{"id":1283,"date":"2019-04-26T10:31:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T22:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queenstownphysiotherapy.com\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2021-07-20T15:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T03:08:56","slug":"smoking-optimising-injury-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queenstownphysiotherapy.com\/smoking-optimising-injury-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimising Injury Healing &#8211; Effects of Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking &#8211; we all know it\u2019s bad for your health and it is the cause of many serious health problems.\u00a0 Each cigarette contains over 4000 chemicals, 70 of which have been identified as causing cancer.\u00a0 In fact, every cigarette takes 11 mins off your life expectancy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But, did you know that smoking slows our body\u2019s healing?\u00a0 Every lungful of smoke you inhale prolongs your recovery time from an injury.\u00a0 How?\u00a0 Well, our lungs should be filled with oxygen rich air (not smoke) that passes from our lungs into our blood which flows around our bodies, keeping our tissues healthy and healing our damaged tissues.\u00a0 Essentially oxygen is \u201cfood\u201d for our bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments.\u00a0 If you smoke, you truly are starving your injury of food and its ability to heal.\u00a0 On top of all that, nicotine is a vasoconstrictor, which means it closes the blood vessels and further limits blood flow to the extremities.\u00a0\u00a0 It gets worse &#8211; 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