Three-Breath Hold!

[jayvap33]

- Now that I have given up tobacco smoking, I often wonder about the damage I have caused my lungs over the years. Sometimes I hold my breath to see how long I can do it and to see how my lungs feel when I do this.
- Amazingly enough I can still hold my breath for over 2 minutes after taking 3 deep breaths, holding it, then timing myself until I completely exhale and need to inhale again.
- Try it and see how long you can hold your breath, then take the poll and post your results every time you do it. In your post, please put your quit time and the pack-years of cigarettes you smoked. E.g. I smoked 1/2 pack for 28 years so I smoked for 14 pack-years..

PS: Practicing this often increases your time: and I find this also really motivates me not to smoke.

Jayvap33 - Quit time 11 months and 2 weeks/after 14 pack-years/3-breath hold 2 minutes and 9 seconds

 

[jayvap33]

Thanks all for taking the poll. If you get a better time later, post it here.

 

[Caddyman]

i have smoked menthols 5 years then menthol lights for 5 years, 10 year PPD. I have cut down to on average 3 a day for the last almost month now. I am 28 years old in generally good physic condition.

I just held my breath for 1:10

 

[Mickirette]

I haven't tried that for awhile, but I will keep at it until I can hold my breath longer than 30 seconds. 38 years of smoking has taken it's toll.

 

[chrisl317]

a minute and ten seconds - 32 years at 2 packs a day I would suppose by your math would be 64 years?

 

[Lab]

i had to do this lung test for a job once.. i failed it 3 times then just barely passed it.. it is taking a deep breath then being able to blow it out at a constant rate for a certain amount of time.. 1:25

 

[jayvap33]

a minute and ten seconds - 32 years at 2 packs a day I would suppose by your math would be 64 years?

Chris, 64 pack-years and 1min 10sec! That's awesome! WTG! Didi you even inhale?

 

[cliff5550]

45 years at an average of 2 packs a day = 90 pack years?
60 years old and just held my breath for 1:07 (one minute & seven seconds).

 

[jayvap33]

45 years at an average of 2 packs a day = 90 pack years/
60 years old and just held my breath for 1:07 (one minute & seven seconds).

WTG Cliff, you also are rockin!

 

[jayvap33]

This thread isn't getting much exposure in the Polls section, is there any way to return in to the main forum?

 

[ejoker]

This thread isn't getting much exposure in the Polls section, is there any way to return in to the main forum?

sorry, but polls do go in the polls section.

 

[jayvap33]

Agreed, but the poll was only part of a discussion. Now the thread is dead just when folks were opening up about their smoking and breathing.

Smokey Joe, can you help a vaper out? Just because a thread has a poll in it shouldn't mean the thread has to go into the poll section immediately.

 

[Caddyman]

Agreed, but the poll was only part of a discussion. Now the thread is dead just when folks were opening up about their smoking and breathing.

Smokey Joe, can you help a vaper out? Just because a thread has a poll in it shouldn't mean the thread has to go into the poll section immediately.

I concur, but im not staff

 

[DaveP]

The lung capacity test is the one that's really difficult. I had to have one as a part of an Occupational Health program where our company gives you a comprehensive physical exam periodically when you are in the Product Training Center for more than a week.

Someone described it up-topic. They hand you a hose with a disposable mouthpiece snapped on to the end and tell you to take the deepest breath you can and blow as hard and as fast as you can for as long as you can. The computer has a graphic display that paints a line and you are supposed to keep the line from falling. You get dizzy and toward the end you want to stop, but they keep cheering you on. By that time, you are barely exhaling enough to fill a WD-40 spout.

The idea is to measure the flow rate in the small and large branches of the bronchial tubes and the alveoli (air sacs). You get a printout afterward. Mine showed the target line and my actual line on a graph. I dropped below the line a couple of times, but maintained it until the end. It still said "Early indications of COPD". I felt kind of bad about that until we compared our results and the non-smokers and smokers alike mostly got that diagnosis. Some of those guys were every day runners.

I do know that vaping has cleared my lungs up considerably, to the point where I feel normal. I borrowed my brother-in-law's oximeter one day at a family reunion and scored 99% oxygen saturation. His was 82. We had both just finished smoking. Shortly after that, I started researching Ecigs. He now has in home oxygen. That is something that no one wants.

 

[jayvap33]

Thanks Dave, and thanks for finding this in the Polls Section!

 

[FlyerTom]

How Long Can You Hold Your Breath?

I don't know. I keep passing out.

 

[jayvap33]

I don't know. I keep passing out.

LMAO! I doubt it since you haven't smoked in nearly 2 years! LMAO

 

[DC2]

I'm 44 years old and smoked between 3 and 10 cigarettes per day for 27 years.
I just held my breath for 1:45 which is WAY longer than I could hold it a year ago.

 

[RedAlert]

Smoke a pack and a half a day for 16 years. Just held it for 2:32 seconds. I'm dizzy as hell now.

 

[CaptJay]

ok I tired it - I didnt take 3 FULL breaths - but I managed just a hair past 1 min before I had to breathe.
I was a PAD smoker for 25 years but at times I had a couple of packs at weekends - so i don't know how many pack years as it wasn't EVERY weekend. Maybe 30 pack years?