smoking weed and having asthma is bad?

A VERY helpful response. Thanks

I've been smoking weed for 10+ years everyday multiple times a day. I started with blunts for about 8 years but I use a bong 9 out of 10 times now. I just started having asthma attackes a year ago every so often. I haven't had them since I was 7. Im 25 now and just had the worst asthma attack of my life the other day. I swear that I was going to die. I went to a doctor and she told me that me smoking weed is what's causing it. She said since you've been using for so long it's finally catching up to you. So yeah if you smoke accasionly I'm sure it's bad but not crazy bad for you. She told me that I have to quit and I'm just like WHHAAATTTTTT. So I'm going to start eating edibles. Only way I can see myself using weed

Hey all,

I've had asthma Since I was 3. Started smoking at 14. I'm 29 now and for the past 4-5 years I haven't been able to smoke without going to the hospital (E.R) at least 2x a year.

I only do edibles now but once in a while I'll get hard headed and want to smoke. Just came back this morning from the e.r had to go in last night after vaping for a week.

So if you're like me the answer is no. It's hard, I'm actually contemplating smoking right now and I still got my arm band on from the hospital WTF!!

That's only because I don't have edibles rn so I'm craving but whatever. Best of luck

I have asthma & im a daily smoker. The only thing that triggers my asthma to make me wheez is blunts & too many joints. Bong rips & pipes I'm cool. Even glass blunts don't make me wheez. So it could all depend on the person.

Hi I have and had this problem. I was smoking cannibis with tobacco for about 8yrs and I had to go under a lung specialist only to find I had spots on my lungs. I gave up cold turkey and was clean for 3yrs. My lungs cleared my cough went my voice went back to normal and I could breathe properly when talking and doing things. About a yr and half ago I started up smoking cannibis again and all symptoms are back. How can I use cannibis without affecting asthma anyone?

My son Died April 4,2017 from a severe Asthma attack, he was told by the Doctors for a long time to stop smoking pot but he didn't listen, he was 23 years old:( Please listen to the Doctors, he didn't think it could happen to him either!!

I had asthma since I was 10, I struggle so much and find hard to sleep and breath.It effects so much on my health and weight. My mom did everything to cure my asthma, she went to many doctors, faith doctor, and herb doctor. But the things gets even worst. As my mother want me not to be mentally dependent on medical drugs prescribe by a doctor she did everything she can to totally lessen my suffering during the attack.

One day she went to the market, and there she saw some street vendor who sells a different kind of root, herb, and un-natural mix medicine. She asked if they have a cure for asthma. Then they offered her a dried sea horse and told her how to do the treatment procedure.
As she went home she gave me a cup of warm water with a powdered dried sea horse. I only drink it 2x and then my asthma never trigger again until today. I won't suggest this as a cure to your asthma but as for my experience it really works and after 18 years it has been featured on a local TV magazine show how the dried sea horse cure the asthma of her child.

Though is has not approved and confirmed by medical experts there is nothing to lose when you try it.

f**k yes it affects asthma in a bad way, I've had asthma since I was 1 and am now 18, I've been smoking fat since I was 15 because my mom was okay with it and since we grew weed plants we always had a big supply, I would smoke all day every day from 15-17, now that I'm 18 I'm starting to notice I can't take as deep breaths as I use too, o get lung and chest pains, And I have asthma attacks more often, most of the time I get them when I smoke, and get the pains right after I smoke too, I now wheeze a lot and my lungs have been sensitive ever since

I hope your ok

It does affect asthma

I'm 36 now, I started smoking pot when I was 16, once a day at most. I did tons of sports up until 25, with not a lot of problems. I quit smoking several times, usually because pot was taking over my life. It is VERY addictive. Recently every time I start smoking weed my breathing becomes very constricted, maybe because I don't do any physical activity anymore, I have to do my breathing maching twice a day now where before when I was clean I never used it. SO, I just took all my weed and all of my pipes and tossed them in the lake. I have 2 kids and would like to see them grow old. I would also like to be able to breath. I also don't want to get COPD or lung cancer. You know something is terribly addictive when you still want to do it even though you know it can kill you instantly. I have never quit for more than a year. I wish I did not have asthma, but even if I was healthy, pot smoking is not so great after the first week or month, once your hooked on it you have to have it to feel normal. Best thing you can do to quit is take your baggie, your pipes, your grinders and toss them in a lake. You will not be able to quit if there is a single bit of pot in your house. This should at least buy you a year, if you want longer you may have to find new friends or at least tell them not to sell you any pot ever. If they are good friends they will understand.

