NorthEastSmoker Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 How did everyone get into hookah?Up here, slightly north of East Nowhere, hookah is an unknown thing.. A friend I graduated high school with had a college roommate from Jordan, and brought home a small syrian over one Christmas break several years ago, with some Romman Grape.. I think I ordered my original syrian from Hookah-Shisha the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
web250 Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Had a friend who mentioned it, and said I wanted to try. Few weeks later, she asked me to come over to a friends house with her (I knew the 3rd person also), and smoked (forget which flavor!)...and I loved it.Smoked 3 more times after that before I finally convinced my parents to let me buy one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuschultz Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 One of the other RAs on my staff my Soph year was from Iraq, and introduced the entire staff to the hookah. It became a custom of ours to have a hookah at every staff meeting.The rest is history! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShishaFred Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 My boss and a couple of employees at my job had one , so we'd light one up during meetings. Nakhla Double Apple was the first one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachslusser Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Well I had gone to a local smoke shop for some cigars and they had hookahs and i looked at it and was like well hell why not so i bought one(I sometimes impulse buy) i talked to the guy at the shop and he told me how to set it up and thats really all it took. Ive been all about hookah ever since. I still have that little one that i bought that day. First flavor i ever smoke was apple of some type it was really red and wet. smelled very good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhansengranger Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Started by going to a lounge a couple times with friends, then we bought our own =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyGuy Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Fraternity crossing party 40s,hookah, bonfire... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunkenWizard Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I first saw them in high times magazine. I smoked the "bad" stuff out of a hookah meant for the other stuff. Finally had the real deal when I moved here to Tucson at my friends place and at Smileys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordanneff Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 About 6 months ago I was out with my friend and his girlfriend and we were at his college campus. His gf had tried a hookah somewhere before and knew of a hookah lounge just off campus. Neither me nor my friend smoked anything (and I had never smoked so much as a cigarette in my entire life) but the idea of tobacco being flavored sounded appealing and I was like "what the hell, I might as well live a little" so we all went and smoked strawberry nakhla (which I found got harsh often but even then I liked the flavored while it lasted) and I enjoyed the experience. Didn't smoke again for another month or so and then I went out with 2 different friends (neither of which who had smoked a hookah before) and we tried double apple and both really enjoyed it. Two more trips to hookah lounges and I was hooked. Just this week my friend and I pitched for a hookah and some shisha and we plan on getting together with about 3 other people and smoking it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allia22 Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 ACen Hookah Guys. Good times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cafesaden Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 about 3 years ago I moved from las vegas to north california. soon after I left Vegas it got extremely popular there. my buddy from vegas came to live with me and was like you dont konw what hookah is? And i was like no... so we drove 40 miles to the nearest hookah lounge and ever since then I havent gone a week without smoking. Now its soon to be my business.first flavor was Red Star, and still one of my favorites. its a custom handmade tobacco by this local lounge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerodynamic Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Hrmm... I was at a friends of a friends place.... kinda a 21st bday party... they brought out this smoking device... I didn't know what it was.My buddy Jeff called it a Hookah. He packed in a bowl of AW orange and got it going. I took my first puff and the rest was history.That night I first tried it, my bowl of AW went for 3 hours. I smoked literally 3 hours striaght.. by myself.The next week, I bought my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imagelessdude Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 (edited) Went to the local cigar shop while they were having a hookah party, they let me try for free, and 2 nights later a friend and I went back and bought a MYA First flavor: Layalina Peach, mmm Edited February 28, 2007 by imagelessdude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popete Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Well I had wanted something weird for when I turned 18 for awhile, and I figured no one else I know has a hookah (except my brother but he lives in Minneapolis so I never even saw his). Cause all my friends when they turned 18 took up smoking cigarettes and I didnt want to get a addicted and I dont like cigaretters much. So I decided to get something classier and bought my hookah, I love the thing and now all my friends love it too and always want to smoke it with me so I converted a few people over to the hookah way. I had never smoked one before I bought it, so its lucky that I liked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVS Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My friends had been going to hookah bars for a while, and i never went. One night i broke up with my girlfriend, decided to make a night of it and go all out, so i told my buddy i wanted to go to the hookah bar finally, he had been trying to get me to go forever. So we went, i think we got lemon, smoked for my first time and i loved it. Then i went and got drunk. Been hooked on it ever since. If anyone knows the upstairs cafe off the 215 and central in riverside... thats the first hookah bar i ever went to. It was definately a memorable night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fewwdragon Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 firefly lounge with a whole bunch of my buddies espailly a friend named monk ... visit it at fireflybar.