Nicotine & Hairloss

[MichaelD]

Hey my fellow brothers,

 

I had an important question to ask. Do you believe vaping nicotine can induce or increase hairloss while on dht inhibitors such as finasteride? 

I am just curious as to what you may know. Any info will be greatly appreciated!

[ciaus]

Nicotine does cause your blood vessels to constrict, reducing blood flow with nutrients, oxygen from/to your organs and other destinations like your hair follicles. But there's no evidence it can be a dominate factor in hair loss. So many people have smoked over the decades, stopping/starting again and again. If it was even a noteworthy contributor enough of those people (and the people around them) would have noticed the corresponding changes in their hair, and it would be in the common knowledge, like how we all know that smoking can cause lung cancer. 

Worse case nicotine may make your hair loss a little worse at the margins. If you are just on finasteride you may want to consider adding minoxidil, it may partially or completely offset the blood vessel constriction factor since one of its key effects is to expand the blood vessels.  

 

[MichaelD]

38 minutes ago, ciaus said:

Nicotine does cause your blood vessels to constrict, reducing blood flow with nutrients, oxygen from/to your organs and other destinations like your hair follicles. But there's no evidence it can be a dominate factor in hair loss. So many people have smoked over the decades, stopping/starting again and again. If it was even a noteworthy contributor enough of those people (and the people around them) would have noticed the corresponding changes in their hair, and it would be in the common knowledge, like how we all know that smoking can cause lung cancer. 

Worse case nicotine may make your hair loss a little worse at the margins. If you are just on finasteride you may want to consider adding minoxidil, it may partially or completely offset the blood vessel constriction factor since one of its key effects is to expand the blood vessels.  

 

Thank you very much brother for taking the time to respond. Your post sheds important info regarding the correlation og nicotine and hairloss. Blessings🙏