Canada to benefit from nicotine gum

2 August 2012 – Canada will be the first country to benefit from Revolymer’s nicotine gum.

Associated Retail Pharmacies (ARP) and Family Health Care Pharmacies (FHCP) will be offering Revolymer’s nicotine gum (Rev7 Generation 2) for sale under the ‘Preferred’ brand.

Revolymer has applied its proprietary polymer technology which not only controls the release of nicotine but also helps to mask its bitter taste through molecular encapsulation.

The product has been scaled up by a manufacturing partner with 2.5 million pieces of gum made in both 2 and 4mg doses with flavours of spearmint, peppermint and fresh fruit.

Third party evaluations have confirmed that the Revolymer product is superior in taste and texture to current generic nicotine gums, and, as it lacks the bitter taste of many commercial nicotine gums, it should further help smokers in their quest to quit smoking. Moreover, an additional benefit to ex smokers is that the product will whiten teeth as it is chewed.

The nicotine chewing gum market is worth over US$1.2bn (€978m) worldwide.