Achieve Life Sciences’ Smoking Treatment Likely To Be Approved By FDA, Says Hunterbrook

The FDA is expected to rule on Achieve Life Sciences’ application seeking approval for the drug by June 20, 2026.
In this photo illustration, the Achieve Life Sciences logo is displayed on the screen of a tablet. (Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
In this photo illustration, the Achieve Life Sciences logo is displayed on the screen of a tablet. (Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Anan Ashraf·Stocktwits
Updated Dec 30, 2025   |   1:00 PM EST
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Hunterbrook Capital on Tuesday revealed it is long on Achieve Life Sciences (ACHV) stock as the company nears a green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Cytisinicline as a treatment for smoking addiction.

The FDA is expected to rule on Achieve Life Sciences’ application seeking approval for the drug by June 20, 2026. If approved, the company plans to sell it in the U.S. by the end of the year.

Hunterbrook Media said that Cytisinicline is already used in Europe and added that smoking cessation clinicians, scientists, and health program directors that it interviewed recommended approval in the U.S.

The report also noted that Cytisinicline has proven safer and more effective than its predecessors including Pfizer’s Chantix and GlaxoSmithKline’s Zyban. Furthermore, despite smoking being on the decline, it is still rampant, the firm noted.

ACHV stock traded 9% higher at the time of writing. 

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