Replies to post #21539 on Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ARNA)

[stockhero]

I am sure the smoking cessation will be huge, but we won't know the results until the end of the year. We need something big to happen now....like Mexico....

[sts66]

I don't think Eisai stumbled here, no reason to ramp reps before DTC started and insurance coverage was > 50%. What's becoming a big concern of mine is the lack of strong evidence of refills and patients staying on it instead of just trying the 15 day free trial - TRx is going up at a crawl, not much evidence that they're capturing patients long term yet. The increase in scripts but decrease in revs shows freebies are dominating real sales.