Has anyone else got into smoking a hookah? I moved to an are where there are hookah lounges everywhere. I just bought one online for home use as well. Any favorite shishas? Likes and dislikes in general?
Chap at work said he smokes one in the evening. His favourite baccy is some kind of apple flavour.
Apple is very good. Its an odd technique, you inhale as though you are just breathing in as opposed to puffing like on a regular pipe and the smoke is deceptively cool; the tar must be off the scale although I guess the water filters some of it.
Yes, if you want to smoke your lungs just like a kipper this must be perfect for it.
tars not to bad doesn’t make it good for you but…
No worse than regular heavy cig smoking I’d think. probably not much better though…
The medical information is kind of strange more then better or worse. For example it seems to cause less disease but more likely to give you lung cancer faster. With a hooka you vap the tobacco. Of course this actualy seems like it would probably make an occasionaly hooka healthier then an occasional cig.
Cause the numbers I looked at are for regulary hooka smokers who don’t smoke anything else. Imagine smoking a hooka everytime you wanted some nicotine. imagine smoking a whole bowl everytime. Pretty crazy stuff.
I smoke my hookah everyday. I am a big hookah fan. Really i like all tobacco’s except cigarettes (although i still smoke them at work) Plain black hookah tobacco is the best in my opinion.
@thendrix65804 - What is this black shisha you’re talking about? Could you provide a link?
I think he means the plain molasses one.
Favorite- Al Waha Plum. Smooth, sweet(lots of flavor), and huge clouds. Second choice- Romman Cinamon. Just like the candy to a candy apple.
I was thinking about trying shisha in my desktop vape. I tried pipe tobacco in it, and ugh… was that nasty. I think I vaped the casing right off. 20 seconds of nic buzz and 3 hours of incredibly nasty after-taste.
I have a friend from Germany and he says most of his friends and many people around 20 smoke a hookah. He hates cigarettes, pipes and snuff but looooooves the hookah.
I have a collection of 4 hookahs two made in Syria and two Kahlil Mamoons made in Egypt. Nakhla flavors are my favorite so far.
@Servetus - How does Nakhla compare to Romman shisha?
I have yet to try Romman, as I understand it, it is one of the better grades, probably much better than El Nakhla. I got the Nakhla primarily because it is more “old school” than many other brands.
I have no idea what brand I used but the green apple and the strawberry were delicious
Nakhla Zaghoul is much like pipe tobacco, strong, lots of vitamin N. Their coffee flavor was good, and strong as well. I have some Sweet Melon I’m going to try sometime. I recommend you join a few hookah forums www.hookahforum.com but a word of warning, if you even mention NHT (the “special herb”) you’ll get the banhammer! LOL
Thanks man!