After a music jam with by bud jimmer, we decided, since it was Saturday to get out my old hookha pipe and fire up some Nahkla citron flavored tobacco. I used to do a pipe every day, but it was getting to my lungs and so I cut it back to once a month or so. My nicotine levels got so high I was a little stumbly. Took a nap and didn’t snuff again until about six hours later. I thought about snuffing, but never got around to it. Interesting.
Hope your OK, your not saying much!
Cant beat a hookha. I went to Turkey a couple of years ago and the choice of tobaccos was unreal.
Sound like that thing really hits hard! You get nausea?
No nausea, just a huge buzz. I’m glad I cut back on this habit, to only now and then. I enjoyed it thoroughly and my lungs aren’t much affected by the occasional hubble bubble session. I’d love to go to Turkey some day!
Do people inhale hookah smoke?
Most do.
Its a strange thing, because you have to apply so much suction to draw the smoke you more breathe it in than puff on it like an ordinary pipe.
Most people put too much water in the vase, and this makes drawing hard. I only cover the down pipe with no more than an inch of water. Of course a tight seal at all fittings makes a huge difference too. When properly set up, the draw should not require much effort.
I’d like to try it someday but I dont think I’d like to have a big hookah pipe in my house. Too much of a weed connotation. I just wouldn’t want to hide it from or explain it to my daughter. Though it’d be easy…“this is what the caterpillar on Alice in Wonderland does.” Plus I don’t smoke in the house so I’d have to take it outside. Actually I do want one LOL
I just got one for my wife for Xmas and of course couldn’t wait to try it. I can see the attraction for some but I’m not into flavored tobaccos so much myself. The blends we got were only about half tobacco and the rest molasses and flavors. Getting huge hits is easy but the nicotine is so diluted neither of us could catch much of a buzz but we both admittedly have high tolerances. Maybe you can get straight tobacco blends too, I’m sure they’d be more powerful. I think the attraction of the Hookah is more social and of course the blends taste great too. I don’t see how one could not inhale it either as you have to breathe it through such a long travel from bowl to mouthpiece. I can see using this every once in a while as the flavors are excellent, not lightly flavored like some fruity tobaccos. The assortment of flavors is huge too and she’s really enjoying it so I’m glad I got it. 
The pipes Ive seen in use in Turkey are massive and with a large volume of water in use. Watching them being smoked, it is very much a breathing in type of action rather than puffing on an ordinary pipe. The pipes that I’ve seen onsale at home are tiny by comparison.
you want to get a big lung full of smoke and breath it out slowly. The rule with hookas is huge hits.
Yeah, I agree, its closer to doing something other than tobacco than doing tobacco. Man.
Ahh, yeah we were just smoking the ‘shisha’ tobaccos. I suppose with the prodigious clouds from the Hookah, “other than tobacco” would certainly impart a huge buzz. 
Since I quit smoking cigs (thanks to snuff) I have been thinking about taking up the cigar or pipe, as a once a day “treat” to myself. The hookah’s starting to sound like a better idea. I ordered a free sample from a website i found out about through this forum. Any advice about choosing an inexpensive hookah, or anything else for that matter?
Cigars and traditional pipes are a good alternative for a daily treat because you don’t inhale (well, most don’t). It felt like I smoked a pack of cigarettes in an hour after I was through with the Hookah, that for me will be very occasional. From what I read, the Hookah is much higher in tar but has only a fraction of the nicotine of a cigarette. Just delicious flavors though, anything good comes with a price in this world.
You tend to only see hookahs in head shops, so if thats where you end up buying one make sure you get a tobacco hookah rather than a water pipe for weed. A true hookah will have the receptacle where you put the glowing charcoal - which you need to smoke the extremely moist tobacco. A water pipe may look the same but will just have a pipe bowl on the end and you wouldn’t be able to smoke the hookah 'baccy. You can get inexpensive brass hookahs generally made in India that do a good job.
I just assumed I would have to order a hookah online, any recomendatios? Thanks for the tips thus far…
Sorry, don’t know of an online supplier, although they must exist, I would try your local headshop.