Giving up smoking to go on hormones is a completely different experience to giving up purely cos it's disgusting and it makes you feel like your body is dying. Heh. Which it is, so there!
Here's some helpful advice for EVERYONE trying to quit smoking, by the way. For some people it's easy, for most it's a total knightmare but being TS is one of the best disincentives I know for smoking!
Anyway, if you're going to be seeing RR [Dr Russell Reid - Webmistress] at some point, set your smoking quit date at least two weeks before your appointment -- you don't want to be stressed when you see him, and you don't want to spoil the first few lovely weeks of hormones by being all miserable and depressed!
Drink lots of water, free detox! Confront horrible make-you-wanna-smoke situations straight on, head first, don't be frightened, get them out of the way while you REALLY want to be smoking and they won't be a problem later on when you're not craving physically. That means drinking (if you currently do drink) ON DAY ONE!!! This is terrible torture but the cigarettes and alcohol association is a total nightmare to break.
Just keep in your head, "If I start smoking RR is going to be worried about prescribing hormones." Once you're on them think how nasty thrombosis is and how much smoking stunts your new growth -- along with the fact that smoking causes other things like bags under the eyes that will make you look quite masculine. Trust me on this.
Also do what I did, post annoying, "I'm still not smoking" emails to the list, that adds peer pressure. Also get a cool 'quit meter' from http://www.silkquit.org which tells you exactly how long you've been off the fags, in my case mine tells me the following...
Three months, four weeks, two days, 19 hours, 6 minutes and 10 seconds. 2415 cigarettes not smoked, saving £241.51. Life saved: 1 week, 1 day, 9 hours, 15 minutes.
You can get yourself to get quite obsessed with statistics like that and the last thing you want to do it reset your meter once you've clocked up a few days.
Also try support groups on USENET (Yeah, USENET does have one useful good channel), soc.support.stop.smoking I think being quiet inspiring.
And finally remember that you're no longer addicted to nicotine after three days, and your brain returns to is pre-smoking state (i.e, able to produce normal levels of dopamine itself, thus stopping feelings of depression, stress, irritablilty and anxiety) after six weeks. After then you have no excuse to start smoking again.. BE FREE and GOOD LUCK!!!
It's the second best thing I ever did in my life and I honestly don't miss it for a second! (the best thing, of course, being starting hormones)
When the time comes, if you need any more help and advice, you can talk to me.. this goes for any one of you who need to quit.