What does meth do to your lungs?

I use meth daily.. I've been smoking it for the past 4 years.. I've had pulmonary embolism before i started using.. Now I'm having problems breathing and my lungs hurt.. I also smoke cigarettes and have continuously since i was 12years old.. I will be 42 in 2 months.. I know i have a problem and it's my fault to continue to destroy my lungs.. I think i need help.. I just don't know how..

Halfway house for at least a year and after coming out you can no longer be around any of the people you did drugs with. If they are not supportive of you getting and do whatever it takes to keep any and all of it away from you then they never really cared about you and you are better off without them. You have to remember something,..misery loves company! Most people you know in that drug circle don't truly want you to get clean. It makes them feel guilty about what they are doing so they would just as soon see you stay down there with them. They don't want to see you happy and secure and successful because they aren't and as long as they continue on the road they are on, they never will be.if the boyfriend can't be supportive of you and learn everything he can about helping and supporting you then you need to get rid of him also! But you need to sit down and seriously tell him everything! And seriously make him understand that you are serious about getting totally clean from everything and staying clean. Most importantly, you need to turn your life over to God. If you ask him for his help and show him you are serious and no matter what you keep having unconditional trust, and faith in him as your God, your father, and keep asking and believing him in that he will help you then you can do it. It's not easy, it's probably the hardest thing that you will ever do in your life, but when your life is back on track and you are happy, secure, and successful and your family is also because you are, you will see how worth all of it was. Addiction is an ongoing thing. You will always be an addict, but you'll be an addict that is in recovery. Also during and after the halfway house you'll need a Lot of continuing therapy and you'll need na (narcotics anonymous) same as was with a Sponcer , that you go to meetings with and can call when you feel the need to fall off the wagon and such. I know all this first hand because not only have I been through it after having drug addiction with a multitude if different ones for over 35 years but 5 years ago I went through all of it with my daughter. And may I tell you that I am more and more proud of her every day! She is happy and successful and secure in herself now and an incredible mom and wife. She'll tell you as she tells everyone,..that she give all the credit for being a success story with this to God. Without him she would never succeeded, and when she feels a slip up coming even now, she turns to him and in his love and strength she over comes it. You need to know that the very first sign of being on the way to getting clean and getting your life back is the fact that you just opened up, and let everyone know that you had a problem and that you wanted and needed help with it. That's the first step to recovery. May God bless you and protect you in your recovery. We will be praying for you!

The best advice in all honesty is go to detox (rehab). I know u dont wanna go through the withdrawels.i know they are bad and u. May feel like u wanna die. But if u dont get clean, if you dont go into recovery u will eventually lose everything. I lost everything including even who i was . im in recovery now. Over 2 1/2 yrs clean. If you cant do it for yourself do it for your son. My son is my whole world.i will never let him see me lit or anything else. If your on facebook theres a good group. Called Grateful Addicts in Recovery. If you ever do decide to get clean its an amazing group with mostly good people. It wont be easy. Its gonna be hard and sometimes painful i wont lie. But a sober drug free life is the greateit thing in the world. Its worth it, YOUR worth it. 

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My son injects it and smokes it. He is in and out of hospital. I just phoned the hospital and he is having xrays on his lungs. Unless he hands his life over to God I know he is going to kill himself. I am waiting to hear from the rehab to see when they will admit him but I don't know if he will go as he was supposed to be admitted last Wednesday. My heart is broken as he has been drugs on and off for 23 years. His wife has left him and gone to Scotland with my beautiful grandaughter with another on on her way in September. Drug addicts only think of themselves and no one else. It has destroyed our entire family.

You should move to Brisbane and meet me for a coffee and a spliff, I'm due same as you but weed every day... 1 hour after I wake up all day and meth for 2 days a week...I'm awake for 3....it sucks to get divorced...worse than a brother or sister commiting suicide and your last conversation with them was calling him a f*k wit....

You are a mother, and the live your child has for you is the most sacred love. Love heals so live more me think about others. get involved in helping others and the urges will slowly go away. Be strong the world needs you

I have done dope for 47 years every thing but h loss of lung cap suckx why does the evil go,v outlaw what we the people pUT in our bomdy.check out phyc9tronic. Scaler mind control project ranbow mk ultra why do we the people allow them to exist at all why not fire every Dan
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Kayla? Is this the Ice Princess?

