How Long After Rhinoplasty Can I Smoke Marijuana?

It’s important that patients stop smoking both cigarettes and marijuana for at least two weeks prior to rhinoplasty surgery. They should also avoid smoking for at least two weeks following surgery as well.
                Since marijuana doesn’t contain nicotine, it doesn’t cause the significant vasoconstriction that cigarette smoking causes. Despite this, smoking marijuana can have a negative impact upon breathing and airway function. For these reasons, it’s important to discuss this issue with your plastic surgeon before undergoing rhinoplasty surgery.

Tobacco or nicotine is not advised before and after any elective surgical procedure since nicotine is a vasoconstrictor that can decrease blood flow, and impair wound healing. Marijuana may not have vasoconstrictive properties, but smoking or vaping anything is irritating to both the lungs and the nose. Consider abstinence for a month. Thank you. Dr Joseph

I ask my patients not to smoke cigarettes, vape, or smoke marijuana for 4 weeks before and after surgery. Doing so can affect the outcome of the surgery, such as the wound healing of the laceration. For an elective cosmetic procedure, we want to make sure everything possible is done to maximize the outcome. You've come so far, don't give up now!
-Dr. David Mattos, New York Plastic Surgical Group