Smoke rings.

[HRPufnstuf]

Can anyone teach me how to blow smoke rings? I can make a ring of mini rings by "whistling" and tapping my cheek. I can make a bowl ring by puffing out sharply on the pipe. I can't make a true smoke ring, a real floater. Help me out, please.

 

[PA Piper Mike]

Well jeez... you can't call yourself a pipe smoker if you can't do that!

Guess it's prob better to do a YouTube search to find a video on it since it's kinda hard to explain in words, but for me, I make an "O" and kinda snap close my jaw with thrusting my tongue forward.

 

[HRPufnstuf]

Well jeez... you can't call yourself a pipe smoker if you can't do that!

I know, right!?

 

[proteus]

Simple. Make a O shape. As you blow out make your tongue in a tube shape and gently move it to the center of the mouth as you exhale slowly.

You can also puff slightly outward on the pipe and make rings from the pipe itself.

It's kinda like whistling. And it's just as hard to describe and teach. Keep trying it will work for you eventually!

 

[HRPufnstuf]

Simple. Make a O shape. As you blow out make your tongue in a tube shape and gently move it to the center of the mouth as you exhale slowly.

It's kinda like whistling. And it's just as hard to describe and teach. Keep trying it will work for you eventually!

This seems to be working! Although the rings are small and do not travel very far. Practice makes perfect - I will keep trying!

 

[Ryan]

When I was young there was some get together I was at where I encountered a pipe smoker. I asked him if he could blow smoke rings. He said he had never tried. I asked him to try, and it wasn’t much. So he took a few more puffs and worked up the ember a bit and got a couple rings out for me. I asked him to do more but he said it made his pipe taste bad and he didn’t want to do anymore. I’m pretty sure I got him to do another one or two anyway.

Now that I am a pipe smoker, I think I understand. I rarely take enough of a puff to get a good smoke ring, and if I did I would be smoking the bowl a little faster than I like. I prefer the flavor when I just sip.

I’m not trying to talk you out of it learning, of course it is sort of fun to able to do it, but I think you pay a little price with the flavor of the pipe.

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[didimauw]

As an ex cigarette smoker I used to blow smoke rings all the time. As a pipe smoker, I never have. Not enough billowing smoke as a pipe smoker. Little wisps.

 

[PA Piper Mike]

Not enough billowing smoke as a pipe smoker. Little wisps.

Yeah... this. The only time I ever do is right after I light/relight. It's really the only time I get a decent amount of smoke to work with.

 

[HRPufnstuf]

I'm finding the pipe does get too hot when I want to generate the smoke to make bigger, denser rings. That being said, I do like the progress I'm making. It would be a cool trick to be able to light and launch a solid ring, though.
Maybe good enough to snuff my match...

 

[Puffaluffaguss]

The crazy thing is I learned smoke rings from cannabis. Thicker, denser smoke not inhaled is really the only way to get real big clouds. Remember, the bigger the O you make with your mouth (pause) and the amount of velocity of the "air tunnel from tongue to O will be the deciding factor in your ability to blow Gandalf size Os lol.

 

[woodsroad]

 

[Sigmund]

Less and cool smoke makes for more flavor. Rings…reserved for cheap baccy.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Gary Allen can…

 

[AcesAndEights]

I learned to do smoke rings with cigarettes back in college. Haven’t smoked a cig in 20 years. I only do it now when my daughter asks. But yeah, not sure I can explain without showing.

 

[bullet08]

First, don't exhale the pipe smoke for awhile. That will give you enough smoke for two or three rings. Don't have to puff. Second, yeah make O with mouth. Third, have you seen those Airzooka things? It's just like that. You have to push the smoke in your mouth out with fast tongue movement. Flat and some what vertical tongue pushing the smoke against the O shape of the mouth. Usually this will generate good size, stable ring that will hang in the air. You need a place with no air current to practice.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

 

[sardonicus87]

I never used my tongue to make smoke rings. I just popped air through the center as I was gently breathing out. Do you know what a glottal stop is? Basically kind of like that, but small amount of air forced out at high velocity from the throat. It's like a quiet, quick "pop" but again, from your throat, not tongue or mouth. I don't know how to explain it.

That's how I always did it. I dunno what all this tongue pushing or darting mess is.

 

[renfield]

Rings schmings. I want to do a 3 masted sailing ship.

 

[bullet08]

Rings schmings. I want to do a 3 masted sailing ship.

I'm sure there are skilled tongue piercing technicians/artists to help rearrange yours for you.

 

[gkunkel]