just take smaller hits, atleast to warm up... if i haven't smoked in a good while, i'll take 2-3 smaller hits just to get my lungs and chest used to it again, i'm sure it could help you too...

and you said you wouldn't call it being high? did you even get high? alot of people don't get high their first few times smoking, i know i sure as fuck got stoned off my ass.... oh yeah, your first highs are almost alyways your best, but if/and after you've been smoking awhile, get used to the idea of not getting anywhere near the same high as you first did... i spent a few years trying to chase my first high, only to find out later that i was chasing something i would never catch.