UW-CTRI partnered with 11 health care clinics at two health systems to invite patients to participate in the UW Partnership to Assist and Serve Smokers (UW-PASS) study to help them quit smoking or reduce their smoking, and found different clinics invited various patients at unequal rates. The goal was to use a standardized electronic health …
UW-CTRI Outreach Director Rob Adsit and Wisconsin Department of Health Services Tobacco Disparities Coordinator Karen Doster presented at the Florida Tobacco Control Program Health Systems Symposium March 21-22, 2018. Wisconsin is one of only a couple of states to have regional outreach specialists working across the state to help health-care systems integrate evidence-based tobacco dependence …
For Mustapha Kunjo, cigarettes used to be a way of life. “I used to always want to smoke cigarettes for most of my adult life, it was just something to do that I got hooked on,” said Kunjo, a Sun Prairie resident. However much he liked cigarettes, Kunjo knew the negative impact it had on …