TY  - JOUR
T1  - The optimal timing of smoking cessation before surgery: Comment on “smoking cessation shortly before surgery and postoperative complications”
AU  - Chow CK, Devereaux PJ
Y1  - 2011/06/13
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.88
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 989
EP  - 990
VL  - 171
IS  - 11
N2  - 
There is strong evidence that smoking cessation is beneficial to long-term health.1 Globally, over 230 million adults undergo major surgery annually, and millions of these patients experience major respiratory and cardiovascular complications.2 Upwards of 30% of patients undergoing surgery are smokers at the time of their surgery, and smoking is associated with an increased risk of postoperative complications, the strongest evidence being for respiratory complications.3- 4 All patients are forced to become nonsmokers, if only for a short period, around the time of surgery. The perioperative period presents a unique opportunity to try and get patients to permanently stop smoking.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.88
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.88
ER  -