Like I know you’re not supposed to smoke before surgery and always tell your dr when you last smoked but how does it effect the anesthesia?
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I had an emergency appendectomy a few years ago. Daily smoker (wake n bake) for a decade. I was in my 30s and my parents were in the room with me and I was telling the anesthesiologist this info, and my parents were giggling (old hippies). He kept asking if I wanted them to leave the room, but I for some reason didn’t want them to, and kept telling him emphatically how much I smoked and how worried I was about waking up in the middle of the surgery. He assured me it wouldn’t happen. My parents still tease me about it from time to time. Still glad I told him.
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