Erectile Dysfunction and Smoking

The risk of erectile dysfunction (ED) increase by fifty percent for men who smoke.

For men in their 30s and 40s, smoking increases the risk of erectile dysfunction (ED) by about 50 per cent.

	Medical fact: The British Medical Association writes that up to 120,000 men have ED because of smoking.

Blood vessels are the lifeline of an erection. If blood doesn’t flow freely through blood vessels an erection will not happen.

Smoking causes erectile dysfunction in several ways:

• Smoking causes damage to blood vessels
• Smoking causes blood vessels to degenerate
• Nicotine narrows the arteries that lead to the penis
• Reduces blood flow and the pressure of blood in the penis
  

This narrowing effect increases over time, so if you haven’t got problems now, things could change later.

The longer you smoke, the more the nicotine narrows the arteries that lead to the penis.

The penis is an early warning signal for the health of your heart. If cigarette smoking is causing the onset of Erectile Dysfunction, now is the time to quit smoking before you have a heart attack.

Erection problems in smokers may be an early warning signal that cigarettes are already damaging other areas of the body – such as the blood vessels that supply the heart.

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