Smoking hookah after surgery is not a good idea. After surgery, your body needs time to heal, and smoking can make things worse. The smoke and chemicals from hookah can slow down your healing, increase the chance of infection, and affect how your body gets oxygen. It’s best to talk to your doctor about when or if it’s safe to smoke hookah after surgery.
Smoking in general can also give a higher risk of infection in injury because smoking is a factor that affects your lungs and heart.
Even when patients stop smoking after surgery, their history of smoking will also already affect their healing recovery time.
Patients are recommended not to smoke for 4 to 6 weeks to ensure a healthy and fast recovery. However, it still depends on your surgery spot and your doctor’s recommendations; it can be just 1 week or even 1 year.
So, in general, it is not recommended to smoke hookah, or even vape and cigarettes. You should focus on recovering and try a healthy diet with fruits and vegetables to aid your recovery. This can also help you limit nicotine intake and train yourself not to smoke daily, perhaps reserving shisha sessions for the future.
What if the doctor recommends you to stop smoking shisha forever? Can you still smoke it? This question can be answered by yourself. If you have to stop, then stop. It’s for your own good, and it may also benefit other people.
Hookah can produce a lot of carbon monoxide; a 60-minute hookah session contains 8 times more carbon monoxide than a single cigarette.
If you are taking a break from hookah or have stopped using it, it doesn’t mean just you who stopped using it; you should also stay away from people who are hookah users or any other smokers, such as vape and cigarette users. The effect on non-smokers can be more dangerous than on active smokers, especially after surgery. So, it’s important to breathe fresh oxygen instead.
Quick-lighting charcoal is often used as a hookah fuel, and it contains chemicals that are not suitable for your health, especially after surgery. It’s also not good for people who have not had surgery. The toxic gases and carbon monoxide emitted from these chemicals can be harmful. After surgery, you should stay away from hookah users who smoke near you and avoid smoking areas, like hookah bars or indoor spaces where hookah is used, until the room is properly ventilated to remove any lingering carbon monoxide or other gases.
Hope this article helps.
