Article topics: Cigarette smoking, Healing, Patient compliance, Wound Care
Rosie Pudner discusses the impact of smoking on healing.
NB: This literature review was undertaken as an assignment for the award of PostGraduate Diploma/MSc in Wound Healing and Tissue Repair, University of Wales College of Medicine.
Rosie Pudner BA (Hons), RGN, RCNT, DipN.Ed, RNT is a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University, London.
Article accepted for publication June 2002.
