Well well, it seems that your DH, Sparkles' DH and me are all in the same boat, or close enough anyway. All of my SAs (x3) have shown 97-99% head defects, around 80% midpiece defects, and good tails and cytoplasm. My first SA also showed poor motility and progression, but with my latter tests it improved to the point where everything was considered good and normal with the exception of the morphology. You may also want to have a look at his TZI rating, which is the average number of defects per sperm. Mine has ranged between 1.6 and 2.0 which apparently isn't too bad (they consider less than 1.6 to be OK I think).

My tests were through the local path lab and the last through SIVF. Bear in mind that SIVF seem to reckon that anything above 3% of normal forms is acceptable and "normal". Honestly, it sounds like the stupidiest thing in the world but that's what they reckon. Although the path lab here reckon it's anything above 8%. The point is, your DH might feel like a bit of a leper because I know I did, but those stats put it in perspective a bit. I sort of assumed that blokes with normal SAs would have to have above 70% of normal forms or something.

Remember too that the next lot of results can vary a lot from the first. My first SA had a good count at over 250million, but was crap on all other counts. The latter tests had slightly lower counts but much better overall results.

Giving up smoking will naturally be good for your DH and they seem to think it can improve sperm quality. But I gather it can take a few months for the results to be seen.