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  2. Year: 2014
  3. Month: September

Month: September 2014

Dr. Fiore Discusses CVS Health’s Decision to Stop Selling Tobacco

Posted on September 4, 2014
Posted in 2014 Articles

Piper Becomes Associate Director of Research

Posted on September 2, 2014

Megan Piper, PhD, has been promoted to associate director of research at UW-CTRI. Dr. Piper is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding and treating tobacco dependence, with an …

Posted in 2014 Articles

Genetics Research: Meds Can Help Smokers Overcome Risk Factors to Quit

Posted on September 2, 2014

Could a doctor someday use a smoker’s genetics to tailor treatments? We’re not there yet, but researchers are working on it, if only in the early stages. Dr. Li-Shiun Chen of Washington University in St. …

Posted in 2014 Articles

Some Veterans Who Smoke Mistakenly Believe It Relieves PTSD

Posted on September 2, 2014

UW-CTRI Researcher Jessica Cook is a co-author on a published paper concluding that many troops smoke because they believe nicotine will greatly alleviate their post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, when in actuality smoking makes them …

Posted in 2014 Articles

Behavioral Health Program Helps Peers Help Peers Quit Smoking

Posted on September 2, 2014

Bruce Christiansen (left) of UW-CTRI and Douglas Tipperman of SAMHSA Experts from governing entities, advocacy groups, and peer networks convened at the Madison Concourse Hotel to launch a grant project lead by the National Alliance …

Posted in 2014 Articles

eReferrals to Quit Line Outpace Fax Referrals

Posted on September 2, 2014

UW-CTRI has partnered to use electronic health records (EHRs) to refer patients who smoke or chew tobacco to the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line, and the improvement over traditional referral systems has been significant. In fact, …

Posted in 2014 Articles

US Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking: 50 Years of Progress

Posted on September 2, 2014
Posted in 2014 Articles

CMS Adopts Two Tobacco Measures for Psychiatric Hospitals

Posted on September 1, 2014

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) adopted two of the Joint Commission’s tobacco measures, requiring psychiatric hospitals to report on them or risk a 2% cut in annual CMS payments. The measures include: …

Posted in 2014 Articles

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