PeaceinIsrael Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Hello fellow hookah smokers, new and weathered! I have been smoking nargila (hookah) for about 2 years now pretty consistently ( about once a day on average) the reason I say on average is because recently it had gotten to be alot more, whereas when I started it was about 1-3 times a week. Anyways I am in a voice class at college now and despite my incredible singing voice (Best in class I have been told by the professor) I can feel it going!!!! So to test the power of nicotine addiction AND my own willpower I decided to suddenly go cold turkey on my hookah's ass 2 days ago. It is strange to feel nicotiene trying to work its power over me...........at random times I tense up really tight and my mind tries to justify breakin out my nargila. Even now I feel the desire to run into town and pick up a box of tobacco mmmmmmmmmm kiwi sounds sooooooooo good right now. Anyways I need input. I'm not doing this as some health-nut, just as a study for entertainment give it a try! take a few days off to see how hard it is. I did not realize till I did. And trust me you'll appreciate it a lot more after ur version of "the study". POST UR RESULTS AND COMMENTS. Me? I donno, i'm gonna see how long I can last probably end it for the weekend.btw...... does anyone know if I will be able to start back slowly? or if I try it again, will it draw me back to my privious 1-3 times a day dealio?Im not sure how nicotine works.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imagelessdude Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Ive felt this... I went from smoking 3 times a week... to nightly... to several times daily. Then I went on a [hookah-less] vacation. Ouch. Worst 3 days ever. Now I'm once a day/every other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamminJonah Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 My previous experience(s) with cigarettes showed me that it's pretty much 100% will power. Nicotine is addictive for sure but you can overcome it with a strong mindset or creative mind (camping in the woods without bringing your smokes and thus you have no access to smokes).The hardest times not to smoke are those that you habitually smoke. For instance if you have a hookah with your morning coffee or if you smoke right after a big dinner - those sort of scheduled timings, you won't forget this. It's pretty Pavlovian - those times of day will trigger cravings because those are the times of day you smoked.Try to find replacement activities for those times and it makes it way easier. Another tip, the longer you can wait to smoke the better - obviously nicotine interferes with sleep so you don't want to do it right before bed but your lungs clean themselves pretty well overnight so the longer you can wait to smoke gives your lungs a better chance to clean up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerodynamic Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Good luck with that. I had to go cold turkey a few weeks a ago for a few days.Lets just say I didn't feel quite right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASUSEAN1 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I went from smoking about 4 hours a day for about 2 months to not smoking at all for 2 weeks. It was more of a personal choice thing, i play hockey and i could feel the lungs work. I had an urge to smoke but after those two weeks were up I started hitting the hookah again about 2 times a week and havn't felt the neeed to smoke more than that. I think this pattern will continue for me until summer and then I will probably smoke once a day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shavo989 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 (edited) I've noticed in my days where I had to go without tobacco there's a period of about three-four days after you kick the habit where nicotine has a wicked graps on you. But once you get past that, it's like you never started smoking in the first place. At least that's my experience. Going cold turkey is better then using gum or patches or attempting to ween yourself off of tobacco, in my humble opinion. If you go those routes your body is still getting nicotine, albeit less and less, but once you get to the stage where your nic intake is so low that you stop, you still got the period to get over; and, in my belief, that's when most people give up quitting, because they're still fiending and they go back to the tobacco. So just try and make it a couple more days. You should wake up one day and find the cravings have vanished. Then a couple of days after that (just to make sure you don't go on an insane relapse) you could go on a less hard core smoking schedual, like a couple times a week.Good luck, man! Edited February 22, 2007 by Shavo989 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camelflage Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 interesting. ive been smoking for over a year, often at least once a day. but every now and then i will get super busy or take a trip home without the hookah for a week or so and ive never had any cravings. i just credit it to the low amount of nic in the shisha makes it harder to develop a dependancy on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeaceinIsrael Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 That could be very true I smoke nakhla which has the highest nicotiene value. BTW I wasn't thinking of quitting, just testing nicotiene's effects for fun! I will start again when the weekend rolls around. See you all on the other side! