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How Does Smoking Affect a Man's Ability to Have an Erection?

How Does Smoking Affect a Man's Ability to Have an Erection? (0:35)

Smoking is one of the worst things a man can do for his erection since smoking directly impacts your body's blood supply. In this video, urologist Harry Fisch, MD, explains how smoking cigarettes negatively impacts a man's erection.

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When a man has an erection it's all about the blood flow, you got to get that blood flow to the penis. This is where drugs like Viagra [xx] they get more blood to the penis. Well, guess what if you're smoking cigarettes, your blood supply to the penis and everywhere else in the body is diminished.

So if you're smoking and you want to have a better erection think twice, don't think about medications think about taking that cigarette and throwing it away because throwing away that cigarette will increase the blood supply to the penis.