Anyone enjoy smoking a hookah? If so what flavors of shisha do you enjoy?
Havent tried Hookah yet, but thinking of buying a small one before deciding on a larger/more elaborate one. There’s a hookah lounge here in Seattle but its always crowded, so I havent yet tried hookah there either.
My wife is a non-smoker, before smoking a hookah she never smoked anything in her life. We went to a local hookah bar and she LOVED it so much we had to go buy one. We picked up a small 2 hose hookah and a few different kinds of shisha and never looked back! There are two different kinds of shisha out there. Non-tobacco and tobacco types. My wife calls the tobacco kind “buzzy” because she gets a nic-buzz from it. The other we call tea because it’s basically just that… tea… The nice thing about hookah is that it tastes amazing. I tell people it’s like breathing candy air. You can get different flavors and mix them up to get different results. It’s also a blast when you have friends over and sit around smoking hookah and drinking! If you have never tried it you should put it on your list of things to do!
I really haven’t enjoyed the tobacco shisha I’ve tried so far. They all have some sort of a funky smell/taste that I can’t put my finger on. I will say that I have some vapor stones by Hydro that I really enjoy. Chilling with it and some good music is a fine way to relax even without the nic. I’m too cheap to buy one, so I make a ghetto vortex bowl every time.
The first time I smoked hookah was just the tea (nic free) kind… When we got ours at home I picked up some Starbuzz and Al Fakher tobacco. At first I noticed a different taste, I would almost say it had a little bit of a light “acidic” taste. I didn’t find it strong or unpleasant but there is a different hint of something to the regular tobaccos. I’ve seen the vapor stones and crystals but I’ve never tried them. How are they made? Are they a chemical “synthetic” thing or like a resin or something?
I’m no expert but I’ve used the apple one a few times at a fellow tobacco lovers place. very, very mild to smoke. More direct inhalation - like breathing - than puffing on a pipe. I don’t need another ferocious addiction so I keep it to the odd social occasion.
For those of you interested in it this website is a great place to start. My wife and I have a small Mya QT that we picked up at a local tobacco shop here but you can buy them on this site as well. hookah-shisha.com It is more fun as a social activity… I have only ever smoked it once or twice just for the sake of “smoking” it. Probably because I’m too lazy to clean it and wash everything once I’m done. But if you are looking to try something different it’s a great investment.
Used to smoke shisha regularly when I was working in Dubai, very pleasant experience. I use an eshisha stick occasionally but there is no shisha lounges where I live or any near me I can think of and I wouldn’t use it enough to justify buying a hookha etc (even though they are dirt cheap I am a tightwad lol). Would love to smoke it again now and then though. The Al Fakher is very good, starbuzz I know goes down well in the states and it was certainly very very fruity (only ever tried the apple and strawberry ones).
Starbuzz is great if you don’t want to spend time mixing up your own flavors. They do have some stand alone flavors like coffee or watermelon that are pretty good by themselves but most of the Starbuzz stuff is a mixture of different stuff. I like the Al Fakher because you can get creative with the flavors you come up with. A friend of mine found some unflavored shisha online someplace but we haven’t tried it yet. I’m not sure I would go to all the trouble of smoking a hookah for just “tobacco” flavoring. I might as well just buy a cigar.
Think I like apple and maybe grape, bought some cardomon but haven’t tried it yet. Haven’t smoked one more than a couple of times anyways. Curious about “unwashed” shisha- supposed to be stronger, nic-wise…Also ACID shisha…
I used to use a restaurant in Mayfair that provided hookahs and even my normally non-smoking colleagues used to enjoy them. Unfortunately that all ended with the UK smoking ban and I have not smoked one for years. As has been pointed out above it is very much a social thing so I have never bothered to purchase one for home use.
Never been much of a hookah smoker. I always found the tobacco to be too sweet and always seemed to wake up the next day with a gargantuan head ache, what back in the day what my friends and I nicknamed “The Hookah Hangover”. Maybe I would give it another try if I was visiting a Middle Eastern Country, but never really enjoyed it. I think if where in Egypt I would be more apt to want to try their cigarettes (which I heard are really good).
Never been much of a hookah smoker. I always found the tobacco to be too sweet and always seemed to wake up the next day with a gargantuan head ache, what back in the day what my friends and I nicknamed “The Hookah Hangover”.
Interesting. I’ve tried them in hookah cafes in Jakarta, they’ve been quite a fad over the past year or two, and I’ve quite enjoyed them. But a smoking friend of mine won’t touch them, says they load you to the max with carbon monoxide. That would explain the headache the next day, I guess.
less carbon monoxide then cigarettes per amount of nicotine. Nope a hooka dumps a lot of nicotine into your system fast.
I’m about to get my Hookah up and running some time within the next month or so. I just need to or a hose and some grommets. Plus the charcoal and tobacco.
i wouldnt mind giving hookah a go, i just cant justify getting the stuff to start it off as skint as i am now. shame.
I smoked shisha (hooka) when working in Egypt. Really enjoyed the flavors, and it was very cheap there. Here in the states, it’s too expensive, as most novelties are. Maybe I should “roll my own”.
Have not tried it. There is a hookah bar in Portland (ME) that my daughter and her boyfriend go to once in a while. Plan to try it when we’re down to visit them one of these days.
@Z_2K How are Hookahs a novelty? As new and unusual, or as cheap and gimmicky (Although I guess you do say it’s too expensive)? I paid about $200. Its originally from Pakistan. Basically all I have to do is get a small assortment of supply that would cost about $50 altogether, which include a good supply of tobacco. @mecompco The taste of the smoke is pretty awesome, I would suppose according to your own taste to the marinades of tobaccos. There are all sorts, just like snuffs have many different flavors. The smoke has a real velvet like texture.
My wife really loves smoking shisha and being the loving husband I am, it’s my job to prepare the hookah when she wants to smoke! After all the work I put in packing the hookah and getting the coals going it would just be a shame if I didn’t enjoy it as well. The thing is though, that I turned her on to smoking a hookah in the first place. HA! We’ve tried a lot of shisha flavors and have definitely settled in to a few favorites but experimenting is awesome and we found some Haze Tobacco brand shisha that we love, despite the weird negative reviews I’ve found. I’m about to get some whole leaf tobacco and try my hand at blending my own shisha mix.