UK’s NHS Bets Big On Teva’s Champix Generic

Teva’s generic version of Pfizer’s Champix (varenicline) daily smoking-cessation tablet is to be rolled out to “tens of thousands” of smokers in England, the country’s National Health Service has announced, as part of efforts to help them quit.

Describing Teva’s version of varenicline as “an improved anti-smoking pill,” the NHS noted that Pfizer’s original Champix brand – sold in certain territories as Chantix – had previously been used in the UK “but was