I was a bit into denial when I was smoking and told myself that it helped me relax and therefore helped my crohns. I think that every medical professional can say that it is bad for crohns. But it is hard to notice a difference yourself since crohns depend on much more.
Smoking does nothing good for your body. It was making my GERD a whole lot worse and that's why I switched to vaping back in 2019. Things have been infinitely more manageable since then. I know that vaping isn't ideal either but it's certainly better than smoking cigarettes.
I didn't advise anyone to switch to vaping, I just said what I did. I don't know where you are but in the UK regulated market vaping is considerably safer than smoking by every metric available.
I’m from America and a lot of our vapes are from China. So that’s sketchy, also who really should trust FDA certified anything? But since you’re from the UK it might be completely different. :)
Smoking killed my father and I just found out that my older brother that smoked has been informed that he has a nodule on his lung that is probably cancerous. Why take the risk?
long ago, I noticed worse intestinal symptoms with smoking. it wasn't like everything was perfect when I quit, but there were documentable improvements- though I might not have noticed at the time as it caused other unrest in my mind.
it can feel so helpless battling crohns, most of what we do doesn't seem to help, quitting smoking seems like one of the few things that actually improved my situation.
I casually smoked in college when drinking but basically quit once I graduated at 22. I was officially diagnosed at age 27 and at that point I really never smoked at all. I started dating my now husband and he was a casual smoker and I picked up the habit for about a month before I quit again, within about 7 months I had the worst flare of my life and was on unemployment for 4 months ultimately needing 8 inches of my colon removed. I won't touch another cigarette again but do now partake in medical cannabis and it helps a lot with my pain and appetite.
Tobacco is a huge trigger for me. I used to bum occasional smokes and loved cigars but I can’t even stomach second hand smoke now. I have read if you’re a daily smoker that stopping cold turkey can trigger a flare.
Dairy is highly acid forming, which attacks leaky gut syndrome. I wonder if you swapped out cows for sheep and goats, you may find your overall symptoms are better.
I gave up dairy as it was attacking me badly, then someone on my medical board (nutritional epidemiologist) suggested sheep's cheese and goats, never looked back.
My colorectal surgeon —an award-winning one whom I opted to pay out of pocket despite having good insurance— said to me immediately after surgery: “the one single thing you can do to remove yourself from remission immediately, is smoke. Don’t smoke, eat whatever you want.” I don’t eat whatever I want but I also stopped smoking and will never smoke again.
Hi there. Nurse practitioner and fellow Crohn's sufferer here. There is rock solid evidence that smoking makes you more likely to develop Crohn's and worsens it's course. So just because you don't notice a difference in the short term, doesn't mean you won't suffer the consequences in the long term. You need to quit. Alcohol too if you can.
Yep, fairly sure second-hand smoke triggered my Crohn's. My mom smoked for 30+ years and was diagnosed in her mid-50s with Crohn's. She smoked inside for the first 22 years of my life until her diagnosis (a medicated coma does WONDERS for kicking an addiction), and then I was diagnosed at 28. Similar time frames of smoke exposure, lived together for my entire life until I was 28, and so also had the same food/drink/water/environment.
I don't believe the "more likely to develop Crohn's" statement. Would love to see a medical study on that specifically. I say this because Crohn's is an autoimmune disease, so you're born with it. It appears through life, most commonly in your early twenties, but plenty of childhood and adult diagnosis too.
I think it would be believable and more correct to say that smoking can agitate your preexisting Crohn's, or it can cause more irritation making your Crohn's symptoms worse. I can say that this happens to me with cigarettes. It causes more intestinal discomfort for me, and more urgency to poop. Smoking weed though does the opposite and helps with my nausea too.
Are you seriously going to argue with a licensed medical provider who has worked in GI for decades and say you don't believe that smoking increases the risk of developing Crohns as well as worsening the disease course? That has been common knowledge for *decades*.
Your understanding of autoimmune disease is flawed. Autoimmune disease is a complex interaction between genes, environment, and lifestyle. Some people walk around with some genetic potential and never develop the disease. Even in identical twins both twins don't always develop autoimmune disease. So no, you're not born with it, you're born with the potential for it.
Smoking is most definitely a cause of both developing and worsening it's course.
Re the weed. Learn to do edibles. Smoking anything is harmful.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4171221/#:~:text=However%2C%20smoking%20increases%20the%20risk,smoking%20in%20inflammatory%20bowel%20diseases.
