Addicted To Hookah?

[pullingteeth]

does anyone know if the nicotine content in shisha is significant enough to cause a nicotine addiction? just out of curiousity. lol

[NickReppinThe909]

we have been over this a bunch of times may i suggest the search feature ?

[Snoopy1966]

I only smoke Tangiers so yes I think I have a nicotine addiction. It is not like cigarettes at all, I smoked for many years. I can deal without Hookah, but I do smoke a few cigs if I am out playing in our Band. American Spirit Menthol lights ftw!!

[Stuie]

I say no, but my wife says yes, I just like to sit down and smoke, like most guys sit down and grab a beer.

[AzZ]

For me there is no addiction. However I haven't been smoking shisha with a high nicotine content. Even so, the nicotine is not enough to get me addcited

[bjelder]

I believe that yes it can be addicting.

[Bulldog_916]

I dont think so. I've smoked Tangiers, Nakhla, Al Waha, Layalina, Fusion, Starbuzz, and a few others and none of them have a sufficient nicotine content to make me addicted. Addiction needs involuntary impulse. Every time I smoke hookah it is voluntary and free of impulse. I smoke when I want to, in other words, not when my body tells me I need to.

[cheezerman]

Undoubtedly, yes, shisha contains nicotine, which is undoubtedly addictive.

But few people here will admit to it.

[peterjmag]

Some topics on the matter:
http://www.hookahforum.com/?showtopic=22967
http://www.hookahforum.com/?showtopic=22208 Edited August 12, 2008 by peterjmag

[mattarios2]

for me there is no addiction, i am currently in mexico for 12 days, havent smoked anything at all, no addiction or temptation for it at all.

[Canon]

yes, theres a small addiction part to it, its not only the nicotine, its the social part, the smoking outside part. its alot harder to smoke alone then to smoke with friends or outside looking at nature.

[ryno]

I really dont think that theres much of an addiction.... I agree with Canon on the social aspect. I smoked alot by myelf this summer, but it was hard to smoke alot. Now that I'm back down at school with some friends, we smoke all the time.

[TizaNabi]

Smoke many times a day working at home by the p.c. Still , if travelling Wouldn't think of taking even a mini along. Jewish holidays or every Sabbath we don't light fire so I'll skip that weekly and after the 25 hours are over I often get to work and don't smoke.As much as I smoke, it's not a physical withdraw ever.
I think though it's an individual,personal body thing.

[hookah hippie]

Nicotine is addictive I think though you will more likely become psyhologically addicted then physically addicted to hookah

[Giant Ninja Robot]

LINKY!!!

Worth posting here since it states that light users (3 pipes a week) are 90% and moderate users (3-6 per week) are 50% likely to be unaddicted to hookah smoking, thereby declaring that by scientific testing hookah has been found addictive but depends also on a person's physical chemistry and genetic makeup.

If you for some godforsaken unknown reason have not read this article, do it already!

http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/5/1/19 <<< great stuff!!!