Nausea

[Dogseatfood]

So the other night, I was smoking with some friends. One of my friends got really nauseas! like he was pale and sweating. I mean I've had this happen to me before.
Is it something with the hookah? to much food that we ate? not enough oxygen? <<---- (that's my guess.)

Ever experienced this before? if so! know any causes/reasons?

[Hassouni]

Typically it's either not enough oxygen (in which case, breathe! space out the drags), too much CO (make sure your coals are fully lit), or both. I find a cold drink helps, as does stepping outside for some fresh air

[Dogseatfood]

Cool! thanks man!

[SoWz]

Depends on what type of shisha you were smoking, sometimes people that aren't use to a high nicotine shisha might "hog" the hose and as a result feel a bit sick. Either way that person should take more time in between drags to get more oxygen etc as stated above.

[Arcane]

nicotine.

[Dogseatfood]

We went from Romman to Al-Fakher. so it's probably just getting used to it.

[Hassouni]

Al-Fakher has very low nicotine levels. I would double my guesses on either not enough O2 or too much CO. With super strong stuff like Tangiers, the above guys are right, it could be a heavy nicotine buzz. But not from AF

[Arcane]

[quote name='Hassouni' date='31 July 2010 - 09:34 PM' timestamp='1280648092' post='477253']
Al-Fakher has very low nicotine levels. I would double my guesses on either not enough O2 or too much CO. With super strong stuff like Tangiers, the above guys are right, it could be a heavy nicotine buzz. But not from AF
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it actually depends on your tolerance to nicotine...

[fineout]

could be a mix of things, make sure your coals are totally totally lit, when first started i would get the coals started by breathing in on the quick lights, had a few times where i ended up puking because of it. also the nicotine could definitely be a part of it. take some more time between hits, youll be fine.

[joytron]

yeah i am really sensitive to nicotine and when i first started smoking AF would give me quite the buzz

[Atrox79]

This used to happen to me a lot and I never knew what it was from. It wasn't nicotine for me, nor was it taking huge pulls (not enough oxygen). For me, it happened every time I used Exotics coals. For some reason I have a really bad reaction to these. I may be very sensitive to them because no one else I know has that reaction (pounding 6 hour headache, sweating, increased blood pressure, nausea). Your friend could have been sensitive to the coals or it could have just been the nicotine for him.

For the record, once I switched coals I never had a bad reaction again.

[kyleSD]

i get this about once a week. When I'm smoking something will trigger my gag reflex but it only happens once and it stops for the rest of the sesh. I have no idea why, I use coco's and clean hookahs so it's nothing to do with that. I think it's like others said just a nicotine overload.

[joytron]

[quote name='kyleSD' date='02 August 2010 - 03:19 PM' timestamp='1280787580' post='477388']
i get this about once a week. When I'm smoking something will trigger my gag reflex but it only happens once and it stops for the rest of the sesh. I have no idea why, I use coco's and clean hookahs so it's nothing to do with that. I think it's like others said just a nicotine overload.


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have you been smoking from the dildo hose again?