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If you smoke, anesthesiologists recommend that you stop smoking before surgery and stay off cigarettes until at least one week after surgery.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoIn this state in the United States, you are not allowed to smoke as you approach the doors of the hospital or surgery center. So, you would need to finish your last cigarette before you got out of your car.
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∙ 13y ago1.) Because you'll be unconscious!?
2.) Post operatively, once conscious, tobacco smoking will massively impede recovery - from the anesthetic, & because it inhibits wound healing.
3.) Why? First, tobacco smoke irritates the mouth, throat & lungs; it's a bronchiolconstrictor - ie tightens up the air passages in the lungs, inhibiting breathing etc.. Second, nicotine is a stimulant drug - it constricts blood vessels, increases heart rate, & generally stresses the cardiovascular system. It also binds with hemaglobin, & thus inhibits oxygen uptake from the blood. So, if you smoke after surgery you'll significantly reduce the supply of oxygenated blood to bodily tissues: not good generally (the main reason smoking tends to "age" the skin!), but particularly bad when wound healing is of paramount importance.
Generally, smokers have far more complications after surgery than non smokers; wounds take longer to heal, & sometimes "break down", ulcerate etc.. Smokers invariably require more breathing assistance post surgery (eg spend longer on ventilators - not good; need more nebulization/ oxygen etc.), & have far higher infection rates, than non smokers.
4.) Last, but not least, in a medical environment there are lots of explosion/ fire hazards (eg oxygen): simply not safe to have people lighting cigarettes in such situations - aside from the fact it's an unpleasant & dangerous environmental pollutant for other patients & hospital workers!
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∙ 15y agoI had an op on Friday and was under till 10:45 then out at 12:30 and the first thing I did was have a cigarette! I felt bit funny but fine from then on!
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∙ 14y agoIf you smoke, anesthesiologists recommend that you stop smoking before surgery and stay off cigarettes until at least one week after surgery.
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∙ 12y agoNo you will die
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