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Hookah....addicting?


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I smoke 2-3 cigs a day. But I haven't smoked hookah in more than a week. Obviously I miss it greatly. I have a source of nicotine right now, but I still really want to smoke my hookah. I think that it is more so a physchological addiction and a way of life than a chemical dependence. No one can deny the some nicotine is present in shisha and can create an altered chemoneurological balance, but from my experience I would say that my cravings, at least, are not nicotine dependent.
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I am like most people on here. I smoke about 1-2 times a week in cycles, I will smoke for like a couple months at 1-2 times a week than go about 1-2 months without touching the hookah at all mainly due to time constraints and inconvenience. If I was addicted I would go out of my way to make sure that I smoke some hookah but I dont. To me when I have the craving to smoke it is a way to relax and most of all when I think of smoking hookah I immediately associate it with relaxing with friends and just hanging out on a nice night. That is what I will say is addicting the social atmosphere that I associate with the hookah but not the hookah itself. Keep in mind that I have been around hookahs for my entire life as my mom smokes it.
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Ok, thats good to know.... I'm a Neurosciece major, so I know how nicotine works in the brain. It really depends on how much nicotine is in the tobacco.

FOR THE RECORD, there was a post made earlier about you brain "growing" more Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, your brain doesn't grow more receptors. Now, you can strengthen or weaken the myelin sheath.....

here are some wiki sites about it..... not all of it is correct though!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinic_receptors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron Edited by zachf88
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Everyone's responses are going to be a bit different.

I was an on again, off again cigarette smoker for years. I loved smoking cigarettes and they were a very enjoyable part of my day. But I was never physically addicted to cigarettes, such that I would become sick or dysfunctional without them.

To the contrary, for me, cigarettes were pretty self-regulating - if I started to smoke too much, say approaching half a pack a day, my body would just stop wanting cigarettes. The enjoyment wasn't there, and I'd naturally cut back without any effort at all.

And during the times when I am not smoking cigarettes, I don't miss them at all. I haven't smoked a cigarette in about two years. I've gone longer than that without one in the past.

I haven't been smoking hookah long enough to know how it is going to affect me, but I suspect that, like cigarettes, it will be self-regulating. I love smoking hookah, it's really fun, relaxing, enjoyable. But it's also a little bit of a hassle to set it up, keep the coals going, and clean it when I am through. I am a lazy person, so this will necessarily limit the amount of hookah-smoking I do.

Also, my body self-regulates, as it did with cigarettes. I had a great session last night, smoked a bowl of AF lemon for 2+ hours, and it was fantastic. But today I feel a little tight in my throat and chest, and it's unlikely I'll light up the hookah again tonight - I probably won't want to again until the weekend.
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i smoked 1-2 good bowls everyday for a few months then went strait into smoking on the weekends only and had no itch for hookah. just flavors. plus its alot easier to smoke wiht your friends then alone
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