UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
News for Immediate Release Contact: Chris Hollenback, 608-262-3902 ch3@medicine.wisc.edu UW Awarded $3.7 Million Grant to Study E-cigs As the federal government considers how to regulate electronic cigarettes (e-cigs), the University of Wisconsin has been awarded a $3.7 million grant to further study them over the next five years. The grant is sponsored by the National …
Dr. Divya Sharma remembers seeing a patient whose mother had implored her to quit smoking from her death bed. The patient wanted desperately to quit but didn’t know how. Dr. Sharma hugged her and helped her get started, but wished she had more time and resources to offer. Now as the physician coordinator from Dean …
UW-CTRI launched its primary research study, Breaking Addiction to Tobacco for Health (BREATHE) January 20 at the Dean Health Care clinic in Janesville and the Aurora Health Care clinic at Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee. More than 100 referrals have already come in and health counselors are following up. Under the BREATHE project, any smoker who visits a …
UW-CTRI colleagues joined hundreds of researchers and healthcare professionals gathered at the Marriott hotel in downtown Philadelphia for the 2015 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco annual meeting. Researchers presented more than 300 pages of tobacco-related results at 23 symposia, 25 paper sessions, and four poster sessions. Here is a run-down of UW-CTRI presentations: …
After smoking for 50 years, Claudia Anderson decided it was time for a change. Her daughter, Nicole Nelson, had quit smoking, so she decided to try to follow suit. Anderson had quit cold turkey once before for two years, but it didn’t stick. This time she thinks it will. Like Nelson, Anderson called the Wisconsin …