Chantix- The Latest Innovation for Smoking Cessation

Smoking is certainly a hard habit to kick. That is why most people continue to smoke despite the fact that smoking is dangerous for health and thus wreck their own health at large. However, if one dares to kick the addiction, post- withdrawal symptoms, including insomnia, headache, nervousness, and weight gain impel a smoker back to nicotine addiction. But, with the aid of novel anti-smoking preparation called Chantix, smokers now can breathe out of smoke with more ease.

Contemplating the fact that smoking is associated not only with lung cancer, osteoporosis, and increased cholesterol levels, the availability of Chantix is definitely a boon for smokers who still didn’t get success in smoking cessation with other available anti-smoking drugs, patches and gum.

Recently approved by the FDA, Chantix is a latest addition to the line of products for smoking cessation. The newest preparation works on a two-fold concept. While on the one hand, it proffers relief from withdrawal symptoms, ceases the pleasing sensation that nicotine delivers to the brain on the other. It targets specific parts of the brain, which in turn, provides the same level of satisfaction to smokers that they receive from nicotine. This is how the spectacle anti-smoking drug helps smokers to relinquish the niggling addiction. Manufactured in the form of tablets, it is taken once or twice a day. Available by prescription, it is prescribed maximum for 24 weeks.

Though the efficacy of this novel preparation has been established through six clinical trials, it can cause some side effects such as headache, nausea, and sleeping disorders. Thus, to remain on a safer side, all dosing directions and drug interactions printed on the drug’s label should be followed religiously.

In a nutshell, Chantix helps smokers in quitting smoking in a very short span of time and thereby makes them fit to reap most out of the life.

By Norma Dsouza
Published: 9/8/2007
 
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