um yes it does my gp just told me, not long after my infection and they are getting better because i have quit
Yes indeed, smoking can cause a collapsed young. I was a smoker for many years and developed emphysema. At age 60 I woke up coughing and short of breath in great pain. My lung had collapsed because a bleb in the lung blew out. I spent 10 days in critical care with a chest tube and then had to have lung surgery to seal the lung closed. Long time rehab and the worst pain you can imagine. I know it is hard but try.
I am 44 female, 5'5 ~ 120 lbs, active and healthy, I went to bed like normal one night and awoke in middle of nite with horrible pain in my chest and back. When I stood up I quickly realized I couldnt breathe. I was a smoker of almost a pack a day or little less and had been smoking since i was 20. I had blebs on my lungs that I never knew I had. The only thing I had changed in my life prior to this was five months before that nite I had smoked my last cigarrette but I had began using a vapor. Without enough studies on vapor's etc, I can only wonder if the vapor weakend my bleb to the point it caused my lung to collapse 100%. I spent 10 days with a chest tube, barely escaping surgery. My advice~ stop smoking everything. Nothing we put in our lungs in that way is ever going to be good for us. It has been terribly hard to stop, and my doctor reminded me to think back to that nite it happened and remember what it felt like not to be able to breathe and the look on my loved one's faces as they did not know what or what was going to happen to me. I have a life to live, I want to live it and smoking is not going to allow me to do that the way I want too. Good luck to all of you! You can do it:)
Death from pneumothorax? That isn't a likely result according my lung surgeon. First it would have to be a very large penumo, then it would have to go untreated for a long period and the sufferer would likely die of respiratory arrest rather than a pneumothorax. Looking around people love to misrepresent the condition, its causes, and possible dangers so they can fly their "Stop smoking now" flag.
I've done extensive research on this after getting a pneumothorax following two broken ribs in a sports accident. Smoking contributes but doesn't seem to be the deciding factor in many of these. My opinion based on the hundreds upon hundreds of posts I've read from folks who had them and the doctors who treated them can be summed up like this...yes, smoking quite obviously contributes, especially if you've already had it happen in the past, as you're now more susceptible to them in the future. However, some folks who had their lungs collapse NEVER smoked anything in their lives! Some have a higher chance just due to genes, dumb luck, whatever you want to call it. Blebs can form and burst without smoking of any kind being involved, and most if not all of us presently have them on the outer lining of our lungs as we speak. But yes, smoking can trigger the actual collapse, and moreso from the type of intense hits and holding a hit in as long as possible than the actual smoke that enters in the process. Weed smokers...switch to edibles if possible, use vapes if you absolutely feel you must smoke and minimize the size of your hits. Cigarette smokers....just quit altogther. Cigarettes effect your body in so many negative ways it's ridiculous. And I smoked them for 20 years until as a precautionary measure after my lung collapse, I quit cold turkey. Best thing I could've done for myself.