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Nicotine vs Varenicline - What's the difference?

nicotine | varenicline |

As nouns the difference between nicotine and varenicline

is that nicotine is (chemistry) an alkaloid (c10h14n2), commonly occurring in the tobacco plant in small doses it is a habit-forming stimulant; in larger doses it is toxic and is often used in insecticides while varenicline is a particular pharmaceutical drug, an agonist for nicotine, used to aid tobacco-smoking cessation.

nicotine

English

(wikipedia nicotine)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (chemistry) An alkaloid (C10H14N2), commonly occurring in the tobacco plant. In small doses it is a habit-forming stimulant; in larger doses it is toxic and is often used in insecticides.
  • tobacco, cigarettes
    • He is addicted to nicotine .

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    * English eponyms ----

    varenicline

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A particular pharmaceutical drug, an agonist for nicotine, used to aid tobacco-smoking cessation.
  • *2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles :
  • *:Farewell Zyban, hello Champix, Pfizer's name for a new compound called varenicline , which is not an anti-depressant but a ‘nicotine receptor partial agonist’.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "varenicline")