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<blockquote data-quote="DCUKMod" data-source="post: 2028967" data-attributes="member: 345386"><p>Traceymac, bearing in mind you have had a very significant issue with your foot, you need to be protecting your CV system and micro blood vessels carefully. Not smoking is the biggest thing you can do in that regard.</p><p></p><p>I know it's easy for me, a life-long non-smoker, who has always disliked smoking intensely, to say, but it's true.</p><p></p><p>My mother was non-diabetic, but was a lifelong smoker and almost lost a leg due to her blood vessels becoming caludicated - probably by a clot. I say probably by a clot because she got astonishingly lucky to find that probably days from amputation the vessel clearer and the blood supply was refreshed. It was a dreadful, dreadful time for her. In hospital she stopped smoking in a nano-second.</p><p></p><p>When we went for a follow-up session with the vascular bods, the consultant was at pains to say that she must, must remain smoke free, as every cigarette increased the chances of a recurrence and he had rarely known anyone as lucky as she, in terms of the spontanbeous resolution.</p><p></p><p>She was mentally and physically scarred by it. We toher family members were only mentally scarred.</p><p></p><p>Have you looked at the NHS cessations resources?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DCUKMod, post: 2028967, member: 345386"] Traceymac, bearing in mind you have had a very significant issue with your foot, you need to be protecting your CV system and micro blood vessels carefully. Not smoking is the biggest thing you can do in that regard. I know it's easy for me, a life-long non-smoker, who has always disliked smoking intensely, to say, but it's true. My mother was non-diabetic, but was a lifelong smoker and almost lost a leg due to her blood vessels becoming caludicated - probably by a clot. I say probably by a clot because she got astonishingly lucky to find that probably days from amputation the vessel clearer and the blood supply was refreshed. It was a dreadful, dreadful time for her. In hospital she stopped smoking in a nano-second. When we went for a follow-up session with the vascular bods, the consultant was at pains to say that she must, must remain smoke free, as every cigarette increased the chances of a recurrence and he had rarely known anyone as lucky as she, in terms of the spontanbeous resolution. She was mentally and physically scarred by it. We toher family members were only mentally scarred. Have you looked at the NHS cessations resources? [/QUOTE]
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