Smoking can cause erectile dysfunction

Smoking can cause impotence as a recent survey demonstrated that a plenty of people in France who has smoking habit are affected by impotence. This is a problem not only occurring in France, but all over the world. Impotence resulting from a man’s unfitness to have or maintain an erection of his penis. Erectile dysfunction or impotence is a man’s sexual problem in which his penis fails to get hard or stay hard. Impotence is a very usual problem which affects most of the male community. According to researchers, age is not only a cause of impotence but several other factors like habits, lifestyle, physical and psychological activities that cannot be ignored.

The side effects of medications which are use to cure high blood pressure, heart disease, depression and brain disease also cause impotence. Other medicinal drugs such as alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine, methadone, opiates and nicotine affect the internal nervous system and damage the blood vessels causing the problem of erectile dysfunction or impotence. A recent report from university of California showed that smoking tobacco increases the risk factor for impotence. Smoking tobacco cause the problem of coronary artery disease which narrows the arterial blood vessels reducing the blood flow to the penis. Normal sex drive depends upon the coordination of central nervous system, the internal secretion and the blood vessels that flows the blood to the penis.

Although there are plenty of causes for impotence, smoking is a major perpetrator in increasing the risk factor of sexual problems. Smoking also causes reduction level of ejaculation, and geological formation of unnatural sperm shape. Smoking tobacco can damage the lining of arteries. It also reduces the blood flow to penis. Nicotine compresses arteries to make them narrower. When your arteries conducting to your heart are totally blocked, then you bear the problem of heart attack.

Another cause of erectile dysfunction or impotence is due to the arteriosclerosis disease also called the coronary artery disease. Arteriosclerosis deposits high-fats inside the arterial walls, thus narrowing the arteries cause the problem of erectile dysfunction or impotence. A smoker also helps in increasing the problem of heart disease, lung cancer and high blood pressure. The researcher says that a person, who is smoking 20 cigarettes a day, would have increased 39% his risk of impotence. Cigarettes contain nicotine that affects people. Nicotine in the blood promotes the vein chamber to dilate. Along with impotence Heart attack and lung cancer are also the major causes of smoking.