I recently found out my Asthma may be Vocal Chord Dysfunction. It has all the symptoms of asthma and the same medication is used to treat it. The only difference is that it is harder to breath in than out. with asthma it is harder to breath out than in.

This may be the cause in the discrepancy of so many stories on here. If you have have been mis-diagnosed with asthma and actually have VCD, you will be much better off and have less chance of sudden death and may experience some short term improvements. If I had real asthma I would probably be dead. I think half of all asthmatics have been mis-diagnosed and actually have VCD. Have your doctor do a breathing test to see. Your doctor may not even know about VCD, it is a recent discovery in the last 10 years.

Dude, please quit. The tar is coating your precious lungs. Your only 18 and your have the symtoms of COPD (a disease old people get).

good news is, your lungs are young and can still heal,, (IF YOU STOP). they will heal over time once the tar is slowly vanquished from your lungs.

edibles are not quite the same, but a good alternative.

You are in the same spot I am in. You must quit smoking. The only alternatives are edibles or tinctures, but you will still be hooked a drug.

think of it like this, you are paying money for a drug to give you a disease even though you would be healthy without it. I have quit 3 or 4 times, each time it is the same story, I finally start feeling healthy and think that 1 baggie won't hurt, but the next thing I know I'm hooked again.

I'm 16 years old and this is going to be my first time doing it with my friend and my asthma is very very bad and I'm scared to do it even though most people say weed is good for u. I hope my life doesn't end today like seriously I'm kinda scared right now. I low key should had never told me friend I smoke weed before I have butterflies right now

I hope you know your daughter is looking down on you with wings and love. Nothing to do with decisions good or bad we all make at that age. Your post is touching & I truly feel blessed or connected to your family even through this as I too, despite asthma & symptoms suffered from severe asthma attacks before but also during my smoking stages.

Your right, saving lives with knowledge is important & to add on to this brave parents touching story, Asthma can be severely effected from smoking weed.

Again, I feel compelled to try & spread word that as a child born with asthma conditions that included a few attacks growing up, a nebulizer at the house for my seasonal week at home due to allergies, & of course inhaler on hand....Smoking I don't think helped me. It was so crazy to read how people experienced asthma free symptoms almost for months, as if smoking weed cured it- I literally thought I had outgrown it, until I had an attack or two.
If you stay at home because you can barely breathe after about 3/4 hours between treatments then smoking weed will most likely never truly HELP YOU.
Also, I had days off from school growing up, but with my typical day home from school in high school, first one post being a smoker, On the second day I suffered a pretty scary asthma attack.
Promised I'd never smoke but did it again.

I had asthma one day after smokin in the tunnels with my boys, I could not breathe so I think I took 2 or 3 asthma hits, which was unusual for me but I was so high I probably was pancking, I past out when I went to grab water from the fountain, blacked out after Falling on my head.

Anyways, in college I woke up one day and was so sick of coughing out literally black sh*t from my lungs, little specks of tar I assume.

So I've always done my best to not smoke since then. But again, We have to dance with Devils when our weaknesses or urges get the worst of us.

Smoking weed and stopping is obviously easy if you experience life threatening situations but don't put yourself in a situation where you may never get the chance to right the wrong because yes harming your body to get high is a wrong.

I'm 30, I've had asthma my whole life, I try to bike to keep my lungs up but I'm no saint but after reading this post which is obviously why I googled it to seek 'information' just believe the parent who posted about his daughter.

If your young & don't know about your body , including asthma be very careful because the addiction of being high may inhibit your daily activities but more importantly the air your breathe when u need it most.

Again to the parent, be strong