Smoking

[VWdude]

Does smoking alter the effectiveness of propecia or any other hairloss products?

[chewbaca]

nope, there's no known link between Propecia, DHT hair loss and smoking

But i cant say the same for other types of hair loss or medications

[Johnny24601]

In my research, there has been no medical link to smoking and hairloss, however, the subject has not been significantly studied. It may decrease blood flow to the scalp or effect hairloss in other ways (anxiety and increased stress). Beyond that, it will kill you and is totally unattractive and the last thing us baldies need is another thing to turn the ladies in the other direction....

[chewbaca]

I think the effect of smoking on propecia use may be indirect, in some people who have low tolerance to propecia will expereince depression sides and smoking might worsen those symptoms..note this is not proven medically but it happened to me......other than that there is no direct link on the effectiveness of propecia ect...


if u didnt lose hair due to smoking in your pre mPB days, then most likely u will not get affected by it now

[Bismarck]

Association between smoking and hair loss: another opportunity for health education against smoking?

Trueb RM.

Besides being the single most preventable cause of significant morbidity and an important cause of death in the general population, tobacco smoking has been associated with adverse effects on the skin. Smoke-induced premature skin ageing has attracted the attention of the medical community, while only recently an observational study has indicated a significant relationship between smoking and baldness. The mechanisms by which smoking causes hair loss are multifactorial and are probably related to effects of cigarette smoke on the microvasculature of the dermal hair papilla, smoke genotoxicants causing damage to DNA of the hair follicle, smoke-induced imbalance in the follicular protease/antiprotease systems controlling tissue remodeling during the hair growth cycle, pro-oxidant effects of smoking leading to the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines resulting in follicular micro-inflammation and fibrosis and finally increased hydroxylation of oestradiol as well as inhibition of the enzyme aromatase creating a relative hypo-oestrogenic state. In view of the psychological impact of androgenetic alopecia on affected men and women, increasing public awareness of the association between smoking and hair loss offers an opportunity for health education against smoking that may be more effective than the link between smoking and facial wrinkles or grey hair, since the latter can be effectively counteracted by current aesthetic dermatologic procedures, while treatment options for androgenetic alopecia are limited. Copyright 2003 S. Karger AG, Basel

Publication Types:

* Editorial

PMID: 12673073 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

[20sometingtoo]

Ive read that smoking effectively reduces systemic circulation which indirectly leads to thinning (particularly general thinning, meaning the entire scalp) and is reversable by quitting and readjusting your health accordingly, particularly relating to circulation.

[20sometingtoo]

To add,
I sincerely believe that poor circulation results in hairloss. Not necesarrily Male Pattern Baldness (key word being "pattern") but the general thinning that some people experience.

[chewbaca]

Bismarck, during my Prempb days i ddint lose any hair due to smoking...so what difference does it make now that i lose hair due to MPB and smoking adds onto it?

Even f i dont smoke, i will still lose hair to mPB anyway...

[BiteMe]

Awww....screw you all. I'm going to lite up a nice Cuban.