Smoking and Tobacco Use

The physical compents are what cause emotional components to your question. While the answer below is true, I would like to add that tobacco contains nicotine, which acts as both a stimulant and a depressant in the Central Nervous System. As a stimulant (which means it "stimulates" certain nervous functions), it can increase salivary secretions (mouth watering etc), enhanced memory function and alertness, can cause sweating, excitability, increases in blood pressure and heart rate, it elevates blood glucose levels and increases insulin production, and can cause nausea/vomiting. In high doses it can also cause tremors (shaking) and even convulsions.

So with the stimulatory responses, how would the body react emotionally? First off, any effect on the CNS will result in some sort of emotional response. I am not a tobacco user, but I would say it would result in a 'need' for the substance, or reliance upon it. If a stimulant has an excitatory action, my thought is that the emotional response would be euphoric or happiness...maybe laughter. But again, that would depend on the individual. Same thing with the other items, if my blood pressure went up, I might sit down and try to calm down, I might get crabby. I think the focus of an emotional response would be more at the addictive properties and maybe the depressant side of it.

Once your body experiences stimulation, such as when you get scared or excited, the parasympathetic nervous system kicks in to calm you down (which is what also causes you to feel exhausted after a good scare). It works the same way with nicotine -- once that stimulation passes, your body will go through a period of depression. It can result in relaxation due to depression of the muscles, and appetite supression. Emotional response to that -- being relaxed and calm.

Any time you mess with the nervous system, you risk behavioral changes, but I think that all the things listed above would definitely contribute to an emotional effect although they, themselves, are physical effects. Just like when a woman has PMS, her hormones are causing physical effects that contribute to her emotional status.

Finally, addictive aspects of nicotine definitely elicit an emotional effect on the body because it is both a mood and behavior altering substance.

As far as listing emotional responses to chewing tobacco, I would say the best answer would be found if you asked yourself (or the user) this: If you don't have tobacco, what behavior would you display? Would you seek it? Would you crave it? when you see tobacco, how do you feel? Do you work hard to obtain it? Those types of answers are emotional, but will result in a physical action.

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The main physical effects are the smell of your breath.

Emotional effects are mood swings, and addiction. Therefore, if your supply ends [for whatever reason] you may have a terrible mood swing.

• Fill the vase with ice cubes and water. Put just enough water into the base so that the stem is submerged about 1-1/2" (38 mm) into the bowl.

1. You need to leave just enough room in the vase so that your smoke doesn't bubble up into the hose.
2. Avoid putting milk or dairy into your base. Adding dairy will ensure an unpleasant smell, mold, foaming in the vase and ruined hoses.

• Add your grommet. The grommet is a seal that joins the stem to the vase. Most hookahs come with a rubber or plastic seal. Silicone is the best material for a seal, but you an also simply seal the vase to the stem with electrical tape.
• Put the tray that holds the coals onto the hookah. You need to put it on before you put the bowl on because the bowl may not fit over the tray.
• Insert the short end of the hose into the hose port. If your hookah has 2 ports, then you can purchase a rubber seal to close off the other port.
• Prepare your shisha. Follow all of these steps for the best smoking experience

1. Evenly mix your tobacco so that all of it is covered in flavoring and molasses.
2. Fluff up your tobacco and drop it loosely into the bowl. Leave 2 millimeters of distance between the top of the tobacco and the bowl so that the shisha doesn't touch the foil when you put it on. Burned shisha will add a nasty flavor to your smoke.
3. Buy a good quality shisha. The quality of your shisha will determine the flavor of your smoke. You can also mix and match flavors for a great-tasting smoke. Buy 50-gram portions of shisha so that you can try it out without spending a lot of money.
4. You can cut up your tobacco leaves with kitchen shears to more easily pack them into the bowl. However, don't cut them too small or they'll fall through the holes and clog your bowl.

• Put heavy duty only foil over the top of the bowl. Your foil piece should be 2" (5 cm) larger on all sides so that you can form a tight seal around the bowl.

1. Keep the foil tight so that wrinkles don't distort the heat distribution. If you only have thin foil on hand, then double it up.
2. When you're finished, your foil-covered bowl should resemble the head of a drum.

• Poke about 15 to 20 holes into the foil with a toothpick, a pin or a sharp-tipped pen. Take care not to shred your foil. You can try a couple of different patterns based on the kind of bowl that you have:

1. Egyptian bowl: Start with a circle of holes around the perimeter and spiral inward.
2. Funnel-style bowl: Make 3 concentric rings: 1 around the edge, 1 around the spire and 1 between the 2 circles that you've already made.

• Light the coals. Hold the coals with a pair of tongs and light 1 corner with a match or lighter. Because sparks will be produced, you should either go outside or stand near a window.

1. Always use the tongs that come with most hookahs to light or move your coals. Avoid using kitchen tongs, which may have been coated in a polymer to provide a non-stick coating for food prep and easy cleaning.
2. When the coal starts to sparkle and emit smoke, pull the flame away. The coal should continue sparking until all of it turns bright orange.
3. If the coal still has some blackened patches that aren't burning, then blow on the coal to encourage it to heat up.

• Set the coal down on the foil using your tongs. The sides that were covered by your tongs should be unlit. Blow on these parts to cause them to burn orange. Let the coal sit on the foil until each one has a coating of ash over it.

1. Never light the coal directly on top of the foil. The particles released from the coal will get into the bowl and change the flavor of your tobacco.
2. If you're in a place with no stove, lighter or matches, then you can use instant-light coal.
3. Natural coals burn much longer than quick lights but require something much hotter than a lighter to ignite them. Most people use either a single coil stove burner or a butane torch to light their naturals.

• Blow through the hose to clean out any dust or particles that may have settled. Avoid washing the hose unless you know that it is washable.
• Smoke your hookah. Allow the bowl to heat up naturally. Don't take hard pulls to accelerate the heating process because you'll just end up burning the tobacco. Take your time while you smoke. A good hookah can last between 45 minutes and 1 hour.

10 short term effects are:

• coughing
• dry skin
• bad breath
• sometimes yellow finger nails and toe nails
• yellow your teeth
• addiction
• causing pimples
• lip burn
• itchy eyes
• makes you thirsty

it effects health in many ways

1.it is carcinogenic

2.it can cause thickening of blood vessels

3.it can lead to high B.P

4it can cause heart attack

5.it can affect lipid profile

6.it interfears with blood oxygenation in the lungs

7.it can cause bronchitis

8.it can lead to strokes

9.it can lead to renal failure

10.it can damage eye sight

Rolling tobacco is even more harmful than cigarettes. The nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide produced during combustion is three to six times higher than for factory-produced cigarettes.

The limit value of 10 mg of tar released by cigarettes consumed in a standard manner is largely exceeded with rolled tobacco.

The tar content may in fact be 13mg or 14 mg for cigarettes made from fine paper. And even up to 16 mg for thick paper!