Smoking Your (Sex) Life Away

It’s funny how smokers never get scared enough to quit when told of the dire effects this filthy habit has on their health. Show them gross pictures or videos that have anything to do with illnesses caused by cigarettes, and chances are, all they’d do is comment on how gross those were, and then go right outside and light another cancer stick.

If horror stories about cancer victims don’t work, maybe people close to smokers who want them to drop the habit ought to try another approach. How about, say, telling them horror stories about how cigarettes can essentially kill their sex lives? Considering how important sex is in the lives of people these days, that tack just might work.

Now how exactly does smoking threaten your sex life?

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that people who smoke reek of tobacco. The smell of cigarettes stays on your breath, skin, clothes and hair long after you’ve smoked your last stick for the day. Hell, that smell even sticks around long after you’ve showered and are all perfumed up. And that is one big turn-off to many. Unless, of course, that person you’ve been eyeing is a smoker as well. Then you can smoke together and stink together.

Smoking also happens to make your teeth more yellow than usual. Brownish, even. Add that up with the smell factor and the fact that smoking accelerates the development of lines on your face and makes you look older, and your chances of hooking up with a non-smoker is virtually nada. Maybe looking like chain- smoking actors Colin Farrell or Katherine Heigl would help, but then again, you probably don’t.

Now let’s say you’ve hooked up with a person who doesn’t give a rat’s behind whether you smoke or not, and you’re getting some. Good for you. Smoking, however, can still rear its ugly head in the bedroom in the form of a certain body part that doesn’t rise to the occasion. That’s right. Studies have shown that men who smoke are more likely to experience impotence, or have difficulty in maintaining an erection, especially when they’re nearing or have reached middle age. Female smokers, on the other hand, might have difficulty having an orgasm. Cigarettes are already mighty pricey, but Viagra pills, both for men and women, are way more expensive.

Smoking also takes its toll on your sexual stamina, because one of the most obvious effects of smoking is that you easily run out of breath. While it’s okay to huff and puff while playing basketball or jogging, hyperventilating after humping and pumping for about a minute doesn’t speak too well of your abilities in bed, does it?

But all these effects don’t even come close to the scariest thing that smoking can do to your sex life: it diminishes your libido. Not a few smokers have complained that sex has already become too boring for them, that their libidos are no longer what it used to be. Now would you really want to reach this point?

But if sex really isn’t all that important to you, then there’s nothing left to scare you with. Go ahead and light up. You probably don’t have a sex life to be threatened to begin with.