Smoking and Sexual Health for Men
Not good for sexual health
If you think your smoking habit and your sexual health have nothing in common then think again – especially for men.
You may think twice about lighting up another cigarette after you read the research about smoking and how it insinuates its way into your bedroom.
Smoking does a number on your body in terms of sexual performance. The effects of smoking on a woman’s reproductive cycle are well known but what about how it affects a man? While research tells us smoking affects both sexes in an adverse manner here I’ll focus in on how it affects a man’s sexual health.
Impotency affects an estimated 30 million men annually across the country. If impotency is one of your greatest fears then be aware erectile dysfunction is more common in male smokers than those males who don’t smoke. In fact it’s twice as likely to happen. Even the exposure to secondhand smoke can increase your potential for impotency.
If you combine the smoke you are inhaling with the smoke you breathe in from others when you’re all sharing a smoke break together then your chances become even greater.
A research study published in 2000 by the Journal of Urology yielded the result that 68 percent of men ranging in age from 40 to 79 who suffer from high blood pressure also experience erectile dysfunction. High blood pressure often goes hand in hand with low testosterone levels which can reduce sexual arousal in a man, and by so doing, wreck havoc with his performance in the bedroom.
Men who smoke and have high blood pressure are 11 times more likely to experience impotency than men who don’t smoke and don’t have high blood pressure.
Toxins in Cigarettes:
Carbon monoxide is one of many harmful toxins of which cigarettes are composed. These toxins can render the circulatory system less efficient in carrying blood to the organs of the body.
Once damage occurs it reduces the amount of blood that finds its way to the penis. This in turn makes getting and keeping an erection difficult.
The toxins found in cigarettes can also negatively affect the testicles because they decrease the quantity of sperm output, as well as the mobility of sperm and the overall quality of it. The sperm of smokers is not as healthy as that of non-smokers. Smokers are much more likely to have lower sperm counts and sperm that don’t form properly.
Smoking can also hurry along a disease known as atherosclerosis. This is a technical term for a condition known as hardening of the arteries. Blood vessels located in the pelvic area of the body become smaller and narrower which means that less blood is able to get through.
As a result of this, the penis receives a great deal less blood than it requires. Impotency can be an unfortunate consequence of this lack of blood.
If you’re a sexually active male then quitting smoking could be the biggest boost to your sexuality since your hormone raging teenage years.
Becca Scott
Staff Writer
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