Why Smoking Makes It Harder to Heal

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If a doctor has told you to quit smoking, that's not just because they're worried about lung cancer. Those cigarettes are messing up your bodies' natural healing process, in more ways than one. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bill & Katie Scholl, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.shieldhealthcare.com/community/wound/2015/12/18/how-wounds-heal-the-4-main-phases-of-wound-healing/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1524-475X.2010.00569.x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4495737/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4241583/ https://advancedtissue.com/2017/03/smoking-negatively-impacts-wound-healing/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1323208 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19660042 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14700008 http://www.jaypeejournals.com/eJournals/ShowText.aspx?ID=10753&Type=FREE&TYP=TOP&IN=_eJournals/images/JPLOGO.gif&IID=826&isPDF=YES https://www.amjmed.com/article/0002-9343(92)90623-J/fulltext https://www.uwhealth.org/healthfacts/burn/6150.pdf
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