Smoking is nutritional suicide for your discs. How many truly healthy looking smokers do you know? We know for a fact that cigarette smoking interferes with bone healing, bone remodeling, cartilage healing, and cartilage remodeling.
Smoking interferes with the normal healing processes that take place in our body. Cigarette smoking also interferes with the fusion process after surgery. Fusion failure (psuedoarthrosis) is clearly higher in cigarette smokers.
It just makes sense. Smoking is not worth the pain.
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