Anesthesiology and Intensive Care

STATEMENT ON SMOKING CESSATION  Committee of Origin: Task Force on Smoking Cessation (Approved by the ASA House of Delegates on October 22, 2008, and reaffirmed on October 16, 2013) 

    ASA PS Classification Definition Adult Examples, Including, but not Limited to: Pediatric Examples, Including but not Limited to: Obstetric Examples, Including but not Limited to: ASA I A normal healthy patient Healthy, non-smoking, no or minimal alcohol use Healthy (no acute or chronic disease), normal BMI percentile for age   ASA II A patient with mild systemic disease Mild diseases only without substantive functional limitations. Current smoker, social alcohol drinker, pregnancy, obesity (30<BMI<40), well-controlled DM/HTN, mild lung disease Asymptomatic congenital cardiac disease, well controlled dysrhythmias, asthma without exacerbation, well controlled epilepsy, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, abnormal BMI percentile for age, mild/moderate OSA, oncologic state in remission, autism with mild limitations Normal pregnancy*, well controlled gestational HTN, controlled preeclampsia without severe features, diet-controlled gestational DM. ASA III A...