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Is shisha harmful? | shisha health | Is
shisha bad for you?
Lifestyle trends and styles tend to change
every other year. While a few of them,
such as going to a local pub for a pint or
two, become an integral part of the local
culture, plenty of others are quickly
forgotten. Shisha smoking has been here
for quite a long time though. Its quickly
becoming a first-choice leisure activity for
more and more people.
Some people gather for shisha smoking
sessions at certain cafes and bars, and
some do it at home in a familiar
environment, but a rare hookah smoker
ever wonders about the true effects of
the habit on their health. Its strange
really: everyone knows about the
extremely harmful nature of cigarettes,
but smoking shisha is somehow widely
considered to be a completely safe, riskfree practice.

However, it couldnt be further from the

truth. Hookah smoking can be as
damaging, addictive, and dangerous as
cigarettes, because the tobacco is no less
toxic in a water-pipe. In fact, a habitual
shisha smoker might breathe in much
more poisonous fumes during an hourlong session than a typical cigarette
smoker inhales in a few days. Obviously,
this can cause a wide array of long-term
health risks, including cancer and heart,
skin, and gum diseases. Please click here
to learn more about the effects caused by
even the rarest hookah sessions.
Pretty much every shisha smoker will tell
you that they can quit anytime and they
keep doing it just because its highly
enjoyable. The nicotine in hookah
tobacco is as addictive as the one in
cigarettes though, so completely quitting
shisha might take some time. Were here
to help though: please click here for our
tips on how to quit shisha quicker and

easier, and here for a list of tools which

can help you to do that.
You can find all the answers about the
reasons for quitting hookah and the best
practices of doing that in our free eBook,
available to download here.

Is Hookah
Smoking Bad for
You?
Hookah smoking is being introduced to people as a healthy
alternative for cigarette smoking. People are being told that
smoking a hookah is safer and will not cause you any harm.
Moreover, it is also seen as a recreational activity, which is why
numerous bars and cafes providing the people a chance to
smoke a hookah have opened up in every nook and corner of the
country.
However, scientific research has yielded some startling results
which all point to the fact that hookah smoking is not as safe as it
had been proclaimed earlier. Researchers have found that

smoking from a hookah has harmful effects on the health of a

human being much like smoking a cigarette and in some ways it
is even more dangerous than cigarette smoking. This article
explains how Hookah works and in which aspects it does harm to
your body.
How does Hookah Work?
A Hookah in essence is a container that has water present in it.
This water container has a smoking chamber in which a unique
type of tobacco is kept and slowly heated, converting the tobacco
into smoke. The smoking chamber has a large bowl connected to
it in which water is present for cooling the smoke coming from the
smoking chamber. This cooled smoke is then delivered to the
mouth of the hookah smoker through a small hose which acts as
the devices mouthpiece.

Its so
dangerous !!
Hookah smoking may seem like a relatively harmless way to spend an evening, but
a new study suggests otherwise.
Just one evening of hookah smoking could make nicotine urine levels spike by
more than 70 times, and also result in the increase of cancer-causing agents,
according to the study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers
& Prevention.

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, examined the urine
of 55 healthy people who had used water pipes, or hookahs, before. The
participants were asked to abstain from any type of smoking for one week, after
which they submitted urine samples to the study researchers.

Then, the participants went to a hookah bar of their choice for an evening, after
which they provided urine samples to the researchers again, in addition to
information on the amount of time they spent hookah smoking, how many bowls
they smoked, and the number of other shared users. The participants also gave
urine from the morning after the hookah smoking session to the researchers.
On average, each participant used 0.6 bowls of water pipe tobacco and spent 74
minutes smoking the water pipes. Upon analysis of the participants urine after
smoking the hookah, compared with before smoking the hookah, urine levels of
nicotine were increased 73-fold and levels of cotinine (which is a metabolite of
nicotine) were increased four-fold. In addition, levels of the breakdown products of
chemicals known to increase cancer were increased in the urine, including NNAL
-- which was increased two-fold -- and the breakdown products of volatile organic
compounds -- which was increased 14 to 91 percent.
While other studies have also shown that hookah smoking is associated with
increased levels of toxins that can lead to health risks, this study is unique in that it
reflected the effects after a normal night of hookah smoking. Other studies
typically involve smoking hookah in a clinical setting.
Given that water pipes are frequently smoked in social settings and shared with
multiple users, the exposure from controlled clinical research studies may exceed
what shared users are exposed to in a naturalistic setting, they wrote in the study.
Therefore, biomarker levels reported in this study represent more realistic
exposures to tobacco smoke toxicants.

