Stop Smoking If You Want To Have Kids

If you think smoking a pack of cigarettes a day is macho and sexy and yet still remain unflagging in bed, think again.

While its a well known fact that smoking causes Erectile Dysfunction (ED), recent studies have reinforced the harmful effects of cigarette smoking to impotence and infertility.

ED is the persistent inability to attain and maintain penile erections adequate for satisfactory sexual performance.

When you smoke, fatty deposits build up in the arteries supplying blood to your penis. This results in decreased blood flow to the penis, which causes ED.

Further reduction in blood flow can also result from rapid contractions in the penile tissue that restrict arterial blood flow into the penis. This is a direct result of nicotine stimulation in the brain.

Nicotine in the bloodstream also causes excessive outflow from veins in the penis and this reduces the duration of an erection.

However, these are not the only problems. Men who smoke also have lower sperm count and motility. There are also increased abnormalities in sperm shape and function.

On the other hand, if you choose to stop smoking, your sperm motility almost always improves, though the other effects will improve only if the arteries are not permanently hardened and damaged.

Studies have shown that smoking causes infertility within months and ED within four to five years.

Women smokers do not fare that well either. You will have decreased egg counts and are more likely to have painful and irregular menstruation. Also, the risk of early menopause will be markedly increased and you are four times more likely to suffer from cervical cancer than a non-smoker.

Should you become pregnant, you also face an increased risk of miscarriages and are twice as likely to have an ectopic pregnancy.

An ectopic pregnancy happens when the fertilized egg grows outside the uterus.

Smoking is also responsible for 15 per cent of premature births.

There is help for you if you want to stop smoking immediately. You can join the smoking cessation clinic near you home, or download this quit smoking ebook here.

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