Do nicotine patches affect the success of dental implant surgery same as smoking?

You need oxygen rich, nutrient rich blood to aid in healing of surgery. Nicotine will cut off the amount of these essential elements to healing no matter if it is in inhaled or absorbed. Nicotine is not helpful and is harmful in any form taken into the body.Nicotine is a stimulant, speeding up the heart by about 20 beats per minute with every cigarette, it raises blood pressure, is a vasoconstrictor - which means it makes arteries all over the body become smaller making it harder for the heart to pump through the constricted arteries.