smoking cigarettes 2 weeks post op? thoughts?

[miss_lalaaa 2]

Has anyone smoked cigarettes this soon?

[No game 14,436]

There was one lady here last year that did...

She said it was ok, her doctor didn't tell her not too. She said she did it and was fine.

I don't know what happened to her though she had some kind of complication and hasn't been back.

[Rox 200]

I quit smoking for this surgery, I refuse to start up again. Smoking interferes with healing. I am having a good portion of my stomach removed - and the part staying behind will have a staple line to heal. I'm not taking any chances with the healing process.

[gmanbat 5,889]

Don't smoke.

From other websites:

Patients are advised to quit smoking before and after the surgery. Smoking can cause infection, blood clots, and other health problems.

Before gastric sleeve resection or any bariatric surgery, you must quit smoking, as smoking increases the risk for infections, pneumonia, blood clots, slow healing and other life-threatening complications after surgery. Ideally, you should permanently quit smoking, but even if you don't you must quit for at least one month before and one month after bariatric surgery.

[LipstickLady 25,682]

Go for it! I was called mean for questioning the logic of eating a few wontons 5 days post op during the liquid phase, so who am I to advise anyone that they stick with their surgeon's advice?

Good luck to you!

[TES 858]

I'm assuming part of the reason you got VSG was to decrease your risk of (or existing) comorbidities of obesity and to help give you a longer, healthier life. So smoking would kind of defeat the purpose, wouldn't it? On the bright side, if you die young from bladder cancer, lung cancer or just suffer for years with COPD, you will probably be doing it in a smaller clothing size. So no, I wouldn't start smoking.

[Cindeez 22]

I work in a cancer center. If you saw what I had to see on a daily basis, you would never pick it back up. It's just not worth it. I know it's hard to quit , I do, but if you can do the surgery and everything you need to do post op, then you have the strength to quit smoking. Good luck. Wishing the best for you.

[tinahall 27]

I work in a cancer center. If you saw what I had to see on a daily basis' date=' you would never pick it back up. It's just not worth it. I know it's hard to quit , I do, but if you can do the surgery and everything you need to do post op, then you have the strength to quit smoking. Good luck. Wishing the best for you.[/quote']

I also work in a cancer center and you quit for this surgery so why do it again ? It's time to get healthy!!! That's why we all had the done, right???

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[Baba Wawa 543]

Don't. If you're trying to improve your health, smoking is going to undo all your efforts.

[VSGJourneyGrandma 19]

PLEASE DON'T SMOKE!!!!!!

[Racheepoo99 33]

I work in a dentist office. I have seen people lose their teeth. Have gum disease. Have part of their jaw taken out. All because of smoking. It smells so bad. Please please I beg u don't start again. Every day without it ur lungs start to heal. Stop for urself. Stop for ur children. Stop for ur grandchildren. Please I beg u. U chose this operation because u chose life. Choosing cigarettes is choosing death!