Smoking Started by: Anonymous

I smoked up until the day before my surgery. I told the nurse at the hospital very honestly that I had an e cig she said it was better the smoking but ideally I needed to quit altogether because of infection etc. I used the e cig for the first four days five weeks later and I’ve never smoked! I do use the e cig still if I’m having a drink though! Xx

I was told I need to quit a minimum of 2 weeks prior to op, I had my last cigarette 5 days ago and my op is on Friday. I’ve been using an e cig and its worked well so far 🙂 I’d defiantly quit as soon as you can, not only for risk of infection, smoking can starve the heart of oxygen, causing difficulty breathing during and after op, increased risks of blood clots and can slow recovery. I know lots of people who didn’t quit and they’re fine. Try an e cig, at least you’ll be cutting out all the s*** xx

They advised to stop smoking two weeks before and two weeks after I said I wasn’t stopping and was advised to cut down xx I smoked before and have done since and went for my stitches trimmed today and they are healing fine xxx ok I know it’s not ideal to smoke but it’s not done me any harm either xx