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Retrohale
Ever since I got retrohaling down, I’ve wondered if I’ve set myself back on cigar smoking. I know this may sound like an odd question, but retrohaling has opened me up to so much more than I enjoyed in the past, is there anything I’m missing by not just puffing occasionally? For lack of better words I’m addicted to it, and now I can’t NOT do it.
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I find myself wanting to know what the retrohale taste like as well. Some people don't care for it at all. To each their own.
You can pick up different flavors by the speed and which you retrohale too. Letting the smoke out at different speeds will give you different results.
I'm not sure I could stop retrohaling now, it's so automatic. Michael Herklots who helped resurrect the Nat Sherman brand into Ferio Tego, warned not to retrohale on the first several puffs when you light the cigar because the char can blow out your senses. Even doing this is hard for me. I don't see any benefit from not retrohaling, at least after the initial light and burn off, except maybe to prevent sneezing from a really spicy stick.
Retrohaling makes my nostrils get all brown on the inside, especially the left one as that one is more free-flowing than the right one.
It also turns my moustache yellow.
I used to do it all the time but not so much anymore. Maybe I’m missing out.
A real man retrohales.
Retrohaling certainly opens up some new flavors, I just try not to do it too much as I don't want to become desensitized.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Just me 2cents... if you're only smoking 3 or 4 a day, I don't think retrohaling will desensitize anything.