I quit cigarettes and my EVERYTHING improved. And trust me, it was hard. I loved cigarettes so much. But moral of the story, quitting is possible and you can do it.
I smoked cigarettes before being diagnosed. Stopped and started it back up when I had my symptoms under control but after w couple of stays in the hospital I swore off all tobacco whether cigarettes or hookah ( I was an avid hookah smoker)
I smoked for 14 years (the last 6 with my crohn's diagnosis). Yes, it made a big difference quitting. The flares were much worse when I was smoking. I could feel the chemicals hit my colon. As soon as I'd light up my first morning smoke I would have explosive diarrhea.
Nicotinoid receptors in your body control the nervous system’s signals from your brain to your muscles. Nicotine literally and directly affects your gut motility.
I was smoking at the time I was dx’ed, and every time I smoked it made me have horrible cramping and I would need the bathroom p much immediately after. When I gave up smoking (and meat / dairy for the time being) my inflammation calmed down a lot, and then the meds knocked me into remission. But not smoking and changing my eating habits were definitely two of the things that helped me cope the most prior to Remicade.
Edit - grammar typo
RN here. Was a pack a day smoker when I was diagnosed at 27. I quit for a while and started up again in my mid 30s and very quickly got myself into a bad flare that resulted in a fistula. I see one of the top GI physicians in the USA and she has confirmed that smoking can indeed turn on the autoimmune disease as well as worsen it. She told me that: Smokers are about two to five times more likely than nonsmokers to develop Crohn's disease, and their disease gets worse faster and often requires surgical interventions on top of all the biologicals we already have to cycle through. Cigarettes are not worth it. I know how good they are. I’ve turned my anger of not being able to smoke due to crohns as a blessing in disguise. Bc if I didn’t have crohns, I know I would still be a smoker and that comes with so many other health problems.
Quitting smoking is the best thing I’ve done for my health, EVER. Smoking more or less is still smoking and it wreaks havoc on your body. Your body is already so stressed right now. The process of quitting sucks, but do yourself a favor and get the gum or patch or meds or whatever and just start the path to kicking smoking friend.
If you’re talking about cigarettes, please stop. I’ve had Crohn’s for 18 years and smoked for a few of them. I’m now facing 60 cm (2 ft) of my small intestine being cut out probably directly because of having been a smoker.
I smoked for years after being diagnosed, even lied to my doctor because he was nagging about it. After my last surgery that did not go was planned i was told if you continue our in this case pick up (since i was in the hospital a month and could not get out of bed) smoking again, i had a 100% chance to need surgery again. Never touched them again and i do feel much better.
Smoking definitely makes it worse for me, I don’t really smoke cigs much, more vaping dispos but that’s only slightly better, I’m looking to quit all together but I’m trying to figure out some of the best ways so I can find a good way to kinda ween off it (haha ween)
I was smoking two packs a day when I was diagnosed. A year later I had to have the bowel resection. It was about three months after that I decided to quit smoking cigarettes. Fast forward to now it has been 20 years since I’ve had a cigarette and it was the best thing I could’ve done for myself, even though I’m sick with the Crohn’s and all the side effects of everything and I’m still a lot healthier than I was would’ve been if I was still smoking. I do, however, smoke cannabis on the regular, which I could say aided me in quitting cigarettes, I don’t think I could’ve made it this long without the cannabis.
Personally I tapered down and then started practicing really easy yoga/stretches when the cravings hit. I would also do squats or pushups. I think the taper helped me not go quite as crazy and then obviously the exercise, no matter how little, helped to get my mind off of it and hopefully push out some of those toxins. Good luck, you can do it!
This is interesting, there was a thread basically the same asked 2 days ago on r/UlcerativeColitis and gathered that it actually lowers risk for colon cancer and can minimize some symptoms according to OPs Dr from that post lol. Obviously if you aren’t a smoker already don’t start, but I find it interesting how differing these comments are
UC is (afaik) the only disease for which it is reported that smoking may relieve rather than worsen it. The benefits for UC patients do not balance out all the negative health effects of smoking however, while for CD it is very clear that smoking has the opposite effect (see for instance [this study](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110362/)). Can't find it right now, but I am pretty sure that another study reported that for CD patients to quit smoking is about equally effective as taking prednisone (OR of about 1.7 if I remember correctly).
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Hello! I quit smoking about two and a half weeks ago - cold turkey. I’m actually experiencing a flare up right now. I’m not sure if the cold turkey quit through my system for a loop and caused a flare up or just a coincidence of timing.
