(June 3, 2015 at 1:27 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(June 3, 2015 at 1:08 pm)emjay Wrote: I'm 34 and I've smoked since I was 15. it's really started affecting my health in the last couple of years, including something similar to what you're talking about - not impotence (yet) but something similar and not guaranteed to be caused by the smoking but thought highly probable. Personally I think I'll be lucky to see 40 but I just can't quit
Basically, anything that is bad for your cardiovascular system is not good for sex. A man needs to have good blood flow to the penis to get and maintain an erection. So anything that interferes with that is mucking up your sex life.
For women, the situation is different. A woman can still have sex. But it very likely reduces a woman's ability to experience orgasms.
People very often have a mistaken idea that doing unhealthy things simply lessens the length of one's life. But it actually affects the quality of one's life before one dies. It is rather more like aging faster than normal, not eliminating the decline from age. One declines prematurely with an unhealthy lifestyle. If what you want is a high quality of life as long as possible, but without the decline of age, you need to live a fairly healthy lifestyle and then commit suicide before you get old. Unless, of course, you are lucky enough to be killed accidentally, like by being run over by a bus.
Yeah, my condition is quite probably caused by lack of blood flow. It's still undiagnosed after nearly two years but I do go to the hospital every few months for an ultrasound and thankfully at the moment it seems stable. Let's just say if the trend continues I could die as a woman as my testosterone levels are dropping. Are you a doctor?
As to your other point I fully agree... now
