The Causes of Impotence and Not Getting an Erection
Facts about Smoking and Impotence

Not getting an erection? Causes of impotence may be related to the effects of your smoking addiction.

Nicotine is a known vasoconstrictor and will reduce the blood flow to your penis. The facts about smoking and impotence show that smokers have more difficulty getting an erection than non-smokers.

The Main Message about Smoking is Fiction

Cigarette advertisements are created to make you think that smoking will make you "manly" and more masculine. Marketers often create strong images and messages to make you believe that using the product they are selling will improve the way you feel about yourself and improve the image others have of you.

It turns out that smoking can affect your manhood in the most undesirable way.

You can be assured that no cigarette advertisement will show the real facts about smoking!

A picture of a man smoking a cigarette with a limp penis would hardly create the image that marketers want. Do you think that men would buy the product if this was the image they saw?

It is the engorgement of blood vessels that causes the penis to become hard. Blood has to get into the penis and stay there in order for you to be able to sustain an erection long enough for normal sexual intercourse to occur.

Smoking is one of the causes of impotence because it affects the biological systems that must work together to create the increase in blood flow to the penis necessary for getting an erection.

One of the significant effects of smoking is atherosclerosis disease or hardening of the arteries. When this happens blood flow in all blood vessels is affected. The vast network of blood vessels in the penis cannot escape these effects of your smoking addiction.

In atherosclerosis disease blood vessels become narrower and less elastic, therefore in the case of blood flow to the penis the blood vessels would get less blood and be less likely to become engorged with blood. The end result of this disease process is not getting the erection you have been used to.

Smoking Fiction

• low hormonal levels are the main causes of impotence.


• impotence only occurs in men who have other health problems like diabetes or hypertension

Facts About Smoking and Impotence

• over 150 million men around the world are affected by erectile dysfunction or impotence.


• impotence is twice as likely to occur in smokers. But you don't actually have to be a smoker, secondhand smoke also causes impotence.


• the relationship between impotence and smoking is dose related. Among the population of men who are impotent, heavy smokers have been found to have the softest erections.


• erectile dysfunction can occur independent of any of the other effects of smoking such as heart disease or hypertension and it may be the first sign that your body is experiencing the effects of smoking on your blood vessels known as atherosclerosis disease.


• In fact erectile dysfunction in the absence of any other diagnosed pathology is now being recognized as a possible predictor of cardiovascular disease.

There are many causes of impotence but the facts about smoking are clear. Smoking and impotence are related. Erectile dysfunction is recognized as one of the possible effects of smoking and impotence is now considered to be a predictor that some of the other dangers of cigarette smoking are already developing.

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