Nina Marta instructs: “Remove the cigarette from your lips. Keep your mouth closed like you have a secret inside. Now, without moving your mouth muscles, open a tiny hole in the back of your throat and take a sharp, deep breath through your mouth—just like you just surfaced from a swimming pool.”
“Cough?” Nina asks. “A little,” the student rasps. “That’s the tickle. It goes away by the third puff.” Most beginners cough because they try to exhale all the smoke at once like a dragon. Nina Marta teaches the "Sailor's Exhale"—a slow, controlled leak. nina marta teaching a beginner how to inhale smoking
The student repeats this 10 times. Suck into the mouth. Hold. Release. This builds muscle memory for the "mouth draw." Nina Marta insists that 90% of coughing comes from trying to pull smoke directly into the throat via lung power. The mouth draw solves this. Once the student masters the empty straw drill, Nina introduces the "Darth Vader" pause. After the student draws the mock air into their mouth, closing off the throat, they must hold it there for 3 seconds. Nina Marta instructs: “Remove the cigarette from your lips
Leo grins. “I did it. That didn’t hurt.” “A little,” the student rasps
This slow exhale prevents the rapid temperature change that triggers the cough reflex. When you blast smoke out, cold air rushes in behind it, shocking the bronchi. Slow release means no shock. In a popular unlisted workshop video titled "Nina Marta Teaching a Beginner How to Inhale Smoking (No Cough Method)," Nina works with a student named Leo, a 24-year-old who has never smoked anything due to asthma anxiety.
For anyone who has ever watched a novice smoker take their first drag, the scene is painfully familiar: the polite but awkward puff, the cheeks puffing out like a blowfish, followed by a cough that sounds like a seal barking. The problem isn’t the product; it’s the technique. Inhaling smoke into the lungs is not a natural human reflex. It is a learned skill.
