That’s insane!
I was needing to get on the Transplant list for a Liver last year, and was told I had to quit smoking to be eligible for a transplant. I asked what in the hell smoking had to do with my Liver, and they didn’t have a good answer. I could understand them telling me to quit drinking, but I already didn’t drink at all. I believe Nicotine leaves your system rapidly. It would likely be gone within a week or two. Just quit ahead of time before your next appointment.
Now days, it’s VERY bad to tell your doctor that you do ANYTHING perceived to be ‘unhealthy’, because you WILL be penalized for it, sometimes even years later. The computers never ‘forget’....
I quit cigs in 2003.
One of the several things I did to quit was to drink an 8 oz glass of water with a teaspoon of baking soda each day. The baking soda is supposed to absorb the nicotine and expel it from the body.
Cigarettes constrict the circulatory system. That complicates everything.
Prayers.
Smoking makes wound healing more difficult. It makes you a higher risk to have post op complication.