Smoking and ED

Next to diabetes and drug side effects, smoking proved to be one of the 3 most common causes of ED in men older than age 50. Statistics say that smokers have 50% higher chances of impotence than nonsmokers at the same age. The explanation is simple: smoking harms all the systems involved in the erective process: nerves (brain, spine, nerves), vascular (blood flow) and endocrine (hormones) systems.

A variety of studies were conducted to determine the exact relationship between impotence and smoking. The Massachusetts Male Aging Study (MMAS), for instance, proved the tight causality between cardiovascular diseases; smoking and ED. Smokers suffering from hard diseases were impotent more often than non-smokers with the same conditions. Another chemical trial conducted in Massachusetts set its objective in assessing the proportion between cessation of smoking and rapid improvement of erective function.

Results were obvious: significant improvement in nocturnal penile tumescence and rigidity was noticed in men who had stopped smoking for 24 hours, as well as for those not smoking for one month. Consequently, cessation of smoking is a rapid improvement factor of the erective process. Moreover, it was also established that nicotine is a harmless component, while other cigarette substances damage the organism.