The phrase "a quick puff" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts referring to a brief inhalation, often related to smoking or vaping.
Example: "After a long day at work, he stepped outside for a quick puff before heading home."
Alternatives: "a brief inhale" or "a short drag".
He takes a quick puff on his cigarette, then continues.
In the short story "The Chrysanthemums," one of his characters offhandedly describes the flower as "a quick puff of colored smoke".
Lois has a throaty voice, baked hard by half a century of nicotine, and she pauses between sentences to give herself the opportunity for a quick puff.
The tiny bistro where I work, Rosewater in Park Slope, Brooklyn, is too small for even a quick puff in the bathroom.
(Sound delicious? How can it not be?) The Nicotini, as it is known, comes in various forms -- among them a Quick Puff (a single shot) and, more enticingly, a Black Lung (mixed with Kahlúa).
And at the end of it the twenty-nine-year-old rich guy took forty per cent, and all I got was about fifty fucking dollars, after I did all the fucking work and made a million phone calls?" She chews on a French fry, accepts a glowing Marlboro Light from the girl beside her at the table, and takes a quick puff.
She latched on and off my breast like she was a smoker sneaking in a few quick puffs on break every two seconds, and I rarely got a great night's sleep.
During breaks he sometimes springs from his chair and takes the elevator 10 floors down to Hudson Street, where he snatches two or three quick puffs from a cigarette before pinching it out and heading back upstairs.
I have been dying to have a go at a quick version of puff pastry ever since I made Dan Lepard's crumbly mince pie at Christmas, and this week I made my own version using muscovado sugar, producing an apple tart of extreme fragility and butteriness with a perfectly golden, crisp base.
"No," he said taking a quick, gross, series of puffs at his Marlboro Light, "you can finish this".
"No," he said taking a quick, gross, series of puffs at his Marlboro Light, "You can finish this".
