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Why would a cigarette hurt your stomach it is bad on the lungs and you should not smoke but doesn't effect your stomach did they bother your stomach before you had surgery

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Smoking effects your healing that is why they tell you to quit. I would not smoke too much in the next 3months until you are pretty sure you are healed.

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Why not just quit? What's the point of undergoing surgery to lose weight to save your life and then you continue to smoke, which will in all likelihood result in an early death anyway or at least severe loss of enjoyment of life? Get a patch or talk to someone, don't light up, seriously!

-Kendra

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I'm nine days post op I want a cigarette uuugghhh will one hurt answer asap

It might not hurt your stomach but it could cause you to heal slow or improper which could bake you more prone to infection I would risk it ..I kno what your going through I'm ten months ex smoker when I started this process I stop cause I wanted my doc to take me serious that I could commit to something good luck and hold out

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It might not hurt your stomach but it could cause you to heal slow or improper which could bake you more prone to infection I would risk it ..I kno what your going through I'm ten months ex smoker when I started this process I stop cause I wanted my doc to take me serious that I could commit to something good luck and hold out

I kno I got some spell checks In there but what in saying is don't risk it cause it could make you prone to getting an infection

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Actually smoking can cause ulcers in your stomach, and make healing more difficult. My aunt quit prior to her surgery because they wouldn't do it unless she did; she then went right back to it and had a bleeding ulcer and was told to quit or it would never heal.

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You did a wonderful thing, I used to but quit too.

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You did a wonderful thing, I used to but quit too.

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Congrats on throwing out the cigs. Get rid of everything. Lighters, ash trays.... It's like eating. You have to get all of the junk food out of the house. I quit

8 years ago. Find an online support group.

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I am leaving for surgery next month I am having a very hard time stopping smoking any advice

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I used chantix to quit. It worked for me. Three years smoke free and I had been a smoker for 24 years.

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