A new study finds that the smoking-cessation drug varenicline (Pfizer's Chantix) has too poor a safety profile to make it suitable for first-line use. Researchers from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and other research centers in the US, found the drug, known as Champix outside the US...
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Wake Forest University and University of East Anglia have found more potential and real heart problems related to Chantix (varenicline), a Pfizer drug that in intended to curb smoking habits. In a review heart problems among 8,216 participants in 14...
Pfizer's stop-smoking drug Chantix (varenicline) can lead to a small increase in cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks for patients who already have cardiovascular disease, U.S. drug regulators said on Thursday. In fact, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is changing the label for...
I have answered many questions here, but am asking my first.
I know that the use of Chantix can increase the risk of depression and suicidal ideation. This is something I've struggled with all my life. However, my smoking has gotten out of control, and I need to quit once and for all. No doubt...
Hi i just started taking chantix 9 days ago and today is day 5 of no smoking at all. my question is how have others done with this, and is it normal for me to really really want to smoke? i don't necessarily crave the nicotine, i miss the act of smoking. the only thing that stops me from having...