What Was Your First Hookah Session Like & How Did You Start?

[Rowe2ry]

I find it interesting how much the hookah has gained popularity recently. I think it would be interesting to share how I started and I encourage you to do the same.

I hadn't heard of the hookah until about august 2008 as I started my Freshman year at SPSU. It was there I met two separate friends who loved hookah smoking. One was a chick named Jensen who I would help studying and I still see from time to time, and the other Geoff, my now really close friend. I had seen them both use their hookahs occasionally and I remember one night when Geoff was smoking. He kept talking in a low demonic voice as the smoke exited his mouth, and I was then in hurry to give it a try. It reminded me of how helium can be fun to talk with to get a laugh with friends and I wanted that feeling. So after a series of slowly inhaled and slowly talked out puffs my head felt light, and I remmeber liking the sweet air I was breathing. I also was very amuzed by my new found smoke talking trick (new to me). I didn't realize until a little further in that I felt relaxed, happy, and a little liht headed in a good way. Geoff told me that was the hookah buzz. I've enjoyed ever since

[TheyCallMeDave]

Out of an old chinaman, smoking behind a shed so no one saw... Haha. Havana Pomegranete. No matter how shitty of a hookah or shisha it is, your first smoke will always be awesome. And it was. Haha.

From there, I just grew into more knowledge, better shisha, better pipes, better sessions, and finally joining the forum and here I am!

[jorlyfish]

I first smoked when I visited a lounge during a precollege program at the college I now attend. My roommate and a few friends of ours went to a local lounge and shared a few hookahs. I remember one being a rose-mint mix, I forget what the other one was, but a fruit flavor. After that, I started going to lounges back in my hometown with my friends my senior year of high school. I bought my first hookah the following summer with my then-boyfriend and we smoked at his condo frequently.
I didn't smoke as much my freshman year of college. My roommate was really anal about just about everything, and I knew she wouldn't be okay with me smoking in our room. I visited the lounge (the same one where I smoked for the first time) a couple times a month, often writing papers or studying while I smoked. I bought my own hookah last summer, knowing I wouldn't have a roommate to answer to, and have been enjoying frequent sessions in my own room ever since.

[The Jester]

We were on our school trip to Spain a year and a half ago, and on the fourth day two friends bought a crappy pumpkin hookah for a third friend back here. So they wanted to try it out since they had coals and Nakhla mint. I was always the clean guy on everything, I still dont drink and hookah is my worst habbit, but I had nothing against it and didnt know what would happen later. The problem was, there were 6 of us and only one guy knew some basics since he smoked once or twice. They prepared a bowl, a have started a coal. 20 minutes and 2 more wasted coals they just couldnt get anything going. They were trying to pull something but because of lacking experience they were a bit scared. The friend was puffing gently on the hose and then I took it out of his hand (I just couldnt believe they were such female reproductive organs). I pulled like an idiot and got it going. we smoked for about 3 hours.

The next day I bought my own crappy pumpkin hookah.
This friend still holds a grudge against himself for addicting me. XD

[agunn1231]

my first session was at this guys house, went there with friends, and my ex's cousin brought out a small mya hookah. I Loved it. i was nervousat first about coughing, but the pull was so smooth...a week later i bought my own hookah. An Inhale from a local shop. even though i was underage the guy didnt speak much english and sold me it any ways. from there my collection grew, myfirst really good quality hookah was a no name egeyptian, it still smokes great. and my collection has gotten pretty big now

[ih303]

The Velvet Hookah, Dallas, TX, 2006. I guess that place shut down a few years later, but it was then that I first fell in love with hookah culture (or at least their brand of it). To be honest, I was a nub back then and to this day have no idea what kind of hookahs, hoses, bowls, coals, or tobacco they used. All I know is that my buddy and I got Banana, and it was effing amazing. The seating there was very open, and since we came on a busy night they plugged us in between to other groups with scarcely room to breath. At first we didn't like it, but before long we were swapping conversations and hoses with everyone around us. It was so different than anything I had ever experienced, and I loved it.

My buddy ended up buying one online (again I have no idea what kind), and I kind of mooched off of him for a while (I was married at the time and my wife wasn't too keen on me smoking). After we seperated, though, the cat was out of the bag and I wanted to do something super crazy to celebrate my new-found freedom. So after researching online (like I do with everything), I purchased my own hookah - a Mya QT with a Tangiers Phunnel and Razan hose. And as they say, the rest is history.

[Cp44]

It was about 12 years ago and I was at a friends house having a party. One of my best friend went to Egypt and brought back a hookah and bought some Nakhla Strawberry. I didn't want to smoke but was peer pressured into it, i was weak back then hehe. It was love at first smoke. I was like WOW this is amazing, of course my virgin lungs back then couldnt handle it too much. But I got used to it real quick.

[NJE03]

My first session was at a hookah local hookah lounge. Some friends took me there not long after mt 18th b-day; the buzz was heavy, the smoke was smooth. Not long after I bought a cheap hookah from a headshop and went from there.

