UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore met with staff members of six legislators in Washington, DC who represent Wisconsin to share how the university helps patients quit tobacco use. Fiore focused on the statewide impact of the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line and regional outreach specialists, as well as the impact of research studies and the UW-CTRI …
For smokers who have smaller social networks, having even one supportive person can make all the difference in having a successful quit attempt, according to a new paper in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Researchers looked at smoking habits across several subgroups of those making a quit attempt. The Socially Disconnected subgroup—characterized by little social interaction, …
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 …
The Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line is now offering free web enrollment as a part of its services, thanks to several recent enhancements to the Quit Line in December. Under the new enhancements, users are able to access the Quit Line’s Web Coach immediately upon enrollment completion instead of having to make an initial phone call. Existing …
United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams spoke at the 2018 SRNT Annual Conference in front of a packed audience at the Hilton Baltimore. Adams talked passionately about treating tobacco use as “the ethical thing to do. We’re doing a great job bringing the rates down, but it’s still affecting millions of Americans. And we know …
UW-CTRI researchers presented 14 times at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) at the Baltimore Hilton February 21-24. In addition to six podium presentations, there will be eight posters presented by UW-CTRI experts. Here is a brief summary of the findings. Presentations 1. Referral to Randomized Smoking …
UW-CTRI has submitted its next major center grant to the National Cancer Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health). The grant is set to be reviewed for scientific merit in June or July. The current P01 grant, known as the BREATHE study, has concluded recruitment. Funding for BREATHE isn’t set to end until August 2019. However, …