For many male smokers, impotence often seems to come out overnight. "It used to be pretty good, but suddenly it didn't work out last night.". In fact, the "qualitative change" of anything is bound to experience long-term "quantitative changes" accumulated over time, and the impotence caused by smoking is actually the same.
Smoking can easily form neural inhibition, which can induce impotence
It is understood that the normal erection of the penis mainly undergoes the following processes: 1. Sensory stimulation; 2. Excitation of cerebral cortex; 3. The central nervous system (penis) is excited during erection; 4. Arterial vasodilation and venous vasoconstriction; 5. Penis erection.
Modern medical research has found that nicotine (commonly known as "nicotine") produced after cigarette combustion has a strong stimulating effect on the cerebral cortex, which can cause excitement in the human brain cortex, leading to a sense of relaxation and comfort. This is precisely the reason why most smokers are addicted to smoking.
As the saying goes, "The extreme of things is the opposite.". Although nicotine in cigarettes can cause excitement in the cerebral cortex, long-term and excessive stimulation of nicotine is bound to cause chronic fatigue in the cerebral cortex, leading to a decrease in the sensitivity of the cerebral cortex, which is detrimental to the perception of external stimuli.
Experts say that many smokers have symptoms such as mental retardation and memory loss due to long-term smoking and the formation of nicotine in cigarettes that inhibits the cerebral cortex.
When the sensitivity of the cerebral cortex decreases, it is bound to affect the perception of sensory stimuli, making it difficult to convert sensory stimuli into sexual excitement, thereby forming a "circuit breaker" in the conduction of sexual excitement. "When erecting the central nervous system (penis), it is not possible to obtain sufficient sexual excitement from the cerebral cortex, achieve normal expansion of arterial blood vessels, and contraction of venous blood vessels. If the penis cannot be erected normally, it naturally increases the probability of male impotence.".
Smoking can easily cause blood viscosity, leading to impotence
In addition to the regulation of the cerebral cortex and central nervous system, the normal congestion of the cavernous body of the penis is also a crucial link in the normal erection of the penis.
It is understood that the normal congestion of the corpus cavernosum of the penis requires both "arterial vasodilation" and "venous vasoconstriction". In short, the blood flow of arterial blood vessels must increase, and the blood flow of venous blood vessels must decrease.
Long term smoking can easily cause an increase in harmful components such as carbon monoxide and nicotine in the blood. These harmful ingredients, in addition to easily accelerating the hardening of blood vessels, can also easily increase the viscosity of platelets, causing blood viscosity, and thereby slowing down blood flow.
First of all, once the blood vessels of the human body become hardened, their elasticity will inevitably decrease. Whether it is the expansion of arterial blood vessels or the contraction of venous blood vessels, it is difficult to achieve smooth and normal realization, which will inevitably increase the probability of male impotence.
Secondly, once the blood of the human body becomes sticky, the flow rate of the blood will inevitably decrease. The arterial blood vessels near the cavernous body of the penis cannot achieve timely and rapid blood supply when the erectile central nervous system is fully excited, in order to promote and maintain normal congestion of the cavernous body of the penis, which is also prone to increase the probability of male impotence.