Cut back on the smoking and drinking or the only thing that’ll stand upright in your house is the vacuum cleaner.
Dear Sexorcist:
I’ve been having a hard time getting it hard lately. I’m 33 and I do smoke and drink. I have always had a good hard dude but lately with my girlfriend it’s been a chore. Don’t tell me to give up the cigs or the Jack—it ain’t gonna happen. Weird that suddenly I’m having problems getting it up. How do I straighten this out?
— Too Soft in Sylvan Hills
Dear Too Soft:
Saying you want a solution without cutting back is like asking how you can avoid a flat tire on a road full of nails. So, straight from the Department of Duh: Stop smoking and drinking. If you give a urine sample and an olive comes out, it’s time to quit. Or at the very, least cut back.
Erections are about blood flow. The more the flow the harder you’ll go. Guess what smoking does? Constricts blood vessels leading to the penis. Alcohol? Numbs the senses. The only thing that cigarettes and alcohol give a lift to is Viagra’s sales chart.