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  2. Year: 2017
  3. Month: November

Month: November 2017

Small Financial Incentives Reap Big Rewards to Help People Quit Smoking

Posted on November 8, 2017

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 …

Posted in 2017 Releases

Mundt Crunches Cost Effectiveness Data for Tobacco Treatment

Posted on November 7, 2017

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 …

Posted in 2017 Articles

Clinical Practice Guideline Continues to Have a Global Impact

Posted on November 7, 2017

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.

Posted in 2017 Articles

New GHC Outreach Specialist Partners with UW-CTRI on Research Study

Posted on November 7, 2017

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 …

Posted in 2017 Articles

Combination NRT Reduces Cessation Fatigue, New Dynamical Model Finds

Posted on November 7, 2017

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 …

Posted in 2017 Articles

UW-CTRI Health Counselor’s Rock Band Featured in Spin Magazine

Posted on November 7, 2017

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 …

Posted in 2017 Articles

Pilot Project Offers Patients eReferrals to SmokeFreeTXT

Posted on November 7, 2017

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 …

Posted in 2017 Articles

Exhale Study Completes Recruitment, Pulmonary Data Analysis Begins

Posted on November 6, 2017

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 …

Posted in 2017 Articles

UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist to Speak at State Pharmacy Convention

Posted on November 6, 2017

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. …

Posted in 2017 Articles

Fiore Helps Create Guidelines for WHO Framework for Global Tobacco Control

Posted on November 6, 2017

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 …

Posted in 2017 Articles
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