jjanecka wrote:So seriously every time I've tried to retrohale something happens where the back of my throat gets scorched and then I involuntarily breath in real hard and start coughing uncontrollably for about 5 minutes. I think I'm just not built to do it. :(
It took my BIL 6 months to learn how to do it, but he is a bit slow......heh!
I wrote a pretty detailed cheat sheet on how to do it, but can't remember if I posted it here, or on another site.
Basically it's like this:
1- Take a deep breath, and while holding it, take a small to medium sized puff on your cigar
2- Blow a little smoke out of your mouth, stop blowing the smoke.......close your mouth tight while pushing your tongue up flat against the roof of your mouth.
3- With your mouth still closed tight, exhale through your nose.......BUT NOT ALL of your air!! You want to save at least 1/4 of your air to end the process by exhaling the last bit of your air, and any smoke left, out through your mouth, so that when you inhale again, there is NO residual smoke left in your mouth.
It's like riding s bike.......once you get it, you got it.
Practice, and soon you'll be able to do full draw retrohales, alternating between retro and normal exhales on the same puff. Light retro smoking, etc. It really does open up a whole new level of flavor experiences.