12 Secrets You Should Know

About Shisha

The information about the effects of Shisha in the body had been written
and read by many. But people want to read more about this sensational
Shisha. At present, people wont believe a thing without facts on it. So one
would like to know the important details about what about Shisha that
makes people so intrigue and what sets it apart from cigarette. Facts about
the inside story why Shisha had the particular effects in the body and why
Shisha users want more of it, making them smoke more and more
everyday. Does Shisha contain more harmful substance than cigarette
smoking? Are there similarities and differences between the Shisha
waterpipe and cigarette as to the modality of the harmful substances it can
deliver to the body of the user? Questions like these need answers.
This is a point where you ought to know more about Shisha. Here are
important secret facts that you need to know.

1. Same effects with cigarette.

Smoking Shisha and breathing second hand smoke from waterpipes can
be presumed to have similar effects as exposure to cigarette smoke. The
belief of some that Shisha is harmless only leads to their own destruction.
Shisha is as dangerous as cigarette smoking.

2. Shisha contains more carbon monoxide.

Shisha contains carbon monoxide (CO) in amounts equal to or greater than
that from cigarettes. CO replaces oxygen on red blood cells, making it
harder for the body to
deliver oxygen to vital organs which can later lead to organ damage.

3. Shisha smoking has cancer causing substance.

Smoking Shisha contains significant amounts of nicotine, levels of costic
compounds such as tar, carbon monoxide (car exhaust), heavy metals like
cobalt, and lead; and a host of cancer causing chemicals.

4. Prone to Addiction.
Shisha smoking produces similar increased blood nicotine levels and heart
rate as cigarette use. The inhaled substances trigger chemical reactions in
nerve endings, this release dopamine; which is associated with the feeling
of pleasure. This seems to play an important role in nicotine addiction. A
Shisha smoker is still smoking tobacco and the nicotine in it causes
dependence after using it for several times.

5. Charcoal in Shisha increased the risk of diseases.

Unlike cigarettes, Shisha smoke may also contain charcoal or wood cinder
combustion products from the heat source used to burn the tobacco,
increasing the cancer-causing agents in the smoke. Apart from the harmful
effect of the chemical, the end product produced by the charcoal only
intensifies the damage it can cause to the body.

6. Damaged different body organs.

Shisha smoke is associated with increased risk of disease including cancer,

heart disease, lung disease and many other deadly ailments. It might not
be noticeable now but the harmful chemicals are already slowly damaging
certain parts of the body of a Shisha user.

7. Shisha delivers more smoke in the body.

Of concern, smokers of water pipes may be exposed to even more smoke
than cigarette smokers because water pipe smoking sessions last from 2080 minutes during which a smoker may inhale as much smoke as that from
100 or more cigarettes. This only magnified and multiplied the effects of
smoking Shisha.

8. Known by many names.

So be informed to be familiar, Shisha are one name for
waterpipes, which is a method of smoking tobacco. Other names
include: hookah, boory, goza, narghile, nargile, arghile, and
hubble bubble.
9. Shisha has a flavoured tobacco.
The most common form of tobacco smoked in a water pipe is called
Maassel, which is sweetened and flavored in such flavors as apple, mint,
cappuccino, etc.

10. More rampant in some counties.

Shisha water pipes are most common in areas of China, India, Pakistan,
and the Eastern Mediterranean Region, as well as United States. Also to be
noted, that Shisha outlet had been showing up like mushroom in different
parts of the globe today.

11. Shisha has adverse effects during pregnancy.

Pregnant women smoking a Shisha are putting their unborn child at great
risk for low birth weight and other birthing problems.

12. Shisha can spread infectious diseases.

Other health risk includes the spread of infectious diseases like
tuberculosis, herpes, and hepatitis. Viral infections can be transmitted

Smoking Hookah May Be Worse

Than Cigarettes
Research Shows Hookah Session Can Equal 10-40
Cigarettes
ORLANDO, Fla. -It's become all the rage with University of Central Florida
college students, but smoking a hookah may be more
hazardous than cigarettes .
Most of them think smoking a hookah is much less of a
threat to their health than smoking cigarettes, but the
research is alarming. It turns out hookah smoking may
be much worse.
On a recent Tuesday night at Natura Coffee and Tea near
UCF, the shop was filled with college students who'd
come to smoke hookah.

Assistant manager Mary Mobarak prepares the hookahs.

The base is filled with water. A stem connects it to a bowl
that holds a sticky lump of shredded, sweetened tobacco
called shisha. Foil goes over the tobacco.
"You poke holes in it because that's how the smoke
actually gets through once the coal goes on," Mobarak
said.
The hot coal goes on top of the foil. When a smoker
sucks on an attached hose, it pulls air past the coal,
which heats the tobacco and creates the smoke that's
deeply inhaled after it bubbles through the water.

RESOURCES

1-Wikipedia
2-Newspaper

3-http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthyliving/quit-smoking/expertanswers/hookah/faq-20057920
4-http://www.lung.org/associations/states/flori
da/news/top-story-in-the-news/smokinghookah-may-be-worse.html
5-Books (( how to stop smoking , the little
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