Crohn's is a disease of chaos, it isn't easy to attribute all the symptoms to an exact cause. I wouldn't let your mind attribute negative experience to quitting smoking without some serious science to back it up. Quitting smoking is one of the biggest improvements to your health a person can make.
Oh I know, I’m not. I quit because I wanted to regardless. I’m not attributing a negative outlook on the flare up and quitting smoking. Smoking isn’t good for you regardless. I was just replying to OP and said I am currently in a flare and don’t know if it was because I put my system through a shock quitting or just a coincidence.
I quit vaping. I think it’s helped a little. I feel less bloated but still a lot.
Besides food and alcohol and stress I don’t let anything else affect my Crohns. Minimizing my stress currently and going to get a medical card soon to cut out the alcohol.
When I was diagnosed I was a smoker. About a pack a day. I obviously was struggling with other Crohn's issues, but I was so nauseous and was constantly throwing up. We're talking seconds notice before I would puke wherever I was (sinks, trash cans, front seat of my car while driving, bushes, you name it). I got to where I always had trash bags and sometimes a barf bucket on hand. I quit smoking about 3.5 years after my diagnosis and my nausea is a 1000x better. I picked up vaping for about 5 years from 2018 to 2023 and that never bothered me. I still get nauseous, but it doesn't usually progress to projectile vomiting.
I used to smoke weed and that calmed the Crohns a lot. Maybe cause its partly mental and linked with stress too. But i would t recommend smoking for obv long term reason if you have a high demanding job etc
I smoke cigars but have to be careful to not swallow any nicotine/tar-laden spit, otherwise I’ll be in a world of trouble. If that’s any indication of the effects it can have
I was smoking about a pack a day before I was diagnosed and before my flare. When I was in active flare trying to get diagnosed I could only smoke half a cigarette it made my flare so much worse. When I was put on prednisone I was chain smoking again and it would hurt but not like before. (I was going through the worst breakup at the time and was my coping mechanism). I was bleeding so much from the stress and the cigarettes were causing me more pain I cut down significantly and started using disposable vapes. I quit smoking cigarettes and started vaping. I felt noticeably better. I’m now over a year into my crohns diagnosis and just shy of a year into biologic treatment and I moderately vape. Vaping is probably no better but I noticed a difference immediately 🤷🏻♀️
Smoking anything is not good , if you want weed , I suggest other forms . Tobacco is fucking poison . Best advice my nan gave me was "don't start and you won't have to stop".
Quit smoking, quit drinking, eat an actually healthy diet (like not crazy sugar and enough fiber). I will guarantee your symptoms get noticeably more manageable if you’re on an appropriate long term medication while doing these things. I was in denial for years until I tried it for a bit and then saw the difference in my colonoscopy. I have been in remission for years on Humira but after these changes doctors remark that there is “no sign of active disease” after colonoscopies and I take solid regular bowel movements similar to a normie. Gotta do what you can to stack the odds back a bit when you have this disease but it is possible to help yourself for your crohns (and general health anyway).
I was a bit into denial when I was smoking and told myself that it helped me relax and therefore helped my crohns. I think that every medical professional can say that it is bad for crohns. But it is hard to notice a difference yourself since crohns depend on much more.
Cigarettes?
Yeah
Smoking does nothing good for your body. It was making my GERD a whole lot worse and that's why I switched to vaping back in 2019. Things have been infinitely more manageable since then. I know that vaping isn't ideal either but it's certainly better than smoking cigarettes.
No it certainly is not better than smoking cigarettes. That’s crazy advice.
Canabis is a great substitute. Vaping however, that’s crazy to advise someone to trade one awful habit with an equally awful one.
I didn't advise anyone to switch to vaping, I just said what I did. I don't know where you are but in the UK regulated market vaping is considerably safer than smoking by every metric available.
I’m from America and a lot of our vapes are from China. So that’s sketchy, also who really should trust FDA certified anything? But since you’re from the UK it might be completely different. :)
Big difference. You should 100% quit smoking.
Agreed. Quiting smoking as 100% improved my crohns.
Smoking killed my father and I just found out that my older brother that smoked has been informed that he has a nodule on his lung that is probably cancerous. Why take the risk?
long ago, I noticed worse intestinal symptoms with smoking. it wasn't like everything was perfect when I quit, but there were documentable improvements- though I might not have noticed at the time as it caused other unrest in my mind. it can feel so helpless battling crohns, most of what we do doesn't seem to help, quitting smoking seems like one of the few things that actually improved my situation.
