Effects of smoking on Healing

[KL4D4]

I'm wondering what are the effects of smoking herb while trying to have stitches and incisions heal? I know smoking cigarettes isn't recommended for anyone trying to heal but smoking once a day versus however many cigg's is what I'm trying to put into account.

Thanks for any advice.

KL4D4 Reviewed by KL4D4 on 06-05-2008. Effects of smoking on Healing I'm wondering what are the effects of smoking herb while trying to have stitches and incisions heal? I know smoking cigarettes isn't recommended for anyone trying to heal but smoking once a day versus however many cigg's is what I'm trying to put into account. Thanks for any advice. Rating: 5

[birdgirl73]

I rather doubt that smoking once a day would do much harm, if any, but this hasn't been tested in any studies so we don't really know. Vaping would be the safest and most ideal way to take a low-risk approach, and I suspect that the active ingredients in cannabis, if lab testing with cannabinoids in mouse studies is reflective of how they'd work in humans, are probably downright beneficial for wounds and incisions. The other stuff that comes along with the smoke--the byproducts of combustion, the carbon, the particulate, and the benzenes--are not great wound-healers, however. Also, smoking tends to dehydrate people, which is also not ideal.

If you're going to smoke, take it easy and make sure you're drinking lots of water. It's true that tobacco cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for people who're trying to heal from wounds or incisions because nicotine and the other ingredients suppress capillary action, so they keep the capillaries from knitting together and supplying the necessary blood and oxygen (and other anti-infective/anti-inflammatory helper cells) to mend a wound.