How can you breath in and out at the same time?
Question
Why is it when I'm smoking a cigarette can I inhale the cigarette, but blow smoke out of my nose? So I'm simultaneously breathing in and out. But without smoking, that's an impossible thing to do.Donna, Palmer's Green
Answer
** Definitive **Name: Dave, Westminster
Qualification: I used to smoke, and I'm not stupid.
Answer: I'm glad you didn't give a definitive to Flo, as he was plain wrong! When you have a drag on a cigarette and blow smoke out of your nose, you're not inhaling the smoke. You're just pulling the smoke from the cigarette from your mouth and blowing it straight out of your nose. It never gets to your lungs. The lungs are then expelling air through your nose.
Name: Flo, Woodford
Qualification: A friend is a musician
Answer: Try this - fill your mouth with air, like you're going to blow a balloon up, then blow out through your cheek muscles only, but suck through your nose. With practice, it's possible to keep this up constantly. People use it for didgeridoo and any other wind instruments.
(James O'Brien: Great answer, but I can't go definitive as it's the opposite way to Donna's query.)