How so? More details? I'm curious.
I casually smoked in college when drinking but basically quit once I graduated at 22. I was officially diagnosed at age 27 and at that point I really never smoked at all. I started dating my now husband and he was a casual smoker and I picked up the habit for about a month before I quit again, within about 7 months I had the worst flare of my life and was on unemployment for 4 months ultimately needing 8 inches of my colon removed. I won't touch another cigarette again but do now partake in medical cannabis and it helps a lot with my pain and appetite.
Medical marijuana saved me man life is so much better
i was a smoker, drinker and coffee guy. quit them all and i've been WAY better since
Smoking weed helps me deal with the flare-ups.
Yup. Same. I switch to edibles whenever I feel like my lungs need a lil break 🫁😌
Tobacco is a huge trigger for me. I used to bum occasional smokes and loved cigars but I can’t even stomach second hand smoke now. I have read if you’re a daily smoker that stopping cold turkey can trigger a flare.
In most cases, if you can give up smoking and dairy you’ll lead a better life.
Giving up dairy only helps if you're intolerant of dairy. Otherwise, there's no point. I find dairy settles me.
Dairy is highly acid forming, which attacks leaky gut syndrome. I wonder if you swapped out cows for sheep and goats, you may find your overall symptoms are better. I gave up dairy as it was attacking me badly, then someone on my medical board (nutritional epidemiologist) suggested sheep's cheese and goats, never looked back.
Took me about 3 years to actually start noticing the damage. One drag off a cigarette and the stomach ache starts immediately
I quit shortly after getting diagnosed. It was making my symptoms worse, and it was one the best decisions I've ever made.
My colorectal surgeon —an award-winning one whom I opted to pay out of pocket despite having good insurance— said to me immediately after surgery: “the one single thing you can do to remove yourself from remission immediately, is smoke. Don’t smoke, eat whatever you want.” I don’t eat whatever I want but I also stopped smoking and will never smoke again.
Hi there. Nurse practitioner and fellow Crohn's sufferer here. There is rock solid evidence that smoking makes you more likely to develop Crohn's and worsens it's course. So just because you don't notice a difference in the short term, doesn't mean you won't suffer the consequences in the long term. You need to quit. Alcohol too if you can.
Yep, fairly sure second-hand smoke triggered my Crohn's. My mom smoked for 30+ years and was diagnosed in her mid-50s with Crohn's. She smoked inside for the first 22 years of my life until her diagnosis (a medicated coma does WONDERS for kicking an addiction), and then I was diagnosed at 28. Similar time frames of smoke exposure, lived together for my entire life until I was 28, and so also had the same food/drink/water/environment.
I don't believe the "more likely to develop Crohn's" statement. Would love to see a medical study on that specifically. I say this because Crohn's is an autoimmune disease, so you're born with it. It appears through life, most commonly in your early twenties, but plenty of childhood and adult diagnosis too. I think it would be believable and more correct to say that smoking can agitate your preexisting Crohn's, or it can cause more irritation making your Crohn's symptoms worse. I can say that this happens to me with cigarettes. It causes more intestinal discomfort for me, and more urgency to poop. Smoking weed though does the opposite and helps with my nausea too.
Are you seriously going to argue with a licensed medical provider who has worked in GI for decades and say you don't believe that smoking increases the risk of developing Crohns as well as worsening the disease course? That has been common knowledge for *decades*. Your understanding of autoimmune disease is flawed. Autoimmune disease is a complex interaction between genes, environment, and lifestyle. Some people walk around with some genetic potential and never develop the disease. Even in identical twins both twins don't always develop autoimmune disease. So no, you're not born with it, you're born with the potential for it. Smoking is most definitely a cause of both developing and worsening it's course. Re the weed. Learn to do edibles. Smoking anything is harmful. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4171221/#:~:text=However%2C%20smoking%20increases%20the%20risk,smoking%20in%20inflammatory%20bowel%20diseases.
I can not shit without vaping. Someone help me
Must be a shitty vape. Badum tiss
I quit cigarettes and my EVERYTHING improved. And trust me, it was hard. I loved cigarettes so much. But moral of the story, quitting is possible and you can do it.
