How Long Have You Been Smoking?

[PSU Smoker]

Hookah for about a year and a half.
Cigs and cigars occasionally for about 4 years and cigs regularly for 8 months or so(?)

No huge difference in health. Im working on getting in shape now so we shall see...Cigs affect me more than hookah tho

[shesha1]

I have been smoking shesha for 17 years. The only probs. I have had was enlarged prostate. I am 33. and if I smoke too much like 8 bowls a day of OG tangiers, my prostate will enlarge, and give me all kinds of fkn trouble.

So I have to smoke Lucid, a lot of AF. I can only smoke one OG every 1-two days.

Im am relativky healthy for the amount I smoke.

6'1 170lbs. I used to be 184 of rock hard muscle, but then I was diagnosed with Cancer ( unrelated to smoking), and I dropped some weight.

I think I will be smoking until my last breath.[img]http://www.hookahforum.com/public/style_emoticons/default/ylsuper.gif[/img]

[nars2k]

I have been smoking for about 5 years now. Health wise I have been somewhat effected but only recently. I have CH bronchitis (had it since before I smoked) and if I smoke too much in a day my bronchitis hits and all hell breaks loose. Other than that Ive been having a lot of issues since my last bronchitis. I have had mucus for the past 2 months and it doesn't seem to be going away. I smoke a head everyday and occasional 2 or 3 heads on weekends. Going to stop for a short while hopefully it stops the mucus.

[thatonethere]

I'm probably the N00b on the forum. I've only been smoking hookah for 7 mos. The hookah doesn't affect my health, but cigs do. I've cut way back on cigs. I've noticed a scratchy throat from the cigs, but nothing from the hookah. I plan on permanently replacing the cigs with the hookah. I've done an experiment were I put down the cigs and exclusively smoked hookah, and I've felt a lot better than I did when smoking just cigs.

[A13lackFish]

since i was about 16 and looked old enough to get into the local hookah bars im turning 21 this year.

Generally no big health issues, though i do notice (as i previously ran alot of cross country) that i cant run nearly as far without running out of breath as i could previously. Comes with the package though so oh well.

[bigtoepfer]

I have too noticed the mucus problem lately. I'll try here pretty soon setting it down for awhile. But seeing as I work in a hookah lounge for about 5 months now I've smoked almost daily. Where as before that for the last 5 years I only smoke occasionally maybe like 2 bowls then not again for a couple of months. But I've never noticed an ill side effect from it and the doctors never said anything about my lung capacity in an ill way.