the bowl and gradually work towards the center.

Smoking in this edging method is known as 'Cornering" and refers to a common practice when it came to using party bongs. Each person smoked at the edge of the bowl, which burned the marijuana material vertically, allowing every person easy access to smoking fresh green cannabis -- colloquially called "greens" -- which provided each participant with a cleaner, more enjoyable smoking experience.

It's equally good when smoking by yourself, as it prevents igniting only the top layer, and by lighting one edge, it's easier to get a cherry going on the side, which is the little flame you can nurse through a whole smoke session.

Let me tell you how ignorant I was of bong smoking. I literally considered inventing a joint bong. See, I like bong smoking, but I don't like that I couldn't really keep a cherry lit. Hitting the bong bowl with the lighter, even using the hemp wick, was either too slow a process, or too harsh a smoke. I liked being able to take little puffs off a joint and not needing to relight it time and again, the way I was doing with the bong.

It's helpful to understand at this point that I had certainly gotten bong bowls to light once with a good cherry that I could smoke on. Those were always the best smoking sessions. But, I couldn't get it to work with any consistency, and eventually I just assumed I was doing it right.

I was not. By learning about cornering a bowl and smoking from the outside in, I learned the skill of thinking strategically about my smoking method, and getting a better burn, and more cherries to make my smoke both quicker and more pleasant than most have been lately.

I should probably clean my bong, too. It's gross and I know how disrespectful the real hard cases get about nasty bongs.

Those are the first two pieces of advice I have when it comes to bong and pipe smoking. With a little work you can make it a better experience than I did.

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the-devils-unloved-bastard · 9 months

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