UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Low-income smokers who received modest payments to quit smoking not only were 57% more likely to quit—but the cost per quitter turned out to be less than for those who didn’t receive those incentives. According to a new paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Medicaid smokers in a research study who received up …
UW Assistant Professor Dr. Marlon Mundt, health economist from the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, is collaborating with UW-CTRI to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of financial incentives for Medicaid smokers to take Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line calls. He has penned a new paper ready for submission on Striving to Quit for Medicaid recipients. “The …
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore recorded a video on how to treat tobacco use, seen by more than 100 healthcare providers in Italy. The video was part of a conference in Venice.
Katherine Coates is the new Tobacco Cessation Outreach Specialist working full time at Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin (GHC), and training at UW-CTRI for her new job. Once at GHC, she’ll handle outreach via telephone to motivate patients and help them quit smoking, as part of a population health study funded by the …
Though the mental battle to not smoke can be exhausting for smokers, combination nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) helps reduce this cessation fatigue and helps smokers feel like they can be successful in quitting, according to a new paper in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. The paper, co-authored by UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper, …
By day, UW-CTRI Health Counselor T.Jay Christenson handles patient medical records while helping people quit smoking; by night, his rock band is on a record label called Dusty Medical Records. Don’t tell the IRB. The band, Space Raft, is working on its third full album, due out later this year, riding the gravitational pull of …
For some Wisconsin patients, seeing their doctor enables them to sign up for text messages to help them quit smoking, while automatically keeping their doctor in the loop. That’s because UW-CTRI is partnering with Epic Systems, the world’s leader in electronic health records (EHR) software, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to integrate SmokeFreeTXT, the …
Dr. Will Bringgold, a second-year resident with the UW Internal Medicine Department, is working with UW-CTRI Drs. Kristin Berg, Stevens Smith, and other colleagues to analyze baseline pulmonary data from the Exhale Study. The Exhale Study, led by principal investigators Drs. Megan Piper and Doug Jorenby and study manager Kate Kobinsky, wrapped up recruitment recently, …
UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist Amy Skora spoke about smoking, vaping, and the latest treatments to help patients quit at the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin annual meeting Sept. 16 at the Radisson Hotel in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The Society has about 600 members. Her talk was a break-out session titled, “Cold Turkey, E-cigarettes, Meds and More: Developing …
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore teamed with other experts, led by Dr. Martin Raw, to create a plan of action to help countries implement tobacco-control strategies, to be published in the journal Addiction. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that only a few countries across the globe have adequate access to health care interventions to …