Are you interested in playing a fun trick in front of your friends or experimenting with science using water vapor? Try blowing smoke out of your mouth without smoking. This can be done in a number of ways, but the end result is the same: you can produce small circles made of water vapor or powder. With the right techniques and tools, you can create smoke like vapor or powder in the air that can trick others into thinking you're smoking.
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Method 1 of 2: Using Cold Air
Step 1. Find a source of cold air
Cold air can help you to create moisture from your mouth, which will appear in the form of smoke. If you are in a place that has cold temperatures, use cold air outside, or use cold air from the freezer.
It's very easy to use air in cold places, but since many people already know how to do it, it's not a great way to make smoke. If possible try using a freezer because it can give a more interesting effect. Keep in mind that because there are so few sources of cold air coming from the freezer, the smoke may be difficult to create or barely visible
Step 2. Take a deep breath
Open the freezer and take a deep breath. Try to put your face as far into the freezer as possible so you can breathe the coldest air. When you are outside, just breathe in the cool air that surrounds you.
Step 3. Exhale
After taking a deep breath of cold air, exhale through your mouth. This should be done in a cold environment, so don't remove your face from the freezer. The combination of your warm breath on a cold surface or area will create visible smoke.
- For a thicker, longer-lasting smoke effect, try exhaling on a piece of glass. After inhaling cold air, immediately exhale your breath into the glass. The glass should also be so cold that the difference in temperature between the cold glass and your warm breath will create a smoke effect. After exhaling on the glass, the plume of smoke you create will condense on the glass, so the smoke will last longer than if you exhaled through the air.
- This "smoke" is formed because when you exhale warm air, the water vapor molecules produced by your breath transfer energy into cooler air. This makes the water vapor molecules move more slowly and bond together to form a mist made of tiny water droplets, and that's what you actually expel from your mouth.
Method 2 of 2: Using Tools
Step 1. Purchase a smoker for the theater stage
There are many products you can use to create artificial smoke on stage, one of which is called "Pure Smoke". This product is similar to an e-cigarette, but it doesn't work by inhaling the smoke, but rather by producing vapor when you press the trigger.
- This device uses AA batteries as a power source, which is connected to a long cable at the end of which there is a trigger mechanism that can be pushed. This mechanism is designed to be attached to the chest, but can be placed anywhere. A tube is attached to the mechanism that connects to the end of the dispenser, which you can place near your mouth so it looks as if you are smoking.
- Pure Smoke produces steam similar to a misting machine used on stage, but with a lower amount of steam.
- When you purchase this product, you will receive 11 cartridges, which contain approximately 850 puffs of smoke. It might be a little expensive for some people, but it's effective!
- When buying Pure Smoke make sure that you buy a type that is specifically used to create artificial fog or smoke on stage. There are several other types of Pure Smoke used for hookahs and e-cigarettes, so you should avoid these products.
Step 2. Make or buy toy cigarettes
This can be very useful if you want to trick someone into believing that you are smoking a real cigarette. These toy cigarettes can be purchased online, or you can make your own. The trick that can be used with this cigarette is to exhale the smoke, not by inhaling it.
- You can make a toy cigarette with a sheet of white paper, then roll the paper, and glue the ends to seal the roll of paper. Place a cotton swab at one end of the roll, then pour white powder on the other end. Now blow the coil from the other end and you will look like you are smoking!
- Be aware that these cigarettes do not last long. You can indeed produce a few puffs of smoke, but since the smoke you create is only from the powder in the cigarette roll, you can't use it for long.
Step 3. Use Smarties (a candy product)
Make smoke in a unique way, using powder made from mashed Smarties. You can do this by smoothing the candy and rolling it in a piece of paper like in a toy cigarette, or just use the wrapping paper.
- If you are using the wrapping paper, crush the Smarties inside the package without opening it first, then open one end of the wrapper and inhale the Smarties powder and then blow it out of your mouth.
- Unlike toy cigarettes, you have to inhale the smoke from the Smarties, but don't take in too deep a breath. Try to hold the air in your mouth, not allowing it to flow down the back of your throat and into your diaphragm.
Tips
- Do this trick if you are in good health and are able to do it. If you have the flu or have a nose problem, it's probably best not to try it.
- Don't blow too fast when you blow smoke out of your mouth, as the smoke can be invisible.
- Once you've mastered these steps, create an even more stunning effect by tilting your head so that you're looking up at the sky. Then blow the smoke.
