Usually when you lose coolant at the head gasket you're going to be dealing with a pressurized system when it gets warm... How much coolant exactly are you losing? Does it go down to a certain level and stay there or keep dropping? If it's continously losing coolant the first thing I'd look for is a slight weep at the water pump. A hot engine can evaporate a small leak and you never see a trace other than a green streak from the water pump weep hole that runs down the front cover. Next thing I'd wonder about is mabey a crack in the head around an intake port... but that should really open up and leak more when it gets hot...
The white smoke at start-up could be as simple as slightly low compression or a bad injector. It really indicates nothing more than a cold fire... which could be caused by low compression, water in the chamber or poor fuel atomization... You really need to get a handle on how much coolant it's losing and where it's going... but I really wouldn't suspect the head gasket just yet. So long as it's not getting into the oil I wouldn't panic too much just yet.
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