These days there are so many forms of smoking out there and every segment is growing exponentially. Hookah smoking, even though it is a decades old culture, there are many new trends in hookah industry as well. Vaping is relatively one of the newest and it is rapidly gaining popularity. With so many alternative forms of smoking on the market, for a novice smoker knowing the difference between them is quite time consuming. The terminologies often confuse inexperienced people. Names like hookah pen and vape pen have become apparently similar, creates a lot of confusion for the newbies. So, let’s be clear with the similarities and difference between hookah smoking and vaping.In simple words, Hookahs are water pipes in use for smoking shisha tobacco and vaping is inhaling e-juice through an electronic vaping device such as a vaporizer. Even though they look different in this explanation, there are a lot of similarities between the two hobbies. Let’s go through the similarities first.

Vaping is heating an e-liquid, a glycerin mixture to an optimum temperature and enjoying the flavour by inhaling it. While hookah smoking too involves heating your shisha tobacco, which is coated in a glycerin mixture, to a point where smoke or vapor is released. In fact both the process relies on vaporization. In case of vaping, an atomizer in your vape device heats up e-liquid and produce vapor which you then enjoy. And while smoking hookah, the burning charcoal heats up shisha. The heat is applied to shisha through a thin foil and shisha vaporizes into smoke.

The next resemblance is that both hookah smoking and vaping can provide you your nicotine hit. There are plenty of e-liquid verities that contain nicotine and shisha tobacco too supply nicotine to your body. Another match is that both e-liquid and shisha contain vegetable glycerin (VG) as an ingredient. This glycerin is the reason behind both hookah smoke and e-cigarette vapor getting thick and cloudy consistency.

Although there are some similarities, the differences between hookah smoking and vaping are obvious. One involves burning coals and moist tobacco, while the latter one involves electric coils and no tobacco at all, but e-liquid. The appearance and portability is the next huge difference. Hookah is a tall pipe with a bowl of water in the bottom and a long hose-like mouthpiece used to inhale the smoke. On the other hand vaporizer is either a pen-sized or a small box size electronic device with a comparatively small mouthpiece for inhaling. Some hookah pipes have multiple hoses attached to the water bowl. This makes using a hookah an inherently more social experience than vaping.

Another significant difference is the way you supply heat to your smoking substance. In hookah smoking, burning charcoal for the best bowl of shisha using traditional methods is nothing less than an art. Nowadays HMDs are there to help you with heat management if you are not good at tradition ways. Vaping devices, on the other hand, heat up e-liquid electronically using atomizer that receives power from a battery. Modern vaping implements even feature temperature control. This temperature controlling facility prohibits the coils from heating up post a certain set threshold.