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 …
Year: 2018
Paper Reports New Analysis Method to Study Smokers’ Social Networks
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 …
Crowd Follows Piper to Understand Tobacco Cessation and Effects on Social Networks
Referral Rates Vary Across Clinics in Quit-Smoking Study
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 …
Adsit Presents on Health Care Systems Change
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 …
How One Man Found Success to Quit Smoking
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 …
Quit Line Launches Enhancement, Offering New Web Enrollment
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 …
U.S. Surgeon General, FDA Commissioner Talk Tobacco Control at SRNT in Baltimore
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 …
UW-CTRI Presents Research at SRNT Baltimore
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 …
UW-CTRI Submits Next Major Center Grant Proposal
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 …