Do you smoke when you are sick?
I ask because while I don't get sick very often, I can't really afford to stop smoking for my pain. Anyways, last year I caught something that was kicking my ass. I mean bad enough I was planning on going back to bed (at 9am...something I never do), coughing up green stuff, nasal clog/drip like a faucet, running a fever...just bad stuff. I figured burn a bowl of sativa and see if it might help a bit and if not, back to bed I would go.
By the time I finished smoking the bowl and made it back inside, I noticed that my nausal passageway was clear. I could breath perfectly fine. I took a deep breath and my lungs felt mind boggling better for it being less than 3 minutes since I smoked. I felt for lack of better description, great relative to how I felt when I woke up. Fever was gone when I checked 30 minutes later. Took me about 3 days to be rid of any remaining symptoms (nasal tickling, lingering congestion that would clear when I smoked, and a couple others) but I was blown away. Smoking worked far better than any OTC cold or flu medicine ever worked.
I haven't been sick since then, and if things are normal I probably won't get sick until next year (Once every other year is about my average...sometimes three years) but rest assured I am looking forward to trying it again to see if it works as well the 2nd time around.