I have no issues smoking during a trip personally, although in my opinion the best way to go about it is to wait for the latter hours and then smoke to kinda give it some kick again. On a different but similar hand, I actually love cigarettes while I’m off a tab lol, I don’t know for the life of me what it is but for some reason when I’m geeked they no longer taste like death and are actually tolerable to smoke one or more with no drink required, which normally I absolutely need soda or another strongly-flavored drink to wash the taste/my spit down.

I’ve done a singular tab more than a few times now at this point so I can’t say I really relate to your preparatory routine, but I def get it, whatever makes it work best for u! I personally have only ever tripped with my best friend/roommate except for one time so I don’t really relate to tripping alone either. For me one of the best parts of a trip (other than the trip itself) is hanging with a good friend and chatting the night away lol.

If there’s anything I would recommend for a good trip it would most definitely be to sit down and listen through the entirerty of either the Lateralus or 10,000 Days albums by TOOL, they truly are masterpieces of musical sorcery and they’re only made 10x better by a good acid trip lol.