Stop smoking before plastic surgery?!
Question:
Stop smoking before plastic surgery?
Why do they want me to stop smoking before plastic surgery? Something about lack of blood flow to the skin? anyone?
Answers:
Actually, it's the oxygen in the blood that they want increased to promote healing.
A simple lesson......... think of the red blood cells as little life boats floating through the river of blood. There's little hook up sites on these little life boats for the oxygen to attach to so it can get to different parts of your body.
The carbon monoxide produced by smoking also attaches to these same receptors. In fact, if there's already an oxygen there, it may literally "throw him overboard" to take it's place.
So, to have enough oxygen to promote healing, you have to decrease the amount of Carbon monoxide (co2) in the blood.
Make sense now? Good.
And, if you're going to the trouble of surgery, I'm sure you certainly want it to go well.
Good luck.