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Quitting Smoking After Bone Surgery May Speed Up Recovery
According to Swedish researchers, smokers recover faster from surgery to repair a broken bone if they quit smoking. The study observed daily smokers who underwent emergency surgery for an acute fracture and were offered a smoking cessation program that began shortly after the surgery and continued for six weeks. The patients who quit healed faster and had fewer complications than those who continued to smoke.
“Our results indicate that a smoking cessation intervention program during the first six weeks after acute fracture surgery decreases the risk of postoperative complications by nearly half,” Dr. Hans Nasell, senior surgical consultant at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, said in a news release.
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