Contents:
- Medical Video: Male Shrinkage Medical Course
- Can smoking make shorter penis size?
- How can smoking affect penis size?
- Cigarettes also reduce sperm quality
- Can the penis go back to its original size when it stopped smoking?
Medical Video: Male Shrinkage Medical Course
As we often see in cigarette advertisements, smoking can cause impotence. Yes, for men, nicotine can cause erectile difficulties. However, besides causing impotence, he said smoking can also make the penis shorter. Wow, really?
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Can smoking make shorter penis size?
Smoking can cause lung cancer, it's a fact that can't be avoided anymore. Likewise with impotence, but what about 'shortening the penis'? It turns out that it is also true.
Loh, does penis size change when we have passed puberty? The fact is that penis growth does stop after puberty ends. Everyone has different times, some men will probably have a fixed penis size at the age of 16, others may have a longer time.
How can smoking affect penis size?
So how can smoking cause shorter penis size? Some studies do prove this statement. Actually what is shortening here is the size of the penis during erection. The size is experiencing shrinkage due to substances contained in cigarettes. One example is nicotine.
When nicotine is inhaled (both for active smokers and passive smokers), these substances will enter the blood vessels. As for the erection, you need a healthy blood vessel (artery) so that it can widen, so that blood will flow to the penis. The blood will be trapped in the corpora cavernosa (the part of the penis) and erection occurs.
Now, what is the connection between nicotine and blood vessels? Nicotine can cause hardening of the arteries and damage the flexibility of blood vessels. Researchers found damage to blood vessel flexibility not only occurs in the lungs and heart, but also in the penis. As a result, your erection will be shorter because the blood vessels cannot widen as normal. You certainly don't want to, no, penis size shrinks due to the puff of cigarette smoke that you breathe?
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This statement was reinforced by research at Boston University School of Medicine involving 200 men, the results of which were concluded that smokers had shorter penis size when erect than non-smokers. Even though you can still get an erection, you still don't get the maximum size when you get stimulation.
Of course this will be a problem for you and your love relationship. Shrinking size will affect your psychological condition, so various psychological problems begin to emerge. Over time, this condition can also trigger erection or erectile dysfunction.
Cigarettes also reduce sperm quality
Yes, besides shrinking the size during erection, smoking can affect sperm quality. This can affect the ability of sperm to fertilize the egg. Sperm can not survive to travel to the egg.
Sperm cells carry two proteins called protamine 1 and protamine 2. However, based on Mohamad Eid Hammadeh, PhD, lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of the Saarland, Germany, quoted by webMD, said the average smoker only carries 2 protamine. This imbalance makes sperm vulnerable to damage.
Although sperm cells manage to penetrate the fallopian tube, sperm cannot fertilize an egg due to this imbalance. Still based on Hammadeh, men must stop smoking for three months if he and his partner are undergoing a program to have a child or program in vitro fertilization (IVF) aka IVF, where fertilization is carried out in a laboratory with medical procedures.
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Can the penis go back to its original size when it stopped smoking?
Quoted from Men 's Health, there are about 20 men who quit smoking, the result is that the penis can erect with a longer size. Of course you might rarely measure the size of your penis during an erection, so it looks normal, there is no difference. Especially when you have been a smoker for a long time, you definitely don't realize the size of your penis when you don't smoke. But you can try measuring it, before and after several months of quitting smoking.
When you stop smoking, blood circulation returns to increase, blood pressure returns to normal. If you experience erectile dysfunction, then after quitting smoking, the erection ability will slowly return. The benefit of being free from erectile dysfunction and penile shrinkage is that you become more confident and regain your sex life.
Quitting smoking is indeed difficult, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. There are several ways you can do, from drinking ginger tea to hypnosis. The important thing is you don't just give up.
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