Smoking cessation

Keywords:   Smoking, Tobacco, Pfizer, Champix

On every April 7th, we celebrate it as World Health day and on every 31st may celebrate as World No Tobacco Day. But in actual we can count those people on our fingers those who in actually celebrate these days. Today people died due to many types of diseases and mental disorders. As life style changes, day by day people want to take a chance to bit its opponents and step forward.

But due to such tendency people get more and more stress, from which they can’t be step out. And so, they turn towards any addiction. Especially towards alcoholism, tobacco consumption.

But these all change a lifestyle of a human being. As stress increases day by day man also run towards any of these addictive entities. But what after that?????

Smoking is one of the world’s well known addictions of men. Some of them just smoke to show off their friends and some of them just smoke to time pass. As tobacco contains Nicotine as a major constitute it stimulate the nervous system and so, men get a shot of energy. Slowly slowly tobacco becomes a part of a life. And in last some of them become chain smokers.

These all leads to cancer. Tongue cancer, mouth cancer, intestine cancer.... But still knowing of all these causes, men does not want to stop this all.

But now it’s pharmacist’s duty to stop this addiction. One of the Pharma companies has started to sell such product. After great performance in US, Pfizer has launched CHAMPIX in India. It is a unique non-nicotine smoking cessation prescription drug. Champix (varenicline) has been developed specifically to act on reducing nicotine craving as well as the pleasure of smoking. This oral smoking cessation product was approved by the US FDA in the last 10 years. It has benefited over 5.7 million people since its worldwide launch in mid-2006. We should take an advantage of such product and aware our community to stand up and use such type of products to fight against this addiction.

With comparatively superior efficacy plus a comprehensive behavioural `champs club' support program, Champix offers a complete and sustainable smoking cessation strategy to smokers who intend to get rid of the addiction. The result of two international studies shows that 44 percent of Champix-treated patients have quit smoking by the end of the 12-week treatment. Compare this with the annual two percent Indian smokers who are otherwise able to quit smoking on their own.

Company itself support smokers who are willing to quit, Pfizer will partner with smoking cessation clinics across India where smokers can seek counseling support, educational information about ill effects of smoking, tips and medical support to help them overcome their addiction.

So get ready to make our country free from smoking, free from Tobacco.