Smoking must be quit after cardiac stenting, otherwise it will affect the therapeutic effect, and even induce myocardial infarction and stroke, threatening the patient’s life safety.
After placing a stent in the heart, patients should strengthen the postoperative care, maintain good living habits, especially to quit smoking and alcohol, so as not to affect the recovery of the condition. Nicotine in cigarettes will stimulate the body to release adrenaline, prompting the heart rate to accelerate, increasing cardiac oxygen consumption, and will damage endothelial cells, leading to platelet aggregation and the eventual formation of blood clots.
Carbon monoxide produced during smoking will combine with hemoglobin in the blood of the body, making the arterial wall edema, hypoxia, and promote the synthesis of fatty acids in the arterial wall, and even induce atherosclerosis.
Tobacco also contains tar and other harmful ingredients, if smoking for a long time, it may even induce myocardial infarction, stroke, affecting the patient’s life safety.
Therefore, patients should quit smoking and drinking, eat a light diet in their daily life, and are advised to seek medical treatment in time for any uncomfortable symptoms.