Advice
Following a full submission.
Varenicline tablets (Champix®) is accepted for use within NHS Scotland for smoking cessation in adults. It should be used only as a component of a smoking cessation support programme. The benefits of an additional treatment course in those who have stopped smoking after the initial 12 weeks of therapy appear modest.
Efficacy and safety in patients with significant co-morbidity are uncertain.
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Medicine details
- Medicine name:
- varenicline 1mg tablets (Champix)
- SMC ID:
- 336/06
- Indication:
- Smoking cessation in adults
- Pharmaceutical company
- Pfizer Ltd
- BNF chapter
- Central nervous system
- Submission type
- Full
- Status
- Accepted
- Date advice published
- 15 January 2007