Help, heart/lung problem?

[adam9]

Hey, 18 Year old male, out of shape, smoked cigarettes pretty heavily, 4~+ a day most days for 6months and have smoked marijuana for 2 years, just quit cigs 5 days ago though, lately have been having a lot of trouble breathing, chest pain especially around my left breast. what is this caused by? its causing me to not be very hungry cus food just makes it worse, i have trouble breathing i feel like i cant get a satisfying breath of air,
why?
how can i fix it?
etc?  

[ed34]

The advice is to stop smoking all substances and see how you feel but give it about 3 weeks to clear out of your system.

[adam9]

im just asking for why my lungs / heart are feelin gthis way like i cant breathe, and how i can get over it, also why would my left breast hurt? is there a relation...im not askin for permission to do something im 18..

[Roster17]

Sounds like you want someone on here to tell you it's ok to smoke marijuana.  I think ed34 gave you some good advice. I doubt anyone on here will tell you it's ok to smoke the stuff. Your best bet is to make an appt with your doc and tell him your concerns, and you can also ask him if it's ok to smoke it. I'm sure he will give you an answer.

[ed34]

But isn't it a bit like putting poison into your body and then asking why you don't feel right?

[adam9]

and thats not all true tobacco smoke is much worse than marijuana.

[adam9]

so what shuld i do and why is this happening..?

[ed34]

I have obtained this information from the website of the national institute on drug abuse.

Marijuana increases heart rate by 20-100 percent shortly after smoking; this effect can last up to 3 hours. In one study, it was estimated that marijuana users have a 4.8 fold increase in the risk of heart attack in the first hour after smoking the drug. This may be due to increased heart rate as well as the effects of marijuana on heart rhythms, causing palpitations and arrhythmias. Numerous studies have shown marijuana smoke to contain carcinogens and to be an irritant to the lungs. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50-70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke. Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which further increase the lungs' exposure to carcinogenic smoke. Marijuana smokers show dysregulated growth of epithelial cells in their lung tissue, which could lead to cancer.

[adam9]

??

[adam9]

so im stopping cigs, but can i still smoke marijuana by itself?

[ed34]

Give your body three weeks to adjust, you've been living inside an ashtray for 6 months and your lungs/blood have a lot of rubbish to remove.
See how you feel in three weeks. Smoking marijuana is still very bad for you. When you
mix it with the tobacco, it is something like 10 times the strength of a standard ciggy.

[adam9]

any help???????