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Tests show that the diet pill Acomplia has a wide range of benefits. The biggest test of the drug found that it has a long lasting impact on patients. Apart from helping people losing weight, it also helps them to keep them slim for a span of two years. It has been designed to suppress your appetite from the very first day itself and you will have better control on what and how much you eat.

Acomplia is an experimental drug developed by the French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi-Aventis primarily as a diet pill, but the drug works differently than most of its counterparts. People are losing weight safely, quickly and without any unwanted side effects.

Acomplia does not work as the other diet pills. The action of Acomplia works by blocking the CB1 receptor found in human physiological system called the Endocannabinoid system. This Endocannabinoid system plays a vital role in regulating the food intake and energy expenditure of the body. By taking the drug Acomplia, the action of cannabinoid receptors stops and in the process our appetite suppresses, resulting in weight loss.

Apart from helping in keeping those unnecessary fats away, the drug has also the potential to act as an antagonist for tobacco intake. Doctors say that the Endocannabinoid system is found to be disrupted by tobacco also. The drug restores the balance in the system reducing the dependence on tobacco. Since, most smokers are over weight patients, the drug ends up doing double function.

Clinically, it has been found that patients treated with the highest dose of 20mg each day with Acomplia tends to lose around 20 pounds of their body and the affect remain for around 2 years.

Though a new entrant in the obesity market, it is successful in making people believe that it is very effective. Characteristics like mild side effects make it more relevant to people. Though waiting for FDA approval, Acomplia is a new age diet pill providing relief to many obese people and smokers as well.