Great advice from many people above.
this thread made me log in to my account to post this. I am a BTH smoker myself, have been at it for about a year and a half so my tolerance has upped quite a bit I could imagine. Let me tell you from somebody that lives the life everyday. This life is not worth living when your whole world revolves around it, and kid yourself not, you will be there one day if you continue down this path. I refuse to use a needle because I know my life would be over quickly. With where I am at now I need to smoke anywhere from 0.5-1.0g of high quality tar JUST to maintain every day, or withdrawals will start. I am unable to maintain a job because of this, so I have been lying to my family about my lifestyle and my brothernis currently supporting me with 200$ a week, which you can imagine is very tough to live on as a H addict. I must conserve the dope I can get to maintain, and havent caught a buzz in months. I know switching to the needle would make sense for me but I refuse b/c I guess I am holding on to a glimmer of hope my life can get better with a maintenence program or something.. and if I started IV it would all be over, because of my self control level.
I have no self esteem, confidence, self worth anymore, I used to be the opposite, used to be able to hold a steady job, had a gf, even made drum captain in the HS band. Smoking weed on the weekends with friends....through high school I was also prescribed Ativan (1.5-2mg a day) which slowly led to taking things like Percs and Roxis. When that git too costly, enter: Heroin.
The addiction potential for H is soo much higher than any pill because of its cost and amount it is sold in. The using process becomes a ritual, that you can be more addicted to than the high itself. Im telling you, life on Heroin sucks, and is not worth it in any way. Everything you have in your life will start to dissappear, friends, possessions, money, and most importantly, family trust. You will never be the same again, and your life will revolve around this devil drug....Please take my advice as an example of what will happen to you....All it takes is time.
good luck, god bless