Bab 164: Second Time

Ling Ran rushed straight to the operating theater.

Lu Wenbin, who had been pretending to be strong all this while, immediately let out a breath of relief. He quickly made his report. "The patient's skin temperature is lower by 36.5 degrees Fahrenheit. There is positive swelling. I used—"

"Did he smoke?" Ling Ran was not surprised.

Nicotine dependence in a smoker was incredibly strong. The difficulty in quitting smoking was as hard as trying to quit opium. A normal person might still fail to quit smoking even if he or she has a strong subjective desire to quit.

A smoker who received finger replantation might not expect his finger to be amputated, and so, was not prepared to quit smoking. There would always be people who would not obey the doctor's requests for them to quit. It was also because of this that many orthopedists in Europe and America refuse to perform finger replantation on smokers.