Effect of preoperative smoking intervention on postoperative complications: a randomised clinical trial.

By A. Møller, N. Villebro, T. Pedersen, H. Tønnesen. The Lancet, 2002

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Pharmacology of Nicotine: Addiction, Smoking-Induced Disease, and Therapeutics (2009, background): “However, clinical trials using nicotine replacement medication to aid cessation in surgical patients indicate that the overall outcome is much better in individuals using nicotine therapy who quit smoking compared with continued smoking (74).”
Wound healing and infection in surgery. The clinical impact of smoking and smoking cessation: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2012, background): “This finding suggests that the primary impact of smoking cessation on healing is a reduction in infectious healing complications as shown by Møller et al.(39) This finding was confirmed by a randomized study of healthy volunteers, which disclosed that 4 weeks of abstinence from smoking significantly”