Are we damaging our lungs by inhaling smoke?

[North End Bees]

If your pension is burning a hole in your pocket get one of these vape/smokers as reviewed by @BMH.

Looks pretty good but at that price I think I'll pass for now!

 

[Nannysbees]

I have to admit if I get the wind direction wrong the smoke from the smoker sticks in my throat causing a coughing fit, acrid!!!

 

[user 20297]

I reckon that if you're enduring sufficient smoke as to be giving yourself health worries then you're making/using too much smoke!

 

[Amari]

I reckon that if you're enduring sufficient smoke as to be giving yourself health worries then you're making/using too much smoke!

Difficult to control the amount of smoke esp when the smoker is 'resting'. SteveG on here has recently treated himself to a motorised version. He pressed the button and the three of us were enveloped in a dense cloud of impenetrable smoke.....

 

[Finman]

I have to admit if I get the wind direction wrong the smoke from the smoker sticks in my throat causing a coughing fit, acrid!!!

Put such fuel, that it does not make too much smoke.

 

[Amari]

Put such fuel, that it does not make too much smoke.

Which fuel do you advise?

 

[Hedgerow Honey]

I'm doomed,
Twenty years a smoker, gave up when my eldest was born.
Twenty two working for Shell carrying fuel all over the country. When I started we top loaded and it was fascinating watching the vapours pour out as we loaded, but couldn't have been good for us.
Plus standing next to a small chimney for many years,
I must be well pickled inside by now.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Which fuel do you advise?

smokeless?

 

[Finman]

Which fuel do you advise?

I use dry rotten birch.
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[drex]

Ashtanga yoga combines both physical and mental health..I always end with 3-5 minutes in a relaxed child's pose.

I teach Tai Chi. The moves are all very slow and gentle. My pulse rate can get up to 120. Its all about Chi energy. Stick to gastroenterology Amari

 

[Amari]

I teach Tai Chi. The moves are all very slow and gentle. My pulse rate can get up to 120. Its all about Chi energy. Stick to gastroenterology Amari

Those days are over, thank God.

However an interest in physiology, which you and I were taught many years (60 in my case) ago, persists. So, how does 'very slow and gentle' lead to a pulse rate of 120???

 

[Erichalfbee]

Those days are over, thank God.

However an interest in physiology, which you and I were taught many years (60 in my case) ago, persists. So, how does 'very slow and gentle' lead to a pulse rate of 120???

But it does. It’s like meditation in motion
I practice Tai Chi and Qi Gong. You get more cardiovascular response with Tai Chi than jogging.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3336889/

 

[jeff33]

I have used nothing but water spray for the last year, and this is one of the reasons why.

Same here. I have the smoker going in the background but it's only used once per hive before I open them. I have even added lavender oil to the spray.... may not do anything for the bees but does wonders for me

stop wrapping your lips around the nozzle of the smoker - don't you get blisters?

Maybe he is reliving is bonging days?

 

[Sutty]

My sister used to be a journalist and on one occasion did a piece for Harefield hospital trust. She has a lovely picture of Magdi Yacoub with a packet of Rothmans poking out of his scrubs pocket.

I remember as a 1st year doctor seeing my heart surgeon boss telling a patient off about his smoking only to lean forward and drop a packet out of a pocket

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

So, how does 'very slow and gentle' lead to a pulse rate of 120

quick snort of Amyl nitrate?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

You get more cardiovascular response with Tai Chi than jogging.

A quick half hour on here of an evening usually does the trick as well!

 

[Amari]

Maybe he is reliving is bonging days?

Bonging?? I hardly remember my bonking days, let alone bonging, whatever that is.....

 

[Amari]

quick snort of Amyl nitrate?

Have you tried it?

 

[Amari]

But it does. It’s like meditation in motion
I practice Tai Chi and Qi Gong. You get more cardiovascular response with Tai Chi than jogging.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3336889/

What an amazing study - a comparison of pulse rate during Tai Chi and jogging! I was expecting the comparison to be between, say, 500 carefully matched folk in each group. Instead in this case n=2 !!! Definitely a candidate for the annual IgNobel prize....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize

 

[Erichalfbee]

What an amazing study - a comparison of pulse rate during Tai Chi and jogging! I was expecting the comparison to be between, say, 500 carefully matched folk in each group. Instead in this case n=2 !!! Definitely a candidate for the annual IgNobel prize....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize

Yes I thought you might appreciate it.
And they get research funds for it?