NCUK Virtual Patient Handbook

our health - to minimise the risks of side-effects / other complications. king, research has shown that smokers are more likely to suffer suggest that if you can stop smoking before surgery, you can:

- and the benefits do not take long to emerge. Even after as little as 8 bon monoxide level in your blood will have reduced by half. further information is available here oking - many hospitals ban vaping alongside smoking. Therefore you decide on an alternative, for example, a patch or gum to use during

m units of alcohol per week, reducing the amount and frequency, can gh treatment.

, a Holistic Needs Assessment - an example of the the type of form vided - or by viewing the downloadable forms in SECTION 09.

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