Smoking vs Varenicline - What's the difference?
smoking | varenicline |
The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
(by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.
Giving off smoke.
(slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.
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’.
As nouns the difference between smoking and varenicline
is that smoking is tuxedo, dinner suit while varenicline is a particular pharmaceutical drug, an agonist for nicotine, used to aid tobacco-smoking cessation.smoking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- Smoking is permitted.
Derived terms
* smoking car, smoking carriage, smoking compartment * smoking gun * smoking jacket * smoking roomAdjective
(en adjective)- That woman is smoking !