Dr. Jessica Cook, presentation, Smoking and Psychopathology: Mechanisms and Treatments. For both those with PTSD and those in the control group, smoking a cigarette with or without nicotine reduced the negative emotional response to the stressor. …
Month: September 2016
Could an Enzyme Suggest New Quit-Smoking Treatments?
Researchers have identified an enzyme associated with how addicted a smoker is to nicotine, and it could suggest new paths to designing medications to help smokers quit. UW-CTRI Director of Research Dr. Tim Baker and researchers …
UW-CTRI’s Dr. Jess Cook Earns Tenure
UW-CTRI researcher Dr. Jess Cook has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. The appointment will be effective July 1. Cook first joined UW-CTRI in 2008 as an assistant professor. She is also a clinical …
Smokers With a History of Psychiatric Disorders Show Poorer Response to Counseling
Intensive counseling with smokers that have psychiatric histories may not lead to higher abstinence rates, according to a new paper by UW-CTRI researchers. Whereas the original outcome paper, published in Addiction, supports the combined use …
UW-CTRI Study: No Clear Evidence Vaping Leads to Less Smoking or Lower CO Levels
Back in 2013, former UW-CTRI Clinic Manager Sophie Rodrigues-Pereira interviewed participant Jeffrey Grise as part of the Dual Use Study. Vaping electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) didn’t affect the level of smoking or carbon monoxide levels in …
Lois Smith Stays Active, Quits Smoking
Lois Smith (above center, with her quit coaches), a former smoker from Rio, quit smoking years ago with the help of the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line. “I thought the Quit Line was really beneficial,” she …
UW Rheumatology Collaborates with UW-CTRI to Help Patients Quit Smoking
UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper is part of a collaborative research team that received a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) award from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. This is part …
Study: Want More Friends? Quit Smoking
A common fear of many smokers who want to quit is that they will lose many people in their social network―family, friends or co-workers―when they quit smoking. In fact, the opposite is true, according to …
Researchers Identify Differences in Referral Rates to Quit-Smoking Treatment Among Women Veterans
New research shows that women Veterans do poorly with tobacco cessation clinics, according to a paper published in Military Medicine. While 54 percent of women Veterans enrolled in a tobacco-cessation clinic made a quit attempt, only 8 …