Teaching a New Blog Old Tricks

That's right - smoking tricks. Marijuana and tobacco users don't always see eye to eye, but ever since humans realized they could inhale certain things and get fucked up (I'm assuming), they've been trying to do cool things with the smoke after it does its job. 

We'll start relatively easy, with the first trick I learned, the French Inhale (or Irish Waterfall). It's really as simple as opening your mouth and breathing through your nose after a nice rip. You canuse the tip of your tongue to arch the smoke towards your nostrils - or even towards one in particular. You also might have to inhale a little harder than you normally would, but a minute or two in front of the mirror should have you inhaling like the French in no time.

I actually performed this next trick before I even knew what it was, and it's actually a pretty difficult one to get consistently - The Snap Inhale. Now I had no idea what this was called before I looked it up, but it's a pretty fun trick once you get the hang of it. Take a nice big hit (pick your poison), and before inhaling - the smoke must be in your mouth! - slowly open your mouth in an "O" shape and gently let a puff of air out by moving your tongue or jaw. Quickly inhale through your mouth, sucking all of the smoke back into your lungs.

The last, and most impressive trick I'm going to discuss is, of course, the Smoke Ring. To be honest, I just got this trick down a couple weeks ago, and I'm still practicing. If you've ever asked anyone how to do it, I'm sure you got an answer something along the lines of "make an 'O' with your mouth and just like, blow, or something," but I never really realized what that O shape was... it's not like whistling. The image to the left gives a pretty good picture of the shape of your  mouth, and the other trick is that you don't exactly blow the smoke out. The movement is similar to the Snap Inhale, in that it just requires a subtle moving of your mouth to push out a cloud of smoke - in this case, in the shape of a ring. 

These three tricks are really the foundation of all smoking tricks, and if you can get them down, you have the components to really do all sorts of creative things with your smoke. So go ahead: be a dragon, make a heart, or just exhale....