Postpone Laser Resurfacing and Facelift for Smoker?

You should not smoke before your surgery, particularly before a facelift. Even seemingly little smoking can shrink down blood vessels, reduce blood supply, and can cause terrible scarring or loss of skin. The risk of infection is also higher.
You should be honest with your doctor (I hope you are not my preop patient!) and tell them so they can help you quit.

Ask your surgeon, but if you were my patient, I would request that you postpone your surgery. Most experts unanimously agree that smoking increases the risk of most surgical complications significantly. This especially applies to lifting procedures such as the temple lift you are scheduled to have done. Just about all plastic surgeons strongly recommend women  to stop smoking and all nicotine products well in advance of all plastic surgery and especially lift procedures..  Many plastic surgeons recommend stopping all tobacco products several months prior to surgery.
Here is the reason why: the nicotine in cigarettes and other tobacco products (including Nicorette gum, patches, etc) is a vasoconstrictor, meaning it makes the Smoking is a significant multiplier of many potential complications following surgery and breast augmentation with implants are no exception. Nicotine from smoking causes blood vessels to constrict ( spasm or  tighten up). Over time, these constricted arteries and capillaries deliver less blood to the tissue which is needed for normal healing. Smokers therefore have an increased incidence of higher likelihood of complications such as tissue sloughing (death by necrosis) and infection.  General complications of surgery such as blood clots, anesthetic problems such as pneumonia are also increased.
A recent scientific article in the Archives of Internal Medicine indicated that, among all forms of surgery, quitting smoking eight weeks prior was never associated with an increased risk of complications

You should listen to your surgeon and do what is recommended.  Smoking is a very real risk and not to be taken lightly.  You may need to delay your procedure or they may have to take a more conservative approach.

It is a well known fact that smoking increases complications for surgery, including surgery on the face. Laser resurfacing at the same time as facelift procedure increases the incidence of wound healing complications more than if the procedures are done separately with time to heal in between. While the risk of combined procedures is small enough in non smokers, I would not recommend doing both simultaneously in a smoker.

YES!  You should stop smoking atleast 2 weeks before surgery.  The longer you stop the better.  Not even 1 cigarette during that timeline.
I would also recommend no nicotine gum or patches as they have similar affects on the blood vessels as does the smoking.
You will have wound healing problems if you continue to smoke and have your surgery.

I have counted the 8 previous responses who essentially unequivocally advise you to refrain from tobacco use prior to surgery and to postpone the surgery. So it is up to you to now do the right thing.

Hi there-
Let's take a big step back from the trees for a minute and look at the forrest...
You are pursuing an improvement in your appearance, on an elective basis...
In other words, it's not as though the operation is necessary to cure you of some disease or prolong your life... in which case the risk of having surgery while still smoking would be more acceptable.
Furthermore, all surgery will have risks, even under the very best of circumstances- and it is ALWAYS in your best interests to make any and all of those risks as low as they can possibly be.
In your case, minimizing your risks means NOT having this type of surgery until you have been off cigarettes completely for some period of time (ask your surgeon what time period they are comfortable with, knowing their preferred technique for your procedures).

You will have to discuss postponement with your plastic surgeon and let him or her make the final decision. The reasons for quitting are explained well in the previous replies, but I want to emphasize that even one cigarette after surgery is enough to do permanent damage so it's "all or none" as far as smoking is concerned. So hopefully planning is not the same as quitting. Just do it!

My answer is: yes, you should definitely postpone your surgery. Smoking exposes you to a number of harmful chemicals including nicotine and carbon monoxide. Nicotine acts to shut off blood supply to the tiny vessels that supply your skin and carbon monoxide diminishes your red blood cell's oxygen carrying capacity. The summary of these effects in a Facelift patient who is a smoker: dramatically increased chances of skin loss and hypertrophic (wide scarring) scarring. If you combine your scenario with laser resurfacing, which compounds the trauma to the skin, you are waiting for a disaster to unfold.
You should stop all nicotine products for 6 weeks before and after surgery. In my practice, all smokers are asked to sign a special consent stating that they will agree to comply with smoking cessation.

If you are having Fraxel Repair it would be much better to quit smoking first. It is good if you can before Restore, but not as important. We don't have statistics, but I'm sure many people undergoing even Fraxel Repair have smoked and done well, but if there have been complications related to smoking it is not known yet. It is always best, prior to an elective procedure for cosmetic gain, to do whatever you can to ensure a good and healthy outcome.