smoking and banding.

I will be banded soon, the nurse has told me to quit smoking which i have for 2 weeks till the procedure is done.

2 questions i had were.

1. it is super difficult to quit, what do i do?, i am taking medication for smoking and smoking 3-4 a day from 20, and those 3-4 are just 3-4 puffs per ciggerate, so basically if you combine 1 cig a day. is that ok?

2. After the surgery, for the post op, i require 3 weeks of liquid diet, how does this work?

i can have any low calory liquid or just specifics like 1st week Soups, 2nd week juice etc?

Thanks

ok to begin with you need to stop smoking. that means no more smoking at all.

and on the liguids i will tell you what i was told by my dr.

1-3 days Clear liquids,4-14 days full liquids,15-to28 days soft food mushies.

clear liquids= any thing you can see threw at room temp. full liquids = and thing that has nothing solid in it.

i hope this helps. and please stop the smoking. you can do it.

hey, well I still smoke, even after surgery. Im on like year 2 now and no problems at all. I don't smoke cigaretts though, but smoke is smoke I guess. No problems at all. Lap Band is to loose weight, not smoke. But that's just me. I have had no problems at all. Shit I smoked the same afternoon after my surgery. Just try not to cough, that could hurt a bit for a little while after surgery.