Achieve Life Sciences, Inc. is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialization of cytisine for smoking cessation. The Company’s focus is to address the global smoking health epidemic, which is the leading cause of preventable death and is responsible for nearly six million deaths annually worldwide. Cytisine is an established 25 day smoking cessation treatment that has been approved and marketed in Central and Eastern Europe by a third party for over 20 years under the brand name TabexTM. As of December 2016, it is estimated that over 21 million people have used cytisine to help combat nicotine addiction, including over 2,000 patients in investigator-conducted, Phase III clinical trials in Europe and New Zealand.