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scheetz Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 LOL, I have no addiction to hookahs. I can go for months without smoking. Sure I would like to but its not like I start shaking or foaming at the mouth. I brought it with me over my weekend boarding trip and never even touched it. Hell I have gone over a month with out an issue. I think you guys need to get used to not putting things in your mouth. How much do you guys weigh? Buck ten? cause the nicotine shouldn't have any effects on you because of how low it is. I think its just a mental thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shavo989 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I was gonna mention something like that. Are you getting these cravings from hookah and a combo of other tobacco products or is it strictly hookah?My only experiences with nic fits came from my cigarette intake. Hookah has no affect on me addiction-wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cypherkk Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 (edited) Most "uppers" tend to be short lived in the human body... coccain, nicoteen, caffeen etc... It can leave the body in just a few days, some even 2-3 It usually takes a week to withdraw from the actual chemical. Many of them also have similar effects on the body. If you have one such as caffeen it may make your body feel as if nicoteen was in it. This may stimulate the body to desire the other.The biggest problem with addiction in these kind of drugs is habbit. It takes 45 days to break a habbit according to psycology studies. You would prob. feel the desire to smoke hookah well after any kind of nicoteen has left your system.So... you may be waiting a while. Edited February 22, 2007 by cypherkk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyGuy Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I think it's all mental... but I have no porblem not smoking hookah... and have randomly dropped it for months at a time... I guess I just don't have an addictive personality though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaara Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Do what I do. For the first few months, I felt the urge to smoke more than I usually did which was about once or twice a week. So being the health-freak that I am, I was afraid to go on addiction so I lent out my Hookah to my friend. Whenever we go out to a party or drinking (every Thursday's or Saturday's), he would bring the Hookah and we'll smoke. For a while I just wanted to take my Hookah back and do it when I felt but after a year and half routine of the same thing, I just got used to it and don't feel the urge to do it anymore except once a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camelflage Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 QUOTE (Scheetz @ Feb 22 2007, 12:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>LOL, I have no addiction to hookahs. I can go for months without smoking. Sure I would like to but its not like I start shaking or foaming at the mouth. I brought it with me over my weekend boarding trip and never even touched it. Hell I have gone over a month with out an issue. I think you guys need to get used to not putting things in your mouth. How much do you guys weigh? Buck ten? cause the nicotine shouldn't have any effects on you because of how low it is. I think its just a mental thing.haha, yeah i think its partly mental too, and at two and a half bucks, it takes a lot of anything to effect me. i know there is such a thing as chemimcal dependancy, but from the research i have done it is in conjuction with how you are using the substance. if you smoke hookah because you think it is what relaxes you after a hard day of work/school/crazy monkey sex then your mind will start to associate relaxation with smoking hookah, and slowly your brain will start to form a *need* for the hookah smoke to give you that relaxation effect.my couple pennies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymptom Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I usually smoke once or twice a day, but I came down with an upper respiratory infection last Thursday and haven't smoked since. I can't say I've noticed nicotine cravings -- I just really want to smoke because since I've gotten sick I've had 6 new flavors come in the mail and I can't wait to try them. I could smoke now, but I've still got a cough so I'm just trying to wait until that goes away a bit. I wonder how long I'll wait before I give in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafeSearchOff Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 i didnt read all of the posts because I'm tired... but I lightly skimmed, and I noticed a few ways to quit...from experience I can tell you going cold turkey is probably the worse way to quit, it raises hell on the body. my brother is an avid cigarette smoker, and he smokes about a pack and a half to 2 packs each day. over the summer we took a 13 hour plane (connections and the like, not smoking lounges to be found) ride to Greece. After just 6 or 7 hours, he was already getting pale, and his mood was noticably changing. When you smoke a crapload, you build up a dependency onto those certain chemicals, mainly nicotine, and going cold turkey shocks your body crazily. If you want to stop smoking you should tone it down like from 2 sessions a day to 1 session a day over a week or two, then every other day, etc, till u dont really need the nicotine anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymptom Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 QUOTE (cymptom @ Feb 23 2007, 04:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I wonder how long I'll wait before I give in...Lets see, that was 9:27... I lasted about an hour I jinxed myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allia22 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 QUOTE (cymptom @ Feb 22 2007, 09:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE (cymptom @ Feb 23 2007, 04:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I wonder how long I'll wait before I give in...Lets see, that was 9:27... I lasted about an hour I jinxed myself *applauds* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymptom Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I don't know what happened... all the sudden I was packing a bowl of kashmir apple and then the coals were lit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camelflage Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 QUOTE (cymptom @ Feb 22 2007, 10:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I don't know what happened... all the sudden I was packing a bowl of kashmir apple and then the coals were lit you know, maybe the hookah is addicted to you..... it just cant keep away from you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonMac Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 what college are you at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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