How to Use a Hookah

Hookah Smoking
Hookah Setup Guide
Step 1. Place hookah stem (with vase gasket) into the glass vase. The fitting should be airtight.
Step 2. Place the metal tray over the top of the hookah stem. Depending on your hookah model, the tray may either fit loosely or snap into place. Some smaller hookahs come with affixed trays.
Step 3. Insert hose end with hose gasket into hose port on hookah stem.
Step 4. If your hookah model comes with an air release valve, unscrew it to make sure there is a ball bearing inside. Screw the valve back on. The air release valve is usually positioned opposite the hose port on the hookah stem.
Step 5. Check the air flow on your hookah by putting your hand over the top of the hookah stem and sucking in with the hose. There should be little to no air intake. If your hookah model has a check valve, with your hand still on top of the hookah stem, blow through the hose. You should hear air expelled out through the check valve.
Step 6. Remove the hookah stem from the vase and fill the vase with water. Put the hookah stem back on vase. The stem should be submerged about an inch into the water.
Step 7. Break up the shisha tobacco as you gently lay it into the clay bowl. You will want to sprinkle it in so that it is loose enough for air to pass through. The shisha tobacco should be filled to the rim of the bowl, but no higher.
Step 8. If you are using a metal screen, place it on top of the bowl. If you are using foil, wrap the foil over the head so that it fits snugly. Make sure to poke holes into the foil so that air can pass through.
Step 9. Place the clay bowl on top of the hookah stem with the bowl gasket in between the hookah stem and the bowl. The clay bowl should fit snugly.
Step 10. Light your coals. If you have instant lighting coals, you can light them with a lighter or match. Other coals will need a stove or a torch. Wait for the coals to become red hot all over before placing them on top of your clay bowl. Break the coals up into smaller pieces and evenly distribute them on your head. Be careful not to add too many coals as your smoke will become harsh.
Step 11. Inhale on your hose. It may take a minute or two before the hookah is smoking properly. Enjoy!
How to Get Rid of Hot Coals
This ones pretty easy, unless your sink is plastic (or otherwise meltable) just run the water in the sink and throw the coals in! The quick-light coals (don’t know about the slow light ones) and ash are very water soluble. They’ll be extinguished when they hit the water and will just disappear down the drain!
How to Clean Hookah Hoses
This can often be a problem affecting your smoking pleasure. If your hose produces ash as you suck through it or if there is a permanent nasty taste (regardless of how much you clean the hookah) then you may need to clean the hoses. Generally hookah hoses will have a rubber or cardboard hose. You can clean both, but the cardboard ones have a very finite life span.
When cleaning it, just run water through the hose in the bathtub. This can be done in a sink, but it’s a little tricky. Run water through it until the water comes out clear. After this, crunch up the hose, or swing it around a little (the goal is to get it flex all around the tube) and repeat this process until you can flex it and rinse it with no dirty water coming out. After this is done, blow through the hose to get rid of some excess water and hang the hoses up to dry. You should notice a dramatic increase in smoke quality after this.
Vaporizers and Vaporizing!

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Vaporizers and vaporizing!

