When hookah smoking, your body absorbs nicotine. It reaches your brain in about 8 seconds . The blood carries nicotine to your adrenal glands, where it triggers the production of adrenaline, the “fight-or-flight hormone.” Adrenaline raises your heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate.

A hookah is a type of water pipe often used to smoke flavored tobacco. Alternative names for it include: narghile, argileh, hubble-bubble, and goza. What is Shisha? Shisha is flavored tobacco made up of shredded tobacco leaf combined with molasses, honey, or dried fruit.

Hookah originated in North India and then spread to ancient Persia, the Ottoman Empire, and North Africa in the 16^th and 17^th centuries. Traditionally the bowl of the hookah was made out of coconuts and the hose out of bamboo tubes.