Smoking is not recommended after a rib fracture.
Smoking is not recommended for patients with rib fracture, mainly because smoking will stimulate blood vessels and cause vasoconstriction, and the blood supply to the rib cage may be affected, thus affecting the healing of the fracture.
The nicotine in cigarettes can cause local vasospasm and damage to the endothelium of the blood vessels. In rib fractures, which require a more adequate blood supply, smoking is not recommended after a rib fracture because of the potential damage to the blood vessels.
In addition, rib fracture may have soft tissue contusion of the lungs, or damage in the chest cavity, smoking can easily lead to lung damage, slow recovery, due to cigarettes into the airway, it will make the airway in a high reactivity, increase mucus secretion, reduce the immune ability, may also lead to lung infection and other symptoms, so smoking is not recommended after rib fracture.