UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Kristin Berg is the lead author on the paper, Identifying Differences in Rates of Invitation to Participate in Tobacco Treatment in Primary Care, recently published in the Wisconsin Medical Journal. This secondary analysis assessed the differences of tobacco treatment invitation rates based on patient characteristics from 11 primary care clinics from two …
UW-CTRI regional outreach specialists and staff from the Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WiNTiP) are partnering with tobacco prevention and control coalitions throughout Wisconsin to train behavioral health providers on how to help their patients quit tobacco use. It’s crucial because behavioral health patients smoke at rates as high as 80-90 percent. Research shows they …
U.S. Office of Smoking and Health (OSH) Director Dr. Corinne Graffunder designated 2019 the “Year of Cessation” during a meeting Nov. 7 with national partners in Atlanta. Graffunder unveiled OSH’s new strategic plan indicating that each quarter will feature significant events and efforts to help people quit tobacco use. One opportunity builds upon the success …
Journey Mental Health Center (JMHC) received a Mac Award for its efforts to make its headquarters in Madison a tobacco-free and vape-free campus starting September 15, 2017. The award, named for David “Mac” Macmaster, co-founder and managing consultant of the Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WiNTiP), is presented to honor a health-care organization that helps …
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb announced plans to advance a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to ban menthol in combustible tobacco products, including cigarettes and cigars, and remove certain flavored vaping products out of stores where young people can access them. “Youth smokers are more likely to use menthol cigarettes than …
Cigarette smoking has reached the lowest level ever recorded among U.S. adults, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute (NCI). Still, about 47 million (1 in 5) U.S. adults used a tobacco product in …
UW-CTRI’s four regional outreach specialists are working to expand the number of health-care systems across the state that refer patients via electronic health records (EHR) to the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line. This builds on several partnerships with Epic and other health systems to build eReferral into EHR so doctors can efficiently refer a patient who uses …
The nationwide Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I), part of the NCI Cancer Moonshot Initiative, held a grantee meeting at the Pyle Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Representatives from 42 NCI cancer centers (the grantees) attended, along with other tobacco cessation leaders. The two-day event, hosted by UW Carbone Cancer Center (UW-CCC) coordinating center, included updates on grantee …
The Wisconsin State Journal interviewed UW-CTRI Director of Clinical Services Dr. Doug Jorenby regarding youth vaping and the popularity of JUUL.
UW-CTRI has published findings from the Exhale Study, which included people who either smoked or smoked and vaped (dual users), in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. Researchers found that dual users smoke fewer cigarettes than smokers but they are supplementing their nicotine with e-cigarette use. Dual users also have somewhat reduced exposure to at …