Should You Smoke After Surgery?
Most patients in their cosmetic surgery recuperation ask if they’re allowed to smoke and whether smoking could actually bring about negative effects. Doctors recommend that you stop smoking for two main reasons. The first reason is that smoking could actually infect any open wounds, since the main substance in cigarettes is nicotine and it produces carbon monoxide, this could be detrimental to your cosmetic surgery recuperation. Carbon monoxide binds itself to hemoglobin and thus prevents oxygen from being fully distributed to your body. This would lead into minimal healing.
The second reason is your general health; no doctor could actually advocate smoking knowing all of its negative effects on one’s health. For optimum healing results, you should consider quitting smoking for a while if not forever.
