Do You Inhale With Your Chest Or Diaphragm When You Smoke?

[Brandon`]

How exactly would you inhale with your Diaphragm? When I inhale, I usually inhale smoke then breathe back in without letting out any smoke. Would that be my chest?

[mattarios2]

check the link i posted

[SultanofSmoke]

guilty on both charges.

[ewanj6]

mutually exculsive, you cant do one with out the other, to enhale is to use both diaphragm and chest muscle (mainly pentecostal) muscles, they increase the chest cavity area, hence decreasing the pressure in lungs, hence drawing in air ( or smoke when using hookah). so i think you e.r. doctor is talking bollocks - for reference my sports and exercise science degree would be more suitable thatn doctorate - its more specfic

[ewanj6]

by pentacostal i mean intercostal - being drunk when typing doesnt help

[seefoodlover]

we need a hookah forum jam band! lol

[mattarios2]

Bbut i think the idea is that you use more chest muscle when TRYING to breath solely with your chest.

I don't believe he meant its 100% one way or the other.

His point was to FOCUS on using the diaphragm, and the pain should go away ... and that is what I am seeing as every day passes.

So I believe he was correct for the most part, he may have just worded things a bit funny.

[Jacob Shock]

i inhal with my chest, and i do it long, deep, and hard.

[Hassouni]

hehehe Jacob that's really become your stock phrase huh

[E_Weazy]

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And to answer your question, I do both. When I smoke normally I just use diaphram, and when I take deep breaths its the forced inhalation.