Hello and about MPB and cigarettes.

[Jedgreen]

Odam, thanks for your reply but I don't think you understood the purpose of my post. (or maybe I was not clear enough)

I'm a NW7 and I shave my head, I don't worry about losing more hair (cause I can't lose more hair! That's the "beauty" of it somehow...). I never took medications for hair loss.
I did not stop smoking to see possible effects on my hair but just because I had enough of the slavery. The hair thing was a surprise.
I'm just sharing a story that shows that smoking can have a huge impact on your hair. Not just because I suppose that it increased my genetically predisposed MPB but because I am actualy growing (few) new hairs after quitting smoking. So it proves the negative effect of cigarette on (my) scalp.

Will I grow a lot of new hairs because I stopped smoking? Surely not enough to make a real difference and make me stop shaving regulary. And I'm not saying every smokers will see their hairs growing back after quitting. Far from it. In the best case scenario I'll reach the point where I should have been if I did not smoke. Maybe NW6? But even that is pure speculation (and I'm not even sure that the new hairs that grow now will stay for many years either.)
But the fact that I'm growing hundreds of new hair is not a speculation and proves the bad effect of smoking (at least on me).

Like I said, I never read that stopping cigarettes could have such an impact on anyone so I thought it worthed to open a thread about it.