Where Does The Buzz From From?

[Hippo_Master]

Nicotine and Carbon Monoxide poisoning + lack of O2. The latter is if you smoke too much too fast, or on an empty stomach, or slightly dehydrated.

Basically it is just the Nicotine. Otherwise why would I get a huge buzz from Desi and Tangiers, but non from STarbuzz and the likes? Simple logic.

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[Bulldog_916]

What I mean by the nicotine is a percentage of the volume of tobacco means that if you have 1g of cigarette tobacco, it's 12% nicotine using Newports as an example. With shisha, it's far less, <1% per gram. That means that even if you smoked 50g of shisha in a bowl, that doesnt mean that you're smoking 50% nicotine. It just wouldnt make any sense. You're adding the relative amount of nicotine per gram of tobacco to get your final result. You smoke 1 bowl of shisha a day, that doesnt mean you smoked the equivalent of 15 cigs. It doesnt jive.

o no i agree with cigs compared to shisha, but my quick research lead me to find you only get about 1mg of the 9mg of nicotine in a cig (the other 8mg is burned off), so ya there is probably about 10% but you only get 1% nicotine form the cig weight.

nicotine wise i would say that a hookah smoker gets more nicotine over a shorter period of time, and if smoking a bowl of hookah was like 10-15 cigs i would be coughing my arse off since i smoke 2-3 hours a day of hookah and dont have a cough at all, yet if i smoked a cig the next day i would cough some

-matt

If that was so, they would actually be more addictive than cigarettes. This might actually be so the way some of us go at it. I only smoke maybe 2-3 times per week. But some do that in one day. It might now be too easy and too cheap to smoke hookah and not get addicted to hookah chemically or habitually. Now we really have to look at the addictive quality of the activity. Most will say they arent addicted, but I doubt that's the case for all of them.

I may have to cut it back to once a week again. We'll see how it goes.

[mattathayde]

What I mean by the nicotine is a percentage of the volume of tobacco means that if you have 1g of cigarette tobacco, it's 12% nicotine using Newports as an example. With shisha, it's far less, <1% per gram. That means that even if you smoked 50g of shisha in a bowl, that doesnt mean that you're smoking 50% nicotine. It just wouldnt make any sense. You're adding the relative amount of nicotine per gram of tobacco to get your final result. You smoke 1 bowl of shisha a day, that doesnt mean you smoked the equivalent of 15 cigs. It doesnt jive.

o no i agree with cigs compared to shisha, but my quick research lead me to find you only get about 1mg of the 9mg of nicotine in a cig (the other 8mg is burned off), so ya there is probably about 10% but you only get 1% nicotine form the cig weight.

nicotine wise i would say that a hookah smoker gets more nicotine over a shorter period of time, and if smoking a bowl of hookah was like 10-15 cigs i would be coughing my arse off since i smoke 2-3 hours a day of hookah and dont have a cough at all, yet if i smoked a cig the next day i would cough some

-matt

If that was so, they would actually be more addictive than cigarettes. This might actually be so the way some of us go at it. I only smoke maybe 2-3 times per week. But some do that in one day. It might now be too easy and too cheap to smoke hookah and not get addicted to hookah chemically or habitually. Now we really have to look at the addictive quality of the activity. Most will say they arent addicted, but I doubt that's the case for all of them.

I may have to cut it back to once a week again. We'll see how it goes.

while i am addicted habitually i know for sure the chemical addiction is not as bad as my friends that smoke cigs, if they dont get a smoke they freak, where as if i dont get a smoke, ya i want it but i can keep doing what i need to do and concentrate, i really think the extreme cravings related to cigs are from the extra stuff added in, not the nicotine

-matt

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[AJW]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but if the nicotine is what gives the buzz.. Does this mean that shisha that is washed give less of a buzz?

correct for the most part, some times part of the "buzz" is really coming from the stuff released buy quick light coals or from breathing deeply and frequently but for the most part it does come down to the nicotine

-matt

I'd like to know where you heard that.

[mattathayde]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but if the nicotine is what gives the buzz.. Does this mean that shisha that is washed give less of a buzz?

correct for the most part, some times part of the "buzz" is really coming from the stuff released buy quick light coals or from breathing deeply and frequently but for the most part it does come down to the nicotine

-matt

I'd like to know where you heard that.

im not saying a huge part of the buzz does but for the simple fact that QLs give more CO that alone will give more of a "buzz" to some people
-matt