Chantix Anti Smoking
Archive for October, 2009
Can Chantix Make A Comeback?
Oct 20th
Pfizer will restart TV advertising for its Chantix anti-smoking drug on Sunday, nine months after voluntarily putting the campaign on hold as worries about a link between the medicine and suicidal thoughts and actions grew.
The spots run 90 seconds–30 seconds more than the ones Pfizer (nyse: PFE – news – people ) ran for just four months last year–and hew to the same narrative as the old one, using a race between a tortoise and a Belgian hare to dramatize the fact that quitting smoking that favors the slow and steady–and that Chantix can help.
Side effect information takes up 41 More >
Quit smoking now
Oct 20th
Written by Richard J. Wilbur Thursday, 01 October 2009 17:04
In 2007, 19.8 percent of adults in the United States were cigarette smokers, which is the lowest percentage ever recorded. Although it’s a great achievement, it still means 43.4 million U.S. adults smoke. Cigarette smoking is the most important preventable cause of morbidity, mortality and excess health care costs in the United States.
From 2000 to 2004, cigarette smoking caused an estimated annual average of 443,595 deaths and cost $193 billion dollars per year in smoking attributable costs. Smoking is responsible for 95 percent of lung cancer, the vast majority of chronic More >
Chantix New Study – Chantix Has Little or No Suicide Risk
Oct 20th
Researchers Find No Clear Evidence of Self-Harm Risk From Antismoking Drug
By Salynn Boyles WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Oct. 1, 2009 — The antismoking drug Chantix has been linked to suicide and suicidal thoughts, but a new study shows that if such a risk exists it is likely to be very small.
Researchers from the U.K.’s drug regulatory agency and the University of Bristol compared the incidence of suicide and self-harm among smokers taking Chantix to that of smokers using the drug Zyban or nicotine-replacement products to help them give up cigarettes.
Last July, the FDA announced it would require More >
