Smoking a hookah has become fashionable and even stylish. In almost every social network account of a young girl or guy there is a photo with a hookah. Moreover, the likes “pour in” immediately after publication. This method of smoking has long been known abroad. However, questions did not diminish. Hookah lovers are often interested: does hookah increase or decrease pressure? How does a simple hookah device affect health? What is the difference between hookah tobacco and regular cigarettes? We will understand the nuances.
Is smoking a hookah helpful?
With the increasing popularity of hookah, all smokers were divided into two groups: some believe that hookah is useful, while others - on the contrary - are more harmful than cigarettes.
First you need to figure out what effect the hookah has on the body.
Among the obvious advantages of smoking is a kind of ritual. Hookah lovers usually get together, prepare in advance for a joint rest, and the smoking ceremony lasts at least an hour. Accordingly, smoking is always accompanied by conversation. So, people communicate, are distracted from everyday problems and relieve stress.
The second plus is the aromatic components that are found in the tobacco blend. If the mixture is of high quality, then smoking a hookah turns into a kind of aromatherapy procedure. Some craftsmen prepare hookah based on medicinal herbs without tobacco.
It should be understood that smoking hookah brings harm to the body, namely:
- According to the classic hookah recipe, tobacco is needed. Accordingly, during smoking, a large dose of nicotine enters the body.
- Nicotine addiction is formed.
- Flavors can cause severe allergies.
- Hookah, the recipe of which contains alcohol, can cause severe poisoning.
Hookah smoking is more a harmful procedure than a useful one.
Hookah or cigarettes - which is worse?
This is another controversial issue.
There are two completely opposite answers:
- The dose of nicotine in one cigarette is much less than in one serving of a hookah mixture. If you compare the number of smoked cigarettes and hookahs per day, then nicotine with a cigarette enters the body more.
- The second factor is cigarette smoke. It contains tar and burning products of tobacco leaves and paper. Accordingly, these elements are additional damaging factors. While smoking a hookah, steam is released. Its temperature is below cigarette smoke. Most of the harmful combustion products settle in water containers.
An important point is the amount of nicotine smoked that enters the body. For example, you can smoke so much tobacco in one hookah evening that it does not compare with how much a smoker receives in a few days from an ordinary cigarette.
Are there any benefits from smoking a hookah?
Professional hookah smokers love it for instantly relaxing sensations. And with the addition of pleasant flavors ... Partial hookah men are convinced that there is no harm to the body.
However, scientists have a different point of view. Using a number of research methods, they proved that smoking hookah harms the lungs and their mucous membranes.
The effect on pressure, the appearance of cancerous tumors, impotence, as well as cardiovascular disease “causes” hookah.
Effects on the cardiovascular system
During smoking, hookah raises or lowers blood pressure, narrowing blood vessels. Besides. Hookah has a negative effect on pressure, as well as on the whole body, in particular:
- increased risk of atherosclerosis (a disease of blood vessels);
- blood thickens in the body;
- blood clots form;
- heart rate increases;
- the blood supply to the hands and feet worsens;
- blood pressure rises in a small circle.
All these negative factors lead to the fact that cardiovascular diseases gradually develop.
Unlike a classic cigarette, a hookah has a slow effect on the heart. Therefore, immediately feeling unwell is almost impossible.
Smoking a hookah raises or lowers blood pressure
Regardless of the form of nicotine use, vasoconstriction occurs in the body. Hookah increases or decreases blood pressure? It all depends on the individual characteristics of the human body. However, most often, blood pressure rises. And equally from smoking cigarettes and hookah.
Aromatic additives in the composition of tobacco somewhat compensate for the effect of nicotine. In this case, the poisonous effect of smoking a hookah is less than that of a cigarette. However, he is not completely excluded.
The second reason for high blood pressure is carbon dioxide. Often and in large quantities, it can cause vasospasm. Therefore, blood pressure rises. When smoking a hookah, carbon dioxide is released in larger quantities, compared with cigarettes.
With hypertension it is dangerous to smoke a hookah
Hookah increases or decreases pressure depending on the individual characteristics of the body. The action of a hookah is much longer than that of cigarettes, which give a short-term effect. With hypertension, smoking a hookah is strictly prohibited.
However, a single smoking of a hookah cannot cause irreparable harm to the body. Smoking it regularly is not recommended.
Has a hookah effect on pressure, increases the risk of heart attack, stroke and hypertensive crisis. The risk of thrombotic complications increases, the course of cardiac ischemia and hypertension worsens.
Tar tar, nicotine actively saturate the air in the room where the hookah is smoked. The effect on the heart is negative, and even with increased pressure it is dangerous to even be in the smoking room.
Could be worse: the effects of smoking a hookah
Still: does hookah increase or decrease pressure? Experts say that hookah smokers increase pressure when particles of nicotine and tar enter the lungs. Harmful substances affect the walls of blood vessels, so they narrow. Consequently, blood flow to organs slows down. It is these factors that affect the increase in blood pressure.
Doctors say that if you smoke a hookah for more than an hour, then the harm done to the body increases several times. Mostly, it’s not the heavy smokers who suffer, but the people around them who breathe this smoke. In such cases, a person may become ill or shortness of breath.
Do not drink alcohol while smoking a hookah. This produces an increased burden on the heart. Otherwise, an unforeseen heart attack.
With low blood sugar, smoking can cause stomach ulcers or poisoning. Doctors recommend stocking up a light snack, berry and fruit dessert.
No need to convince yourself that smoking a hookah is harmless. Experts have proved that excessive smoking of a hookah can cause a side effect, especially in hypertensive patients. Everything needs a middle ground.