Your surgeon may ask you to stop smoking two weeks before your breast enhancement surgery. Even if he doesn’t, which is not likely, you should quit smoking because smokers consistently fare worse than non-smokers both during and after surgeries. Thus it is important to the success of your surgery to decrease your nicotine level prior to it.

The main reason to quit smoking before surgery is because doing so will make you healthier. The bodies of healthy people are able to endure the rigors of surgery and surgical recovery much better than those of people who smoke. Specifically, nicotine causes problems during surgery because it is a vasoconstrictor, meaning it… read more: Nicotine Level Before Breast Reduction