[PiccoloNamek]

When you go to take a drag on your cigarette, do you suck the smoke from the cigarette directly into your lungs, or do you suck the smoke into your mouth first and then inhale?

Personally, I prefer the latter, especially with the harder cigarettes like Nat Sherman or imported kreteks. If I try to inhale the smoke directly, it burns my throat, and I feel as though I'm not getting an even distribution of smoke in my lungs. I don't like the feeling of getting "hot spots" in my trachea or lungs. Sucking the smoke into my mouth first allows me to inhale it evenly all at once, and dilute it a little at the same time.

[cooljay788]

Direct inhaling gives me a "high" feeling compared to dragging the normal way. That's one difference I notice between direct inhaling vs. normal inhaling.

While it's true direct inhaling gives me more of a "strong hit" in my lungs (which feels awesome in my lungs), I never experienced a sore throat while doing direct inhales sometimes. I never experienced sore throats period while smoking the "normal way" in my life either.

[barfly]

You younger smokers can handle taking "direct" inhales now. Enjoy it while you can. If you have a light smoking habit - meaning you only smoke a few cigs a day - this probably won't happen to you but, if you smoke a lot of cigs a day, eventually that direct inhale is going to make you cough your brains out or you may even keel over dead from doing that.

[cooldude]

Originally Posted by cooljay788 I never experienced a sore throat while doing direct inhales sometimes. I never experienced sore throats period while smoking the "normal way" in my life either.

Yeah, well, you're either a young person with healthy lungs and you just started smoking this week or you are eating a lot of throat lozzenges and cough drops. Maybe you got a prescription for something like anti-biotics or something that makes you not feel the irritation from the heavy clouds of smoke from your "Direct" inhales as you call them. I never even heard of a direct compared to just a regular old inhale into your mouth first and then inhale it. You must be hard up for reefer around there (if you smoke reefer IMA). If you got to drag on it that hard to get a nic fix.

I just make the regular kind of inhales. I hope I never need it so bad that I got to take direct inhales like I'm dying without it or somethin'. That's sort of like mental patients in mental hospitals used to be allowed to smoke all they wanted and their fingers and fingernails would turn nicotine-yellow and thier chins too from having to have that real hard drag so badly. I guess they outlawed smoking in mental hospitals so now they really are going nuts in those places.

[cooljay788]

With all due respect, cooldude, I've been smoking for actually 11 years now and counting. If being almost 31 makes me younger than an elderly person, then I'll take it. But I can confirm I ain't in my 20s or teens for that matter.

A pack of cigs was only 3 bucks 11 years ago. And I remember the days of smoking/nonsmoking areas in restaurants back then.

And no, I don't take sore throat medicine. LOL!!!!!

Doing a direct inhale isn't as hard as the folks on here make it sound. Just take a deep breath without literally sucking on the cig like a straw. Pretend you're taking a deep breath of fresh air instead.

Direct inhales are not scary as some make it sound either.

BTW, at least one pack per day for me doesn't make me a light smoker in my eyes.

[bobbyT]

how is it even possible not to have it go through the mouth firs,t the cigarette, by definition, gets inhaled into the mouth before passing into the lungs, no?

[cooljay788]

Originally Posted by bobbyT how is it even possible not to have it go through the mouth firs,t the cigarette, by definition, gets inhaled into the mouth before passing into the lungs, no?

Oh I have felt the difference several times between the two inhales over the past decade as a smoker.

On a normal inhale, I can feel the smoke going into my mouth as I suck the filter. And when I'm done dragging, I of course inhale the smoke that's in my mouth.

On a direct inhale, I don't feel the smoke "building up in my mouth" during the drag. Instead, I feel the smoke going directly down my throat.

And since that smoke goes directly down my throat, I can feel a buzz-like feeling when doing a direct inhale.

I remember my eyes watering when I first tried direct inhaling in my early 20s. I didn't cough my brains out though. I probably did cough once on a direct inhale, but I can confirm it was smoke I coughed out and not phelgm or blood.

[Smylex]

I only smoke a few cigs. a day so when I inhale I do half and half. I don't have a smokers cough so I'm happy.

[luigi]

I do both. Usually the light up drag is a direct hit to the lungs then a mixture of both for the rest of the cigarette.

[NewYorkCountryBoy]

Im a new smoker and i direct inhale. i never knew there was other ways to smoke. Ill try having it go in my mouth first then inhale next time i have a smoke. About how long can you smoke doin direct inhale without problems?