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafeSearchOff Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 I believe I was .... 16. My friend was half lebanese, and his dad brought him back this 28 or so incher from lebanon and some shisha. Needless to say hookah became my forever love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbedguru Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My first time with a hookah was when i went to NYC to visit my friends and they told me about it and we smoked two or three throughout that day and i was hooked...I bought a lil hookah and smoked it now and then; but now a hookah cafe opened up in my town so its a weekly tradition to go out with my coworkers and smoke a couple of hookah's and talk for a few hours....every weekend i get more and more people into the wonderful smoke of shisha in a hookah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 A friend of mine went to school in Whales and when he came back for the summer brought home a hookah. he picked it up in jordan when he went there. I was very sceptical at first and did not try it the first time i was introduced to it. but then after sitting and watching several of my other friends try it and heard how it was smooth and not harsh, i gave it a wirl. Ive now been smokeing for 3 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akkbar Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 I have been smoking after dinner at my lebanese friend's house since I was 10. His family had a fatuta for the kids and the adults had a gorgeous 40 incher. When we were 16 or so, we graduated to the adult arghile. I only got my own 3 years ago. I intend to continue this ritual with my kids... and for once my fiance agreed with me! I'm getting married this June.HELP ME!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angemonkwj Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 my best friend was in the marines a few years ago and had to go over to Iraq for a bit. he actually got a hookah from over seas and was able to ship it home before they started checking the soldiers bags and gear for "contraband". well a few months after he got out me, my brother, him, and his wife all moved in together. he decided one night that he wanted to smoke it and i was like "eh, what the hell. i'll try it." and that's all she wrote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaara Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Best friend from diff. college introduced it to me when I went up to visit him. Smoked only at lounges for a while before I bought my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvansLight Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Oh i hate admiting this...My first experience was using it in that way we dont like to even mention. A couple of people we knew where going to be smoking some special blend, and i had never had that stuff before, so i tried it. I loved the flavor of the strawberry, and just how awesome the hookah was. I was only 17 at the time, so it wasnt until a little over a year later when i finnaly got to try it again. Sisters friend took us to a hookah bar, and i got to smoke again. Then around 6 months later, a few friends and myself went, it then became a every other, if not every day thing for a few months. Then i started looking for my own, then we got a cheap one from the hookah bar that was a shared one.Things moved on, and eventually i didnt really smoke anymore. Then last summer, for my 19th BDay, my sister and i split the cost of a SS hookah, my first one that was actually mine, and then a few weeks later i got a QT. Long story, but i count when i got my first as when i really got into hookah smoking That was when i joined these amazing forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 I first got into smoking a hookah through an old flame. I was in school at the time, and we were talking about when she lived out in San Fran, and would visit the hookah lounges. I was curious about it, so I went out and picked one up from the local headshop (should have seen their faces when I actually asked for the tobacco and coals sitting under the counter.), took it back to my place, and lit up. CD (short for caterpiller dreams) was a good hookah for only 60 dollars, (even if his smoke release valve never did work right) And i was pleasantly surprised with the tobacco I chose (HookahHookah brand apple, if I reember right). After CD got stolen by my flatmate, I went on to purchase another hookah, and i've been a faithful smoker ever since (been smoking about 3 years now) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilTank13 Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 QUOTE (fewwdragon @ Mar 1 2007, 12:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>firefly lounge with a whole bunch of my buddies espailly a friend named monk ... visit it at fireflybar.com.Finally, someone from the NE ohio area! We should hit up the firefly sometime! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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