I usually inhale a few puffs when I smoke, but I know most pipe smokers will try to avoid this. Can I ask you all what your take in this is?
TO INHALE OR NOT TO INHALE: THAT IS THE QUESTION
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I guess I only inhale 5% of it, but even if you don't we should regard ourselves as passive smokers.
I don't like cigs, but I do inhale some of it. Sometimes I do it through my nose without quite realizing it. Some other times I do it consciously, that is, with intent.
I draw just to the back of my throat and exhale through my mose. I find this to enhance the experience 20 fold.
In about 3 weeks it'll be a year since my last cig (42 years), and I don't feel a need to inhale the pipe at all. 8)
Anyone who smokers a pipe, or a cigar for that matter is inhaling whether they wish to believe it or not. The mere simple act of letting smoke slowly come out of your mouth and the simple fact that you are breathing while doing so, or at least I hope so, is … inhaling. Now, as to what extent you are consciously doing so is a whole other matter.
I’m a 50+ year cigarette smoker (damn my soul to hell), and I admittedly inhale a wee bit while the pipe is clenched in my mouth, albeit certainly in no way shape or form as to what inhaling would be while smoking a cigarette. Strange as it may seem, I find myself ‘consciously’ inhaling, however small it may be less and less. No matter how you wish to twist and turn it, and or validate smoking a pipe it’s still ‘smoking tobacco’ and it’s harmful, albeit in no way comparable as to cigarettes. But, seeing that I’m already damned I’ll continue to gently puff away with my pipe. Bottom line, like it or not... everyone who smokes a pipe is inhaling the smoke to some extent.
I’m a 50+ year cigarette smoker (damn my soul to hell), and I admittedly inhale a wee bit while the pipe is clenched in my mouth, albeit certainly in no way shape or form as to what inhaling would be while smoking a cigarette. Strange as it may seem, I find myself ‘consciously’ inhaling, however small it may be less and less. No matter how you wish to twist and turn it, and or validate smoking a pipe it’s still ‘smoking tobacco’ and it’s harmful, albeit in no way comparable as to cigarettes. But, seeing that I’m already damned I’ll continue to gently puff away with my pipe. Bottom line, like it or not... everyone who smokes a pipe is inhaling the smoke to some extent.
I try not to inhale very much. I clench quite a bit so I inhale on accident some times. I usually inhale on my last puff of my pipe. I dont really know why but its just a superstitious thing I suppose. A lot of the older pipe smokers that I smoke with in my pipe club inhale about 100 percent of the time, so I guess it is just a personal thing. I get more flavor out of the tobacco if I don't inhale.
@ phil67: I agree with you. What I would say is that we, pipe smokers, are strong passive smokers, for even if you don't inhale, you do at the end of the day. Some people say they train themselves to avoid doing it, but I guess this is all down to a matter of taste. Every time a light up my pipe I'd inhale one of two puffs, but not the rest of it. The nicotine in it will filter into your bloodstream through your stomach, so there is no point in inhaling if you are after it, but some of it will go to your lungs even if you try to avoid it.
I personally don't inhale intentionally. That is to say on a draw. I've tried and find it far too harsh. I do snork quite often, and some times will catch the backend of an exhale.
I smoked cigarettes, about a pack a day, for twenty-five years. I've never felt the urge to inhale my pipe. Ever. It's been over two months since my last cigarette, and I can't imagine ever going back to the coffin nails.
If you smoke indoors, you're inhalng, even if it's just the cloud of smoke around you. I don't smoke indoors, except on the rare occasion that I'm at a pipe club meeting. Since I mostly just puff, the amount I'm inhaling is minimal, but there must be some. Probably some when I retrohale. But I don't suck it down into my lungs.
After attending the WCPS, where I was in smoke filled rooms for a couple of days, my lungs ached for a couple of days. I don't experience that at any other time.
After attending the WCPS, where I was in smoke filled rooms for a couple of days, my lungs ached for a couple of days. I don't experience that at any other time.
My feelings exactly.
Anyone who smokes tobacco inhales, that's a given, but I believe the original question is whether you purposely draw the smoke into your lungs or not.
Learning how to smoke a pipe after years of cigarettes has been a revelation and opened doors to enjoyment I had not previously considered.
Sure, I don't NEED to smoke anything. I LIKE to smoke a pipe. I was always feeling bad about my cig smoking and felt the pull of addiction back to them after several significantly lengthy 'quits' through the years.
It was always due to some stressful event that I'd feel the need from deep inside my limbic system to intake some nicotine.
That inner signal now seems happy with pipe smoking w/o inhaling and I don't expect stressful moments to cause me to reach for my rolling papers any time soon.
Sure, I don't NEED to smoke anything. I LIKE to smoke a pipe. I was always feeling bad about my cig smoking and felt the pull of addiction back to them after several significantly lengthy 'quits' through the years.
It was always due to some stressful event that I'd feel the need from deep inside my limbic system to intake some nicotine.
That inner signal now seems happy with pipe smoking w/o inhaling and I don't expect stressful moments to cause me to reach for my rolling papers any time soon.
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