Hookah smokers

Can smoking hookah have a negative influence on gains?

I say this because I smoke hookah almost every day (around 30-45 minutes), and have not gained a bit in the 4 months of newbie and 2,5 months of extending.

I smoke 10 cigarettes + a day and was about to announce my own gains on a new thread until I saw this. I gained an 1/8” to put me at 5.5” BPEL and my flaccid is definitely a lot bigger and fatter now from less than a month of PE. If you think smoking hookah you should switch to e-cigarettes and vape.

What’s in the Hookah?

Congrats on your gains Evaper! And in less than a month at that!

But smoking hookah is not something I have to do, it’s something that I like to do. By that I mean, if it would hamper gains I can just go without, but if it’s something that is probably not such a big deal, then I’ll continue to puff away :) .

The difference is, in hookah smoke there is a lot of carbon monoxide (more than in cigarettes), so this could affect blood circulation other way than cigarettes (although I am not sure if it does).

Fruit tobacco (with 0,05% nicotine and 0,0% tar), if that’s what you were asking.
The charcoals on top do produce carbon monoxide though.

Well, it sounds pretty similar to cigarette smoking. Which is bad for your penis:

"..To our knowledge, this study is the first to investigate the venous system in smokers with the use of the redosing technique of pharmacocavernosometry. Many previous studies indicated that smoking is a cause for penile arterial insufficiency. For example, smoking was shown to decrease the intracavernosal pressure and penile brachial index (Condra et al, 1986; Glina et al, 1988; Morales et al, 1998).

Other studies have shown that smoking predisposes men to premature atherosclerosis in the internal pudendal, common penile, and cavernosal arteries (Forsberg et al, 1989; Rosen et al, 1991). Degenerative changes in the corpus cavernosum of smokers was reported by Mersdorf et al (1991). A later ultrastructural study demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in the amount of corporeal smooth muscle, endothelial cells, and elastic fibers in smokers compared with nonsmokers (Yaman et al, 2003). None of these studies investigated the venous system of impotent smokers, which, as evident from our results, is highly involved in the development of ED."

http://www.andr ologyjournal.or … t/full/25/6/991

As far as gains, the link is just hypothetical. I doubt it will have any effect on lenght gains; but, based on the above, that could be harmful for girth gains, since training girth requires high EQ.

Sad to report that despite my efforts to cut back … I am still smoking a pack a day.

I have gained more than an inch since I started last October. I don’t think the smoking impeded length gains

When I was a stop/start smoker it was very obvious to me that the primary side effect I used to get from smoking was much worse discolouration from PE. When I was not smoking I hardly got any; when I was, I got lots.

If you want to smoke something smoke weed.

It’s not that I want to smoke whatever, it’s specifically the hookah that I enjoy very much.

It seems that the general thought you guys have is that smoking hookah while doing length work is not that big of a problem, so I guess it’s not time to quit just yet :D !

Just hope that the potentially high amounts of carbon monoxide it produces doesn’t mess up my blood circulation (because this could be very different than is the case with regular cigarettes, so I’ve read!)