What is Chantix?

Chantix is a prescription medicine intended for adults to quit smoking recently approved by the United States Food and drug administration. The tablets help smokers to quit smoking without the usual withdrawal symptons and are found to be more effective than its counterparts. The active ingredient in the Chantrix is varenicline tartrate and the inactive ingredients are microcrystalline cellulose (NF), anhydrous dibasic calcium, phosphate (USP), croscarmellose sodium (NF), colloidal silicon dioxide (NF), magnesium stearate (NF), Opadry ? White (for 0.5 mg), Opadry ? Blue (for 1 mg), and Opadry? Clear (for both 0.5 mg and 1 mg).

The medicine acts in two ways in smokers, first by providing nicotine effects that would help ease the withdrawal symptoms and secondly by preventing the nicotine effects from the cigarettes if at all the subject resume smoeking


Why Chantix?
As per the Information furnished by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 44.5 million adults in the United States are smokers and more than 8.6 million of them have developed at least one serious illness as a result of smoking. Tobacco use in general and cigarette smoking in particular is the single most preventable cause of death in US and also contribute for the cancers and chronic diseases especially of Lung and heart. Though it is very difficult to stop any habit cigarette smoking is one of the most difficult habits to break due to large scale dependence on nicotine or the so called addiction. It is in this context the relevance and the need of a medicine like Chentix assumes significance. Some other hot drugs this year are roserem and slimona

In various clinical tests conducted it has been proved that chantix help people quit smoking. The chantex treatment is usually for a maximum period of 12 weeks and if found necessary another 12 weeks to keeps the patient smoking free and also to increase the chance of long term cessation. Chantix is is sold by brand name champix in Europe