http://www.bottomlinefitness.com Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:50:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.bottomlinefitness.com/2009/05/20/smoking-and-your-johnson/ http://www.bottomlinefitness.com/2009/05/20/smoking-and-your-johnson/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 11:42:24 +0000 Mike Furci http://www.bottomlinefitness.com/?p=123 Are you a smoker?  If you are you obviously don’t care it’s the number one preventable cause of death in the U.S.  Well, maybe you’ll care that smoking promotes erectile dysfunction.  That’s right, chances are if you’re a smoker you’re having trouble in the sack.  Italian researchers followed 860 male subjects between the ages of 18 and 44 for 3 years.  The subjects were divided into 3 groups: smokers, never smokers and former smokers.  Those that smoked were 30 – 90 percent more likely to have problems getting it up.  Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor, which means it causes the diameter of arteries to become smaller.  Not only is this bad for Mr. Happy because it reduces blood flow, it is systemically bad for the body because it raises blood pressure.  Another negative effect smoking has is the inhaled chemicals decrease the amount of NO (nitric oxide) released by blood vessels.  Nitric oxide is responsible for the relaxation of blood vessels (arteries) which allows your johnson to come to attention when aroused.  Those of you who smoke because you think it makes you look cool (virtually everyone who starts) had better start thinking about how cool you’ll look with a frustrated naked woman in front of you.

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