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What is Vaporizing?
When you smoke your favorite tobacco or herb, you are inhaling many hazardous carcinogens. By burning your blend you are ingesting the entire mass instead of what you want – the active ingredient! Users of medicinal and recreational marijuana are often very surprised to find out that smoking 2-3 marijuana cigarettes is as hazardous to your health as smoking a pack of tobacco cigarettes!
Vaporizing is a God sent to anyone who uses herbs for recreational or medicinal purposes. Vaporizer technology allows you to heat up your herbal blend to the temperature at which your herb’s active ingredient begins to evaporate. This process releases the active ingredient in the form of a smooth thin vapor which is then inhaled by the user.
There are many types of vaporizers available on our SMOKE SHOP that operate in different ways. With a direct inhale vaporizer the user inhales the vapor through a tube that is connected to the heating element chamber. Some vaporizers utilize a glass on glass “Vapor Wand” which you apply to the heating element. Balloon devices will fill up a large bag with your vaporized herb – this is great because vapor does not go bad, you can fill up a Vapor Bag and throw it in the fridge and enjoy it later! How cool is that??
The Benefits of Vaporizing
Health – You don’t need me to tell you that smoking anything is extremely hazardous to your health. The inhalation of carcinogen and burnt matter can lead to emphysema, bronchitis or even lung cancer. It isn’t just tobacco products – indeed smoking anything can lead to these health problems. Marijuana smokers are often very surprised to find out those smoking 2-3 joints is just as harmful to your health as smoking a full pack of tobacco cigarettes. Startling right? Although there are many benefits to using a vaporizer as opposed to traditional herbal smoking, the health aspects should be what really grabs you and shakes you up. Switching to a vaporizer is an easy way to cut out smoking which is arguably the unhealthiest habit one can have these days.
Efficiency – When you use a pipe you are losing much of your precious herb to the atmosphere. First off you lose a lot of the herb to the run off – after lighting your herbal blend and inhaling the pipe continues to smoke, that’s your stash being wasted! Also you exhale a lot of the smoke because it doesn’t all get ingested after inhalation, resulting in a loss of even more buds. Tragic I know. This is not the case with a vaporizer though.
Clean and Comfortable – Smoking your herbal blend can be just plain uncomfortable sometimes. Tired of coughing, getting smoke in your eyes or getting blown ash on your clothes? Vaporizer users don’t have to worry about such inconveniences. There’s no need to relight your stash or put out a bogie when you’re vaporizing!
Odorless – The vapor released by most herbs is completely odorless! You won’t have to worry about stinking up your house or bothering your friends/family with that stinky smoke.
Discrete – Many vaporizers have a sleek look to them, such as the Silver Surfer or the Volcano. Bongs or bowls can look very seedy when left out, especially for those of us who regularly have family over. My aunt still thinks my Volcano is an air purifier.
E-Cigarettes…An alternative to cigarettes!
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E-Cigarettes…a healthier alternative to cigarettes!At long last! You can kick the tar and nicotine that keep you addicted to real cigarettes…and keep the satisfaction of smoking!
E-Cigarette looks, feels and smokes just like a real cigarette, but has none of the harmful substances found in real cigarettes. It emits a virtually odorless vapor that simulates actual smoke, but dissipates quickly in the air.
It’s a battery operated cigarette alternative that produces no fire and is safe to use just about anywhere. Airlines, hospitals, and restaurants can now embrace the E-Cigarette as a way to allow customers to safely smoke without the danger of fire or annoying other people nearby.
- E-Cigarette does not contain the over 4000 POISONOUS substances and harmful CHEMICALS found in real cigarettes that cause heart attack and cancer, such as nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, acetone, sulfuric acid and more.
- You can ENJOY the E-Cigarette in places where regular cigarettes are PROHIBITED, even in bed.
- E-Cigarette eliminates the dangers of second-hand smoke, so you can smoke around others without causing ill effects. While there may be a faint scent for a few seconds, there is virtually NO smell as the vapor quickly vanishes.
- Eliminate the nasty smell, messy ashes and cigarette butts.
- Eliminate bad breath and smoke odor on your body and clothes, as well as in your home and car.
The Choice is yours… Make a wise choice.
The E-Cigarette is a nonflammable electronic atomizing device, adopting advanced microelectronic technology and physical atomized technology, to atomize the high-purity nicotine diluents. The liquid in the cartridge contains nicotine, perfumery compound special for cigarette and ordinary food additives. It’s provided similar to an ordinary cigarette, which satisfy the smoking addition. The difference between the E-Cigarette and an ordinary cigarette are:
No tar and other carcinogenic substance or harmful ingredients to the human body.
- No ignition required, without the danger hence will not lead to the over 4000 chemical substance produced by an ordinary cigarettes, like carbon monoxide.
- Harmless to others and the environment, without the danger of second-hand smoking.
- No possibility to cause fire. It can be used safely in most No smoking places.
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