1. Smoking probably is not related to your knee pain.
2. Before playing perform warm up and limbering down.
3. Exercises for knee quadriceps strengthening should be done regularly.
4. Local ice pack application will help.
Next Steps
1. visit Orthopaedic surgeon who will check your knee clinically .
2. MRI can be done to rule out intra-articular pathology.
Health Tips
Static quadriceps exercises and Tab Cartigen DN twice daily for a month will help.