Achieve nears first pharmacotherapy approval for smoking cessation in nearly 20 years

12 July 2023
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The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published key data on cytisinicline, from US specialty pharma Achieve Life Sciences (Nasdaq: ACHV).

These results are from the Phase III ORCA-2 randomized placebo-controlled trial of cytisinicline as a treatment for smoking cessation, the first large trial of this medication conducted in the USA.

The study authors concluded that cytisinicline demonstrated “smoking cessation efficacy and excellent tolerability” in adult smokers.

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