@MrsRobinson 969148 wrote:
Where I’m from, you always get asked if you smoke a while before surgery, and being adviced to stop and even get offered help to stop. The surgeon can deny operating you if you don’t stop.
same in the UK – I think that is the policy now in all of Europe and most likely the World (healthcare workers share data about treatments globally.
nicotine alters the blood circulation and can affect the healing times with this kind of surgery and there is some kind of global ethics/law that doctors must minimise the risks of all medical procedures. Although you are prescribed other drugs the hospital presumably knows what these are and how much you are taking; unlike nicotine where it can be as much as you can afford.
it appears the hospital should have made it clearer earlier on that vaping is no different from smoking normal cigarettes with regard to this risk but many healthcare organisations (no matter where in the world you are or your age) are overworked and when that gets too much it becomes harder to treat people as individual humans instead of just another bit of the job.
