# Achieve bigger and better erections -- stop smoking! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005 "2002-06-08T20:28:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/1 "2002-06-08T20:28:16Z")
I’ve been free of the evil weed since May 1. Quit cold turkey. It’s a good feeling. I recall a few years ago, when a cow-orker of mine quit. He said he achieved bigger and better erections after he quit. He maintained that smoking constricts the blood vessels (hence the increased danger of stroke for smokers), and erectile tissue becomes erect when it is engorged with blood. Thus, quitting smoking would allow more blood flow. Makes sense. And now, six weeks or so after quitting… I think he may have been right…😃 ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/2 "2002-06-08T22:31:44Z")
Thanks for over-sharing, Dave. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/3 "2002-06-08T22:32:59Z")
That is far from over-sharing for this board. Congratulations on your hard-ons. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/4 "2002-06-08T22:33:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \* > \*\* > I think he may have been right…😃 \*\* Yeah, that’s nice and all, but can you ejaculate over 13ft.? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/5 "2002-06-08T23:24:58Z")
The OP is dead-on from a medical standpoint. Smoking is one of the leading causes of impotence, and if you combine smoking with diabetes, it gets really, really bad. Many urologists won’t consider surgical therapy at all (implants or arterial bypasses) until the patient quits smoking first. They found over half didn’t need treatment once they stopped, and of those that did need treatment, the outcome was far, far better than surgery on the smokers. If ya wanna continue to wield wood, whack weed!! QtM, MD ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/6 "2002-06-08T23:51:38Z")
Congratulations on successfully quitting smoking, dear heart… and I am so glad it has had a beneficial effect on your love life, too! Hmm…I wonder…if I START smoking and then QUIT smoking, will it do anything for MY love life? Nah…didn’t think so. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/7 "2002-06-08T23:54:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > \*\*If ya wanna continue to wield wood, whack weed!! > > QtM, MD \*\* Can I consider that a prescription? ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/8 "2002-06-09T00:33:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > \*\* > If ya wanna continue to wield wood, whack weed!! > > QtM, MD \*\* In layman’s terms…If ya want a powerful pecker, pass on the Pall Malls. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/9 "2002-06-09T00:53:18Z")
Thanks for the confirmation, **Qadgop**. I had considered posing this as a question in GQ, hoping for you to find it there, but I couldn’t resist being puckish and posting in MPSIMS. **Scotti** , my love, don’t start smoking, for goodness sake! Besides, I would be incredibly disappointed/horrified/majorly bummed if I found out you achieved erections! **Crazy Cat Lady** , you haven’t read many posts around here, have you? This was positively tame. Besides, erections are simply a fact of life. My acknowledging that I achieve them, and that I’ve noticed a difference since quitting smoking, is about as clinical an analysis as I could get. Of course, if you want **details** … ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/10 "2002-06-09T01:01:00Z")
It also occurred to me that this would be a powerful message for anti-smoking advocates. Dr. Q has confirmed that this is indeed true, so why don’t we see PSAs telling men that smoking will decrease their erectile function? ---
**Author:** ![Hosayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@Hosayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hosayf)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/11 "2002-06-09T01:13:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \* > \*\*It also occurred to me that this would be a powerful message for anti-smoking advocates. Dr. Q has confirmed that this is indeed true, so why don’t we see PSAs telling men that smoking will decrease their erectile function? \*\* Because that would offend all the soccer moms and fundies who have to keep their children sheltered from anything having to do with sex. Can smoking of marijuana cause any of these problems? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/12 "2002-06-09T01:32:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \*\*\*If ya wanna continue to wield wood, whack weed!! > > > > QtM, MD \*\* > > \*\*Can I consider that a prescription? \*\* But what pharmacist would you go to fill it? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/13 "2002-06-09T02:06:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \* > \*\*It also occurred to me that this would be a powerful message for anti-smoking advocates. Dr. Q has confirmed that this is indeed true, so why don’t we see PSAs telling men that smoking will decrease their erectile function? \*\* I think it because, just like the other big negative effects of smoking, it takes some time for it to become pronounced, as it were. If dying/not-being-able-to-breathe/etc. twenty/thirty years down the road don’t work, not being able (or having difficulty) to get it up twenty/thirty down the road isn’t likely going to have an effect. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/14 "2002-06-09T02:31:22Z")
Are you kidding? which do you think would have more impact on a 15 year old studmuffin? 15 yr old s.m.: “Yeah, well, dying, I could handle that, but not getting it up!!! whoa, dude!” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/15 "2002-06-09T02:38:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \* > \*\*It also occurred to me that this would be a powerful message for anti-smoking advocates. Dr. Q has confirmed that this is indeed true, so why don’t we see PSAs telling men that smoking will decrease their erectile function? \*\* Actually, in Canada you do. Under federal legislation regulating the packaging of tobacco products, the warnings are getting quite graphic. In addition to text, there’s now a series of [illustrations](http://www.nsra-adnf.ca/english/warnexamples.html). Check out the fourth warning label down, which deals with impotence. (None of that “erectile disfunction” or “e.d.” stuff that Senator Dole talks about.) ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/16 "2002-06-09T03:41:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beagledave \* > \*\*In layman’s terms…If ya want a powerful pecker, pass on the Pall Malls. \*\* \ For fabulous fanny fucking, forget freaking fags. \ ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/17 "2002-06-09T04:17:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > **Yeah, that’s nice and all, but can you ejaculate over 13ft.?** Eer, howz’about one belly button? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/18 "2002-06-09T07:18:13Z")
I have not smoked for 12 years. Alas, my erections are still sub-par. ☹ ☹ ☹ ☹ ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/19 "2002-06-09T07:40:18Z")
So you’re less of a spooje and more of a dribble? Sorry. ☹ ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005/20 "2002-06-09T09:19:18Z")
And my husband just quit ! Thanks for adding another incentive to the long list. I’m going to have to keep checking to see when this effect cuts in 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achieve-bigger-and-better-erections-stop-smoking/113005.md?page=2)