as a smoker you more than double your chances of having problems with surgery

A recommendation from The American Society of Anesthesiologists is that you should quit smoking right now! Well that’s pretty obvious because of the well known health complications which accompany smoking, but they have explained that there’s the added danger that if you smoke you are statistically likely to have problems after any surgical operations too.

According to their research quitting smoking after surgery dropped the chances of health complications from fifty percent to twenty percent and the figure for those people who had never smoked drops even further. Basically as a smoker you more than double your chances of having problems with surgery as well as having to go for surgery in the first instance. Not smoking for just 24 hours considerably increases your blood flow [that is why men report better erectile function when quitting], and this has a positive knock on effect on healing potential.

The thing about smoking is that it not only makes you more probable to get sick but it also makes it much more likely for you not to be able to recover from illness or an accident. For example a smoker might argue that he or she is living for the moment and that he or she could die in a car crash tomorrow, but what they are not taking into consideration is that they have a bigger chance of dying in a car crash because of their smoking habit because their body will not be able to cope with the trauma as well as a nonsmoker and because they won’t recover from surgery.

What we are saying is that as well as increasing the risk of getting illness in the first place, being a smoker increases the risk of you dying from practically every single illness and accident not caused by smoking itself. One thing is for certain and that is all smokers eventually bitterly regret ever having smoked and not having taken advice to quit! Don’t become one of them!