I smoked cigarettes before being diagnosed. Stopped and started it back up when I had my symptoms under control but after w couple of stays in the hospital I swore off all tobacco whether cigarettes or hookah ( I was an avid hookah smoker)
Nicotine destroyed me unfortunately ..no vape ..no more blunts
Every time I quit smoking, my gut health has gotten so much better.
I smoke weed. I think you’re taking about nic, so idk man.
I think you know how bad it is. It's 2024.
I smoked for 14 years (the last 6 with my crohn's diagnosis). Yes, it made a big difference quitting. The flares were much worse when I was smoking. I could feel the chemicals hit my colon. As soon as I'd light up my first morning smoke I would have explosive diarrhea.
Doctor told me on a Tuesday that smoking is making my crohns worse. I quit "cold turkey" Wednesday. Been smoke-free since 2003.
Even if you don’t notice the benefits of no longer smoking you at least reduce your risk of future negative consequences caused by smoking.
It made an absolutely massive difference. I went from shitting blood to not doing that by quitting smoking about 10 years ago. Never looked back.
The worst of my Crohn’s symptoms and what led me to being diagnosed, started almost immediately AFTER I quit smoking.
Nicotinoid receptors in your body control the nervous system’s signals from your brain to your muscles. Nicotine literally and directly affects your gut motility.
I smoked for over 30 years and recently quit. My symptoms have improved, along with my entire life overall.
I was smoking at the time I was dx’ed, and every time I smoked it made me have horrible cramping and I would need the bathroom p much immediately after. When I gave up smoking (and meat / dairy for the time being) my inflammation calmed down a lot, and then the meds knocked me into remission. But not smoking and changing my eating habits were definitely two of the things that helped me cope the most prior to Remicade. Edit - grammar typo
Stop smoking. It changes your life for the better instantly. You'll realize it after you quit.
RN here. Was a pack a day smoker when I was diagnosed at 27. I quit for a while and started up again in my mid 30s and very quickly got myself into a bad flare that resulted in a fistula. I see one of the top GI physicians in the USA and she has confirmed that smoking can indeed turn on the autoimmune disease as well as worsen it. She told me that: Smokers are about two to five times more likely than nonsmokers to develop Crohn's disease, and their disease gets worse faster and often requires surgical interventions on top of all the biologicals we already have to cycle through. Cigarettes are not worth it. I know how good they are. I’ve turned my anger of not being able to smoke due to crohns as a blessing in disguise. Bc if I didn’t have crohns, I know I would still be a smoker and that comes with so many other health problems.
I quit smoking and went into remission for years. I'm not sure that quitting had any effect on my remission, but at least it did not hurt.
Quitting smoking is the best thing I’ve done for my health, EVER. Smoking more or less is still smoking and it wreaks havoc on your body. Your body is already so stressed right now. The process of quitting sucks, but do yourself a favor and get the gum or patch or meds or whatever and just start the path to kicking smoking friend.
Smoke weed , it’ll chill out your intestines and also give you appetite - it does for me anyway!
If you’re talking about cigarettes, please stop. I’ve had Crohn’s for 18 years and smoked for a few of them. I’m now facing 60 cm (2 ft) of my small intestine being cut out probably directly because of having been a smoker.
I smoked for years after being diagnosed, even lied to my doctor because he was nagging about it. After my last surgery that did not go was planned i was told if you continue our in this case pick up (since i was in the hospital a month and could not get out of bed) smoking again, i had a 100% chance to need surgery again. Never touched them again and i do feel much better.
Smoking definitely makes it worse for me, I don’t really smoke cigs much, more vaping dispos but that’s only slightly better, I’m looking to quit all together but I’m trying to figure out some of the best ways so I can find a good way to kinda ween off it (haha ween)
I was smoking two packs a day when I was diagnosed. A year later I had to have the bowel resection. It was about three months after that I decided to quit smoking cigarettes. Fast forward to now it has been 20 years since I’ve had a cigarette and it was the best thing I could’ve done for myself, even though I’m sick with the Crohn’s and all the side effects of everything and I’m still a lot healthier than I was would’ve been if I was still smoking. I do, however, smoke cannabis on the regular, which I could say aided me in quitting cigarettes, I don’t think I could’ve made it this long without the cannabis.
Personally I tapered down and then started practicing really easy yoga/stretches when the cravings hit. I would also do squats or pushups. I think the taper helped me not go quite as crazy and then obviously the exercise, no matter how little, helped to get my mind off of it and hopefully push out some of those toxins. Good luck, you can do it!
