UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Following the QUITS news conferences in Milwaukee and Madison, 2,226 Wisconsinites volunteered to participate in a new UW-CTRI research study designed to help 1,000 people quit smoking. That’s a record response to a new study at the Center. UW-CTRI staff are now contacting volunteers as well as holding orientation sessions and initial visits. It’s all thanks …
The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) has invited four more late-breaking posters based on UW-CTRI research to be shared at its 2018 annual meeting at the Baltimore Hilton February 21-24. In addition to six podium presentations, there will be eight posters assembled by UW-CTRI experts. Presentations Posters Posters will be in the Key Ballroom …
Outreach Specialist Allison Gorrilla presented UW-CTRI research last month at a statewide summit for free and charitable clinics. Gorrilla presented in one of five breakout sessions that the Wisconsin Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (WAFCC) Summit held. The conference brings in clinicians from free and charitable clinics that serve uninsured or underinsured patients from …
The Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation (WWHF) has received a $1 million grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program to significantly expand efforts to bring quit-smoking services to high-risk individuals, families and communities across Wisconsin. UW-CTRI is collaborating with WWHF on this project, to be provided during five years to First Breath Families. The group will also …
MILWAUKEE—People in the Milwaukee and Madison areas who want to quit smoking can get free medication and coaching starting today, thanks to a $7 million 4-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI). All participants get: Some participants also get: Participants will receive …