Three-Breath Hold!

How Long Can You Hold Your Breath? (take 3 deep breaths first)

  • Less than 30 seconds

  • 30 to 59 seconds

  • 1 minute to 1:59

  • 2 minutes to 2:59

  • 3 minutes or more


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jayvap33

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Quit like 3 and a half months ago - 27 pack-years - held breath for 1.16, but I always stop before it starts burning. I'm a wimp. :|
A few months before I quit I started needing Albuterol daily, and couldn't get through
a sentence without needing to take a breath. Haven't used my inhaler in 3 months. :)

Way to go!
I am running a half-marathon in a couple hours and I am hoping for a PR (personal record), now that my lungs and blood are clear of smoke pollutants...
 

jayvap33

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That was interesting ... but i found myself wanting to vape halfway through.. I even reached for my ecig.

Ha! I actually made a video of me running while vaping. The whole mindset is different. I vape for hours, isn't like smoking at all but it has totally replaced smoking and more! I have to try vaping while in the middle of a 3breath, just can pack so much air at first!
 

jayvap33

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Almost 2 minutes... 1 minute 50 something seconds... i was hurting at the end.

1 pack a day for 20+ years = 20+ pack years


Started vaping in Feb, fully quit smoking in April.



Nice, I do 1:50 all the time. Funny thing is 5 minutes later I can break 2 minutes. Weird. It's like you warm up, not like you need to recover.

Keep on vapin!
 

illuxion

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:( only 1 minute 3 seconds. 38 and smoked 1.5 pack a day for 19 years, but only 2 weeks with no analog, been hacking my lungs out for the past week. When I was in the Navy I was right around 5 minutes under cold water(my record was an RCH under 6 minutes, but I almost passed out :p) and about 3.5 when dry. Hope some day I can come close to it again.
 

Fopa

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I am 52yo, smoked 1.5ppd for 40 years.
Two months ago, before I started vaping I could hold my breath for a total of 8 seconds.
Started vaping 6 weeks ago - two weeks ago I could hold my breath for 19 seconds.
Tried it again just now - held my breath for 34 seconds.
Wow - I think that's a tremendous improvement!
 

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I read something very interesting once, it's not really about how well you can hold your breath, if you have serious lung injury such as emphysema you can't exhale well, therefore will not be able to draw deep breaths. To see what it's like if you have empthysema, inhale, then without exhaling, inhale again, and again, and again (do not exhale between inhales)... you end up oxygen deprived because you can't take anymore in, and once what's inside is depleted, you are out of air, but can't pull in more. You can only take gasping, short, weak breaths that don't satisfy the lungs when you have emphysema. If you COULD take the three deep breaths before starting the breath holding experiment, you're in good shape. It's a lot of the reason why doctor's and hospitals use those tube/ball thingies to test breathing capacity (can you inhale strong enough to get that ball to rise in the tube?) and also to help patients recovering from surgery, pneumonia and other lung problems expand their lungs and help them heal.
 
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