Company: ACHV
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-059297
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Company: ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 your proxy card with no further instructions and do not hold your shares beneficially through a broker, bank or other nominee, your shares will be voted FOR each of the nominees for the Board of Directors, FOR the ratification of PwC as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, FOR the approval of the amendment to our 2023 Non-Employee Director Equity Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares available thereunder, and in the discretion of the proxy holders with respect to any other matters that properly come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment or postponement of the Annual Meeting. How to Vote Your Shares YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT . Your shares can be voted at the Annual Meeting only if you are represented by proxy, please take the time to vote your proxy. Stockholders of record, or “registered stockholders,” can vote by proxy in the following three ways:

| By Telephone:     |     | Call the toll-free number indicated on the enclosed proxy card and follow the recorded instructions.        |
| Via the Internet: |     | Go to the website indicated on the enclosed proxy card and follow the instructions provided.                |
| By Mail:          |     | Mark your vote, date, sign and return the enclosed proxy card in the postage-paid return envelope provided. |

If your shares are held beneficially in “street” name through a nominee such as a financial institution, brokerage firm, or other holder of record, your vote is controlled by that institution, firm or holder. Your vote by proxy may also be cast by telephone or via the Internet, as well as by mail, if your financial institution or brokerage firm offers such voting alternatives. Please follow the specific instructions provided by your nominee on your voting instruction card. Please note, that if your shares are held beneficially through a bank, broker or other nominee and you wish to vote at the Annual Meeting, you must obtain a proxy issued in your name from the record holder. Should you wish to attend the Annual Meeting virtually, you can join at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/ACHV2025 . Revocability of Proxies You may revoke or change any previously delivered proxy (including a proxy sent to you by someone other than us) at any time before the Annual Meeting by:

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delivering a written notice of revocation to our Secretary at our U.S. principal executive offices at 22722 29 th Drive SE, Suite 100, Bothell, WA 98021;