If you give your life over to Jesus christ he will fill you with peace and get rid of that restless feeling of not getting high!! I used to shoot heroin and meth and ever since I fully surrendered to God he has changed my life around and has given me the strength to deny the thoughts and cravings of using again. The 12 steps are all about God but if you want real results you will Go to God through Jesus Christ and he'll wash you clean of all the sin you've ever committed in your life!! Also if you don't believe, all you need is faith as small as a mustard seed and you'll move a mountain!! I didn't really believe and I had a little faith and really sought God in the bible and prayer and he gave me a vision that I never seen before.. He proved his existence to me!

You getting cut bud get some good and it won't hurt you lungs

My husband smoked meth for 5 years, he quit it 18 years ago, unfortunately he replaced it with alcohol. After drinking up to a bottle of bourbon a day (sometimes more) he almost died in May of 2017.
Now, he experiencing severe lung problems. I am trying to do as much research as possible..
It’s known that long term alcohol abuse can cause lung diseases, but I’m wondering if the meth is playing a problem with his lungs too.
Could anyone help me with this??

I understand, I snorted , and smoked meth for years ! I always ate no matter what thank god for that for my teeth and bones are still healthy and weren’t starved from malnutrition. Anyway, I was going no where, I would sober for a couple weeks or a month here or there I would just start getting my life on track and I would allow the addiction to take me back down the Slope ! I can’t tell you how many nights and days I spent by myself, or with a couple of my so called friends in dark rooms paranoid picking zoned in on something for hours or days and accomplishing nothing but destroying my life one puff or snort at a time , meth , coke it didn’t matter . I gained and lost everything in my life for years and absolutely lost everything multiple times and never went anywhere but down . I wanted so bad to have a good life free from drugs and those who tried and succeeded in taking me down those paths . I saw and heard things that to this day I still dream about occasionally and I wake up in a sweat and am so glad it was only a dream. I though maybe I should move away get out of town , try and dodge the bullet , hide , get away and it never worked , no matter where I went there was always that one contact in my phone that I could always call , and that I considered my friend that could and would give me or bring me what I wanted , things never got any better even though I wanted them to so badly. Then I met someone that asked me a simple question. They asked me do you really want things to change in your life ? I said yes ! They asked me , do you think life is about choice! And what you choose to do with the choices you are given ? I said I think so ! Then they asked me and this may sound dumb to some but not at all to me , they said , do you know the definition of insanity? I said no , they said it is the actions of doing the same things over and over and expecting a different outcome. Slamm ! It hit me like a ton of bricks !! I was insane!! From that moment I realized in order to change my life I would have to change what I did in my everyday life! And only I could make those decisions and choose my own outcome. Those whom I thought were my friends I deleted, told them I no longer wanted them in my life , they tried to come over for a time or to , it was hard but I would answer the door and tell them leave and don’t come back , I chose to be happy I got a job worked hard saved money stayed straight and have since bought a house a camper a boat four wheelers a new truck a new car a new suv met the woman of my dreams , I have two beautiful children now and I would never even think of making any of those choices I chose to make years ago . Your whole world can change instantly by doing and realizing everything you do is based on what you decide to do and based on thae choices you make ! Will depend on where your life goes and only you can make those choices. Life is a choice ! And only you can chose to be happy, most people spend there entire lives searching for happiness and never find it . I will tell you the answer. It is a choice! Your choice! You and only you can choose to be happy! Or to be Insane, or inspired!

Thank you for not mincing words about what smoking meth will do to the lungs. This is the kind of clear and straightforward description I was looking for.

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Your Whole Family is addicted to drugs, and that probably is why you're doing it too. You're used to it. Also, Your grammar is bad.. and you're a MOM? Omg i hope you have a job and enough Money to feed Your child. Your post is from over a year ago, but still... It's not fun being a crackhead mom. Also, you may think People donæt notice that you're addicted to drugs, but EVERYBODY does. BYE.