26/10/2025
💥How has your Stop-tober been going? If you have been part of the NHS campaign then that is a huge step. 👏👏 We posted about the impact of smoking on wound-healing earlier in the month, it also has a significant affect on bone health. For patients recovering from fractures or undergoing orthopaedic surgery, smoking can significantly slow recovery.
📍Delayed fracture healing
Smokers often experience slower bone repair because reduced blood flow and decreased osteoblast activity (the cells that build new bone) impair healing.
📍Greater risk of complications
Smoking also increases the chance of non-union (when bones fail to heal properly) and infection. This can lead to additional surgeries, longer recovery times and, in some cases, lasting problems.
📍Quitting smoking, even in the short term before or after surgery, can make a measurable difference in how well bones heal and how quickly patients return to activity.
Its never too late to stop, visit their website and consider how life changing asmoke-free life might be ... https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/