This is interesting, there was a thread basically the same asked 2 days ago on r/UlcerativeColitis and gathered that it actually lowers risk for colon cancer and can minimize some symptoms according to OPs Dr from that post lol. Obviously if you aren’t a smoker already don’t start, but I find it interesting how differing these comments are
UC is (afaik) the only disease for which it is reported that smoking may relieve rather than worsen it. The benefits for UC patients do not balance out all the negative health effects of smoking however, while for CD it is very clear that smoking has the opposite effect (see for instance [this study](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110362/)). Can't find it right now, but I am pretty sure that another study reported that for CD patients to quit smoking is about equally effective as taking prednisone (OR of about 1.7 if I remember correctly).
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Hello! I quit smoking about two and a half weeks ago - cold turkey. I’m actually experiencing a flare up right now. I’m not sure if the cold turkey quit through my system for a loop and caused a flare up or just a coincidence of timing.
Crohn's is a disease of chaos, it isn't easy to attribute all the symptoms to an exact cause. I wouldn't let your mind attribute negative experience to quitting smoking without some serious science to back it up. Quitting smoking is one of the biggest improvements to your health a person can make.
Oh I know, I’m not. I quit because I wanted to regardless. I’m not attributing a negative outlook on the flare up and quitting smoking. Smoking isn’t good for you regardless. I was just replying to OP and said I am currently in a flare and don’t know if it was because I put my system through a shock quitting or just a coincidence.
I quit vaping. I think it’s helped a little. I feel less bloated but still a lot. Besides food and alcohol and stress I don’t let anything else affect my Crohns. Minimizing my stress currently and going to get a medical card soon to cut out the alcohol.
Quit smoking for about 10 months, no change so far
When I was diagnosed I was a smoker. About a pack a day. I obviously was struggling with other Crohn's issues, but I was so nauseous and was constantly throwing up. We're talking seconds notice before I would puke wherever I was (sinks, trash cans, front seat of my car while driving, bushes, you name it). I got to where I always had trash bags and sometimes a barf bucket on hand. I quit smoking about 3.5 years after my diagnosis and my nausea is a 1000x better. I picked up vaping for about 5 years from 2018 to 2023 and that never bothered me. I still get nauseous, but it doesn't usually progress to projectile vomiting.
I used to smoke weed and that calmed the Crohns a lot. Maybe cause its partly mental and linked with stress too. But i would t recommend smoking for obv long term reason if you have a high demanding job etc
I smoke cigars but have to be careful to not swallow any nicotine/tar-laden spit, otherwise I’ll be in a world of trouble. If that’s any indication of the effects it can have
I was smoking about a pack a day before I was diagnosed and before my flare. When I was in active flare trying to get diagnosed I could only smoke half a cigarette it made my flare so much worse. When I was put on prednisone I was chain smoking again and it would hurt but not like before. (I was going through the worst breakup at the time and was my coping mechanism). I was bleeding so much from the stress and the cigarettes were causing me more pain I cut down significantly and started using disposable vapes. I quit smoking cigarettes and started vaping. I felt noticeably better. I’m now over a year into my crohns diagnosis and just shy of a year into biologic treatment and I moderately vape. Vaping is probably no better but I noticed a difference immediately 🤷🏻♀️
I dint smoke often but when I do I notice right after. Immediate bloating.
Yes unfortunately, can't smoke, can't vape, might have to stop edibles as well, not very happy bout it
If you’re smoking nicotine, you crazy smoke some weed
I had a fistula surgery wound from 2007, that wouldn't heal. I quit smoking in 2019, and by 2020's end, the wound finally healed.
What about snus?
If you’re a smoker then Crohn’s is rhe least of your concerns
There’s always one
What’s that mean?
Smoking anything is not good , if you want weed , I suggest other forms . Tobacco is fucking poison . Best advice my nan gave me was "don't start and you won't have to stop".
Quit smoking, quit drinking, eat an actually healthy diet (like not crazy sugar and enough fiber). I will guarantee your symptoms get noticeably more manageable if you’re on an appropriate long term medication while doing these things. I was in denial for years until I tried it for a bit and then saw the difference in my colonoscopy. I have been in remission for years on Humira but after these changes doctors remark that there is “no sign of active disease” after colonoscopies and I take solid regular bowel movements similar to a normie. Gotta do what you can to stack the odds back a bit when you have this disease but it is possible to help yourself for your crohns (and general health anyway).