{"id":336,"date":"2022-09-26T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/rheumatology\/smoking-and-arthritis\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T11:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T10:44:45","slug":"smoking-and-arthritis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/rheumatology\/smoking-and-arthritis\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking and arthritis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are several&nbsp;reasons why you should seriously consider stopping smoking.&nbsp; Not only will it improve your inflammatory arthritis,&nbsp;it will also improve the effectiveness of your treatment. Stopping smoking will have many other benefits for you,&nbsp;including reducing your infection risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check the following&nbsp; information from the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nras.org.uk\/smoking-and-rheumatoid-arthritis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nras.org.uk\/smoking-and-rheumatoid-arthritis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Rheumatic diseases unit has developed a referral pathway to support quitting smoking in partnership with the &nbsp;Lothian Smoking Cessation team. Speak to your GP&nbsp;or one of&nbsp;our Rheumatology team and will be&nbsp;happy&nbsp;to assist with this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several&nbsp;reasons why you should seriously consider stopping smoking.&nbsp; Not only will it improve your inflammatory arthritis,&nbsp;it will also improve the effectiveness of your treatment. Stopping smoking will have many other benefits for you,&nbsp;including reducing your infection risk. You can check the following&nbsp; information from the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS): https:\/\/www.nras.org.uk\/smoking-and-rheumatoid-arthritis Our Rheumatic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/rheumatology\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"There are several&nbsp;reasons why you should seriously consider stopping smoking.&nbsp; Not only will it improve your inflammatory arthritis,&nbsp;it will also improve the effectiveness of your treatment. Stopping smoking will have many other benefits for you,&nbsp;including reducing your infection risk. You can check the following&nbsp; information from the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS): https:\/\/www.nras.org.uk\/smoking-and-rheumatoid-arthritis Our Rheumatic","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}