Welcome to the site dedicated to helping providers with behavioral health patients to treat tobacco use. Here, you’ll find everything you’ll need to help your behavioral patients quit smoking, chewing, or vaping tobacco. It’s all part of …
Year: 2017
Experts Meet at Epic to Expand EHR System to Help Smokers Quit
A group of experts from around the country met at Epic Systems headquarters in Verona, Wisconsin last week to discuss plans to better design electronic health records (EHR) technology to help healthcare professionals help their …
UW-Madison Adds Vaping to Campus Smoking Ban
Drs. Fiore and Mermelstein Present to NCI Board of Scientific Advisors
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore and Dr. Robin Mermelstein of the University of Illinois at Chicago last week presented tobacco control research priorities to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA) on …
After David Bowie’s Death, Men’s Health Interviews Dr. Fiore About Smoking
Dr. Doug Jorenby Reaches 25 Years of UW-CTRI Service
Dr. Doug Jorenby began working on tobacco research before UW-CTRI became an official center in 1992, yet he swears he’s not the real Dr. Who. Jorenby began working with the group that would become UW-CTRI, …
BREATHE Study Exceeds Enrollment Goal for Project 1
UW-CTRI and its partners have surpassed the goal of enrolling 600 patients in the Cessation Project of the Breaking Addiction to Tobacco for Health (BREATHE) Study. In fact, this goal was reached in less than …
3 Ways for People with Mental Illness to Quit Smoking
About 26% of Americans (56 million) have a mental illness, and about 36% of them smoke cigarettes (NIMH, CDC). In comparison, 17% of all adults smoke cigarettes (NHIS 2015).
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.
NEJM: Smoking Rate Decreased Markedly During Obama’s Tenure
The seven years of the Obama Administration has been associated with an accelerated rate of decline in smoking rates, according to a paper published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. But, will future Administrations keep it going?