Does smoking prevent healing of a spinal injury?
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It reduces the oxygen level in your bloodstream and adds MANY toxic by-products.
The nicotine, in cigarette size doses, is far less harmful than all of the other toxins produce by the combustion of tobacco!
smoking can impair healing. yes,
Smoking slows down your healing process for all injuries.
it doesnt help it, thats for sure.
Smoking affects just about every part of your body in a negative way...including healing from ALL injuries. There is a high co-occurance rate between chronic back pain and smoking (as well as a number of other things). Whenever I treat someone who has a back problem and they smoke, I usually double the estimated time for recovery. So far, I'd say that's been pretty accurate.
Smoking hinders the healing of everything.
Smoking causes the veins to constrict and lessens the blood flow.
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