Cigarettes & Estrogen
Hi, I raise this because I have a tiny question regarding tobacco and estrogen.
Obviously, I know tobacco is very bad in itself and I should not have started anyway and should stop right now, but I'm not sure I will because, well, things are not always so simple.
Anyway, I read in a risk reduction leaflet that tobacco was particularly bad for trans women undergoing hormone therapy. The reasons I've seen for that was that the conjonction of hormone and contraceptive pill was a high risk factor for what I think in english is "clotting" but I'm not sure.
On the other hand, I've done some more research and I got into the impression that it was because those pills contained ethynil-estradiol, that was high risk in conjonction with smoking. But the studies I read on hormones consequences was that ethynil-estradiol had much more risk (particularly blood clotting) than simply estradiol. So i thought, maybe the problem is not taking hormones, but this kind of hormones ?
So I wonder if someone knows, because I'm taking estradiol in gel and smoke a few cigarillos a day: is my risk the same as any 'lambda' smoker, or is it the higher risk equivalent to "pill+smoking"?
Obviously, I know tobacco is very bad in itself and I should not have started anyway and should stop right now, but I'm not sure I will because, well, things are not always so simple.
Anyway, I read in a risk reduction leaflet that tobacco was particularly bad for trans women undergoing hormone therapy. The reasons I've seen for that was that the conjonction of hormone and contraceptive pill was a high risk factor for what I think in english is "clotting" but I'm not sure.
On the other hand, I've done some more research and I got into the impression that it was because those pills contained ethynil-estradiol, that was high risk in conjonction with smoking. But the studies I read on hormones consequences was that ethynil-estradiol had much more risk (particularly blood clotting) than simply estradiol. So i thought, maybe the problem is not taking hormones, but this kind of hormones ?
So I wonder if someone knows, because I'm taking estradiol in gel and smoke a few cigarillos a day: is my risk the same as any 'lambda' smoker, or is it the higher risk equivalent to "pill+smoking"?