Does smoking affect potency in men?

For three thousand years, the population of the Earth has been using tobacco leaves as a method of influencing the nervous system. In 1809, nicotine was first isolated from tobacco, and later in 1828 it was investigated and described. It was then that it became known that the substance is a strong poison and negatively affects the activity of the whole organism. Numerous studies conducted in the last century helped to understand how smoking and male potency are related, and the conclusions were disappointing.

Despite the fact that nicotine can be deadly, this substance is not the main cause of death in smokers. You can die when you smoke a hundred cigarettes a day or twenty cigars. The standard dose of nicotine received by a regular smoker is small enough to cause death. But it leads to strong addiction, experts put its intensity on a par with cocaine and heroin.

Nicotine targets receptors located at the junction of nerve cell structures in the brain and muscle fibers. They are able to instantly recognize a substance when it enters the body. This distorts the passage of a nerve impulse that regulates the state of blood vessels, muscles, and endocrine glands. The presence of nicotine in the body causes an increase in blood pressure and a slowdown in peripheral circulation. Electrical impulses in the brain can change chaotically, provoking a number of endocrine effects and metabolic disorders.

It is interesting: nicotine affects all animals with different strengths, organisms with a high organization of the nervous system turned out to be more sensitive to its effects, all types of mammals and humans belong to their group. The exceptions are goats and sheep.

The harmful effects of tobacco smoke

There are five thousand different chemical compounds in tobacco smoke, sixty of them are capable of causing impotence: ammonia, organic acids, hydrocyanic acid, carbon monoxide. Smoking and potency are two mutually exclusive concepts.

The negative impact of cigarettes on male sexual function is as follows:

• tobacco smoke blocks the synthesis of testosterone, and the body's response to the constant presence of toxic substances is manifested in the production of detoxifying enzymes, which, in parallel with harmful components, destroy their own sex hormones, which affects "male strength",
• under its influence, the structure and mobility of spermatozoa changes, which affects the reproductive function,
• tactile perception of the genital organs is disturbed, which leads to a decrease in sexual desire and ends with neurasthenic manifestations.

Important: the development of impotence can serve as a signal of an approaching heart attack and stroke, because these pathologies have a common cause.

The effect of smoking on potency in men is extremely negative, at least eleven percent of cases of impotence are directly related to smoking. This is especially true of persons who have reached the age of forty and have a long history of addiction. It has been noticed that even one cigarette smoked on the eve of sexual intercourse can reduce the quality of erection by twenty percent. Moreover, the quality of cigarettes and the presence of a filter do not matter.

The saddest thing is that a male smoker not only gradually loses the ability to have sexual intercourse, but also to reproduce. American researchers of everyday life analyzed a group of people with a long history of smoking. In sixty-six percent of cases, their seed was unsuitable for fertilization. It turned out that the reproductive possibilities of such men are seventy-five percent lower than those of non-smokers.

Everyone knows how detrimental tobacco affects health. But addiction turns out to be stronger than the fear of getting lung or stomach cancer, dying from cardiovascular disorders or a stroke. Perhaps the reverent attitude of the representatives of a strong part of humanity towards their masculinity and the knowledge of how smoking affects potency will inspire them to become ardent opponents of smoking.

Is quitting smoking enough to restore an erection?

Rejection of addictions is the main condition for the treatment of erectile disorders. If the influence of the causative factor that caused sexual dysfunction persists, then even the use of drugs may be ineffective.

But you should not count on the fact that with the rejection of cigarettes you will instantly feel a surge of strength. Nicotine causes persistent psychological dependence, therefore, during the first few weeks, a person who has given up addiction experiences severe discomfort, the so-called withdrawal syndrome or withdrawal symptoms.

Such a state appears:

• headaches,
• coughing fits,
• indigestion,
• emotional discomfort.

Needless to say, the environment is not always sympathetic to the difficulties of this period. After all, a person who quits smoking continues to lead a habitual lifestyle, he has an established social circle, which in many ways is a provoking factor. It is extremely important to find comfortable ways of mental and physical relaxation for yourself at this moment. They can be music, dancing, fishing, spending time with children.

If we talk about the terms when positive changes in the quality of erection will become noticeable, then it is difficult to clearly define them. The main prognostic value is the duration of addiction and the presence of somatic pathology.

The less time nicotine poisoned the male body, the sooner he will get rid of its consequences:

• With a duration of smoking up to five years, you can count on a quick recovery of sexual function, it can take one to two months, subject to a balanced diet and lifestyle, as well as timely treatment of concomitant diseases.
• If the experience of smoking does not exceed ten years, then it may take up to one year to normalize sexual activity.
• People with 20 years of addiction will most likely not be able to fully restore erectile function. But it can be expected to significantly improve after 1.5-2 years of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. This period is significantly affected by the presence of concomitant somatic pathology.
• More than twenty years of smoking - and potency in men is not subject to full recovery. During such a period of toxic exposure, irreversible changes occur in the human body, which are difficult to correct.

It follows from the above that it is quite difficult to cope with the consequences of smoking, it may be better to avoid addiction.