A woman who smoked up to a pack of cigarettes a day found them 'disgusting' when she started taking Ozempic. Now she hasn't smoked in 6 months.

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[nickcarraway]

Ashlee Wright has four boys under age 16, a home, a husband, and a demanding job as a mining coordinator in Utah. Sometimes, she needs a break; and for years, smoking cigarettes provided it.

"Smoking would be kind of my 'time out' at home," said Wright, 35, who smoked between a half pack and a pack a day, usually on her porch.

Then about six months ago, Wright started taking Ozempic, a form of semaglutide used to treat diabetes and increasingly prescribed off-label for weight loss.

Wright said she and her doctor decided to try it off-label to manage her insulin resistance, polycystic ovary syndrome, and reduce her heart-disease risk. The possibility of weight-loss was appealing, too

Wright says the drug, which she pays for out-of-pocket, lowered her blood pressure and cholesterol, lightened her periods, and led to her dropping 45 pounds. It also came with an unexpected side effect: She couldn't finish a single cigarette. "I quit smoking within a few weeks because every time I smoked, it was just disgusting," Wright said.

Wright turned to nicotine gum to manage withdrawals and ice cubes for a tactile replacement. She's also come up with games that challenge her kids to bike to the park to give her a break. "I had to find creative ways to have a little reset instead of going out on the porch and hiding," she said.

Others have reported similar experiences. "I was a causal smoker years! However once I moved to the higher dosage of Ozempic, I had zero urge to smoke and actually haven't smoked in 9 months," one poster wrote on Reddit.

[KittyKares]

Some people are losing muscle like they are 70, when they are in their 50s.
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Is that from taking Ozempic, the “miracle drug”?

[gnarledmaw]

Obviously he didnt mean that because, yknow, luge. The only thing that could improve that would be if they were drinking...or on fire. Everyone would definitely watch then.

[MotorCityBuck]

+1 😉

[VideoDoctor]

I couldn’t have cared less in my youth about the girl’s breath; I was just happy to be kissed...

And I'll bet when it came to sex "the worst you ever had was REAL GOOD" LOL

[Nik Naym]

“My wife is a T1 diabetic”

Ozempic is not designed for nor approved for type 1 diabetes. Your wife’s doctor is prescribing it off label.

I would be looking for a second opinion if it were me or my family member.

[Nik Naym]

I smoke cigars - not every day but a few a week during good weather. (it’s an outdoor only activity)

I have been on Ozempic for a couple of years now for type 2 diabetes.

I never noticed any difference in my cigars when I started Ozempic. They still taste and smell the same to me.

And to those of you using it for weight loss: you are going to be disappointed because after a few years the “magic weight loss” stops and your weight heads back up. I can’t imagine what will happen when you stop using it.

[BRL]

Turns out that an unknown side effect of this new drug is lung cancer

[Myrddin]

Her doctor is trying to help her with weight loss from the perpetual balancing of carbs vs insulin. Keeping the total under control while dodging low glucose levels has been a huge challenge. Having her glucose monitor alarm going off in the middle of the night screws up sleep for both of us. That is her problem to manage. I'm trying to dodge sleep apnea and the local clinic that provides the monitors to get an accurate read has a 60 day wait. Getting through a workday with 3 or 4 hours sleep is not much fun.

My personal opinion on Ozempic for a T1DM patient is avoid it. The frantic attempts to fix a glucose low with the delayed dump of stomach contents isn't worth the risk. We have a fast acting glucagon stimulating nasal inhaler as a fallback for her.

[American Infidel]

Cut out the bread, chips, crackers and sugar. In no time at all you will not be hungry. Eat meat, eggs, cheese, butter

This has been a game-changer in my case over the last 7 years or so. Cutting out the sugar, bread, rice, pasta, granola bars, fruit juices like orange juice that I thought were "healthy" and switching to mainly meat, eggs & cheese with some vegetables and nuts (pecans & walnuts) on occasion, all in combination with fasting has yielded great results in terms of overall health. Full disclosure, I do indulge on special occasions like Christmas and Thanksgiving, but I do a full-day, water-only fast on the day before and the day after each of those days. Well worth it.

[Glad2bnuts]

It is amazing, the complete lack of cravings. When I fall off the wagon and eat a sandwich using really good grain bread, it is like loading up a cannon. No stink, just gases you right up.

[Graybeard58]

I have use it for type 2 diabetes for the paste two years, one injection per week of the mid range dosage. $5 co pay per month. I haven’t lost any weight at all, nor do I need to. The only time in my life I might have been considered a tad over weight was at birth, when I weighed 10 pounds 10 ounces.

I have accomplished my doc’s and my goal by keeping 6.0 - 6.5 A1C at every visit for the past two years.