Background Smokers have a substantially increased risk of postoperative complications.
Preoperative smoking intervention may be effective in decreasing this incidence, and …

Objectives: To establish the effect of preoperative smoking cessation on the risk of
postoperative complications, and to identify the effect of the timing of preoperative cessation …

Chronic exposure to cigarette smoke produces profound changes in physiology that may
alter responses to perioperative interventions and contribute to perioperative morbidity …

Smoking substantially increases a patient's risk of surgical complications. Despite this,
almost half of all surgeons do not routinely counsel their patients to stop smoking before an …

Smokers are at increased risk for surgical complications. Despite the known benefits of
smoking cessation, many perioperative health care providers do not routinely provide …

For most of the 20th century, the focus of research in surgery was improvements in
intraoperative technique, which led to major technical paradigm shifts exemplified by the …

Perioperative smoking has been linked to surgical complications including poor wound
healing, infection, myocardial infarction, prolonged length of stay, need for mechanical …

Background Smokers have a substantially increased risk of intra‐and postoperative
complications. Preoperative smoking intervention may be effective in decreasing this …

Treatment for tobacco use is efficacious and beneficial to health. Although guidelines
recommend that all patients who use tobacco are offered treatment as a part of their clinical …

Cigarette smoking is associated with pulmonary and cardiovascular disease and confers
increased postoperative morbidity and mortality. Smoking cessation in the weeks before …