Can smoking cause lungs to collapse?

um yes it does my gp just told me, not long after my infection and they are getting better because i have quit

I smoked twice and that very second had a collapsed lung. The second time I smoked didn't even inhale. Also had two surgeries and about 25 pnemos

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.

Yes I am a 17 y/o male who smoked from the age of 11. Recently I was sent to the hospital after my lung collapsed, they told me I smoked so much as a young person that my lungs were incapable of any more. I can't smoke anymore due to the fact

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.

Hi, iam currently sitting on ward 102, The Royal hospital, Edinburgh. With a collapsed lung. Here for a week, surgery to re-attach lung tomorrow. The acting surgeon, has just spoken to me. I told him I don't drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. As soon as I mentioned cannabis, He told me, this was the probable cause. I had never heard of the connection before..

I am in hospital right now with a collapsed lung. I have been in here a week now. I spent all last weekend (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) smoking canabbis and on the Monday morning I woke up with a collapsed lung. My doctor here told me that Cannabis was the cause of my pneumothorax, the canabbis caused a bleb to rupture, yes I was born with it but the cannabis triggered it. I also smoked cigarettes, 10 a day. I have now quit smoking, it is a nasty disgusting habit, the hospital ward I am in, there is a man across from with throat cancer, can't eat, drink or talk. The man beside him has had both legs amputated because of a circulation problem smoking caused and he got gangrene. Another two patients have also have amputations the same. Why oh why bring this on yourself, don't kid yourself. I'm going to make weed brownies from now on but never ever smoking again, ever. I am only 24 years old and the doctor told me I shouldn't have this condition this young. Please listen to my advice and don't discard it just because your addiction is so strong. xxx

Yes. Mine have collapsed twice. But its not as bad as people think. It's not a big enough reason to quit smoking. Even my COPD isn't that bad. I'll always be a smoker. It's too fun to quit

It most certainly can...just happened to my sister

Ok, here we go, I'm now 26 and had a spontaneous pneumothorax when I was about 22, I smoked cigs and green, multiple Dr.s told me to quit cigs and keep using the herbs, which helps with chest pain a lot. Anyways, while I was laid up in the hospital and couldn't smoke due to multiple chest tubes, I tried vape and it actually made it worse, harder to breath and everything. So quit cigs and vapes and just start herbal. Lol that's what the Dr told me.

Yes definitely, My lung collapsed when I was 20 years old. I had no previous history and I was a heavy smoker.

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.

My brother is a habitual smoker his right side of his lung has collapsed twice more than 50%. Today I got a call that the left side of his lung is completely collapsed 100%

I am only 16 and I just recently had a 100% collapsed lung. I woke up one moring with back pain but didn't think any think anything of it but it keep getting worse and worse and then I started to have chest pain to. I went to the doctors and they gave me an X-ray and found that my left lung was 100% collapsed and I was rushed to the hospital by ambluence. In the hospital they inserted a chest tube into my side of my chest and that is a very very painful thing. After the chest tube was in I needed to have suction on my lung for about 2 days to fill my lung back up. After the 2 days they removed the suction and everything looked good. They put me in recovery phase now but about 5 hours after the suction was removed I started to get really sharp pain in my chest so they took an X-ray and my lung was 100% collapsed for the second time. They reapplied the suction and told me that I would need surgery. Thier are things called blebs in your lungs that can pop and that's what causes the lung to collapse and I have 3 inch blebs all though the top of my Left lung. I had surgery and they removed a fist size of my left lung and inserted a bigger chest tube. Atleast I was asleep for this chest tube the first one I wasn't! I was in the hospital for a total of 10 days and now I am at home recovering and using a walker to try to get strong enough to walk on my own again. This is only half of my experience so far Becuase I had a cat scan done before I left the hospital and they saw that I have 1.2 inch blebs on my right lung now so I will need to get them removed after I am fully recoverd in my left lung. I have never smoked and am a pretty healthy 16 year old and the doctors have no idea what has caused my lungs to get these blebs and collapse but I was told if I ever start to smoke I have a huge chance of my lungs recollapsing and I can not fly in planes or go diving anymore Becuase it will increase my risks of in countering more blebs. That is my experience.