How acomplia works is very simple. It just suppresses the patient’s appetite, affecting the endocannsbinoid system which gets highly stimulated due to overeating. By this patients are restrained from over eating, leading to successful weight loss and thereby combating obesity. As far as smoking cessation process is concerned, Acomplia is yet to get approval for the same.

Acomplia Effects - Despite having strengths like weight reduction and increasing good cholesterol numbers the FDA has not acted regarding the approval of the drug as yet. Like all drugs acomplia too is not free from the health risks and side effects. It has certain disadvantages as well, the most dreadful of which is that Acomplia showed about 2.7 fold higher brain disorder rate in a clinical trial among the patients treated with Acomplia v/s the patients with placebo. In a presentation at the Annual Metabolic Diseases Drug Discovery World Summit, Sanofi-Aventis threw light on the latest industry and academic advancements by the leading concerns engaged in the study of obesity and diabetes. At this world summit the company addressed the role of Acomplia in clinical development in disorders related to obesity.