[Epoch]

A friend of mine goes through hobbies like crazy. One day he told me he bought a hookah and needed some help smoking, so I decided it would be a great time.

The setup was a generic small Egyptian (I think H-S brand), 3 Kings coals, and Nakhla Jasmine. Neither of us knew much about how to set up a smoke other than what we read on the internet that day, but we managed to get the bowl rockin' and the smoke thick. Being newbies, we puffed on it hard and fast like a cigarette for about two hours. We immediately went to sleep, buzzing our sorry asses off. Woke up a few hours later with a driving need to vomit.

Our next attempt we were much more tactful, and now we're regular hookah enthusiasts. Jasmine remains my favorite flavor to this day.

[dizzbizz]

3 years ago when I turned 18. My sister had some cheap chinese one and let me try it, AF apple. It was EPIC. I was in love after that. Then I bought a bambino knock off and went from there.

[Chreees]

I just turned 19 and went to my hometown of Brownsville to celebrate my birthday with my friends. We went to a lounge in Memphis- the Oasis. They had Sahara Smoke hookahs, crappy Chinese hoses, Starbuzz shisha, and Exotica coals. We got two hookahs, one with Strawberry and the other Melon Dew. Flavor was okay, smoke was weak. Decided to buy my own, a crappy Inhale hookah off of eBay. Also ordered a bunch of little Hookah-Hookah shots. The hookah leaked after two sessions. The eBay seller was nice enough to refund my money. I then came on here and was pointed in the right direction. Ordered a Mya QT from Hookah-Shisha and some AF 50g's from SouthSmoke. Been upgrading from there and now I only smoke Tangiers, use Coconaras, and own a KM OG Trimetal.

[mustang67n]

summer of '06. I went to a huge party with a few of my friends. I didn't drink much back then about to be a senior in High-school. So I sat and sipped on maybe two beers all night. There was a couple of good looking girls there sitting around a 4 hose hookah. It was more of an in for me with the girls, but after I started smoking it, I was there for the smoke rather than the girls haha.

I have no idea what kinds of pipe it was, but the flavor was starbuzz melon.. yumm..

Always smoked with those same people after that.. would go kick it almost daily with them and smoke for about a year. After we graduated we all went our separate ways and I bought a hookah of my own (QT) and kept it at another friends house..

That was the beginning

[Reynart]

My younger brother decided to buy one on his 18th birthday, so we went to a local head shop to get one. He just grabbed a cheap small pumpkin hookah since this was more to be a novelty 18th birthday thing. When we were checking out, the cashier said he'd give us coals for free, but when he went to open the box he was struggling and freaking out until it ripped and they went everywhere. He then proceeded to grab one and put it on the counter and just say: "TWEAKING MAN, YOU KNOW HOW IT IS."

So then we went home and lit it up on our back porch, at first i kept getting little puffs since i had only smoked cigs but then was coerced into trying to take a huge lung-full. I got most of the smoke out but then started coughing my lungs out, but after that I pretty much got it. Then about 3 months later I invested in a Mya Vortex and have been enjoying it since.

[Tom1]

Mine's kind of embarrassing, let's just say I tried it then proceeded to vomit on the person that was passed out next to me. She was mad but I was too drunk to care. (I still don't)

[Rowe2ry]

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Mine's kind of embarrassing, let's just say I tried it then proceeded to vomit on the person that was passed out next to me. She was mad but I was too drunk to care. (I still don't)
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lol this one is really funny! All of these in general seem to be pretty good and interesting.

[Nima]

My first hookah session was under a bridge over a famous river in Isfahan, Iran.

I went there with my family, had some great tea and smoked hookah with my dad. have loved it every since.

[IainUM]

my first few sessions i dont remember too well, as i had been drinking a lot, but it was the summer before going to my freshman year at UMiami, and i was 19. originally i was very against hookah, but after a lot of drinks my friends had convinced me to give it a try, so i did, and loved it. i think my first few sessions ever were with fantasia, and then followed by starbuzz. so i then started going to hookah bars every now and then, but was too busy to do it often. during winter break i smoked a lot at hookah bars and then a good amount at a friend's house. i attribute my friend, danny (who i think just made an account on here a few days ago) with getting me hooked on hookah. so the end of spring semester rolls around and a friend from my floor in the dorms offers me his hookah for free, as he doesnt have enough room to pack it in with his stuff and he lives in paris. that's how i got my first one. smoked almost every day over the summer, then bought a KM and continued to smoke around once a week when getting back to college.

i remember i originally found this forum to try and find a way to repair a hole in my first hookah's base, started posting and lurking and met a great group of people on here, and that pretty much brings me to where i am today, starting to get into the whole tangiers craze, just bought a new base for my hookah, and craving the chance to buy a new one to start a small collection.


edit: i think the 6 month anniversary of when i joined here just passed a few days ago Edited December 17, 2010 by IainUM

[snugz13]

my first session was with a small chinese hookah that was about 12 inches. I started to like it a lot and then began from there