As long as possible: Depending on the difficulty of the extraction, no smoking for 24 hours. The sooner you smoke, the more likely you will have problems. You risk getting a dry socket by smoking. Smoking delays healing.
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Try never: Smoking has chemicals that get into the healing tissue and destroys this new tissue. This also can create a painful dry socket. If the surgery was complex, you need to wait a lot longer for the healing. Therefore, ask your surgeon. Keep in mind that smoking even injures normal tissue creating potential cancers and tumors.
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Can vs should?: You can smoke immediately but the sooner you smoke, the greater the risk of delayed healing and a dry socket. Any person who ever had a dry socket knows the severe pain and the nuisance associated with it. Next time they'll wait to smoke. I suggest at least a few days. Never is better! i once saw an autopsy of a smoker. If you saw what your lungs looked like, you'd never smoke again.
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