Do You Smoke Primarily with Nose or Mouth or Both?
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I've tried it. But, when I walk around with my pipe hanging out my nose, people tend to look at me funny. They've just probably never heard of this snorking thing.
But can you clench? ?
I can, but then I end up breathing from my mouth, and that leads to drooling. This time of year it is inevitable that I sneeze, and then it's just a shitshow.
I almost spit my coffee all over my desk. ?
You are a charming wisearse. Ah, the snotty nose warmer.
I’ll exhale through my nose because it tastes better but then I worry about overdoing that and affecting my nasal senses and try to slow that down.
95 percent mouth, and 5 percent nose. I'll retrohale maybe a handful of times through the bowl, and that seems to be the right amount to enjoy the benefits of the technique without over-cooking my nasal passages. One technique I do enjoy is letting the smoke roll around in my mouth a bit. I will sometimes smoke a bowl without doing this and wonder why it doesn't taste as good, and then I'll realize I'm not savoring the smoke enough. The tongue will reveal different flavors in different spots (I believe it's sweet on the tip, bitter in the back, and umami and sour on the sides).
Both but I find if the blend is too spicy it can irritate. I still retrohale when it is spicy but cut it back. I think at least for me the retro is where I get most of the flavor from the blend. I really love heavy perique blends so I have to be extra careful on those.
My tongue doesn't really pick up much flavor. I rarely do an actual retrohale though, most of the flavor comes from the smoke sort of hitting the sinuses a little before it exits the mouth. The olfactory senses as a whole is what produces the flavor.
Always always always retrohale... I couldn't imagine the point of pipe smoking without it... even when eating food a significant portion of the flavour you perceive comes from scent.
Now, with cigars, I still retrohale... but I make a point to do it much lighter... say, exhaling 90% of smoke from the mouth first and the last 10% or so from nose due to the much higher pungency. Whereas a pipe I do 50/50 all the way to near 100% retrohales.
When I smoked cigarettes, and the rare occasion I still do, I would always exhale primarily through the nose. And, believe it or not, I was never addicted; just a social/occasional smoker. But I enjoyed the flavour which is why I exhaled through the nose. I posit that you can tell those cig smokers who are solely addicted to the nicotine and don't appreciate the tobacco flavour by watching them solely exhaling through the mouth.
Now, with cigars, I still retrohale... but I make a point to do it much lighter... say, exhaling 90% of smoke from the mouth first and the last 10% or so from nose due to the much higher pungency. Whereas a pipe I do 50/50 all the way to near 100% retrohales.
When I smoked cigarettes, and the rare occasion I still do, I would always exhale primarily through the nose. And, believe it or not, I was never addicted; just a social/occasional smoker. But I enjoyed the flavour which is why I exhaled through the nose. I posit that you can tell those cig smokers who are solely addicted to the nicotine and don't appreciate the tobacco flavour by watching them solely exhaling through the mouth.