Smoking Devices

I'd really appreciate a little help. First, a little background about me...I'm 58, stopped smoking pot 18 years ago for 2 reasons: my lungs were(and are) totally ragged out from smoking weed for 25 years, and also my company was starting drug testing, so I couldn't take a chance. Well, now I'm retired, no drug testing to worry about, and now we have vaporizers. Here's the thing. when I smoked, I used bongs a lot, usually ones I'd made out of pvc,with a carburetor hole drilled above where the stem was. I'm now growing my first crop hydroponic, will get a good vaporizer, but I see these glass bongs that are nothing like what we used back in the day. Diffusers, ice chambers, etc.....I might want one to occasionally hit one time, if I don't want to vape. Can someone educate me about these bongs, and the different features? Thanks, Joe

The chambers are for cooling and making the smoke less harsh. Ice goes farther to cool the smoke.

There are new cleaning solutions out there that make cleaning these easy. Even though they can look impossible to!

Dr. Who said:

The chambers are for cooling and making the smoke less harsh. Ice goes farther to cool the smoke.

There are new cleaning solutions out there that make cleaning these easy. Even though they can look impossible to!

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Welcome back.

If its been 18 years since you smoked it will prolly only take 1 hit (which isn't much harm) to get messed up - I smoked every day for 6 months n didnt want any more than 2 puffs n holy shit I felt good - thts just my experience thou - welcome back to the good side

I got a new bong (1st one in about 30 years) and here is what I learned at the head shop...

Get one that allows you to add ice. The new bongs have indentations down near the water level that keeps the ice up in the smoking chambers, not down in the water.
I was encouraged to get "glass on glass" which I understood to mean a glass bong with a glass tube and a glass bowl... no rubber stoppers and no metal.
When in doubt, go thick. Thicker glass won't break as easily, and retains 'coolth' (my wife thinks it's a real word) better than a THIN glass bong.

The one I chose looks similar to this ... . Very utilitarian, sturdy, simple to operate and easy to clean. There's at least a few thousand variants that look cooler but I wasn't shopping for looks. The cost was about $40.

No need for special cleaning solution, just add 91% rubbing alcohol and kosher salt. Shake a few times, then rinse and you're clean. I let the bowl and stem sit in a baggie with alcohol for about an hour and they come out clean as new.

Edit - One more thing.. a lot of bongs now days don't have a carburetor hole. Instead, the bowl lifts out at the end of your hit to help clear the chamber of smoke.

I did read once to get a bong between 18" and 24" for the best height for adult lungs ..re volume wise, so that puts me at 6 inches...LOL

nice bong too dude!

I use a plain ol glass bong with the ice indents, thumbhole carb. Most of the new bongs I've seen have the stem pull carb. I guess I'm just an old dog but I much prefer the thumbhole carb.

I'll throw this in. I smoked weed for years through every method available. Joints, pipes, (metal, wood, or glass), bongs, gravity bongs, etc etc... you name it.

When the 'vaping' craze hit I tried it a bunch of times but was never really satisfied. I just felt like vaping never gave me a satisfactory high, or experience in general.

Until I tried this vaporizer called the "Plenty".

I have since quit smoking entirely, and only vaporize using the Plenty. That's how much I like it.

Occasionally I will use a vaporizer called the Pax, which I use mostly when I need something portable, but I mostly smoke at home, so the Plenty gets tons of use, and it's never let me down. Love it. Pricey, but worth it.

Thanks a lot, guys, really appreciate it!!

joebigblue said:

Thanks a lot, guys, really appreciate it!!

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I'd be willing to bet your lungs were injured r/t to the PVC not the pot welcome back to cannabis.

I have a Roor Lil' Sister Beaker 5.0 45 cm bong. The 45 cm has a 1200 cc volume and the 35 cc 1000 cc.

I'm very happy with the Bong. So I'm not sure percolators etc... are necessary? I've used this with ice and water and it's pretty smooth, depending on the quality of the smoke you put through it. I actually wish I'd gotten the smaller size! LOL

Colorado Jay said:

I'll throw this in. I smoked weed for years through every method available. Joints, pipes, (metal, wood, or glass), bongs, gravity bongs, etc etc... you name it.

When the 'vaping' craze hit I tried it a bunch of times but was never really satisfied. I just felt like vaping never gave me a satisfactory high, or experience in general.

Until I tried this vaporizer called the "Plenty".

I have since quit smoking entirely, and only vaporize using the Plenty. That's how much I like it.

Occasionally I will use a vaporizer called the Pax, which I use mostly when I need something portable, but I mostly smoke at home, so the Plenty gets tons of use, and it's never let me down. Love it. Pricey, but worth it.

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The plenty looks pretty bad ass. It's way to pricy for me atm, though. I love that it looks like a handheld drill. It gives it a stealth factor I think. So if it got left out when you had someone over, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. I have been looking at the lotus vaporizer. It's a manual pipe vaporizer which looks badass and also comes with a bong attachment.