When my therapist warned me that I wouldn't get HRT prescribed if I was a smoker, I quit. It was harder than quitting my previous amphetamine addiction, but I did it the same way - cold turkey.

I think at the end of the day it is a choice of do I want this bad enough or will I allow one thing to control the rest of my life. It is hard to quit honestly I was rude, grumpy and honestly a total bitch to everyone for a week.

When I woke the first thing I did for a month straight was read these two laminated sheets of paper I had on my bedside cupboard then picture those who said I would fail.





They now sit above my table at work and now serve to remind me when I think of who of I was and my past regrets, they remind me who I will one day become! They teach me to defy the odds and help me inspire the kids I work with to do the same.

I think we sometime forget to challenge who we are and in doing so become lost.

However vaping is less disturbing and less harmful. Ideally no you shouldn't smoke or vape. But its a huge improvement.

Quote from: vcjhyt on August 10, 2015, 05:39:47 PM
I had a visitor decide to "vape" in my hospital room. I told her that there should be no smoking of any kind in my room. She told me this was vaping and therefore safe and I said I did not care - my room, my rules. She looked really offended and huffed for the rest of the visit

The simple fact is that we all know of overwhelming proof that smoking damages you. Never mind cancer, damage to skin veins and circulation is known beyond any level of doubt.

Thise of us who are MTF depend on good skin to help us look more feminine.  Both MTF anf FTM depend on good circulation to get hormones round our bodies and we need efficient blood supply to help us recover from surgery.

I know it is addictive and incredibly hard to give up but smoking is not your friend.  All it will do is reduce the money for surgery because you burn that money every time you light up.

I was lucky. I grew up in a family of smokers and I was so fed up coughing, wheezing and stinking of ciggies that I swore I would never start.