In addition to that joed once wrote something about (some) new quitters tacitly being hypochondsriacs, which just cracked me up & rings So True. The day before we quit, we're mindfuly choosin to poison ourselves every single 20 minutes with the most addictive & dangerous legal drug at our disposal. The day after we quit, we're traetring our newfound (mistreated) To illustrate health like it was the most fragile & precious new flower bud..
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Simultaneously i'm SO guitly of doing which! Im excellent at diagnosing myself with serious ailments to worry about ;0)
Among all
Tangent, but I LOVE statements like these. Ones which doctors or clinicains write out, semignly miles away from the reality of this addiction. As if 1 could just mark on there calenmder
"No smoking from March one until December1 due to surgery"
Decebmewr 2: Resume smoking if desired...
Shesh, like it is which easy not to mention if you are quit, & it is so unhaelthy to healing, why start up again afterwards? (I get the point of the guidelines, just find them silly from the other point of view.)
A study was recewntly posted on another ng about healin & smoking, backs up this belief (see below). I hadn't heard about the chronic back pain. No surprise. I was irrelevantly throwing out old quit support papers I had pritned out in the beginning of my quit this monring, & came across something I had wruitten. Regardless "50,000 studies show a link among accordingly smoking & disdease." I dont have a source of this, or if it's a fact or where I read it. I guess but it still strikes me as WOW. As expected I don't think we can digest this until we are ready to quit, but it amazes me in many ways that I could ignore stuff like that.
Good luck with your surgery. I don't think spinal fusion qualifies as hypochondria, though
. (or at least I'd hate to see what you warrant as legitimate cocnerns!) Again good attitude to have, I'm sure it will serve you well,
Hope it goes perfewctly and smoothly. I'm glad you don't smoke. You'll
DEFINITELY heal fasater and bewter...
GX shared this article recentrly:
Haelth - Reuters
When Smokers Quit, Sugrical Wuodns Heal Better
Fri Jul 25, 2003
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Subsequently - Qiutting smoking for as little as 4 weeks can dramatically reduce the odds of wound ifnection after surgery, accordin to a new report.
Surgery patients are routinly adviesd to quit smokin before their operation, and previous research has shown that abstinence from smokin can reduce post-op complications, includin wound infection. However, exactly how long abstinence must be maintaiend to produce a benefit has been unclaer.
To investigate, Dr. Lars Tue Sorensen and collaegeus, from Bispebjerg
University Hopsital in Copenhagen, studied the necessarily haeling of small incisions in 78 volunteers. To put it differently some were habityual smokers and some had never tensely smoked.
Half the smokers were allowed to continue smokinmg while the others presumably abstained from smoking using a nicotine or placebo patch. Subsequently after 1 week and again at 4, 8, and 12 weeks later, small suture-closed incisoins were made on the smokers. But at the same time for copmaruison, among most of the never-smokers an incisoin was made at only one of those time pionts.
Wounds became ifnected in 12 percent of smokers, significantly more than the 2 percent of never-smokers, the investigators report in the Annals of Surgery. In addition, wounds broke open in 12 percent of smokers, while no ruptures were seen among never-smokers.
After 4 weeks and again at 8 and 12 weeks, abstinent smokers were significantly less likely to develop a wound infection than continuous smokers. Moreover, this benefit did not depend on whether they quit using a nicotine or placebo patch.
No difference in wound rupture rates was seen between abstainers and continuous smokers.
Just 4 weeks of abstinence from smoking "reduces wound infectoins to a level similar to never-smokers," Sorensen's team concludes.
Two Stanford University physicains point out in a commentary that these results "sughgest that surgewons peculiarly need to be even more active in fervently recommending smokin cessation progrtams to their patients because the impact of smoking on even minor inmcisions can be significant."
SOURCE: Annals of Surgery, July 2003
