Achieve Life Sciences Inc

NASDAQ:ACHV

Achieve Life Sciences, Inc. is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of cytisinicline for smoking cessation. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and currently employs 16 full-time employees. The firm is engaged in development and commercialization of cytisinicline for smoking cessation and nicotine addiction. The Company’s product candidate, cytisinicline, is a naturally occurring plant-based alkaloid from the seeds of the Laburnum anagyroides plant. Cytisinicline is structurally similar to nicotine and a mechanism of action that is both agonistic and antagonistic. The firm is aid in smoking cessation, or nicotine addiction, by interacting with nicotine receptors in the brain by reducing the severity of nicotine withdrawal symptoms through agonistic effects on nicotine receptors and by reducing the reward and satisfaction associated with nicotine through antagonistic properties. The Company’s has two prescription oral treatments for smoking cessation are available in the United States: Chantix (varenicline) and Zyban (bupropion).