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Tight chest after smoking

So a few weeks ago me and some friends whipped out the hookah (we only smoke herbal stuff, we've all fallen for the 'herbal is much healthier' propaganda'), and smoked for about an hour or so. About 20 minutes later, we all started to get really intensely tight chests, to the point of hardly being able to take half a breath without being in a lot of pain. It went away overnight, but there was still a slightly lingering discomfort the next morning. I smoked again about a week later with my girlfriend, and I pulled very lightly and cautiously, and didn't get any chest feelings, but she was complaining quite a lot about the same chest tightness. Both times we were using quicklites (stupid, I know, but it's a brand new hookah and there aren't any shops within about 150kms that sell anything else. Has anyone had similar experiences? What could this be?

Posted Nov 3, 2015, 11:54 AM UTC

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WhatsForDinerEgo quoque nescio quid hic scriptum est•

Yeah i get that too when i smoke worth quicklights :/

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theoobleckAnalytical Smoker•

Be careful with "herbal" shisha. It's usually just bamboo and grass clippings. Other than not having any nicotine I don't see how it can be "safer" than tobacco, it's all just bullshit they sell to make you buy their product. Herbal shisha is the gluten-free of the hookah industry. Read the label and see what ingredients they list, if they list them at all.

Quicklights are not the best option just for the fact that they use chemicals and substances in the coal mixture to make it easy to light. Last time I used quicklights (we were desperate, there were no shops around) it tasted awful and we literally stopped smoking 20 minutes in because we couldn't stand the taste of the quicklights (the brand was three Kings). Later when I went to clean the hookah, there was disgusting, gritty, black soot lining the inside of the stem.

Other than that, check the inside of the hookah to make sure there isn't any rust. It's new so it probably won't have any, but it's best to be safe, and also check the hose, non washable hoses can rust and they rust pretty bad.

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Megamorter"Pass It" "I Just Got It"•

Damn dude that's rough

I've had herbal tobacco before but that didn't happen to me

Idk if quick lights alone would've been the reason but try a bowl with natural coals.

Was it just chest pain or was it angina?

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randomhashOP•

Never heard of Angina before, it's unlikely, none of us felt anything really associated with the heart, but at this point I'm not throwing anything off the table. It wasn't even tobacco at all actually, it was a tobacco free herbal shisha.

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Megamorter"Pass It" "I Just Got It"•

It was most likely the quick lights then. Herbal shisha has never done that to me, though I don't know the health info about it

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SaharaSmokeest 2002 |Hookah-Hookah | Hookahfreak | Ayam Zaman•

This might sound like a stupid question, but do you have any asthma problems?

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randomhashOP•

No, not I nor any of my friends are asthmatic as far as I know

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SaharaSmokeest 2002 |Hookah-Hookah | Hookahfreak | Ayam Zaman•

Hmmmm. I would assume it's something they are putting in the herbal stuff :( . Have you tried other brands?

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