Smoking exacerbates incontinence, especially in women.<\/p>\n
This happens via many mechanisms.<\/p>\n
The main one is that chronic smokers are often affected by coughing, which increases intra-abdominal pressure and leads to urinary incontinence that may range from just a few drops to larger quantities, each time the patient coughs.<\/p>\n
It is also known that many of the substances contained in smoke from burning cigarettes are expelled in urine.<\/p>\n
Some of these substances are very irritating for the mucosa of the urinary bladder and lead to hyperreflexia of the urinary bladder which, in turn, causes urinary incontinence.<\/p>\n
Lastly, smoking causes dryness in the female genitals and, as a result, dries out the urethra.<\/p>\n
An additional incontinence mechanism in women is what, in English-speaking literature, is known as the \u201cseal mechanism\u201d.<\/p>\n
With this mechanism, the moisture of the urethra mucosa leads to the walls of the urethra to stick together, a phenomenon similar to that of two wet plastic bags that cannot be easily separated.<\/p>\n
Am.J.Obslet Gyneol.1992 Nov 167(5):1213-8.<\/p>\n
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