QUIT SMOKING TO AVOID CHRONIC NECK AND BACK PAIN
There is nothing cool about having a FAG. Nicotine never forgets to leave a mark in your tissue whatever may be the reason to pull one– work stress/ peer pressure / social gathering .
Nicotine is toxic to blood vessels in your entire body. Most dreaded and often highlighted ones are cancers of lungs / cardiac events.
Interestingly this nicotine is related to chronic resistant low back pain /neck pain. MULTIPLE LEVEL DISC DEGENERATION is the basis for this pain.
Most often spinal problems are RESISTANT to conventional treatments with physiotherapy.
In fact lot many worsen to develop disc prolapse which can RECUR again at same level or different spinal levels.
Surgeries done for smokers have HIGH FAILURE RATE because disc degeneration with prolapse recurs and fusion rates are less compared to non-smokers
Smoking weakens the bone as well (OSTEOPOROSIS) which can predispose to fractures especially around hip bone.
Nicotine related spinal changes are often IRREVERSIBLE.
QUIT SMOKING TO AVOID CHRONIC NECK AND BACK PAIN