Can I smoke after my tongue piercing?
I just cringe at the question. Can you smoke after a tongue piercing? Yes. Should you? Not til it’s healed, give or take about 2 weeks. Google “Dry socket” it’s painful, causes healing to take longer and be more dreadful, and yes- It is a common thing with tongue piercings with any kind of suction. I had a partial dry socket occur because I used a straw for a slushy without thinking about it, NOT fun or worth that slushy at all. I couldn’t imagine smoking, since that also has so many toxins that you’d be exposing to an open wound in your mouth risking infection and further irritation and just general unnecessary risk. If you do decide to smoke, do mouth wash after every cigarette to help clean up toxins, and like another poster suggests, you may need to dilute the mouthwash to avoid even further irritation depending on your sensitivity level. (Everyone is a little bit different)
Why can't I smoke cigarettes after my tongue piercing?
I think Chris Price has the right answer, but two things to note:If it’s the same as for a molar tooth-pull, the main problem time seems to be in the first 24 hours, with most of the rest of the problem being withing the 24 after that. After 48 hours (at least for yanked teeth) most of the excess problems from sucking on sodas through straws or smoking cigarettes seems to be gone.It seems to make a lot of sense to me that after any sort of severe mouth injury (which is how your body interprets a tongue piercing or tooth pulling) it makes sense not to smoke for a bit. I like smoking. I’ve smoked for close to 50 years. I regularly and thoroughly trash the lies used by Antismokers to intimidate smokers into quitting or to promote smoking bans. BUT… I’ll happily admit that smoke, whether from cigs, pot, or pleasantly burning pine logs in the fireplace, has a lot of chemicals in it and that some of those chemicals could easily interfere with the best rate of wound healing.Sooooo…. I’d strongly recommend not smoking for the first 24 hours after your “injury” and then smoking very gently, if at all, during the next 24 hours.MJM, neither a doctor NOR a dentist btw…