For lung cancer patients, even if the tumor has not spread, they should not smoke after surgery.
Even if the tumor has not spread, lung cancer patients need to formulate combined treatment plan such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy to improve the cure rate of the tumor after surgery. Smoking itself is one of the risk factors of lung cancer, which is an important cause of the development of lung cancer, and it is not conducive to the control of the disease and prognosis, and may even lead to the recurrence of lung cancer.
In addition, lung cancer resection surgery will damage certain lung function, and postoperative smoking will further lead to deterioration of lung function, induce lung infection, emphysema and other diseases, and reduce patients’ quality of life.
Therefore, lung cancer patients need to quit smoking in time, avoid second-hand smoke environment, and follow the doctor’s instructions for active treatment to improve the prognosis of the disease.