Smoking and Surgery

I have been a smoker for 18 years, and I was wondering what complications there are to smoking and going into the surgery? I have three packs of cigs left and after that I am going on the patch, to better my chances of not having any complications. I am still considering this surgery, but I want to get all the info that I can on this. To the people that smoked before surgery, were there any complications or did you have a harder time, because you smoked? I would appreciate any and all responses to this. Thanks so much!

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