Every day, thousands of young men start smoking for the first time. Perhaps if they knew how cigarettes are going to affect their sex life, they would never light up. Here are some ways smoking will affect their sex lives:
It will make it harder to get it up
The first thing you’ve to realise about smoking is it causes erectile dysfunction or impotence. An erection is caused due to the hydraulic effect of blood entering and being retained in spongy bodies within the penis. Both the brain (to send a signal) and the heart (to pump blood to the penis) must work properly to get and maintain an erection. ED occurs whenever any of the proceedings are disrupted and smokingdisrupts them aplenty.
According to men’s health physician, Dr Vijaysarathi Ramanthan, ‘Smoking affects every system/organ of the body including sexual functioning. People need to understand that erection in men has a lot to do with a healthy heart, blood vessels. Smokers are twice as likely to get erectile dysfunction as non-smokers.’
Decrease your chances of being a father
Along with causing erectile dysfunction smoking can also hurt fertility levels. It does so by lowering your sperm count, affecting its motility and messing up its shape. All this makes it harder for your sperm to fertilise the egg.
And make you want less sex!
Along with ED and infertility, smoking wreaks havoc to your testosterone levels as well. For those not in the know testosterone is a hormone which increases libido and muscle growth. When you light up, it raises your testosterone levels temporarily. However in the long run it has negative effect by increasing the carbon monoxide content in your blood which inhibits the production of the hormone. So guys if you really want to be manly, it’s time to kick the butt.
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