I have a long history of struggling with nicotine. I’ve been using it since college, mainly rolling my own tobacco, then later to Juuls zyn. It has been hellish trying to quit and I have failed numerous times.
I have now become privy to the potential impacts on nicotine and sperm healthy. I did do an at home sperm test that demonstrated my levels were quite good (quantity, motility, etc).
However, the test of course doesn’t analyze the quality or morphology.
My wife and I are trying to get pregnant and now I’m having major second thoughts about passing off my genes.
Can any body else speak on this? Did they grappling with this decision? What did you decide to do? Did you conceive and have healthy children? Or perhaps an unexpected issue that arose?
I greatly appreciate your share.
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I drank hose water as a kid, dude.
Your great grandparents’ great grandparents probably bathed infrequently…and yet, here you are.
You’re good, dude. If your boys put a baby inside her, congratulations. If not, well, I bet you had fun trying, right.
Relax.
You could talk to your doctor about nicotine cessation medication but it’s not a magic cure you’re still gonna have to want to quit and make an active effort. It’ll just help with the dopamine seeking part of your brain that wants it
Dude. You are way overthinking it. I started smoking when I was 17 and then switched to chewing tobacco when I was 19 and have been hopelessly addicted for the past 20 years. I have an almost 3 year old who is by far the most well developed (physically and mentally) child amongst her peers and we have another one due any day now.
Can nicotine adversely affect your sperm? Probably, but those ones aren’t the ones who are going to win the race anyway.
There are plenty of reasons to get unhooked from nicotine but sperm quality isn’t even on the list. If you’re a generally healthy person you have nothing to worry about. So if having kids is something that you and your wife want then take her out for a nice date night, knock her up, and enjoy being a dad
I wouldn’t worry too much about the spermies.
I had good success with vaping.