How To Retrohale Without Retrohaling

[shanez]

If you're like me you have difficulty retrohaling. I can't get the smoke to come out of my nose or I fry my nostrils trying.

I've found the following method very helpful:

With your pipe going properly, breathe in first, take a small or regular sip/puff/whatever, gently blow the smoke out entirely with your regular breath. The moment the smoke is gone, close your mouth completely and tightly. (I even push my tongue against the roof of my mouth.) With your mouth closed force the last little bit of breath you normally don't exhale out of your nose. You should notice an instant burst of flavor.

You can practice this even without a pipe. It's just forcing the last little bit of air from your lungs out of your mouth through your nose. Plus, since no smoke actually goes through your nose, there is no burn.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

This is the only method with which I would consider smoking a pipe.

 

[bullet08]

Been smoking since 12. Don't really think about how it's done. Just happens.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Gonna try that this evening.

 

[Charlie718]

Even though I can retrohale this sounds like it can save me from A LOT of pain and issues farther down the road.

 

[BROBS]

If as you let the smoke out you kind of go “smack smack smack” with your lips like a chef tasting soup you’ll do it automatically

 

[Charlie718]

Been smoking since 12.

Same here, I started smoking cigs and hanging around the local cigar shop and watching the rollers work there magic. The Ol’ School Dominican gent who ran/owned the shop handed me a rum cigar and said “here kid you’ll like this better then those cancer sticks”

 

[Charlie718]

I just thought about how I retrohale and it’s just like I was making a growling noise. That will open the sinus passages to your mouth. Except I stop short of growling and just exhale smoke out my nose like a sleeping Smaug

 

[olkofri]

I was able to do it with cigarettes, without inhaling. There was just this unique motion I had learned to make with my throat muscles to pull the smoke into the pharynx and then exhale it whichever airway I wanted: nose or mouth.

After taking up the pipe, I somehow lost the ability to perform said motion. One of the last times I had a cigarette and tried, the smoke would not stop at the pharynx but go lower and I started getting sick from nicotine intake. Beats me why the pipe messed that good thing up, but I can't do it anymore. Now, tt all goes into the mouth and out the same way.

 

[LikeDadDid]

If as you let the smoke out you kind of go “smack smack smack” with your lips like a chef tasting soup you’ll do it automatically

BROBS you're a genus

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

BROBS you're a genus

Your definition definitely doesn't correlate with mine.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

You throat inhale. Try it for four or five bowls and you should get it. You don't need to smack your freaking lips, growl or any other silly bullshit. Can you imagine four pipe smokers sitting on a bench smoking, growling, smacking their lips and whatever contortions being described to smoke their pipes? People would think they're phuktards.

You may draw some into your lungs at first but it shouldn't take long to get it. Once you do, it basically becomes automatic.

 

[Charlie718]

Can you imagine four pipe smokers sitting on a bench smoking, growling, smacking their lips and whatever contortions being described to smoke their pipes? People would think they're phuktards.

Sounds like the start of a good slapstick to me lol

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I did it before I knew what it was called. I just knew that I could taste the tobacco this way. I had to do some research to make sure I wasn't swallowing the smoke.

 

[BROBS]

BROBS you're a genus

I have always felt more like a phylum.

 

[JKoD]

Truth.

You don't need to smack your freaking lips, growl or any other silly bullshit.

 

[JKoD]

I have always felt more like a phylum.

Is that in the species?

 

[bullet08]

Been thinking about how I do it. Only thing I can say is exhale through nose with slight pressure from back of tongue. Not sure if that makes sense. If you can breath with your nose, you should be able to do it.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

I’ve honestly never understood how some people can’t retrohale. I was shocked to see so many that can’t when I joined the forum. I also was a bit amused that the practice had been named.

 

[weezell]

BROBS you're a genus

OH , here we go...