Can you smoke if you have a herniated disk?

Lumbar disc herniation patients are recommended to prohibit smoking, because the nicotine content of cigarettes can be collagen tissue, cartilage tissue damage, and lumbar disc herniation, there is a rupture of the annulus fibrosus, disc degeneration, if this time and then a large number of cigarettes, it is easy to cause disc degeneration aggravated, so that the disc’s annulus fibrosus fissure will be increased, increase in size, and herniation will be aggravated, which is also This is not conducive to the healing of the annulus fibrosus, so the lumbar intervertebral disc herniation period to prohibit smoking. In addition, we should pay attention to the exercise of lumbar back muscle strength, which is conducive to the lumbar intervertebral disc retraction, you can regularly do lumbar traction, which is conducive to increasing the width of the intervertebral space, alleviate the symptoms of intervertebral disc herniation.