Smoking & HRT

[Jayne]

Due to stress caused by coming out to everyone I know & getting turned down for laser hair removal I started smoking after 2 years of being free from nicotine.
Upon reading the literature sent from the GIC i've noticed that I have to give up smoking, i'd like to point out that i've been planning on giving up for the last month due to a persistant cough & i've been using one blue inhaler every 2 weeks so I have no objections to quitting again.

I was wondering if anyone knows why I have to give up smoking, does the HRT increase the risk of cancer or is there some other reason?

I'd really like to know as any additional information may help strengthen my resolve to quit

[pebbles]

Estrogen interferes with the liver and the bodies production of clotting factors making the risk higher of developing a fatal blood clot women on the pill face a similar warning but our hormones are much more powerful thus the danger is much more than the average woman on the pill.

Long story short your very likley to die of a stroke.

[AmySmiles]

All I know is that smoking further increases the risk of certain health problems that are already elevated due to HRT.  One example of this would be blood clot related events like pulmonary embolism, heart attack, or stroke.

Here's a good thread on it from about a year ago
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,82827.msg583376.html#msg583376

[8888]

Smoke weed instead. Less detrimental to your health, relieves stress and much nicer smell for the people around you. 

[Sunnynight]

If you're on pills, smoking greatly increases your chances of a deadly blood clot.

[Gravity Girl]

The thing people conviently forget to mention is it is dependent on how much you smoke. All the studies I've seen and read point to an elevated risk of pulmonary thrombosis dependent on  the number of years you have smoked a pack or more of cigarettes a day. if you are a light or occasional smoker you won't really be doing yourself any good, but I don't believe that you're doing yourself much real harm either, though I still quit 6 weeks ago as part of my pre surgery preparation.

[Jayne]

Thank you very much for the info everyone, it will certainly help in those times when my willpower deserts me.

8888, I used weed to hide my dysphoria for almost 20 yrs & have returned to it on weekends only over the last few months to give me a few days when i'm not constantly bothered about my problems.
I'm planning one last weekend on it & then on monday morning i'm giving up smoking everything, now that i've come out to everyone I know & have had my funding approved it seems foolish to try & cover up the problem.
no more hiding from it, time to tackle the problem head on.