UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
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 additional interest in different populations of smokers who have more difficulty quitting, such as women and smokers with mental illness. …
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. Louis is leading a clinical trial, funded by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, that: UW-CTRI Research …
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 worse long-term. This misguided belief makes troops with severe PTSD less likely to think they can handle life without cigarettes, …
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 on Mental Illness Wisconsin Chapter (NAMI-WI) to help behavioral health patients to help their peers quit smoking. UW-CTRI is the …
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, the new eReferral system helped clinicians refer 14% of adult tobacco users, compared to the traditional Fax to Quit system …
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: Inpatient psychiatric hospitals are required to adopt and report on these tobacco performance measures beginning in federal fiscal year 2017. …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chris Hollenback, 608-262-3902 ch3[at]ctri.wisc.edu Labor (Day) of Love: Smokers Quit for Loved Ones, Themselves On Labor Day, smokers called the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line to quit smoking not just for their own health, but for the health of those around them. Quitting isn’t easy, they said. But it’s a labor of …
Among Menthol Smokers, African American Women Struggle Most to Quit MADISON—Menthol flavoring may make it harder to quit smoking cigarettes, especially for African-American women, according to a new study published online by the journal Addiction. In a series of analyses of a large quit-smoking clinical trial, investigators from the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco …
UW School of Medicine and Public Health Gets New $12 Million Grant New “BREATHE” Study Will Help Smokers Quit The University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) has received a new $12 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute to help patients in the Milwaukee and …
According to an article published online by the American Journal of Public Health, four out of five low-income patients at community health centers (CHCs) want to quit smoking. These CHCs primarily serve low-income individuals. Thirty-one percent of patients at CHCs were current smokers, compared with 21% of US adults in general. Among currently smoking patients …