A study out of The University of Hong Kong discovered that around 54% of smokers with erectile dysfunction significantly reduced their symptoms within half a year by quitting smoking. Of the patients who maintained their habit, only 28% reported better sexual performance within a six month period. Based on these findings, giving up nicotine gives ED sufferers a 91% greater chance of curving their sexual dysfunction and improving their sex lives. The study involved 700 male smokers between 30 and 50 who suffered from impotence.
Similar research in 2005 out of Wake Forest University found that male smokers with
This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2010.