Scientists: plastic surgery helps to quit smoking

09.18.2017

Bad habit Plastic surgery every year are becoming increasingly popular among people of different ages. This area of ​​surgery is often blamed for the fact that people mutilate their bodies in an effort to become like unrealistic characters.

However, plastic surgery has a positive side - about 25% of people who have done an abdominoplasty , quit smoking. A scientific article about this is published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery .

After plastic surgery, it is important that the wounds heal quickly, otherwise scars may remain. Wounds are quickly tightened only if there is a steady flow of blood to them. If a person smokes, then this cannot be achieved, since nicotine contributes to the narrowing of the capillaries, as a result of which the blood flow to the tissues is reduced.

In such a situation, the edges of the cut skin simply cannot connect properly, and instead of improving the appearance, a person gets deformity in the form of scars.

Plastic surgeons strongly recommend their patients to give up cigarettes one month before the surgery and not to smoke for a while after the procedure. According to experts, this period is sufficient for the recovery period to be successful.

In a smoking person, the risk of complications is at around 40%, and if a client of a beauty clinic did not smoke during the month before the operation, then the risk is reduced to 20%. Specialists from the University of British Columbia monitored 85 patients at the plastic surgery clinic.

It turned out that a quarter of patients completely quit smoking, observing the prescription of the surgeon, 40% began to smoke from time to time, and 70% of respondents first thought about giving up cigarettes.

Valeria Sokolova, news editor