Use of modest financial incentives to encourage low-income smokers to engage with the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line is a cost-effective option, according to a paper written by Dr. Marlon Mundt and colleagues at UW-CTRI. Financial …
Month: January 2019
The WiNTiP Decade
The following is an editorial commentary by David “Mac” Macmaster: The Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WINTIP) was launched in 2008. WINTIP has been advocating tobacco integration in Wisconsin behavioral-health services for 10 years now. …
UW-CTRI Researchers to Present at SRNT Conference in San Francisco
UW-CTRI staff will present 17 times at SRNT 2019 in San Francisco, via seven presentations and 10 research posters. Pre-conference Workshop An Update to the Basics: Current Approaches for Measuring and Understanding Key Individual Differences …
UW-CTRI Collaborates with Doctors in Italy to Help Italians Quit Smoking
UW-CTRI Researchers Dr. Wendy Theobald (right) and Dr. Michael Fiore have contributed three articles to the Italian medical journal Tabaccologia, encouraging Italians to quit smoking and clinicians to lead by example and through systematic treatment. …
New England Journal of Medicine: Only Half of Cancer Patients Who Smoke Get Help to Quit; NCI Aims to Fix It
While many smokers make New Year’s resolutions to quit smoking, only about half of cancer patients who smoke are offered help to quit by their oncology teams. That’s a lost opportunity, wrote experts in a …