About Prozac (Fluoxetine) and Fags?!

[FagAsh]

I am a big stinky old smoker. I’ve never quit for more than 2 years. I smoke about 6 a day and love every one. Honestly it’s really pathetic

Anyyyyway, I was prescribing Prozac for severe PMT (PMDD)

And within a week; I’ve just stopped being remotely bothered..... I’ve just stopped almost as though I forgot about it. And this is over new year when I’ve been drinking a bit! I’ve also gone off food a bit but I knew about that already

AIBU to think that Prozac has actually turned off the faggy switch in my brain? Anyone else??

Fagash, silver lining! I’d take it as a win, pmdd is bloody awful, I speak as a fellow sufferer, just had a hysterectomy and hoping that finally I’ll be rid of it, I smoked too, it’s a crutch and I definitely smoked more when the pmdd started to close in around me cyclically, funny enough I haven’t smoked at all since my surgery!

Well done.

I don't remember that side effect from wjen I was on prizac, but if you find you end up smoking again I highly recommend Allen Carr's Easyway To Stop Smoking book, it's a miracle worker honestly. Well done 😊

Wtf Sarah

SarahNade, are you in the UK? Fags are cigarettes.

@SarahNade
Clue’s in my username, love.
Wtf.

@Hellbentwellwent
It’s such a brilliant side effect!! Interesting to hear about your hysterectomy and smoking.

Apparently depression leads to craving for niacin which leads to fags.

But a week isn’t long enough to make a difference is it, and as I wasn’t expecting this side effect, it’s hardly a placebo situation.

@lovelilies
Yes, I read that book.... probably once every few months 😒😒😒

Interesting. When I was on it and it was a low dose, I completely went off alcohol. I had always enjoyed a good drink but the enjoyment of drinking completely went. A few mo this on from coming off it, I occasionally have a few drinks but that’s it.

When it happened, I did manage to find some research online where this had happened to some really heavy drinkers and it helped them to stop.....it obviously helps smokers too!

I’m on 40mg and have noticed the same. I don’t get food cravings either, and had to remind myself to eat when I first started on it. It used to treat bulimics as well.

I also have PMDD. The fluroxetine is making me very tired as well. I can barely function without a daily nap.

It didn't help me stop smoking. I used to be obsessed with cleaning my house and now I can barely be bothered. I guess that's the ocd getting ass kicked by fluoxetine. Kind of feel like some of my motivation has disappeared but on the whole it has been amazing at treating my anxiety.

One of the antidepressants is (maybe was) one of the giving up smoking drugs some years ago, when I tried one. Does exactly what you’ve said - reduces and then eliminates desire to smoke. Embrace it :)

@SarahNade it was obvious what the op meant. No need for the homophobic slur

Just making the point that using the term 'f--s' is very offensive. It is a homophobic slur. It should never be used in any context. Cigarettes or smokes. Not that word.

I should 'grow up' for pointing out that using that word is offensive? I bet you say the n word as well, and expect people who take offence to just 'grow up'.

This is an international forum with people from many countries. Most of the western world deem the f-g word offensive. Is it really too much to ask for some people to just keep in mind that people from many countries come on this site, and to be sensitive?

Are you drunk from last night or something?

The word fag in it's proper context is not offensive. The OP is talking about cigarettes as you well know and it has nothing to do with the N word.

So stop shite stirring. You're making yourself look foolish.

I think you're doing most of the Western world a massive disservice by assuming they think like you.

Is it really too much to ask?
Yes because the word isn't only a slur, as Worra mentioned what about the well established food?

Is it too much to ask that people don't deliberately misinterpret posts for the opportunity to chastise?

Wake up, check MN, first thread I click, argument that’s nothing to do with the actual topic. Glad to see it’s not New Year, New Mumsnet. Happy New Year

However OP, I also had the same when I started taking Prozac - didn’t smoke for almost the whole time I was on them. The thought of it just made me feel sick, no clue why!

Newsflash - most of the western world DO think like me on this. Maybe you didn't know. But most of the western world sees the word 'f-g' as deeply offensive. UK is irrelevant. That you use the term for cigarette, is irrelevant. The word is actually banned on most other forums. Because it is deeply offensive.

Pardon those of us, like myself, who have a cousin who was called that word whilst being physically bashed by 3 men. Ending up in hospital for almost 3 weeks.

The word is deeply offensive and is an archaic term for cigarettes. Meaning, we don't need to use it any more. Same as we don't use the n word anymore. That was acceptable practice once, but isn't any longer. Is it too much to expect some in the UK to catch up with the rest of the modern world?

Is a bit of sensitivity too much to ask? It would appear so.

Regional variation in language is one of the joys of life. You don't catch me complaining about people wearing fanny packs and having fashionable shaggy bangs so leave fag smoking alone.

I think maybe the word "context" is relevant here.

Fag has been a word for cigarette in the UK for a hundred years or more, having been in use during WWI; faggot, shortened to fag, was a more recent American neologism for a homosexual. And "fag" has at east eight meanings other than either. Why should everyone's language be impoverished for your sensibilities? Am I allowed to speak of fairies at the bottom of the garden, say, or is that intolerable to you as well? There are flowers there too, maybe even pansies.... Should everyone called Charlie change his name?

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fag

Would you also assume that "fag-end" exclusively meant a homosexual's rump?

@TheQueef Many words that aren't only slurs, are no longer used, out of respect for the slur usage of the term. F-gs is banned around most modern developed nations. It can never be uttered under any circumstance, where I am. That the UK use it is not relevant. The word cannot even be typed on most other western modern world internet forums.

I have no idea what food you are talking about, but the word itself would have had the company who made it banned from making it, or would need to re-brand in order to sell.