2007-01-08 07:18:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Smoking has bad influences on surgery for a variety of reasons. First, it is an airway irritant, so while you're on the ventilator during surgery, you will have more copious secretions which can decrease your level of oxygenation. Secondly, cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide which occupies the space on hemoglobin (the part of blood that carries oxygen) much more strongly than oxygen further reducing your oxygen carrying capacity. Thirdly, cigarette smoking damages the lung tissue itself decreasing the ability to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide. All of these things could lead to you being unable to come off the ventilator immediately after surgery.
In the postoperative period, the wound and surgical sites need to heal. Healing relies on adequate oxygen delivery. Nicotine causes blood vessel constriction which impedes blood flow to healing tissues. This combined with the aboved mentioned reasons for low circulating oxygen combine to decrease wound healing significantly and can even result in breakdown of the surgical wound.
In general, you should stop smoking because it causes emphysema/chronic bronchitis, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, vascular disease, heart disease/heart attacks, is an expensive habit to maintain, and makes you smell bad.
Those are probably a few reasons he told you to quit smoking.
2007-01-08 09:17:59 · answer #1 · answered by tiredsurgeon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-20 00:53:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because smoking is not good for you and it's a stock answer that all doctors have. And because smoking can cause serious complications during surgery, especially for aenesthesia. Take his advice and quit. Surgery is as good a reason as any to use to stop.
2007-01-08 07:24:07 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
smoking decreases blood circulation. This can prolong healing time. Depending on what kind of surgery your getting it causes serious complications. Definetly quit smoking. Plus if you have to stay in the hospital, you are unable to smoke there. I think that you should quit smoking for your health anyways, without the surgery.
2007-01-08 07:29:42 · answer #4 · answered by jade_d05 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could impair your breathing. Smoking also causes your blood pressure to rise, so stopping before surgery will give them a normal baseline while you are under anesthesia. It also causes your heart to beat at an abnormal rate. So they just want to establish your baseline in all areas for your safety. Hope this helped
2007-01-08 07:30:17 · answer #5 · answered by Memere RN/BA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smoking hinders your recovery from surgery. In some cases, it can keep you from healing.
2007-01-08 08:13:03 · answer #6 · answered by swanser 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smoking delays making u unconscious during surgery.
2007-01-08 07:45:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should just quit anyways!
2007-01-08 07:25:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