Stop-smoking drug Chantix under review

Thursday, December 6, 2007

When approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2006, the prescription drug Chantix was heralded as almost a silver bullet in the fight to help people stop smoking. Its ingredient, varenicline, blocks nicotine receptors to the brain while stimulating a dopamine response.

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