Funnily enough this was actually taught to me as a precipitating factor to constipation in a hospitalized patient. If they’re a coffee drinker and / or cigarette smoker at home, and their morning coffee + cigarette has been replaced with shitty weak hospital brew and a patch, their bowel muscles might forget they actually have a job to do. Not that you should encourage bad habits, but you might need to mindfully replace them with another laxative or in some cases just accept that people do things that are unhealthy and you’re not going to fix 20+ years of substance dependence in one stressful AF hospital stay. Still can’t let them actually smoke cigarettes but maybe some gum or a lozenge.
Funnily enough this was actually taught to me as a precipitating factor to constipation in a hospitalized patient. If they’re a coffee drinker and / or cigarette smoker at home, and their morning coffee + cigarette has been replaced with shitty weak hospital brew and a patch, their bowel muscles might forget they actually have a job to do. Not that you should encourage bad habits, but you might need to mindfully replace them with another laxative or in some cases just accept that people do things that are unhealthy and you’re not going to fix 20+ years of substance dependence in one stressful AF hospital stay. Still can’t let them actually smoke cigarettes but maybe some gum or a lozenge.