Excessive Intake of Tobacco May Hamper the Sexual Performance
Tobacco is being consumed by people over the last several years
and the practice is still on rise. Tobacco enters the body
through a number of sources; these are cigarettes, cigars and
other forms of tobacco. It has wide implications in health and
fitness affecting the body through heart diseases, diseases of
blood vessels, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, impotence and
other sexual problems.
Smoking can have adverse impact on men's sexual life. Tobacco
the only content present in cigarettes raises the risk of
Impotence, popularly known as Erectile
Dysfunction. Research work done in this regard shows
that more than 1300 men who smoke are at risk of getting
Erectile Dysfunction. The rate is higher in people above 40
years of age but there have been cases where young people have
also suffered. If we believe in the stats, smokers are about
three times more prone to Erectile Dysfunction as compared to
non-smokers of the same age.
Efforts and measures should be put in this direction because a
large group of people is being affected by the disease. The
government and the non-government organizations are working on
curbing the habit of smoking and consuming tobacco but there has
been very little success in this regard. Though there are proper
warning labels on the packs of cigarettes but that has hardly
done any good. So, some more work needs to done in this regard,
may be taking stern actions against smoking in public or the
sale of tobacco products near or around public vicinity.
Thailand has come up with an effective idea where the packs of
cigarettes have warnings of Sexual Impotence in men. So, we
could soon find these warnings on the packs of cigarettes
WARNING: SMOKING CAUSES MALE SEXUAL IMPOTENCE
WARNING: SMOKING DAMAGES SPERM
WARNING: SMOKING MAY DAMAGE YOUR SEX-LIFE
Cigarette smoke contains around 4,000 chemicals. These are the
ones that damage the vascular system, including carbon monoxide,
nicotine, and 1,3- butadiene. There are nearly 40,300 premature
deaths every year in UK due to heart and circulation diseases
that have been caused solely due to smoking.
Smoking damages the arteries and veins supplying blood to the
penis that complicates the problem causing Erectile Dysfunction.
During an erection, large quantities of blood flow, under
pressure, into the penile arteries. This causes the veins, which
drain the penis to become compressed, so preventing the
immediate outflow of blood. This process is significantly
impaired by smoking.
Nicotine stimulation in brain stops arterial blood flow into
the penis, which in turn causes early contractions in penile
tissue. This is known as acute Vasospasm. The valve mechanism
that traps blood in the penis is impaired as a result of
nicotine in the blood. This is known as venous dilation.
Smoking may cause these sexual disorders: