No increased risk detected from smoking cessation just before surgery
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Remember that weird advice we were taught as physicians-in-training to give to smoking patients before an upcoming surgery? "You should quit smoking, but not within the 2 weeks just before your surgery." (It sounds off-key to me even as I write it now.) Based on ... what? Some medical lore passed down from a decades-old study none of us ever actually read?
No increased risk detected from smoking cessation just before surgery
No increased risk detected from smoking…
No increased risk detected from smoking cessation just before surgery
Remember that weird advice we were taught as physicians-in-training to give to smoking patients before an upcoming surgery? "You should quit smoking, but not within the 2 weeks just before your surgery." (It sounds off-key to me even as I write it now.) Based on ... what? Some medical lore passed down from a decades-old study none of us ever actually read?