latest smoking cessation prescription drug called Champix (varenicline)
April 2007
Canadians will soon be able to try the latest smoking cessation prescription drug called Champix (varenicline).
Champix is the first PARTIAL nicotine agonist. It stimulates nicotine receptors...but less than nicotine.
It also helps BLOCK nicotine from binding to receptors...so that patients get fewer pleasurable effects from smoking.
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