You probably didn't know how to smoke it proper. When I did it my first time I was with a group of people and had a G to myself. Smoked it out of this little one hitter...but they told me how to do it "properly". By properly I mean holding it in longer and taking huge hits etc even if you cough your lungs out. The first time I smoked I was high as a kite...its a bummer not everyone gets that way their first time.