Your doctor was correct that you should not start smoking anything again, and now you've heard a second opinion from another. Do NOT smoke cigarettes. Cannabis. Other herbs. Any sort of burning vegetable matter. Your lungs may not be at risk of collapse again because they're back to normal, but what you are at a risk for is irritating your lungs and forming more blebs and so starting the cycle over again.

Vaporized herb, if you're bound and determined to have to inhale something, would be safer than smoking it. But with your history you should see how that affects your pulmonary clarity. Even vaped vegetable matter can irritate and dry some people out, thus creating circumstances where you might be more prone to further blebs and/or infection. With your history, you'd be wise not to vape at times when you have any sort of cold, cough, or asthma wheezing (if you ever have that).

Eating it would be your safest bet of all.

You've been through a lot with those lungs, and you need to take care of them and protect them from here on out. They've got to last you, and they'll do a better job of doing that if they're not full of infected blebs.
Dave Byrd Reviewed by Dave Byrd on . In desperate need of help! Advice needed.. Hey, I'm Brandon. I recently had a surgery done on my lungs that removed part of my lungs because I had "blebs"(blisters of the lung) that kept popping and causing my left lung to collapse. I had "VATS" surgery done on a tiny part of the top of my lungs to remove the infected blisters. I had two chest tubes in me for two weeks connected to my lungs to reinflate them. The surgery went well and my lungs are now recovered. The doctor said it wouldn't be wise to start smoking anything again, but he Rating: 5