| What is Zyban?
Zyban is a smoking cessation drug that contains no nicotine. Bupropion (also Amfebutamone) is the main component of Zyban and it was mentioned many years is as an antidepressant. Another stop smoking medication is Champix available for sale in Europe.
The effect as a smoking cessation drug was discovered by accident than people with depression who were treated with Amfebutamone, suddenly ceased to smoke.
In the U.S., Zyban was licensed in 1997 as a drug for smoking cessation.
Since July 2000, the drug is also on the German market.
Zyban is to have a lot of side effects that can be very dangerous for people with health problems!
Manufacturer: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG
Dosage and treatment
In the first six days, only one tablet of Zyban is taken, and continue smoking allowed, from the seventh day, you increase to two tablets daily, and then should not smoke anymore.
Zyban acts only after eight to twelve days.
The treatment takes between seven to nine weeks. After that you should be smoke free!
Who Zyban is appropriate and how to get it prescribed
Suitable for Zyban medication aufhörwillige smokers and those who have already made one to quit. You have to do it!
A visit to the doctor and an examination of whether you are healthy and sufficient. If one has heart problems or diabetes, you get this medication prescribed!
With the prescription, Zyban is available in any pharmacy.
Therefore acts Zyban
Amfebutamone is an interference in a complicated body’s Wirkmechanimus: Nicotine is made in the body to a particular binding sites of the nerve cells. As a result, the concentrations of the neurotransmitters dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain increase. Dopamine is for the benefit effect, but also responsible for the addiction. Norepinephrine increases the attention and the performance of the body. By constant cigarettes or tobacco, the body gets used to the increased concentration of these messengers.
Is anyone from smoking, the body lacks the usual nicotine. The proportion of dopamine and norepinephrine decrease, and the body reacts with concentration problems, irritability and cravings “for the drug.
This is where the action of Zyban Amfebutamone. It keeps the concentration of the two messengers in the brain is constant and prevents withdrawal symptoms and the strong desire for a cigarette. The great advantage of Amfebutamone is that it attaches itself not to the same binding sites, such as the nicotine addiction and therefore does not have its triggering effect.
Side effects according to the manufacturer
In general, Zyban drug is well tolerated. Under study conditions were more frequent at the beginning to dry mouth, dizziness, headache, insomnia and skin rash, which they laid in the course of therapy. Abdominal pain and nausea may be signs of acute pancreatitis. In rare cases (0.1 percent) experienced seizures. The addictive potential of this drug is considered very low.
Rarely occurred during treatment of psychiatric disorders, including insomnia, nervousness, as well as anxiety and depression to suicide attempts. Most of these patients, however, had previously been a mental illness. It is also not clear whether these events are side effects of the medication or the nicotine withdrawal. Patients should therefore be monitored carefully during the cessation therapy.
How much does Zyban cost?
Zyban is not paid by health insurance. Zyban is a prescription undwir the future ex-smokers prescribed at private expense. Each tablet of Zyban costs about as much as a pack of cigarettes.
The Zyban drug should not be prescribed if
Man suffers from epilepsy, is anorexic, has a cancer,
suffers from manic depression, liver cirrhosis, is alkokohl or drug addict or you are allergic to the substances in medicine.
During pregnancy and lactation the drug should not be used.