Ive been smokin cigs and catnip ((no lie, it does help insomnia! ^^ Not near as good as weed though...)) for about a year and a half. And I just started smokin weed like a week and a half ago. Weed is MUCH rougher a smoke then cigs in my opinion. Mainly because cig smoke you just roll alot of it around in your mouth plus cigs have filters. Just don't inhale too fast at first. Or you could make a double chambered water bong ((one chamber filled with near boiling water, the other crushed ice and water)) and inhale damn near perfect smoke. I was thinking while hittin it "Hmm, I wonder if this thing is even air-tight.. i can barely taste/feel any smoke" and then boom, like 4 hits later my world is spinnin. ^^ It's nice cuz you can take huge hits w/o hardly hurtin ya throat.