Smoking and Virility




Until just recently smoking was a privilege of men. A woman with a cigarette was not accepted and thought of as a vulgar one. Now things are different and the chances to see a smoking woman are as high as a man-smoker. Recently the researchers started talking about smoking being a reason for breast cancer, child birth defects and other harmful effects of nicotine of woman’s body, but not many people know that smoking affects men’s virility.

The studies of American scientists have shown that smokers have fewer chances to impregnate their partners than non-smokers. The odds reduce if a man smokes as little as four cigarettes a day for more than two years. The tests show that the problem is that nicotine reduces sperm function: binding capacity of sperm works only in 25% due to tobacco use. If a man wants to restore the function, he should immediately quit smoking and wait for at least three months to have some noticeable changes in binding capacity.

Besides, nicotine is so omnipresent that it even gets inside of sperm cells. Does any smoker think that he tries to make a baby with the semen full of toxic nicotine? Poisoned sperm is usually less active and less likely to reach the final goal: woman’s egg.

Smoking also affects erection. It is simple to explain: nicotine damages blood vessels the fine work of which is vitally important for good erection. Being a vasoconstrictor, nicotine constricts blood vessels preventing healthy blood flow. The chemicals in tobacco also reduce the production of hormones, such as testosterone, and therefore man’s drive for sex. Due to these reasons men who smoke have 60% more chances to come across erectile problems.

A study held in China in 2003 shows that if a man smokes more than 20 cigarettes a day he has 60% higher risk of erectile dysfunction than a non-smoker. The same study discovered that both current and ex-smokers have 30% more chances to suffer from impotence. A research in Australia has also shown bad results for smokers: according to them heavy smokers (more than a pack a day) were 40% more likely to receive erectile dysfunction; light smokers had a little lower chance: 24% more likely to get the problem.

Impotency is one more trouble that a man can have if he poisons the body with cigarettes and nicotine in particular. A study in Thailand where more than 90% of all male population smokes discovered that 2.2% of non-smokers and 3.7% of smokers are impotent. A recent report made by British Medical Association explains that around 120,000 men in the U.K. were impotent because of smoking.

Although it is believed that impotency happens with older men only, young smokers might be surprised one day that they have weaker erection than they used to have because of the nicotine constricted blood vessels. In fact, the connection between smoking and impotence is obvious: nicotine shrinks and hardens all arteries of the body including those which give the flow to the genitals when it is necessary. Damaged blood vessels lead to soft erections and eventually to no erection at all.

All of the above mentioned factors should be convincing to every man that plans to have active sexual life. Quitting smoking is the only cure and the first step for it is to make up the mind. If the person is determined to quit and has really good reasons for it, the smoking will soon be forgotten. Along with this the arteries and minor blood vessels are most likely to restore to the previous abilities delivering the desired result for every man.

Larry Fox

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Posted on July 30, 2009 
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